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Two full Mako's Bite sets gives you 3.75% range def x 2 = 7.5% range def. If you didn't have that, range attacks will be hitting you more often. Mako's has a bigger health bonus than Crushing Impact too, along with damage bonus allowing you to kill stuff faster. Crushing Impact has accuracy and recharge bonuses. Ultimately, it depends on what you want your character to do better at, but Mako is better for survivability.

Quite a large thread so I haven't read all of it, but while I know you hate getting hero merits, at least consider getting level 30 Numina and level 20 Miracle uniques to put in your favorite characters in health. Or, if you have as much reward merits as you think you have, use them to get those two uniques. It will help their endurance a LOT.

Why level 30 Numina and level 20 Miracle? Because if you wanted level 50/40, you could just get them from the miracle or attempt to convert them using other IOs, and if you ever get level 50/40s of the, you could unslot the lower level ones to pass over to younger alts to use and replace them with the higher level ones (of which there is no difference in performance, just what level you can slot them in, and they will all work right to level 1).

Suggest it to a Dev if they won't consider making AV/Hero versions of non-Trial Sentinel, Blue Steel, Rularuu/Wade, etc.

Not sure if Enforcer's leadership affects Posse, but your leadership (if you picked them) affects them, along with IO uniques which affect them too.

Do remember though, all Posse spawn two levels before you, AND have -MaxHP and -Res Lethal/Smash, meaning they specifically spawn to have less maximum health than minions, and specifically take more damage from Smash/Lethal attacks.

This is why if you can buff their defences or resists, they can act as an extra meatshield, haha. Specifically why I took Barrier.

Did you test each tier individually?

For all intents and purposes, the practice dummies are enemies. You can see the procs triggering by the graphical display each proc has.

Right now, post-Issue22, it's affecting part of Thugs and Degenerative, so I need people with MMs to help test. Whatever they did to fix Lore Pets and Interface apparently broke MM Pets and Interface, haha.

So input your data and findings and hopefully we can see if this is working as intended or not. o_O

Haha, where's GuyPerfect? I'm pretty sure he's crying toxic tears of happiness.

Ouch. Maybe if you get Dink to modify it a bit so it's not quite so identical, and call it a different name?

Considering how upset Cole was when he first heard his home town Shroud City was nuked, I hope there's some reasoning he went back to the nuke option.

Also, Shadowhunter - I hope we discover how he survived the Devouring Earth which apparently finished him off according to Tina.

Argh, I knew it XD

If you both have access to IOs, shield alts can become pretty sturdy. Consider making a shield scrapper to compliment your wife's character, and pick a different weapon like broadsword or axe. That way, you both get to play with shield charge which is a lovely power.

Pros and Cons of Stone:

Pros: Has lots of resistance and defences, arguably the strongest when it comes to survival
Cons: Reduced damage, reduced recharge, reduced movement speed when using tier9 granite mode, many stone toggles cover costume, granite replaces it completely

Pros and Cons of Energy:

Pros: Defences can be softcapped, multiple tools to recover endurance
Cons: Light resistances, toxic and psi holes, stealth toggle hides your costume

At most she'll lose the sword, since that tiny little thing is meant to be Excalibur. The belt, however, is her 'Liberty belt', also known as the Girdle of Hera, which is the major source of her powers. This is why the Orestes Rifle is particularly effective on her, as it nullifies enchantments granted by the Well of the Furies. However, ingame lore says it has no effect on Statesman or Recluse, who are proper Incarnates.