Minotaur

I put mine in frozen aura on my /ice tank, and it does help basically as extra regen.

I'm torn, TopDoc is of course right in what he says, but would it encourage people to actually use the mid level IOs and then replace them with 50s later, meaning the mid level market might actually function a bit better ?

The problem is not with the energy drain itself, but the fact that it's autohit, meaning that you WILL have your end drained every time. If they had one that required a to-hit check it would be a bit fairer as you could use either your powers or insps to avoid some of them.

Remember if the pulsing of some personal toggles screws you up, you can suppress close FX so that you don't see it. I do this on my toons so I can see thru the auras.

Level 33 is the absolute worst level to stop at for posi, but I suppose for the market project you have to.

Because of the way exemping affects IOs, a 33 has the enhancements scaled down by the same amount as a 50, and has less slots and the IOs available have lower bonuses.

http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Exempl...n_Enhancements for details

I'd float Kat/SR as a possibility, you can probably cap melee def with only one application of DA, and (a trick you also use on /SD), you overslot your click mez protection with 4 or 5 SOs as I believe the exemping bites before ED. Also overslot your defences for defence for the same reason.

I use a perma 17 blaster with Lvl 20 SOs to duo posi, and superspeed plus a -KB IO and an unbounded leap +stealth in sprint are the key IOs.

My SS/(riot)shield brute Pink Patrol would heve to get Pretty in pink - psychedelic furs

Any MA scrapper should go with Somebody gonna get their head kicked in tonight - the Rezillos.

Psychosis safari my Mind/rad troller was named after her theme tune (80s matchbox B line disaster, the video that was ripped off for QotSA go with the flow)

Not exactly a theme tune, but was doing Doc Buzzsaw's arc about repossessing spare bodyparts when Gary Gilmore's eyes by the Adverts came on, that felt a bit surreal.

I would very much like this to stay, unless the game goes serverless.

I had 36 slots in use on Victory. I used the free transfers to move some 50s that I play rather more rarely off to other servers. All my slots are now in use on other servers (although I can buy more there) and I have a little space on Victory for GR.

Next time I fill up, I'm not sure what I will do as I don't PL, so have an attachment to my 50s and am very disinclined to delete them. While I don't mind buying the slots to move them to, having to pay to transfer each one is going to be too much.

I actively marketeer with 3 toons, one varies wildly, but makes say 200-300M in a normal week (it was a LOT more over the christmas period), another makes a little less than that, and the third I log on less often, so it varies a huge amount how much he makes as I bid very low and his turnover is low, but he made 100M last night.

Pleasure demon, a succubus, so she'll get a lot more action than me

Not an oceanic, brit who plays in the mornings which just happens to be Aussie prime time.

Terminal altoholic, plays on all servers, where I have a grand total of 3 free slots out of my 36 on Victory and all other servers are full unless I buy more slots. 66 month vet.

Full time student at home, old enough to be the dad of a normal student.

Well you've already tried the combinations I'd have tried.

SS/WP and ElM/shield are two of the best with a fairly minimal investment (I don't slot purples and not always top flight sets).

ElM/shield I did as a scrapper, and only nemesis and DE gave me a problem. The defence debuff resist issue can be overcome with HOs (your mez prot will take def/rech type HOs and these will enhance your debuff resist, it also stacks with itself) although I haven't bothered. I pwn Cimerorans and have no issues even with the lower scrapper hits. If the lack of ST damage worries you, set to no bosses solo.

To get your big AoEs up faster, footstomp, and thunderstrike love the Force feedback chance of +rech (it doesn't work properly in the teleport attacks).

I did ElM/EA on a stalker and have successfully "tanked" SFs on that. EA is very easy (but not cheap with the kinetic combats) to softcap by the mid 30s.

Also remember that you can seriously up your AoE damage from your epic, so if you've judged a set by the mid 30s, you may be a tad premature (there are some good ST punches in there too).

Second hand, I'm told that it can be awkward speccing a cold for both solo and team and doing both well. Dual builds may be the way to go, leaving the ally buffs out of your solo build,taking more other stuff and bunging the decent IOs in whichever you use more.

Not sure I've ever seen a cold/arrow but should work, mine is cold/rad specced for support. I dislike psi as an assault set, but haven't totally figured out why, just feels slow I think.