Psyonico

Jumping with Hurdle + NR is faster than running with default slots in Swift+Sprint+NR

And besides, if you're just using him for farming, it's not like you're going very far.

Well, yeah, but... LOLStalkers

this.

Basically, your choices for lighting if you don't go Tech/Magic are as follows

Controllers:
Fire Control (duh)
Illusion Control (phantasm can light it)
Fire Epic
Primal Forces Epic

Defenders:
Archery - Blazing Arrow
Assault Rifle - Flame Thrower, ignite
Electric Blast
Energy Blast
Radiation Blast
Electric Mastery
Power Mastery - though not until Total Focus

Corrs
Archery
Assault Rifle
Electric blast
Energy blast
Fire blast
Mu Mastery

MMs
Mercenaries
Ninjas
Robotics
Thugs
Mace Mastery
Mu Mastery

Nor did I... then again, I came in at the end of I6 :P

I'd argue that dam/mez is as important as acc/mez, perhaps 2 acc/mez, 1 dam/mez? for a dark/rad, 1 acc/mez is more than enough, or if for some reason you can afford to run tactics, same thing.

I'll go with the Quicksand/Earthquake combo, yes, 2 powers, but both of which cause the group to stay in place, as opposed to RI, which requires outside assistance for more than 1 target to stay in the debuff.

wrong, it's autohit. Thanks to the fun fact that I've actually played ELA on both brute and tanker to the point of getting Power Sink, I can guarantee it

City of Data supports this on every AT that can get it, note the "Entities Autohit" is labeled foe.

Accuracy always has to have a numeric value, there is no numeric value for autohit.

This is a bit of a matter of contention.

Controllers can get away with slotting 2 Acc/Mez hamis, however, Defenders have lower values for the cage magnitude, and therefore may require the third.

actually, WP works best with AoE sets, since if you kill off all the minions at the same time, your survivability stays fairly consistent.

technically your durability drops when all the minions drop, but since incoming damage also drops, it's a non-issue.

Any defensive set less potent than granite is teh gimp

When I was starting to plan out how to IO my WP/Mace tank there was a wonderful mini-guide on the forums about the best way to make WP work, unfortunately it seems to have been eaten by the forum monster. I suppose I should try to write one of my own, since I know the ideas behind the guide, but basically, try to build for as much +regen and +hp as possible.

QFT. I like this a lot

I am well aware of Dark and Storm's survivability, both of which have a fair amount of -res, so, provided you slotted right (ideally, getting Tar Patch and Freezing Rain double stacked) you can move along fairly well. The issue with dark is that most of the Dark Miasmists I see take the Dark secondary which is not a great solo set because of DoT and mostly AoE damage.

I'm not sure I can put a numeric value on that, but I'll ramble a bit.

Firstly, when I ran my Invincible Carnies mission, I completed it in just under 10 minutes without any deaths, Catwhoorg was kind enough to lend his namesake Claws/Regen scrapper to run a similar mission, he came out about 20 seconds ahead of me and had 1 death (no running back from the hospital, self rez) So this tells me that I am running fairly high on the strength.

The issue I have putting a number down is what difficulty I solo toons on. For example, I solo my emp on +2 with spawns at about x2 - 3 and Bosses on, my Rad/Son, probably my "strongest" solo defender solos spawns at +3 with team size at x2-3, no bosses, meanwhile my TA/A solos at -1 - 0 with team size at x6, no bosses, they all run at about the same speed and my emp doesn't feel any lack of mitigation, but since he can handle something the other two don't, it makes up for the slightly lower numbers, he can solo larger spawns or higher levels, it just starts to slow him down.

For reference, my two best soloers are my WP/Mace tank and my Stone/ELA brute, the tank usually solos at +2 x 6 and the brute at +3 x 3, purely for AoE/ST reasons, compared to my defenders, they're probably about 25-35% faster.

Interesting idea, the issue for the team survivability thing is factoring in stackability, my Emp is going to keep the team alive better than my TA in small teams (2-4) but it evens out in larger teams, and TA might just take the edge in 8 man teams, however, if you are looking at 2-3 emps vs 2-3 TAs, the emps take the lead once again. In fact, Emp is probably the most stackable set.

Similarly, FF, in my experience, is more effective than Sonic at providing survivability, but there are certain circumstances (last mission of the STF, all of the ITF) where Sonic far outshines FF

You also come into a minor issue when dealing with Buffs vs Debuffs and enemy conning, Debuffs will, for the most part, come ahead in the -1 - +2 range, but I'm willing to bet buffs will come ahead in the +3 + range because of the purple patch.

There is also the issue of kill speed vs survivability, Kin has the lowest survivability rating, but thanks to the incredible increase in kill speed, it doesn't need as much in terms of survival buffs/debuffs.

To sum this all up, I could probably put together a spreadsheet showing survivability on the various sets (I have each defender set leveled to at least 29) based purely on numbers, however, factoring in +DPS and large scale healing (ala empathy) makes those two sets difficult. Sets with a single heal are relatively easy to rank.

I would believe that Sonic is worse than empathy solo, though my Son/Son is only 29, he feels weaker than my Emp/Energy did at the same level. I don't get my buff pets for a few more months (I think April) so I can't check on that, however, I have used the relatively fragile clockwork gears to some success against Heracles, the trick there is to hold the aggro on yourself.

Exactly.

I regularly run co-op teams in the RWZ because I feel like running one of my 50 Hero/Villains and all of my friends are on the opposite faction.