Katie V

Or you can just be a kinetics defender. I've got a build that's looking like it'll be less than 50 million all told (most of the build is less than 10 million). Hasten isn't quite perma (there's a three-second gap if I triple-stack Siphon Speed). Blizzard is up every 110 seconds or so, and can easily be fulcrum-shifted to the damage cap. Better still, since it's damage over time, the crash can be countered simply by popping a blue inspiration and hitting the nearest boss with Transference.

Second Life's character editor gives far greater control than City of Heroes', but at the cost of being much harder to use.

This is not a head crash. A head crash makes a distinctive screeching sound, and your hard drive immediately and permanently stops working.

1) Which attack chains are you planning to use? For the Follow Up -> Slash -> Strike -> Focus chain, you need better than 170% combined global and power recharge in Follow Up, but you've only got 90%.

2) With Focused Accuracy active, no. With it inactive, doubtful. It depends on your exact attack chain, but in general, you've got less endredux in your attacks than my claws/SR, about as much in toggles, and I need to activate Conserve Power in long fights to keep my endurance up.

Some general suggestions for improving the build:

* Follow Up has too many things you want it to do to slot with a set. Take the Touch of Death set out, and frankenslot to maximize accuracy and recharge, followed by endurance and damage. You may also want to build for to-hit.

* Take the Gladiator's Strike out of Strike. You can get the same benefit from much cheaper IOs.

* Mids' doesn't show it, but defense debuff resistance caps at 95%. Anything beyond this is a waste of effort.

I don't think this is true. In my experience, if you've got true perma-hasten (ie. you reactivate it before it wears off), you don't get a crash.

Scrappers stack. Brutes don't. On a team, one brute is theoretically superior to one scrapper. Once you get three brutes on a team, they'll be fighting each other for Fury, while if you've got three scrappers, the only thing they'll be fighting for is to see which one gets to fire off their AoE in the middle of the next spawn.

A Defender's Force Bolt slotted for knockback should be able to do it, as should anybody's Power Boost or Power Build Up + Power Push. If I've got the numbers correct, the storm/energy defender I'm levelling should be able to do mag 95 knockback once she hits level 41.

Runescape's original PvP did (you flat-out could not attack someone more than three combat levels different from yours), and Astronest prevented you from attacking someone with a combat rating more than 30% lower than yours (but flaws in the combat rating calculation made this less effective than it could have been).

I've done some testing on this. The font size used is determined by a combination of the width and height of the screen. At less than about 930 pixels vertical size or about 1240 pixels horizontal size, the font is only four pixels tall, which is unreadable on any screen (you need a minimum of five pixels for English text, more if you're using accent marks or non-Latin characters). Once the screen is larger than both those values, the game switches to a six-pixel font.

At about 1520 x 1220, it switches to seven pixels.

At 1880 x 1400, it adds a fancy background.

There may be additional increases in size, but my monitor doesn't handle resolutions higher than 2048 x 1536.

You never fight anything tougher than a boss, while there are many defeat-alls. A Kinetics and three Fulcrum-shifted blasters should be able to shred their way through the TF in a hurry.

Are you sure of that 140% defense? I've been playing with the numbers on Mids', and the best I can get without IO sets or external buffs is 120%. I'm fairly sure of the base 150% chance to hit, because after getting my &*%# handed to me the first time I encountered the eyeballs, I checked them out with Surveillance, which showed a to-hit of 150%.

What are you doing that you're seeing "serious problem"-level defense debuffs at all? Even against Cims, I never see more than about a 2% debuff on my Claws/SR.

Sounds about right. A quick back-of-the-envelope calculation shows 8 sets of Maneuvers at 5.4% each plus 5 sets of Fortitude at 23.4% each, giving 160.7% defense. It's worth noting that to be softcapped against an even-con Rularuu eyeball, you need at least 145% defense.

You don't need to. Any time rewards are provided at random, people will develop random behaviors that they think influence the rewards.

The nice thing about Tornado is that once it's grabbed aggro, it tends to throw it halfway across the map.

What are the resolutions on these monitors? The widescreen one has small but readable numbers, while the 4:3 numbers are unreadable.

He's a /kin. Kinetics characters don't have endurance issues.

Different primaries, I'd guess. I've got two defenders. On my storm/energy, I'll toss out a few powers at the beginning of the fight, then spend the rest of the fight blasting. On my kinetics/ice, I've got so many fast-recharging buffs and debuffs that I'll usually only bother attacking if one of my AoEs is up (though, given that Ice Storm is up every 20 seconds and Blizzard is up every two minutes, I'm still doing a decent amount of damage).

Doesn't appear to have confuse resistance to go with the protection. If my calculations are correct, a team of eight purpled-out mind controllers can perma-confuse it.

You're not familiar with the Green Machine, are you? It's a Repeat Offenders group consisting only of Empathy defenders. Played right, an all-Emp team is terrifyingly overpowered.

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You've got 20 inspiration slots. Put breakfrees in a few of them. That'll cover you in the rare case that a mez gets through your defenses during the 12 seconds that your mez protection is down. Once you've done that, remember to target the Ruin Mages first, and you'll be fine.