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There's nothing stopping you from making another Destiny, since once made, they're permanent. My ill/rad made a Barrier Radial Epiphany and a Clarion Radial Epiphany for different purposes.

Haha, you pretty much just copied the build I did and added Cardiac on. XD

It's a simple mistake people forget, haha.

To easily check, on Mid's, go Window, Sets & Bonuses (or Ctrl+B) and check the Effect Breakdown. If anything breaks the rule of five, it will say something like cap, and be in red. Scrolling down will show what broke it, and then you can make adjustments to your build. In your case, it was the 9% Enhancement(Accuracy), so I fixed that on your two defense toggles.

That's probably the best place to put it. The one in Tough could be replaced by the Hamidon Enhancements Ribosome Exposure (end/res), but only if you acquire them.

I haven't played your build, so I can't be too sure, haha. The best way of checking is to build it on beta where you can buy your orange recipes easily from Astral Christy in Ouroboros using Astral merits which cost 1 inf each or something, take it to Rikti War Zone and wail on the dummies in the base for set amounts of time using different combos. If you did take Musculature, the radial side has End Mod which can help increase endurance Stamina gives you, but my maths is wonky at the moment, haha. If all else fails, go with Cardiac on the Core side.

As for Destiny, generally speaking, I go Rebirth on radial side (which adds regen on top of the heal) for melee alts, as they're usually lacking a heal of some kind.

To be fair, if you like using the attack, there's no reason to get rid of it. This was generally why I kept your build the way it was save for Maneuvers and Phalanx Fighting swapping, haha.

If you were to get rid of Jacob's Ladder, you could change the slotting in Tough to use Aegis: Res/End, Res, and Res/End/Rech so you fix up the 3.13% AoE def set bonus you lose from Scirocco's in Jacob's Ladder. I'm fairly certain Joane of Arc was thinking of your original build in regards to your positional defenses, not my fixed build, hehe. I'm not sure what you would stick in there to replace it though.

Hasten's main endurance loss (15 points) comes at the end of the duration, not from the start. As you can't stick endurance reduction SOs in Hasten, Cardiac won't work either on it. Remember, your Alpha is like sticking a SO in each power which is capable of taking it. If you pick Cardiac, only powers which can normally have a endurance reduction SO stuck in can take advantage of it.

Is that really true? I've never seen that said by devs or in patch notes anywhere. Or is it the results of player research?

Aim for about 46.5-47% if you plan to do incarnate stuff a lot. A small purple will softcap you to incarnate trials, while the extra 2% could help with any giant defense debuffs in normal content (though as super reflexes, you should be aiming for 95+% defense debuff resistance anyway).

Regarding your current build versus firespray's, you will probably want to ask yourself what you want to use your scrapper for - defeating AVs more readily, or defeating mobs. Not to say a build can't do both, but if you plan to specialize in one over the other more, it can be easier to work out what to slot.

Also, Gaussian's is great for getting easy 2.5% to melee/range/aoe, don't complain about it.

Problem is that the borked AI doesn't just affect Mastermind pets, it affects ALL pets so they prefer melee to range, even if they have no melee attacks, such as Phantasm.

The only real 'fix' I see if they can't fix the AI is to simply give the 'ranged' pets a single melee attack justifying them going into melee, haha.

Dark/Shield will be great for single target stuff, and you'll have shield charge to help with AoE.

Siphon Life was updated not so long ago to do 'superior' damage. Make it a part of your attack chain, haha.

If you know nothing of sets, I'd suggest visiting Paragonwiki to update yourself with what you've missed, along with downloading Mid's Hero Designer from Titan Network to play around with potential builds. Shield Defense uses positional defenses, so look for sets which focus on larger melee/range/aoe defense over typed (smash/lethal/fire/cold/energy/negative/psionic) defenses. This means sets like Touch of Death, Mako's, etc.

The 'softcap' number to aim for is 45% in normal content, so bear that in mind when choosing what to slot. Also, the 'rule of five', which means you don't want more than 5 of a specifically named set bonus.

As for Incarnates, the "Alpha", which is the first part of Incarnate, think of it as a global SO which is added onto any powers which are capable of taking that SO. So if you picked Spiritual, for example, it would add the value of a 33% recharge enhancement onto all powers which can take recharge enhancements. Ideally, pick one which can make up for any weaknesses in your final build, or one which can supplement your strengths if you have no real weaknesses.

To be fair, you were the one who implied you would be taking Fiery Aura in the first place, haha.

FA = Fiery Aura

If you want to pair up Fiery Melee (aka FM) with a secondary which helps boost damage as well as give you another AoE to play with, try the unholy combination of Fiery Melee/Shield Defense. Generally considered one of the scrapper monsters when it comes to damage, although a lot of shield people are currently griping about no more 95% resist defense debuff due to Hami-O patch, haha.

So yay, no corsets or skirts for male characters! XD

I'm okay with this, having a mix of male and female characters. Besides, it works out like in real life as well, barring one detail. Let's just be glad female pieces aren't quadruple the paragon point price of male pieces.

That would be a pretty great way to retire a character permanently, the option of death without revival. Your character is then locked at character select, and can only be deleted. XD

I figure by keeping this thread alive, devs might eventually take notice.

Dear Devs, please give us the ability to lock the numbers on our power trays! QoL change!

When I say lieutenants, I meant the patron lieutenants, not his summon army powers, haha.