Metatron_NA

I am a little confused.

1) Hasten is Level 24. It's right there.

2) Mids is telling me that Hasten will have a ~144 second recharge time. Since Hasten lasts 120 seconds, that means 24 seconds without Hasten - that's not bad I think compared for a build not primarily focused on Recharge.

3) Again, reading directly from MIDs, it says udner totals that my Smashing/Lethal Defense is 45.9%. That's soft-capped, right?

4) Again, according to MIDs, my global recharge pre-Hasten is 65%.

All in all, I appreciate your feedback, but it is either entirely inaccurate and you need to take a second look, or I am utterly confused and doing something really wrong.

However, as ar as I can see, everything I said is accurate as of what MIDs is telling me - is MIDs wrong? Or perhaps you have more than one instance of MIDs open and were looking at the wrong one?

Here is the detailed breakdown from MIDs:

Decimation
(Fire Blast)
MezResist(Immobilize) 2.75%
13.6 HP (1.12%) HitPoints
2.25% Max End
6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Enfeebled Operation
(Ring of Fire)
3% Enhancement(Immobilize)
1.88% Resistance(Negative)
2.5% Defense(Smashing,Lethal), 1.25% Defense(Melee)
3.75% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
3.13% Defense(Melee), 1.56% Defense(Lethal), 1.56% Defense(Smashing)

Positron's Blast
(Fire Ball)
2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
1.58% Resistance(Fire,Cold)
9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Touch of Death
(Fire Sword)
MezResist(Immobilize) 2.75%
18.1 HP (1.5%) HitPoints
2.5% DamageBuff(All)
MezResist(Held) 2.75%
3.75% Defense(Melee), 1.88% Defense(Lethal), 1.88% Defense(Smashing)

Positron's Blast
(Fire Breath)
2.5% (0.04 End/sec) Recovery
1.58% Resistance(Fire,Cold)
9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Obliteration
(Fire Sword Circle)
MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
3% DamageBuff(All)
9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
3.75% Defense(Melee), 1.88% Defense(Lethal), 1.88% Defense(Smashing)

Rectified Reticle
(Aim)
1.88% Defense(Smashing,Lethal), 0.94% Defense(Melee)
20% Perception

Rectified Reticle
(Build Up)
1.88% Defense(Smashing,Lethal), 0.94% Defense(Melee)

Decimation
(Blaze)
MezResist(Immobilize) 2.75%
13.6 HP (1.12%) HitPoints
2.25% Max End
6.25% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Luck of the Gambler
(Maneuvers)
7.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Karma
(Maneuvers)
Knockback Protection (Mag -4)

Steadfast Protection
(Tough)
3% Defense(All)

Luck of the Gambler
(Weave)
7.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Obliteration
(Burn)
MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
3% DamageBuff(All)
9% Enhancement(Accuracy)
5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
3.75% Defense(Melee), 1.88% Defense(Lethal), 1.88% Defense(Smashing)

Luck of the Gambler
(Scorpion Shield)
7.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

Enfeebled Operation
(Web Envelope)
3% Enhancement(Immobilize)
1.88% Resistance(Negative)
2.5% Defense(Smashing,Lethal), 1.25% Defense(Melee)
3.75% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
3.13% Defense(Melee), 1.56% Defense(Lethal), 1.56% Defense(Smashing)

/signed

You are quite wrong in this case. For example:

"Can anyone tell me how to use IOs?"

is a very different post from

"Can anyone tell me how to use Costumes?"

Q.E.D.

From what I was hearing, ED thoroughly trounced the large majority of buff the Incarnate gave, so you wound up with like a 5-7% buff after ED.

Which you would have to grind for over and over and over and over again.

Bleh.

Thanks for the build, I will check that out.

As far as the incarnate system, I may indeed dust off one or more of my 16? level 50s -
IF the power increase is significant and not just another tiny edge, and
IF it doesn't take a year and a day to get there.

For example, IF I can gain ten Incarnate levels over the course of 10-20 weeks, and by the end BE STATESMAN in ALL his glory - becoming in effect a FULL AV myself - *that* might get me into post 50 content.

However, if it's just getting another 5-10% Acc, Rech, or something else, and you have to slog through mission for a month to do it - no thanks, I'll pass.

What I heard of the 1st Incarnate Slot before it was yanked made it sound an awful lot like the second, not the first. ;/

Anyways, thanks for your assistance.

I love you all, and I love MIDs.

I don't cross post - sometimes I come close to the line, but I always stay on this side.

Well, I guess technically this one might be over, but i didn't know which would be more effective (hehe)

However, the previous posts in various At subforums are not cross posting at all - each was for a *different* topic

mmmkay?

;p

Wow, I hadn't considered that. In my naivete about these things (never tried to IO for Def or Res before, only Recharge), I sort of assumed that usch as build was *possible* (without severely handicapping one's powers and effectiveness.)

This dds a whole new wrinkle. I suppose I have two options:

1) Forget about using Blasters as a candidate for KickAss padded mission solo-er.
2) Assume that if I kill fast enough I will always have a small purple or better running. Even so I will have to hit 33% to be capped with the purple.

Foes will always be using Ranged on me, they may also be using Melee on me, especially if I get in there with my secondary - which regardless of /Mental or /Fire requires me to get close for Burn, FSC, Cremate, Drain Psyche, Psychic Shockwave.

The truth is, no matter what I figure I will be up close and personal with many baddies, so being in melee range is I think unavoidable, unless I simply don't want to take some useful powers, or I want to be constantly zipping in and out.

Hmmm. Well, I am a shot hop from considering option #1, but lets pause and consider. If instead I cap (or close to cap) S/L instead of positional (since I can't do both Melee and Ranged), any attack that has *any* S/L damage as part of it will use it. However, I should probably plan to unfortunately get hit more foten than my original plan. Therefor I should choose /Mental, which gives me Drain Psyche @ 20 which can help my Regen to recover from the few hits I may take.

So now we are talking about a Fire/Mental (or maybe Archery/Mental), specced for S/L softcapped Defense, with an emphasis on recharge as well.

Is such a Fire/Mental doable? And am I giving up on Fire/Fire too easily - can the odd green Inspiration stand in for having Drain Psyche, and anyways, does /Fire do so much more damage than /Mental that it has effective damage mitigation by simply killing things quicker?

As ar as comparing /Fire to /Mental, we would be comparing using Psychic Scream and Psychic Shockwave to using FSC, Combustion, Burn, and Blazing Aura.

I dunno - the more I think about it, the more I imagine that with the rate of killing my Fire/Fire might do, the more greens (and purples) he will have to pop.

Can S/L Defense be close to softcapped while haste is pursued as well on a Fire/Fire?

Another tidbit on information - I tend to level when solo through radio/newspaper missions, and now that I can abandon as many missions as I want, I usually recycle through the choices until I get offered a Council mission.

They're usually S/L damage, right?

PS. I will probably want to take Hasten, therefor I will probably want SuperSpeed as my travel power. It is my favorite because not only is it fast, I can drop a stelth IO in it and have functional full invis when it stacks with SS's own stealth.

Quick reply - was hoping to softcap Rnaged & Melee DEFENSE, and THEN stack on as much S/L RESISTANCE as possible - that'll work in theory, right? That way any S/L Damage that gets through the defense gets diminished.