Kyriani

The Astral unlocks will be easy since the rng seems to favor those from the merit reward option... but yea the empyrean unlocks will be a long time coming... and using emps for that will slow down your incarnate progress since it takes 8 emps for a rare component and 30 emps for a very rare and the once a day reward tables are sticking to the rarity designations (rare is very rare and very rare is virtually unseen)

I'd like to hope so. I really like the proc but the inconsistency with keeping it up really drops its value IMO.

yup i redesigned my tp room because of the new porters... its more compact and I have room for the CoP porter as well now while still having all the port locations all in one room

I actually tried stacking the hacked porters inside the raid porter and while it looked good I wasn't keen on how I had to place the beacons so I scrapped that idea... others might like it though.

That was my thinking as well. I was torn between a controller and a dominator and ultimately decided on the controller. Then I realized that the patron pets are permable and while I wont have a single target attack from the pool, the pet would give me a permanent and continuous damage source as well as another pet to provide diversion from me. Looking at the numbers from city of data... the patron pet attacks are pretty decent too... especially when enhanced for damage to the ED cap.

recharge time is 900 seconds... duration is 240 seconds... the max you could reduce the recharge time to on the summon is 180 seconds... therefore you can make it perma... with a hell of a lot of recharge

EDIT: with 170%-ish global recharge + ED capped recharge enhancement in the summon + Hasten +Tier 1 Spiritual Alpha = perma hasten & perma summon

20% more global recharge (which is doable) could have them both perma without the alpha

I can and do

The point of this suggestion is that I shouldn't have to.

It's far and away very tedious to manage all these different timers on different characters.

This is a quality of life suggestion. It simplifies things for everyone.

I tend to like to go thematic when I can but I sometimes make exceptions when the idea really works or I want a specific mechanic.

Necromancy/Dark Miasma Mastermind Hero - If I were staying with hero pools for this one I'd probably pick Chill Mastery since cold is often associated with the undead.

Dual Pistols/Traps Corruptor Hero - For this one i'd either go electricity mastery or power mastery. Elec gives you a nice hold and has some thematic resonance with tech type characters. Power is generally good as a default when you cant decide. It's especially nice since it gives you power build up for some strategic damage or +special boosting.

Storm Summoning/Sonic Defender Hero - Again I'd go with elec or power. Both seem to work thematically and both have useful tools to choose from.

Kinetic Melee/Superior Reflexes Scrapper Vigilante - I dunno here... Body mastery is always my "go to" when I can't find something I like thematically for scrappers.

Ninja blade/Ninjitsu Stalker Hero - Hands down weapon mastery It gives you some thematic coolness like shuriken and exploding shuriken and some nice passive buffage with physical perfection which you get to take as the first choice.

Super Strength/Willpower Brute Villain - Most people like the soul mastery PPP for brutes cause of gloom but I personally would prob go with energy mastery for thematic consistency though mace mastery might not be so bad if you want to incorporate some "mace play" into your character concept.

VEAT Fortunata tract Villain - Honestly? As a veat you don't even need to take a PPP. You have a huge selection of abilities to choose from in your primary and secondary. Add to that all the supplemental options from regular pools and I can't honestly see anything "vital" or thematically appropriate outside of maybe Soul Mastery (I always seem to associate the widows with Ghost Widow).

Plant Control/Fire Assault Dominator Villain - with a mix like plant/fire I might go with Ice mastery and not because sleet but because thematically you could go for the "elemental" type character mixing plant fire and ice. Not that plant is actually an elemental type but it gives you a broad spectrum "natural forces manipulator" kind of vibe. Alternative you could go with fire and have a kind of "solar power manipulator" theme where you use that power to enhance plant life to control. I used a theme like that with a plant/thermal controller.

Electric Blast/Devices Blaster Rogue - It depends on the origin here for me. If you're something like mutation where the blasts are generated naturally as opposed to say tech where they come from some super powered armor, then I'd prob go with elec. It has some great tools to improve a blaster's survival and works thematically. For a tech based "super armor" kind of character I'd be torn between elec or munitions. both have some great mez options and munitions has an aoe snipe!

Thats what it seems like. It would be nice however if the Enhancement tooltips actually said that though. Cause what they typically say is "you can slot this in any <AT's name here> damage power" or "you can slot this into any <AT's name here> control power"

I consider APP's as much a part of any AT as their primary and secondary powersets and I hope somewhere down the road the devs might allow us to slot the AT Enhancements in them.

Ah I am unsure if there's an issue preventing you from slotting it in Shocking Bolt thats a good thing to be sure of first... and sorry I missed the part of you being energy manip! But you could stack the empulse stun with total focus if you have it!

Good Luck! I hope you can slot the proc in Shocking Bolt! Let us know!

Assuming you aren't married to the idea of a specific APP, you could use Electrical Mastery and thematically turn Shocking Bolt (the single target hold with damage and a 16 sec base recharge time) into part of your attack chain. Granted it's a dot, but it would guarantee the proc every time and have a decent dot attached with a second hold to stack with tesla. Basically you'd get more damage from it and have a variety of other tools from APP like charged armor (s/l/e resistance), static discharge (more aoe and this ones direct dmg and not dot), surge of power (oh crap button for survival) and em pulse (good for stacking with lightning clap for aoe stunning even bosses).

Just playing with mids and slotting Shocking Bolt creatively got me a 5.4 sec recharge time with hasten and some global recharge. Could prob go lower with more recharge/alpha slot modifiers. Mids says it would deal 63.71 dmg over 5 ticks before figuring in the proc's 107 damage. Thats better total damage than charged bolts and not too far behind lightning bolt.

Overall it gives you a solid ST attack for your attack chain, some survival tools and some pretty impressive (for a blaster) control stacking options. It's an option if you're willing to use that APP anyways.

Honestly if they got rid of the currently buyable "attuned" enhancements from the store and simply sold "Enhancement Attuners" at whatever the highest price they've ever charged for a rare enhancement, I'd probably buy them... and often.