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Originally Posted by Partsman

It is hard to see from his picture but I believe the OP has already hit the ED-capped roof on damage, so he will not see any improvement in his damage. He will have higher accuracy, but that won't really matter at what difficulty he has tested either (+1/x8).

I think you should up your difficulty to the point where you are barely and consistently winning your fights; fights so close that you are left panting with exertion, where 1 more mob would have turned victory into defeat. Then evaluate it. Is it worth your time/effort/money to pursue a better IO'd build, or am I happy with my current limits? If you want more, ask yourself how can I survive if I up it another notch? Am I going to be defeated because I ran out of endurance and my toggles dropped? Or is there just going to be too much damage coming in to survive? Or will I survive, but not be able to pump out enough damage? Or am I whiffing too much now? Or if that one power had recharged faster, could I survive longer?

Once you figure that out, load up Mids and look for those sets that will shore up your particular weaknesses. And I agree with the other posters, use your second build for this.

Above all, have fun!

Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack

Nemesis is a bit of a one-trick pony. Vengeance makes them hard on purely Defense-based tanks, like Shield or Ice. On anyone else, especially something with Willpower's layered mitigation, try not to kill the lieutenants early and they're a total pushover. Not always fast, but an annoyance at worst. You might want to run it against one or two other groups. I find the Rikti give a good spread of different threat types, but that's just me.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

In general Frankenslotting is more effective than full sets at enhancing a single power since you can pick and choose the aspects you most want to enhance. The downside is that this way you don't get the set bonuses which can potentially increase the effectiveness of all your powers. To use a simple example on my AR/Dev Blaster I have 5 pieces of Positron's Blast slotted in four different powers. This gives me set bonuses totaling 10% recovery, 36% accuracy and 25% recharge which is roughly equivalent to slotting an accuracy SO and two-thirds of a recharge SO in every single power.

Now the actual enhancement the powers themselves get is (after ED) 47.7% Accuracy, 95.1% Damage, 47.7% Endurance Reduction and 26.5% Recharge (plus a damage proc of varying usefulness). Alternatively with Frankenslotting I could, for example use the same five slots to give it 54.5%/96.12%/63.6%/53% (stats in the same order) giving a large increase in recharge and small increases in the others (although I do lose the proc). This isn't a brilliant example since the Targeted AoE Damage sets have a limited selection of enhancement varieties (the only IO without a damage component is a rather expensive PvP IO which limits my options) with other powers. The downside is I'm losing the set bonuses I listed above.

The big advantage of Frankenslotting is that it allows you to fit about 1.6 SOs of enhancement in each slot.

Regarding Hamidon Origin enhancements (which Dark Gob mentioned) they are also useful as part of a Frankenslotting build. They are equivalent in power to 2 SOs which can add more power than Frankenslotted Set IOs. The price is very variable but some useful ones are reasonably cheap. In particular Nucleolus Exposure can normally be had for about 30million and boost damage and accuracy which is always handy.

Originally Posted by DarkGob

I almost wonder if you're talking about Hamidon Origin Enhancements here. (I'd expect a 4-year vet to know about them but it's also not inconceivable to me that you wouldn't have encountered them before.) Did they have names like "Centriole Exposure"? As far as I can recall, these, Hydra Origin and Titan Origin Enhancements are the only non-set IO multi-aspect enhancements.

Originally Posted by SerialBeggar

"Frankenslotting" is the forum's slang for mix and matching individual Set IO pieces, focusing on maximizing attribute enhancement (preferably achieved with less slot allocations) rather than trying to assemble the Set for set bonuses.

Originally Posted by Adeon Hawkwood

Done correctly IO Sets will increase the capabilities of a character. Most IO builds aim at increasing the recharge and/or defense of a character (although a few have other goals such as health/regen). This can be particularly useful for a Willpower tank since Willpower comes with a moderate amount of defense already and adding additional defense (generally Smashing and Lethal defense) can have a large increase in survivability.

The downside is that this can get very pricey, very quickly. The most popular set for boosting S/L Defense is Kinetic Combat which due to the nature of the drop system is rather pricey (the Dam/End/Rech goes for about 100million and even if you skip the others are still a tad pricey). You can look for cheaper sets instead (Smashing Haymaker, for example) but these will generally have less useful bonuses. Realistically if you want to do this right you should plan the build out in mids and will probably need a respec to, at the very least, shift a few slots around. Also you might find you need to wait to earn the cash to complete the build.

An intermediate option you might want to look at is Frankenslotting. IOs that boost two or three aspects of a power provide more total enhancment than regular IOs. For example slotting two level 50 Damage/Accuracy IOs (form different sets, obviously) will boost both Damage and Accuracy by 53% as opposed to the 42.4% you'd get from slotting one Damage IO and one Accuracy IO. In this manner you can get more enhancement from each slot increasing the potency of the powers or allowing you to shift slots to other powers. Since you don't care about set bonuses you can focus on cheaper IOs (most uncommon IOs sell very cheaply) all that matters is how many aspects the IO covers (the more aspects the IO enhances the higher the total bonus, triples and quads are obviously the best but they tend to be rarer and more expensive).

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

Are you sure you chose her? Does she show up on your contact list now? Do you already have 7 mission slots filled up?

The last option would be to check how many "Major Story" Arcs you have open. If you have too many, you will be unable to start a new one. Unfortunately, since you said you just now became a Villain, this means you'll probably have to switch all the way back to Heroside to complete one or two of them and then switch back to Villain again so you can start her arc.

Originally Posted by Master-Blade

You have to talk to Arbiter Rein in front of the Grandville tower. He's the one that will introduce you to the Patrons and allow you to make your choice. Only then will you be able to run one of the arcs and unlock your Patron powers. (You no longer have to do GW's arc just because you want her powers. Any of the 4 will unlock all 4.) You even get another respec for completing the arc as well.

Originally Posted by Catastrophe

If you find yourself not wanting to use multiple slots on the KB protection, you could go a different route with i19's inherent Fitness, freeing up some power choices so you can snag Leaping pool powers and Acrobatics for its Mag-9 protection. (Can add some Defense IO's to Combat Jumping too...). Just a thought.

Originally Posted by SenseiBlur

The only thing I want to know about I19 is... when is it coming out... and who can I sleep with to make that sooner.

Originally Posted by Exodus_V

Ouch <grabs popcorn and waits on fanboi's to show>

Originally Posted by Dr_Mechano

I'm honestly not sure whether that is a typo or not...either way I chuckled.