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The Clarions work like a breakfree from what I have seen. It is not absolutely necessary to put it on auto. I have the T3 and still don't put it on auto, because more than likely on my Beam/Time Corruptor, I am waking teammates up with it, not myself. But like others have said, work the defense angle. It should be pretty easy on a defender. I went with all the recharge I could handle and still have 20-30 defense with powerboosted farsight alone. You could also work in weave for extra and manuevers.

Based on the tier, a percentage of it bypasses ED. Like the Spiritual I am using is the 45% top one and 2/3 of it is untouched by ED, meaning I get 30% no matter what. I play off that and may save slots based on my Alphas. I don't need to operate at 110%(literally) for most of the game, so I will save that level 50 recharge and put that slot somewhere else. Raw numbers means I will effectively go from 110% or so to about 80-85%. The bonus to this is now we have enhancement boosters so I can still get into the 90's with the 50+3 recharge I may have in there now. Add to that, now I can use that slot to get the extra slot that may give me a +5% recharge or +6.25% here or there. It all will figure back in to nice recharge and better slotting.

With Resilient Core Paragon the 33% bonus has 2/3 of it untouched so you will get 22% bonus on top of whatever ED value you have, so if it was 56% bonus, it would move to 78%. Not sure what the real numbers add up to, but it is better than adding a level 50 and getting the extra 5% you were saying.

For the other power choices and loss of defense, I would not pick that pool. You could just as easily pick up assault and get a damage boost. 10% damage boost is greater than the 9% resistance debuff. And it averages out to far more, as assault would be up all the time if you wish not 40 seconds of every 3 mins. That's unslotted numbers. Slotting it would likely be 2 acc, 2 recharge, and take 3 slots away from something else. That's only IF you are looking for a little extra edge. To me, I just want to be the best blaster I can be with what I was given. Electric doesn't get the heavy hitter blast like most sets, so I made due with what I had. If I had picked a set like fire or something else, I would still play the same. I just like having a lot of choices in an attack plan.I don't care about the BEST powers, but there are powers that are better choices if you are going a certain way.

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1) Yeah, that's pretty much how I do. I usually fence something on the side and let the damage catch up. It's good for say, jumping into council, locking the boss with Tesla and Shocking grasp, and fencing a wolf so I don't get slaughtered by a random swipe. I use the cage for more of a tactics thing and figured since I was using it, it might as well be slotted.

I use LB plenty as it is my only blast so when I need to step back and re-evalute I hop out with a little more damage their way, before hopping back in. Having those two abilities saved me a power choice and also left me an option for when I was held to keep stuff away from me and keep blasting, all while chipping off damage.

2) Short Circuit, I went for the damage as the endurance is already ok. And I slotted them with 6, just to sure up some more AoE defense. Mobs can attack with even a sliver so why waste the endurance slotting when I will leave them with a sliver anyway. My AoE method is usually Ball lightning-->(Tesla-->shocking-for Boss)-->Short Circuit-->Powersink-then, whatever else I want as minions are nonexistent to the defense and at least one boss is locked. It allows the chance to focus on the single target, or rotate between AoE and single.

3)Single target is pretty much Tesla Cage, then Shocking Grasp on the hop in-->Fence-->Charged Brawl-->Havoc Punch-->Fence-->Thunderstrike-then, whatever it takes to finish. I use the fence to lock my current target for the TS knockback.

Something also that I did not mention earlier is that I use Spiritual Alpha T3 to make up for my lack of recharge in some powers, along with my global bonus. That's why I tried to squeeze in some global bonus to Recharge and Accuracy. Playing like that, you have to strike hard, fast and often, and missing isn't really a good option . I also picked up Clarion T3(the 2 min one) to make up for knockback and holds. Any level other than incarnate, this build is pretty much overkill. You could also go with the Electrical Mastery Pool with pretty much no change in strategy. Shocking Bolt would allow for locking down another trouble maker and Surge of Power is there for emergencies. I found that going for Defense, those emergencies were less and less, and stuff was pretty much dead before it needed to be locked down. In the end I respecced out of that in favor of the Scorpion Shield and Aid Self's 2-power pick.

I don't have it, but you should be able to type it in the chat bar as [Power:Total radial Epiphany] or whatever the actual name is. It should list what the foe intangible period is.

I will say pick up the Scorpion Shield from the patron, Black Scorpion for epic pool. It gives you smashing, lethal, and energy defense. I picked that on my Elec/Elec Blaster since he lives in melee and it fit concept to deflect energy away from an electric guy. With that and a couple sets for defense here and there, he ended up at 40% smashing/Lethal/Energy defense and like 30% negative energy. He lives plenty, but also smashes stuff with all the melee, so my opinion is skewed away from the Electric primary. Without the fast killing, I would say that electric or devices alone aren't gonna slay enemies that fast, and together won't be much faster. Slow enemy death=quick blaster death.

I had started building for defenses on my street justice/energy aura scrapper. After playing a little I found that I would just rather slaughter stuff quicker. So then I rebuilt around recharge and just use energy drain to strengthen up my defenses. With the recharge I have and hasten, it is a much more satisfying toon to me. If your "attack side" is good at AoE, I would say both would be even better. It just depends on the toon you are on.

Probably so. It seems that the person is playing off the -to hit/-damage of time's juncture. Combine that with the maneuvers of the Thug Enforcers and they are pretty durable. At that point they are just shelling out damage. The bubbles from protector bots would probably do the same. All the buffing/debuffing of time and the damage of those sets is a good mesh. And if that fails, you can heal. So, yeah, time on a MM with bodyguard is a good set.

On my dom, I have the nerve, spiritual, and cardiac. By far, cardiac is the most noticeable. I went form depending on domination for a full blue bar to never dropping below half on endurance use. I don't have many toggles and I did not slot my attacks for end reduxm, so I expected the dependence on Domination. I didn't think cardiac wouild do as much as it did, though. And the Nerve is useful as everyone else with alphas now fight at higher levels because of their "50 (+1)" status. Nerve is very useful if you are playing the mostly support rolls. The few times you may want to attack, you don't want them to be misses. If you are semi-fine now, I would not substitute with the alpha, I would enhance and be able to trade alphas in and out. If a team is high, switch to your nerve. If the are taxing your controls, switch to cardiac to save endurance. Shuffling is ok, but relying on the alpha is going to limit you on a versitile system.

But alpha is not being an incarnate. It's the "slow path" as per the arc. If alpha gives me all these bonuses, I would hate to see what the other stuff actually does. It stilll may not be for you, but don't discount it. I just pulled out my very first toon I made after 5 years, to find out he can't even get into Cimerora. It prompts the questions, "What else did I miss, and what else is in store for him?"

Yes. Some values are still not worth it, unless stacking with pets resistances anyway. Like, ninjas have defense, thugs have leadership, and bots have bubbles, so maneuvers helps them a little more, even with a low value. Depending on your primary, still may not be worth the 3 powers.

When you do the patron arc after switching, you are granted a respec anyway. You can then use that to respec and have access to all the patrons, not just the one you picked. And with the new implementation, you will then have access to all the patrons and all epic pools no matter which side you end up back on, hero or villain. And soul is very nice with shadow meld in it. You should not need weave, unless you are gonna be fighting something crazy, or farming 52+.