JayLeonHart_EU

If memory serves, in a recent-ish post about how Taunt actually works, Stealth seemed to lower your "threat rating" even when it was suppressed. I could be remembering that wrong, of course.

Quick update - Koosie can't make it as he has to go pick up a friend. I'm going to bow out, too. Good luck, I'm sure it'll go well.

Hurdle Health and Stamina can go for starters - you can take them later. Take Quick Recovery at 20 and that allows you to fit in 2 more attacks earlier.

Using mostly the powers you chose (changing Thunder Kick for Storm Kick and Boxing for Kick for a little more damage) I'd go for something like this:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.30
http://www.honourableunited.org.uk/mhd.php

Level 48 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Martial Arts
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Storm Kick Empty(A)
Level 1: High Pain Tolerance Empty(A)
Level 2: Mind Over Body Empty(A)
Level 4: Fast Healing Empty(A)
Level 6: Kick Empty(A)
Level 8: Crane kick Empty(A)
Level 10: Indomitable Will Empty(A)
Level 12: Hasten Empty(A)
Level 14: Super Speed Empty(A)
Level 16: Rise to the Challenge Empty(A)
Level 18: Focus Chi Empty(A)
Level 20: Quick Recovery Empty(A)
Level 22: Crippling Axe kick Empty(A)
Level 24: Tough Empty(A)
Level 26: Hurdle Empty(A)
Level 28: Heightened Senses Empty(A)
Level 30: Health Empty(A)
Level 32: Eagles Claw Empty(A)
Level 35: Dragons Tail Empty(A)
Level 38: Strength of Will Empty(A)
Level 41: Focused Accuracy Empty(A)
Level 44: Stamina Empty(A)
Level 47: Resurgence Empty(A)
Level 49: Warriors Challenge Empty(A)

Please explain why we shouldn't.

After all, the fact that we want all that lovely damage when we're a Tank is surely out of character enough, what harm is a little aggro loss?

Don't use Rage if you don't want the drop. If you can work around it, do so.

*checks this is actually Defiant this time*

Right, now that's sorted...

(If you could please put me down as a reserve - I can't guarantee I can make it, so I don't want to occupy a space if someone else wants to join)

Now, the choices:
Free Rad-E Kal - 28 FF/Energy Defender
Radi-Kid - 32 Rad/Rad Defender
Indigo Implosion - 38 Energy/Energy Blaster
Quantum Leaper - 39 Grav/Kin Controller

*checks this is actually Defiant this time*

Right, now that's sorted...

(If you could please put me down as a reserve - I can't guarantee I can make it, so I don't want to occupy a space if someone else wants to join)

Now, the choices:
Free Rad-E Kal - 28 FF/Energy Defender
Radi-Kid - 32 Rad/Rad Defender
Indigo Implosion - 38 Energy/Energy Blaster
Quantum Leaper - 39 Grav/Kin Controller

(Copy & Paste ftw!)

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weapons shmepons, i just wanna be able to turn energy melee on my blaster blue >_<

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Seconded - Gief Bleu Handz Plix!

With regards to the green fire - where's Spawnus when you need him?

You might be thinking of Knightly - I had to do a double take myself

Probably going to roll a... oh yes, DB/WP brute

Howdy

I'll rephrase that - alpha strikes will still (likely) kill you in teams

Aid Self doesn't help with spike damage though, which is usually what kills a Willpower character. I'd personally pick up Tough and only get Weave if you feel you need to.

Put me down as a reserve. Blaster/Defender/Controller, depending on what you need at the time.

Yeah, the one time I don't check my rep... ah well

Tank? What tank?

Jumping in for the last spot - Radi-Kid, lvl 31(32?) Rad/Rad Defender. See you in 35...

"Chance for double buff" sounds like a good one to me. So a double heal, double defense, double resistance, double damage, double recovery, double recharge etc etc. As a second part, something like Supremacy - a small +dam, +acc and +def buff to your party, but not yourself or any pets.

I have no idea, it just fits my Science theme

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For PvE I'd also skip detention field and force bubble

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I have to disagree - Detention Field has saved my [censored] (and more importantly, my teams) so many times it's silly. Force Bubble is a great "squishy haven" for maps that aren't cave-like. I also have a soft spot for Repulsion Bomb - Neutron Bomb followed by Repulsion Bomb is just giggle tastic.

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It was great teaming with you folks tonight, I felt like a real Brute

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You will need stamina - I made the mistake of forgetting it in a respec. I had to burn a Vet respec to get it back in. My Bubblers (Defender, Controller and MM) all have hover, fly and maneuvers. I play as a buffer once every 4 minutes, then as a blaster for the rest - sure, you're not as powerful as a Blaster, but you have time to do more damage than some other Defenders.

One lovely thing about FF - it gives you so many free slots, you won't know what to do with them. That and the fact it's one of the "lazy" Defender sets - buff and go, just the way I like it.

It was stated that allowing you to choose between the Thorns and Spines models was "not possible" with current weapon customisation. I'd guess having different animating powers and not sharing all the same powers would have something to do with it.

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also are you sure you didnt have fly on?..

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Fly hasn't caused -Acc in ages

SR/Nin/EA Stalkers can hit the Def soft cap out of their god mode with IOs these days, so that might have been it. It doesn't make them overpowered - if you can't hit them, then you can't hit them. Modify your build if you want to hit high Def targets - get Tactics and add a Kismet global, get more +Acc bonuses, slot your attacks with 2 Acc. Don't just complain because there was one person you couldn't kill straight away.