PrincessDarkstar

IF they were ever to do anything like this I think it should be an expansion of the TO/DO/SO system and make it possible to tie IO's to origin.

This wouldn't add new IO's but when you build an IO you can check the 'link to origin' box and it would give them a small % boost or small secondary effect that only applies to your origin powers (IE: Primary and secondary), but obviously be tied to origin so have a smaller market for selling.

I would hate to see new IO's tied to origin, I already dislike the ATIO's because it makes the choice of scrapper / brute more difficult.

I don't normally agree with much of what Reppu says, but he has been pretty much spot on in this thread.

Not much point adding anything constructive though, because it will surely be dismissed.

When they fix spines.

In other MMO's the Defender could easily be paralleled to a healer, most of which tend to wear heavy armor types and are far from squishy.

The issue is that in other MMO's when the healer gets focussed on they have to heal themselves, they are not likely to die, but they stop being of much other use to the team for that time. Here if a Defender could take the hits there wouldn't be much stopping them from still doing whatever they were doing before getting aggro so giving them survivability is too much.

It might be a good idea to give defenders a 'switch' that changes them from 'help the team' mode to 'help themselves' mode. This could change their buff and attack modifiers and give some resist/defence so they essentially have to give up buffing in order to gain survivability and damage, but can then flip back to buffing once it is safe.

I didn't think that through though so as with most ideas I am not sure how it would apply to all defenders.

To stop abuse of the switch it could only be toggled into defence mode at a certain level of health (60% or such) and then only back on once above a different level. Or be given a fairly long timer if you do use it outside of these situations.

I am going to try using Energy Drain to counter the end loss, it is an interesting idea and would make my DB/EA capable of taking on pretty much anything

Still only level 12 at the moment though so results wont be quick

I would think thematically -tohit is more appropriate because the enemy are under fire and can't aim properly, but that would step on Dark Blast's toes too much.

I am not sure how many AV's have -def but I am partial to /NRG over /SR these days. It is very easy to softcap, and has its own inbuild powers to recover green and blue.

The AV soloer I am working on is a DB/Nrg, plenty of single target damage and room for 2 -res procs which I think are likely to make a big difference against AV's.

Dark/SR would of course be cheaper and able to start soloing AV's much easier if you are lacking funds.

Sorry I just checked this today but is there a reason for picking Spiritual instead of Agility? Also if you picked Cardiac you could probably drop Body Mastery which lets you pick up pools like Fire Mastery, and even if you don't want to use the fire powers they make great IO mules.

If you are not set on the alpha I can have a look at what I can do, but I would think Agility is the best choice for you? I hate seeting Red Fortune sets, it reminds me of the dark days before BoTZ.

My last question, if you want me to look at the build is what attack chain do you use? So I can look at dropping dam/rech IO's for pure damage ones etc.

Edit: On 2nd look Cardiac might make you able to take Maneuvers as well, so there are a lot of possibilities is the alpha is up for debate.

I cannot look until Tuesday next week though.

Considering Fire/Kin's are in melee most of the time why did you pick range and not s/l?