Pyro_Master_NA

The way defense works, you should only go with positions or only go with types. Since 4 types are capped, and you have capped resists on ice, there is no reason to cap melee, range, or aoe.

Every attack has damage type tags, and position tags. So a ranged fire attack that also deals smashing damage will check for smashing, fire, and ranged defese. Let's say you have 45% smashing, 0 fire, and 10% range defense. The 45% smashing will be checked because it is the highest value. Go with adding more hp/regen.

This sounds like a good idea, and since the travel pools got a 5th power, I've been thinking of what would be cool 5th powers for other pools as well. I couldn't really think of one for presence, but this sounds pretty solid. I like the idea of having RttC level taunt too, because it makes it useful for someone to hold agro, but not enough to overshadow a tank (because pool powers SHOULD be weaker than pri/sec powers).

That being said, I'm now appologizing for a minor thread jack.
What do you guys think about these 5th teir pool powers?

Fighting: Add in an auto power with mag 2 mez protection to what I consider the unsual mezzes. So confuse, fear, repel, taunt, placate, all that. And a mag 1 to the normal ones, like hold, immob, sleep, KB, stun. Reason being that this shouldn't be high enough to make all types mez immune, but it would give them a tiny bit of breathing room. And there are pool options for mez resist for all the normal types already, and even a little bit of protection, so this would stack well with those, while not overshadowing them. Maybe adjust to a 2/3 protection, because the 1/2 might not be noticeable enough.

Concealment: A ST cage attack, like phase shift on an opponent. NOT an AoE, like dim shift or black hole, because AoE wasted attacks suck. This way it's acttually usefull on relatively common situations, such as taking out a tower on STF, or an AV on multi AV fights on ITF/STF/LRSF etc. Also, it would have an impossible to perma recharge time, so you can't greive team mates. I was thinking a "One with Shield" and "Strength of Will" type recharge restriction for it. 50% uptime if you cast as soon as it's up.

Leadership: AoE regen boost. Thinking something like 50% or 100% with only half enhanceable value.

Medicine: Half of aid other's heal, double recharge time, AoE. Not sure thematically how the annimation would work, but going with the theme of the set, I would assume a relatively small radius.

Again, sorry for threadjacking, but I thought it went along with the idea of this post, because the devs would never give only one pool a 5th power without the others getting a 5th, and the ones that already did only got chosen because of the travel powers.

There really aren't any bad primaries, but some are more AoE capable than others. KM, elec, and spines are usually better off with AoE due to spines and elec having more than one aoe and KM because it's aoe has a 100% chance of crit from hide. Secondaries, most will say nin, SR, or WP, and to a lesser extent regen.

I don't know much about StJ, and Ice is still kinda new, I don't know much there. But because of hide, and AS being interruptible, I would suggest you go with a defense based secondary. Resists and stalkers are supposed to not go well together, though I admittedly never tried it.

My best use for it was my earth/ice/fire whirlwinding, flying controller of the greek elements character. Power boost is nice, and yes, the swords are pretty. If ice melee ever gets ported to something other than tanks, I hope it includes Ice Sword Circle.

Replying a bit late, but I honestly forgot I posted in this thread xP

Anyway, I said /mm for GM/AV soloing because Drain Psych has a very nice -regen aspect. Fire/ by itself has enough ST and AoE damage for anything on its own, but /mm has a few nice AoEs that can seed up the AoE kill speed. DP is also a great survivability tool once it's slotted up properly. Others have posted great information, and /elec would definitely be the best ST damage chain, however, ST damage is usually found to get a reading on how effiecient big target killing will go, and -regen is like adding on a huge chunk of damage since those hp never get regenerated. And on an AV/GM, that adds up to about 100-200 pts per use, depending on level and slotting.

That being said, a pure ranged character should go /em IMO for boost range, and power thrust getting rid of anything that manages to get close (though hoverblasting would get rid of that).

Look up Silverado's fire/mm soloing some (a LOT) crazy stuff. He's the forum's best (IMO) GM/AV soloing build creator.

What about trying this with soull drain? Since it actually applies another boost to you per click, would it have any better luck than invincibility? I'm guessing not, but if it does, that would be pretty sweet.

Depends on the budget. Invuln is better on the cheap because of how much easier it is to softcap s/l/e/n, but if you can afford to soft cap those on a wp, I think WP would pull ahead due to the higher regen.

I like to think of it like this: if you are usually on a large team, then defenders are better, and if you are usually solo or on small teams, corruptors are better.

Reason being, a defender's large buff numbers and debuff numbers are multiplying the damage of everyone on your team, so it adds up to more damage than what a corruptor would make up for with his own personal damage. On a small team or solo, you are buffing a smaller number of people, and a corruptor's higher damage will out do what is being buffed.

What damage debuffing does is lower their damage as they are attacking, just as a damage buff increases your dmage before attacking. So say they deal 100 damage and they are debuffed down to 10% of that because they have a 90% dam debuff. The 100 point damage attack now does 10 points. If you have 75% resistance, it applies after the debuff, and you would take 25% of the 10 points, so you would take 2.5 points. This allows a psuedo "above res cap" tactic.

Until I finish my PB's new build, I use burnout for back to back lightform.

The reason energy isn't going to help much is because it adds more regen. You are already regenerating 40-100 hps per second. 42-102 is not going to make a noticed impact. If you had, say, a SR character then yes, that regen would be more noticed.

Depends on what AT you want. I personally like it with SD on scrappers so you can get huge damage buffs on you with siphon and AAO. On stalkers, I would suggest Nin simply because nin is awesome. Maybe try the new EA on stalkers so you can stack some stuns. On a tank, I would take ice armor for some extra -dam effects. Don't take it with a brute. It just doesn't work as well as other ATs due to fury eclipsing your siphon's strength.