Lohenien

Kinetics toons have a way of stealing aggro called Fulcrum Shift + AoE attacks. Every tank I have looses aggro to kins to some degree. I don't know if it is possible to offset the loss of aggro by perhaps using more taunt IOs or not.

The market is cross server, but I do wonder if Guardian (or any other specific server) may be having issues communicating to the market server ?

I'm not worried much about endurance use with a fast recharging EA as well as Hibernate being around. The Eradication is slotted for +Endurance +HP and E/N def. In hindsight the ACC/Rech and Damage from Eradication could be better served as the Obliteration Quad and the multistrike dam/end/rech.

I did put some effort into adding some psionic def/res due to the person that requested the build mentioning they like to do rikti raids and various TFs. Psi and toxic are the only real holes, and thus I tried to patch at least Psi up a little.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Level 50 Technology Tanker
Primary Power Set: Ice Armor
Secondary Power Set: Energy Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Frozen Armor
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(3) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
(3) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
(33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge


Level 1: Barrage
(A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(7) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
(34) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
(46) Pounding Slugfest - Disorient Bonus
(46) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Endurance


Level 2: Chilling Embrace
(A) Impeded Swiftness - Chance of Damage(Smashing)
(7) Endurance Reduction IO
(34) Endurance Reduction IO


Level 4: Hoarfrost
(A) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
(5) Doctored Wounds - Heal
(5) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
(9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
(9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge


Level 6: Wet Ice
(A) Endurance Reduction IO


Level 8: Swift
(A) Run Speed IO


Level 10: Combat Jumping
(A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
(11) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
(11) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed


Level 12: Icicles
(A) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
(13) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
(13) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
(15) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance
(33) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
(33) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance


Level 14: Super Jump
(A) Jumping IO
(15) Jumping IO


Level 16: Health
(A) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
(17) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
(17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
(45) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance


Level 18: Glacial Armor
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
(19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
(23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge


Level 20: Stamina
(A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
(21) Performance Shifter - EndMod
(21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
(23) Endurance Modification IO


Level 22: Boxing
(A) Empty


Level 24: Taunt
(A) Mocking Beratement - Recharge
(25) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Range
(25) Mocking Beratement - Taunt
(40) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge
(43) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge/Range
(43) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge


Level 26: Energy Absorption
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge
(27) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
(36) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
(45) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
(46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge


Level 28: Tough
(A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
(29) Titanium Coating - Resistance
(29) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
(43) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge


Level 30: Weave
(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
(31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
(31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
(31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge


Level 32: Whirling Hands
(A) Eradication - Chance for Energy Damage
(34) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(42) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
(42) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(42) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
(48) Eradication - Damage


Level 35: Energy Transfer
(A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
(36) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(36) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(37) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
(37) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
(37) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage


Level 38: Total Focus
(A) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(39) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
(39) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
(39) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
(40) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
(40) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage


Level 41: Hibernate
(A) Endurance Modification IO


Level 44: Build Up
(A) Recharge Reduction IO
(45) Recharge Reduction IO


Level 47: Bone Smasher
(A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
(48) Mako's Bite - Damage/Endurance
(48) Mako's Bite - Damage/Recharge
(50) Pounding Slugfest - Disorient Bonus
(50) Pounding Slugfest - Damage/Endurance


Level 49: Permafrost
(A) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
(50) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance


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Level 1: Brawl
(A) Empty


Level 1: Sprint
(A) Empty


Level 2: Rest
(A) Empty


Level 1: Gauntlet
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Set Bonus Totals:
5.5% Defense(Smashing)
5.5% Defense(Lethal)
9.25% Defense(Fire)
9.25% Defense(Cold)
6.13% Defense(Energy)
6.13% Defense(Negative)
6.13% Defense(Psionic)
4.25% Defense(Melee)
4.56% Defense(Ranged)
10.8% Defense(AoE)
3.6% Max End
60% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
50% Enhancement(Accuracy)
4% Enhancement(Heal)
5% FlySpeed
302.2 HP (16.1%) HitPoints
5% JumpHeight
5% JumpSpeed
MezResist(Held) 2.75%
MezResist(Immobilize) 11%
MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
78% (6.1 HP/sec) Regeneration
1.26% Resistance(Fire)
1.26% Resistance(Cold)
3.13% Resistance(Negative)
11% Resistance(Psionic)
5% RunSpeed
2% XPDebtProtection






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I'd grab what I just picked up for my rig ( which has the same specs OP listed aside from a 650 W PS). the Geforce GTX 260 896 RAM. It's shown on fatherXmas's chart he linked to and it is slightly above all the cards listed thus far.

I'm not much of a storage hog - I'm doing fine on an 80 gig HD with like 15 gigs left after 5 years of throwing stuff on it.

well my specs so far are: an i5 eg750 2.66 ghz with 4 gigs of ram, a gigabyte geforce 260 gtx with 896 mb ram, 650 watt power supply. I have yet to pick up a HD setup but the plan is to use 2 HDs at some size 250-500 gb each one as a boot drive one one as a data drive.

I was wondering if I should use readyBoost or upgrade to 8 gigs of ram, but I figured RB would be cheaper by far.

I'm thinking of picking up a flash drive (like 16-32 gb in size) to use readyBoost - but I was wondering if it actually helps at all for gaming ?

Not sure if a fire/rad team can handle it early on but my mission arc 271212 is great for farming tickets.

I'm planning to pick up two HDs (not sure which size to get yet) but I'm not sure how to best utilize them. I plan to run windows on one and everything else on the other. Is that a good plan or should I be putting my games on the OS HD too ?

I have a separate tab for healing received and granted and it reports foes gaining endurance and health when I use DR.

I don't know I went ahead and put it in DR and it is healing and granting endurance to foes - I don't see any procs landing on me.

I guess I'll need to respec and move it to health.

Well I mean, does it fire off on me or on the foes I hit with DR ?

does that proc work in DR ?

any tank will get a good amount out of the regen uniques due to having higher HP than other ATs. +regen is best used on toons that have lots of defense or resistance, because it compliments their default abilities.

If you can figure out what IP is causing it you can use HOSTS file to direct it to 127.0.0.1 instead. You could also look up NoScript if you are using firefox.

That has been fixed according to Castle. The only thing standing in the way of a fly speed buff is paranoia.

The devs are scared everyone would pick fly over other powers if fly were reasonably fast.

They fail to take into account the fact that travel sets have 4 powers in them and that players might choose a travel pool for other powers instead of just the travel power.

Fly could easily be moved up to 70-75 mph cap ( via cap raise and higher base value) without the world ending. Never happen though.

*edit* I could sympathize with the "balance" line of doublespeak if this game had any real danger in traveling around, but that really isn't a huge issue. Flying out of range of melee is helpful but it isn't the end all be all of overpoweredness.

We've had inventions for a long while now, but the devs have failed to add an new craftable powers. It's pretty hard to imagine no one in the game world is intelligent enough to craft weapons and other such powers.

So here's to more craftable temp powers!

When Issue 9 came out and introduced the market, I had 8 million influence. Nowadays I have something like 10-12 billion in liquid assets and probably around 6-8 billion worth of IOs on my toons.

I can make influence very easily by buying some recipes and salvage and then selling the crafted IO for 2x-10x what I paid to make it.

There is no reason you can't do the same. Even an hour a week spent focused on using the market can earn you exponentially more than what you may be making now through regular play.

I'd prefer to see a 11% resistance to F/C/E/N/T added to Invincibility rather than replace the defense. Each foe in range of Invincibility would also give -1% resistance to F/C/E/N/T.

Max end performance would not change, but when facing fewer foes, Invul would be a bit stronger against the non s/l/psi damage types. The extra resistance would be great against the +3 or +4 bosses you get on teams, and it would help against eb/avs prior to level 32 and unstoppable.

Energy Melee should be re-concepted based on a mechanical theme of using your own life to boost the effects of powers. There is no real reason to limit such a useful mechanic to one power.

I'd add the effect to Stun and Total Focus. Stun would be changed to a targeted pbaoe, similar to how Thunderstrike behaves. At level 50 on a tank Stun would deal 30 damage to the targeted foe, and have a 75% chance to deal 30 damage to all foes within 10 ft of the targeted foe (including that foe). It would deal a mag 3 stun to the targeted foe and a 75% chance for mag 1 stun to all foes within 10 ft(including targeted foe). Stun would also deal 15% of your hp in damage to you and also -75% regen for 10 seconds. Recharge and endurance cost should be similar to Fault.

Total Focus would be changed to a 2.33s animation and reduced in endurance cost to 11.86 and deal 5% of your hp in damage to you. Damage dealt would be the same.

This is what I'm going to build to on my electric/electric tank : 31% melee, 30% aoe and 19% ranged defense with around 2500 hp (mostly via accolades).

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.601
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Level 50 Technology Tanker
Primary Power Set: Electric Armor
Secondary Power Set: Electrical Melee
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping

Hero Profile:
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Level 1: Charged Armor Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(3), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(7), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(11), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 1: Charged Brawl Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A)
Level 2: Lightning Field Oblit-%Dam(A), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(3), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(9), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(17), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(34), Oblit-Dmg(34)
Level 4: Jacobs Ladder Oblit-%Dam(A), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(5), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(9), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(23), Oblit-Dmg(34)
Level 6: Conductive Shield Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(7), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(11), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(23), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(33)
Level 8: Static Shield TtmC'tng-ResDam(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(42), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(43)
Level 10: Grounded S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), GA-3defTpProc(37)
Level 12: Energize Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Rchg(13), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(13), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(15), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(15), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(17)
Level 14: Super Speed Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(A)
Level 16: Swift Run-I(A)
Level 18: Health Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(19), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(19), Panac-Heal/+End(31), RgnTis-Regen+(46)
Level 20: Stamina P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-End%(45)
Level 22: Lightning Reflexes Run-I(A)
Level 24: Thunder Strike Armgdn-Dam%(A), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(25), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(25), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), Armgdn-Dmg/Rchg(33), Armgdn-Dmg(33)
Level 26: Power Sink P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(27), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(27), RechRdx-I(31)
Level 28: Hasten RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(29), RechRdx-I(29)
Level 30: Taunt Mocking-Rchg(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(37), Mocking-Taunt(37), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(40), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(43), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(43)
Level 32: Boxing Empty(A)
Level 35: Tough ImpArm-ResDam(A), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx(36), ImpArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(36), ImpArm-ResDam/Rchg(36)
Level 38: Lightning Rod Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Oblit-%Dam(39), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(39), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(40), Oblit-Dmg(40)
Level 41: Weave LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(42), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(42)
Level 44: Chain Induction Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(A), Hectmb-Dmg/Rchg(45), Hectmb-Dam%(45), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(50)
Level 47: Build Up GSFC-Build%(A), GSFC-ToHit/EndRdx(48), GSFC-Rchg/EndRdx(48), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(48), GSFC-ToHit/Rchg(50), GSFC-ToHit(50)
Level 49: Combat Jumping LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
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Level 1: Brawl Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest Empty(A)
Level 1: Gauntlet
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Set Bonus Totals:
11.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)
11.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)
11.5% DamageBuff(Fire)
11.5% DamageBuff(Cold)
11.5% DamageBuff(Energy)
11.5% DamageBuff(Negative)
11.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)
11.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)
15.4% Defense(Smashing)
15.4% Defense(Lethal)
19.8% Defense(Fire)
19.8% Defense(Cold)
7.25% Defense(Energy)
7.25% Defense(Negative)
7.88% Defense(Psionic)
21% Defense(Melee)
8.5% Defense(Ranged)
19.4% Defense(AoE)
4.05% Max End
4% Enhancement(Heal)
57% Enhancement(Accuracy)
62.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
10% FlySpeed
175.7 HP (9.38%) HitPoints
10% JumpHeight
10% JumpSpeed
MezResist(Held) 2.75%
MezResist(Sleep) 2.2%
MezResist(Stun) 6.6%
MezResist(Terrorized) 2.2%
15.5% (0.26 End/sec) Recovery
22% (1.72 HP/sec) Regeneration
6.3% Resistance(Fire)
6.3% Resistance(Cold)
6.26% Resistance(Toxic)
1.26% Resistance(Psionic)
20% RunSpeed
5% XPDebtProtection

Hurry Hurry crash some prices so we can all lowball to our hearts content and profit once the market self corrects!