Kosmos

At the very least you should have 2 L50 Heal IOs in Integration. Running on IOs I sometimes make do with 3 slots, but never use 2 myself. On SOs I'd say 3 is the minimum and a 4th for EndRdx something to consider.

It has +50% Regen that is unenhanceable and +100% that is enhanceable. So the first IO gives +42.4% Regen and the second another 40.9% (because of ED). 2 SOs would each give +33.3% with a 3rd giving another 28.3%.

The Endurance cost of Integration is 0.26 END/s. The equivalent of -15.6% Rec for a character with 100 END (less for one with more). Slotting a single EndRdx SO lowers that to 0.195 END/s, or by 0.065 END/s. Which is the equivalent of 3.9% Rec. So, it's generally better to skimp on EndRdx in Integration rather than Heal.

I don' think there's a way with /Fire. I looked this over with my Fire/En and considered the T4 Lore pet options as the best way for me to get into InstaSnipe mode since I have Blazing Bolt in my build already, as a nod to the character's I0-2 history, and also have a Kismet. It may be the best option for you too.


The Carny Seneschal buff pet casts Forge with a +20% ToHit, 60s duration and 62.3s cycle time and can be kept out 5 min out of every 10 with Radial Superior.

The Arachnos Fortunata has a +5% toggle. You'll need slotted Tactics and a Kismet on top of it to reach 22%.

The Seer Seeker's Fortitude has +5% as well, with a 30s dur and 31.3s cycle.


I have an additional option if I want to do a more significant rework, thanks to Power Boost's ability to buff Tactics by 5.5%. With slotted Tactics, a Kismet and Power Boost I can reach a 100% up time if I get my cycle time on Aim/BU to 23.8s or less. But with /Fire I think the best you're going to do is by using a Kismet, the Carny Seneschal Radial Superior and juggling Aim/BU when the pet is off the map.

Hopefully I missed a trick somewhere, but I suspect the devs gave this quite a bit of thought before deciding on 22%.

You need about 70% Global with Hasten enhanced to 95%. With that you get about 60% effective +Rech from Hasten and a cycle time of around 88s on Domination.

With 90% Global and Hasten you get about an 80s cycle on Domination, which should be easy to manage.

Any Fire Blast set, though non-Blasters are actually faster than Blasters because of the normalized Fire Blast being 1.67s instead of the original 1.2s. Melee Widows. Any Kinetic Melee Stalker.

The Plant/Fire Dom option is good. The ST Hold is slow though. If that's an issue... Fire and Mind have the fastest ST Holds for a ST attack chain.

I only have Premium accounts (in addition to my VIP account) with very little in the way of Vet time, but to the best of my knowledge here are your answers...

I think you must mean "AE Maps". That's Architect Entertainment, the in-game story telling feature that has unfortunately become mostly a power leveling tool. You can find AE buildings in most zones. The zones typically used by power levelers are Atlas Park and the Rikti War Zone. If you want a farm go to one of those zones and broadcast (and watch broadcast for people advertising the farms on servers that do a lot of power leveling, such as Freedom).

I'll echo DarkGob though... you'll just be cheating yourself of the best part of this game if you don't play your way through the content. There is enough quality content to level several characters to 50 without much repetition and much of it is better and more fun than the end-game content.

Because of the Vigilance +Dmg buff the main difference between Corrs and Defs solo is when you get your powers as you level up. Damage-wise the Def will do better against weaker foes and the Corr against tougher ones where Scourge will help most. On a Rad I think the Def is going to do better solo unless you run up against Elite Bosses. This is, assuming you have all the attacks you need. Which will depend upon the set.

Radiation Blast has good Area attacks and a nice single target Stun, but it's not very good against single targets otherwise. The -Def secondary effect isn't all that helpful on a character with Radiation Infection either, though it does provide some useful IO options. There really are no synergies between the two sets and Electron Haze can be an annoying power with it's small area and random knockback. As a Def you don't get Cosmic Burst until level 28 and Neutron Bomb until 35, and those are probably the two best attacks in the set. Corrs get them at 18 and 26. Those 10 levels (18 to 27) where a Corr would have CB and a Def wouldn't will be a bit of a pain. I'd still go with the Def for the better Buff/DeBuffs and just suck it up for those levels.

An Ice/Cold Corr was the first Villain I made when CoV came out, and she's still sitting at level 23 waiting for me to replace her when Water Blast comes out. I stopped playing her because of the incessant fog horn sounds from Arctic Fog back when they looped continuously.

Ice is a solid blast set with a good mix of single target and AoE and both hard and soft control. Cold is also a decent set, though the lack of personal defenses can be an issue solo. Ice helps offset that. Like Rad/Rad, the secondary effects stack well past the limit of usefulness, with Snow Storm and Sleet being enough to floor mobs even on a Corr. A Corr getting Sleet at level 35 is a MAJOR drawback when leveling. Cold is a late blooming set (in stark contrast to Rad, which is one of the earliest blooming of all sets), so you'll basically be a gimpy Ice Blaster with team +Def and Snow Storm for quite a while. Ice/Cold is NOT a good low-to-mid level solo combination.

The support pet uses a version of Hurricane, which can be problematic on most melee characters. Note that its Hurricane does NOT do Repel, only Knockback, so it can be countered by powers with -KB, and the -ToHit is a hefty -30%. It's 02 Boost also provides Stun and Sleep Protection, though it doesn't use it intelligently. If you can counter, or don't mind, the KB, then it's one of the better support pets. These facts make the Radial Superior I have on my Fire/Storm/Psi Controller very handy.

/WP.

You're most likely going to want Tough and Weave in either build and on an SO-based toon the END use could get painful.

Concept. Damage Aura. -Rech Aura. END Drain. Slow Resist (100% Slow Res is handy, but unfortunately the new Tsoo ignore it). Hibernate. The ability to reach the Incarnate soft cap (my Icer averages around 63% Def to S/L/E/N, enough to absorb one -Def attack and still be over the Incarnate soft cap).

Ice's only real drawback is when you have those massive +ToHit buffs out there such as with DE or the Orbs in Incarnate content. With those and spike damage in Incarnate content Icers really can struggle. Outside of that Ice Armor is quite effective.

For me the only two are Speed for Hasten and Leaping for Combat Jumping. It used to only be the former (obviously, go back far enough and you add Fitness), but I've gotten to the point that I feel hobbled trying to jump around in combat without CJ.