MarkUrial

First of all, I am not trying to play a "bad empath" at all. I am just trying to round out my Helpful powers as a defender. I don't want to be the tank, or the scrapper, or even the controller, or blaster. I want to be a good Buff Machine. I have had tons of fun with it already. I don't want to have a Can-Opener Build, just one that is more effective.

I stated in the first post that I didn't want to change my power pools, I have tinkered with it a little, but all in all, I don't want to move around my power pools. (Except the epic one, which I have to go villain for, because I do Indeed like mace mastery) I wanted advice, and appreciate it very much, but I mostly just want to know if my power selection in the main two pools were good with my personal build. I can use my opinion on that one I suppose but wanted to come to the build vets on this one. I am in pretty good need of the stealth that SS provides, complete with the Celerity:Stealth IO, as it fits my playstyle much better. I could use Siphon Speed, but I don't like having to use it on an enemy just to get a travel power, and it doesn't quite come back fast enough for me. If I miss, which does happen occasionally, then I am footing it through the isles, and that is annoying. That and the lack of stealth is bad. If I took SJ as you said, at least I would have a travel power, but that doesn't fit this toon.

I am not intending to argue, but it is tough to make my point without sounding like a jerk, so if I do, I am sorry. I am. I don't care about the pool powers as much on a solo build, as that would be Great to find what would make me survivable without caring about others. But my main build, is locked in as much as my secondary pool, which I am occasionally grieving about. This is however my badging toon, so no chance of deleting him, and I live with what i've got.

The two pools I have (Primary and Secondary) I have, I have a little more flexibility about, as noticed earlier in the thread. I took Siphon Speed, after feeling it unnecessary, and now Hasten feels less useful. That's alright, because at least I am debuffing the baddies. The great part of being an NRG defender is that I don't have to worry about missing out on the buff/debuff that would otherwise be attached to those powers. I don't have the Rad pool with it's -Defense, or Elec with it's -End. I have NRG, which "Just" does KB. I have to be picky with those powers, and that's fine because it allows me the time to focus on my primary pool. I don't have to try and be a blaster style defender. Everybody hates those attacks anyways.

My slots: I honestly have no clue what to do with them now that IO's have been out for awhile, and even worse, the Alpha slot. I don't have the foggiest how to slot a defender's abilites, (I have a general idea how to slot a scrapper or tank, but not too good there either.) I don't understand the IO's. I came here to ask a question about that mostly. I just am lost. I feel like I know the Defender powers ok, but slotting is a different story altogether.

I am sorry, truly, that I have come here asking advice, and I end up not listening to most of it. But then again, I did state what I wanted to move around. If you have further help or suggestions I will give them a gander, I just wanted to tell you guys where I was coming from. I just don't want to be the "Best" I want to be adequate. I was unsure of what to do after getting innate fitness, and was wondering if I slotted that correctly. I just want to have fun. I don't have much fun with 1337 builds. This character is my baby lol.

Hopefully hear from you guys soon, it may not seem it, but I've been helped alot by the various posts.

Edit*: I will tinker with the build and try to post my new findings soon.

Is this mostly for soloing? I noticed you took out the Concealment and Teleportation pool I had in there for keeping people alive. The Grant Invisiblity power has proven very useful and I don't plan on dropping it. As for recall friend, it's great for those, oops I messed up, where are you so I can give you a wakey moments. You also added more damage. I like that, and yet, when I am in team build, I don't have alot of time to do damage, I am usually hitting my buffs left and right, so that is why I have only chosen a small amount of attacks.

I like this build you've given me, and might use it as my "Solo" build, with a power or two dropped as they become completely unnecessary in solo builds. Speed Boost for one.

I haven't messed with the Fighting Pool much, as I usually am support and assumed it was mostly for being up in the fight.

I didn't go with Super Jump, because I have Innertial Reduction, which grants it to those around me, and myself when necessary. It comes back fast enough without any slots in it, so I am happy there.

I don't have Ninja Leap, I don't know why it showed up in my Mids lists, but I don't have that pack. Otherwise I would have thought of removing it and SS altogether.

I have thought of dropping Tactics, as it doesn't seem to really help too often, I rarely miss without it, and mostly just notice the fact that my end is lower. The resists to statuses are nice, but I haven't really seen them in action either.

Anyways, I have taken all these posts from you guys, and I will think about them more. (This is all my Opinions on things and I am not meaning to argue.)
I suppose I should have better mentioned my goal with build 1 though. I don't care about damage, and Prefer to have knockback where possible, as it helps me rush in and knock people away from my buddies and myself. It's not as good as knockdown I know, but it's better than nothing. I also like how Energy Torrent has a cone effect and can hit multiple targets, knocking them all back, and damaging them all as well.

I have a tendency to use Grant Invisibility, Speed Boost, and Increase Density on most toons, leaving out GI for tanks and/or scrappers depending on our intent. So I like this combo. Defense,Resistances, and Recovery/Speed for my friendlies. I tend to be the only defender on the teams I end up in, so it's nice to be able to provide all three. Adding Tactics' Maneuvers and Assault are nice to have as well. I avoid Vengance as it seems to make teams dislike me, no joke I have been denied teams because they were worried I would let them die only to use them as Vengance-bait. I don't really care for its general effects anyways.

I have modeled the character after several comic book characters that are in my list of favorites, and he is a speedster, briefly gave him flight in an attempt to make it more travelable, but found I was wasting the powers because hover doesn't give all that much defense, and fly is too slow so I wasn't flying most of the time anways, even with flight speed-capped. He HAS to have SS, I'm not sure I need hasten to be honest, but it has come in handy, and speed boost is very hard for me to keep remembering to tap. Not sure what I am doing there yet.

I have chosen to go with spiritual for my Alpha, as I like the heal bonuses that are possible.

Anyways, I haven't had alot of time to think this through, as is obvious. Will think more. I like bits and pieces of everybody's suggestions. Thanks, will comment again asap.

You don't need Ultra-Mode to see the shields effectively, so don't worry too much there.

I moved this quote up to highlight the one that needs adjusting below, in red.

Note: Your current setting should be more than sufficient, so it may be some sort of bug in your system. Perhaps you should /bug it in game. Anything higher than the lowest setting should make them better, it does on my system. (Med or some such) Though you do have to be careful using Smooth Texturing with Anistropic Filters I believe, there is little pophelps in game that state this I believe if you hover? Touch a Question mark. Not sure which, it has been a little bit since touching my settings, and I don't have the game handy at this moment.

Hope I helped, have fun and hope you can fix it.

They sometimes have that available, I have seen at least two, probably three opportunities now, usually right before an issue goes live. It would nice for a server set that way permanently to exist though.

Unrelated to the quoted post is, I think "Wipe" of character would be great, complete with gaining new powersets, so long as they don't get back to 50, basically a reroll, but the ability to keep things that are no longer gainable, such as the anniversary badges

There's my loose change.

Father Xmas is correct, Character Textures set to low destroy most textures on most shields, only a few allow textures, if you run the game on low settings but *Could* temporarily increase just the textures, you will notice that they now have textures. It is a feature of the engine. Technically if you know what the textures look like, you could make them without seeing them, but you might get the primary/secondary colors mixed up on accident.

I hope this helps.

You have a point Kheldarn, just saying. Also who knows, someone might do the same as OP, and offer more for Haiku? Doubt it though.

It IS creepy, and yet, awesome. The Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Detiny.Video

Here is the interesting part. Every time I have looked into Haiku, it tells that syllables are different than "on" which is what the measurements refer to. When translated into English traditional Japanese haiku gain or lose syllables (as defined by english). Also English haiku are not limited to the 5/7/5 and there are other patterns in modern Japanese haiku as well.

A haiku is a form of poem. Saying they must all conform to 5/7/5 is like saying that all poetry must rhyme. Yes, a large portion of poetry does rhyme, but generally there are forms of it that do not. (Notably haiku generally do not) Art is art, let it be and let people have their fun?

"A haiku is this
but form found differently
amused here"

Lol, I do that alot myself, the random can come up with some really awesome ideas. It has gotten worse with all the packs etc though. I do heavily edit the ones I generate randomly, but I get color and costume concepts that way. I also almost never see anybody who looks really much like me, except when I am doing a template costume like longbow, or something like that.

I love it.

I get the first costume as right as I can get it, and if his/her evolution shows that costume incorrect I revise it.

Now also the other slots are for Personal Growth of my characters. Like for Mark Urial, His first character I got almost right right off the bat, but I also made two street costumes, and two "Evolved" character advancement costumes. The street costumes change frequently as they are not uniforms, and it costs quite a bit of Inf to do that lol. I am very picky.

You tell me It can't all be a Nemesis plot. Unless it is of course.

I was thinking you might misunderstand my thoughts on the subject, but you continue to help me in this matter, thanks for that. As for the jetpack, does that two hours of flight last longer than it sounds? Cause to my knowledge, you can't have more than one at a time. (Yes?) 10,000 isn't too bad I suppose, even though I am trying to save up. I guess with hurdle on then my height jumps won't be too bad. I just don't have the inf to respec, buy enhances, then change my mind about it later, what with most of my hancies costing so much. Also I still have the invent badges to get as this is my badger.

I am not too worried about PVP stealth and if your info is correct then I don't really care too much at all as I am going to be seen most likely.I just don't want to be an easy target, I don't plan to do too much fighting in PVP as I rarely enter these zones. I just want to get all the badges associated with each one and that can take some time. Does the SS+IO work against regular enemies in PVP zones? I don't know alot about stealth (Which I think is apparent lol)

Siphon Speed. Is it a mob debuff? I was under the impression it was a single-target debuff, if it affects mobs, than it would be of more use. I just find that I never have the personal time to sb, then siphon speed, then heal, then transference, then etc... I am not too quick on the power selection so I was looking for more aoe style help, stuff that is either always on or relatively infrequent of use. As it is, stealthing friends and then sbing them then ID can get tough. I am not refuting your information, just asking for clarifications as Kin seems to be something you are familiar with. (After making him I often wished I had made him a Kin/Elec, but it didn't seem his style and this was before you could change the appearance of powers.) So, Hasten and Siphon Speed sounds like a good idea for the buff/debuff action going on, and seems to be a fairly slot light choice so I am liking it.

Thanks again. (This is my fourth major respec, though I had a few minor ones, like respeccing out of the first and last Speed pool powers. What was I thinking? )

This method works great for emotes, but not so well with powers or speech, as the reason the emotes work is they confuse the system, which allows the second bound emote to work, because it temporarily cannot find the first entry. For powers and speech, there is no such barrier, it would try to do both, and most likely succeed, so a macro would then create Both options, or Ignore the first listed entirely, and never look for the second. Appreciate the two cents anyways.

You Sir, deserve a cookie for each of your awesome links, as this is about as close as I can get to what I intended. Some things will work for the first link I praised, but most things will be using these methods.. Thanks!!

The Recall Friend/Teleport thing is a glitch, and they are supposed to be reversed, thanks for catching that. As for 2 Travel powers, it seems redundant, but Teleport is for my vertical transportation, and SS is for otherwise. I wasn't set on TP, but I am set on Recall friend.

I am taking Concealment pool for both it's solo capabilities so I can stealth missions and for the assistance of my allies by granting +def. I might just take your advice on that Celerity-Stealth IO though. I just don't know what power I would put in Stealth's place. And wouldn't my stealth drop to 30 or so if I was in a PVP zone? I would also like to have a little bit of Stealth capability in those zones.

I have considered the possibility of placing Siphon Speed in my build for that very reason, but with Hasten it seemed redundant. I could be wrong though so it needs further consideration. I just didn't see a reason to have Hasten and SS, and then have a power that grant's basically the same benefits. Hmm. Will think on this.
I have my character to 50 already, and am just trying to rebuild him again. I am set on the NRG anyways though because it just fits him. It's odd really. I didn't like the KB for awhile but used correctly it isn't half bad. I agree with the idea of Electric Blast, but alas it is too late. The KB is the reason I have abandoned most of the powers in my secondary. My secondary effects in a team are minimal, and this allows me a little more focus into my primaries, while using my epic pool to bolster some lost attack/control. My second build (the solo build) is going to use a few more powers from secondary, because a few from primary won't see much use alone, and I would need a little more damage to sustain solo'able damage so that my progress doesn't stop at a standstill.

For Energy Torrent I mostly use it to bounce mobs who have been herded by a tank or scrap already, and slam them into a corner, it usually keeps them off their feet a little bit longer than even KD would do.

Thanks for your constructive criticism of my build Griff, updated build to show fixed TP/Recall below.

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Mark Urial: Level 50 Mutation Defender
Primary Power Set: Kinetics
Secondary Power Set: Energy Blast
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Electricity Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Transfusion -- Nictus-Heal(A), Nictus-Heal/HP/Regen/Rchg(3), Nictus-Acc/Heal(3), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Heal/HP/Regen(7), Nictus-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(7), Nictus-%Dam(9)
Level 1: Power Bolt -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Siphon Power -- Empty(A), Empty(5), Empty(5)
Level 4: Energy Torrent -- Empty(A), Empty(43), Empty(46)
Level 6: Hasten -- Empty(A), Empty(9), Empty(11)
Level 8: Increase Density -- Empty(A)
Level 10: Stealth -- Empty(A), Empty(43), Empty(43)
Level 12: Speed Boost -- Empty(A), Empty(15), Empty(17), Empty(36), Empty(37), Empty(37)
Level 14: Grant Invisibility -- Empty(A), Empty(17), Empty(19)
Level 16: Sniper Blast -- Empty(A), Empty(31), Empty(31), Empty(34), Empty(36), Empty(36)
Level 18: Recall Friend -- Empty(A)
Level 20: Teleport -- Empty(A), Empty(21), Empty(21)
Level 22: Super Speed -- Winter-RunSpd/Jump/Fly/Rng(A), Winter-ResSlow(23), Winter-RunSpd/Jump/Fly/Rng/EndRdx(23), Clrty-EndRdx(40), Clrty-RunSpd(40), Clrty-Stlth(42)
Level 24: Maneuvers -- Empty(A), Empty(25), Empty(25)
Level 26: Transference -- Efficacy-EndMod(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(27), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(27), Efficacy-Acc/Rchg(29), Efficacy-EndMod/Acc(29), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(31)
Level 28: Invisibility -- Empty(A)
Level 30: Inertial Reduction -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Fulcrum Shift -- Empty(A), Empty(33), Empty(33), Empty(33), Empty(34), Empty(34)
Level 35: Assault -- Empty(A), Empty(39), Empty(40)
Level 38: Nova -- Empty(A), Empty(39), Empty(39)
Level 41: Electric Fence -- Empty(A), Empty(42), Empty(42)
Level 44: Charged Armor -- Empty(A), Empty(45), Empty(45), Empty(45), Empty(46), Empty(46)
Level 47: Power Sink -- Empty(A), Empty(48), Empty(48), Empty(48)
Level 49: Shocking Bolt -- Empty(A), Empty(50), Empty(50), Empty(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Vigilance
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 1: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Health -- Empty(A), Empty(13), Empty(15)
Level 1: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(11), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(13), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(19), P'Shift-Acc/Rchg(37)