Rhynwa

On my toggle heavy 'fenders (dark - with leadership, sonic) I went for recovery/end. Dark also got recharge, sonic got defense. Rad and emp got recharge, and 'other nice things' with no focus. Cold/ice corruptor got defense and recovery/end (Ice blast is so fast that I kept end draining myself). So for me the top 3 are recharge, recover/end and defense.

However, if I notice that during slotting for my primary focus that I am getting a bunch of acc or regen or whatever, I might try for a little more if it doesn't negatively impact my primary focus OR negatively impact the power usage itself. My dark defender has some wicked extra acc, and my sonic rad ended up with +HP/regen I seem to remember. It has been a while since I looked at their builds on Mids... maybe they all need a 'check-up' :-)

All that follows is my not-nearly-humble-enough opinion:

For Fluffy, my current slotting is 3 lyso and some procs (I like giving him teeth... baby teeth, I know, but something a little more than nothing :-)

The trick to Fluffy is that he *can* take a lot of IO sets, but it takes a *lot* of slots to get the benefits AND make him worthwhile. The 3 lyso ensure that the -to hit (in TeneTent, TwiGrasp, Chill of the night, DarkNight) is maxed and makes sure that he will usually hit with whatever power he throws out there. A nice small 3 slots, which is good if you are running low on slots.

On this same thought (for an additional slot), consider the cloud senses proc - chance for neg energy (yeah MORE neg but...) It should have a chance to go off for every casting of TT, TG, DN plus every 10 sec of DN and Chill. Someone tested it very recently and said it works very nicely.

Slotting him for recharge is a tricky question... if you go for an IO build with lots of Global recharge, then Fluffy probably doesn't need much if any (I run an IO build with lots of recharge, and he is re-castable about 1/3 of the way through his duration - I rarely need to recast without having him available). If you stick with the HO build, you might throw in a lvl 50 recharge IO (like 42% rech). Again, as mentioned, recharge only affect how quickly you can recast him, it does NOT affect how quickly he can cast his own powers.

I think that you do not need to slot his heal - it will only go off when he feels the need to cast it (and you can't increase the rate). YOUR heal is so much better/controllable/timed/enhanceable/etc. that you are much better off relying on your own.

The endo does cover both his TeneTent and his PetGaze, but again, lysos cover more of his powers so I favor the lyso.

Overall, I think you can have him be effective at 3 slots, and even better for a few more...

Welcome back!

Come out and play!

You know you're on Triumph too much when...

...a thread is not complete without a post from Sun Splitter displaying his cluelessness, a post from Karl_Rove_Man referring to his pantslessness and post from Not Epsilon containing his special stream-of-conscious-lack-of-reality.-ness.

...when you are doing a zone event and get *really* excited when you realize that you are playing alongside forum people (Hi Miki!).

lol@3mile for 'touching' everyone and everything in a dirty, dirty way - and for wanting more!

Don't forget that Lysozymes are a really nice way to put in acc/-tohit. They usually aren't too expensive, and can usually be traded for at the end of a Statesman TF :-) I used two to enhance twilight grasp (with 2 miracle and 2 numina - both heal, heal/recharge), 3 in Fluffy (cause that's all he needs :-) and I threw in one and an enzyme (end/-tohit) in Fearsome stare with 4 GotA. Also, if you have extra slots the centriole (dam/range) is VERY cheap and does wonders in the two cones (nightfall, tenebrous). While they don't give you an excess of set bonuses, sometimes the power is more important...

I have to go with the semi-goofy answer. I want whichever you *want* to play... the truth is any defender is better than no defender. Period. If you are playing the defender you LIKE the best, however, chances are better that you really understand the sets, you know the tricks and/or you will be paying attention and playing your best. A poorly played rad will not help as much as a well played FF; a poorly played kin or emp will lead to more team misery (and team whining) than a well played storm. I like playing for fun, and I am willing to forgo the 10 minutes of 'go faster' for watching someone really play their toon well; a fun group rather than building some imaginary optimal team of powers/ATs that I want to quit within moments of starting.

My sonic/electric (Major Drummer) is 50, and I just love playing him. I have him IO slotted up for defense and the elec slotted for sapping, and he has become so much fun. Any Rikti missions/TFs - especially mothership raids - and I bring him, since he is protected from the holds, and the defense prevents him from being slept. End draining the surrounding mobs so that they can't attack also seems to help a bit :-) I have yet to try running the War Zone solo (and I suspect he will be squashed by the 3-boss, level 54 spawns, but what the heck! I'll try it when I get home :-)

I take him to Cimerora and solo farm the Wall. I love playing him solo or on teams. He has the same problems most defenders have solo (slooooow soloing, self-buffing isn't all that) but he has enough tricks up his sleeve that he is just great fun to play. Also, I have yet to find a team that was sad that he was a sonic.

(ok, ok. My one tip of the hat to the 'defenders aren't healzors' stories as well as 'sonic defender love'. I get invited to a team of like 5. The leader says "we just need the heals". I reply "I've got no heals - I am a sonic defender". The other 4 respond with "Sonic? Woohoo!" "YAY" "I want the rings!" "Woot! I am an Ice tank!". Team leader says in team chat "oh. Good." 'cause what else could he say? :-)

Yeah....ummm...soooo... happy-extremely-belated-birthday Miki.

Maybe I shouldn't let work interfere with my forum time. I wonder how much money i can make by reading the forums all day.... Oh, wait. Sigh.

lol@Epsilon for his strange waffle obsession....

lol@fallenz for having a borked avatar...

Oh wow. I am very sorry to see you go. The loss of a good player is a hard hit - the loss of a fun player is even worse. You will be missed for sure!

...but even more awesome that finding griefers in the Urband Dictionary is that only 1 person in the keywords is define:

1. cath

one hot piece of cake-
"cath is known as a very sexy sex on legs that everyone loves."

2. Cath

A girl that can be rather clingy but if you make her mad she will kill you in your sleep.
"Dude, what happened to your mom? I think Cath is a bad influence on her... dad's just never been the same since tehir last getaway."

3. cath

someone that is really annoying or is acting really annoying.
"Tanya Khoury is a total cath.
My math teacher is a complete cath."

When someone sings "here comes the sun" and you immediately think of Sun Splitter...

When you start trying to alter the lyrics of every song you hear to suit the Rep War thread...

When the "azr" letter combination reminds you of TWO people as opposed to none...

When flipping through kiddie TV, your first response to the Power Rangers is "They are SENTAI, not Power... oh, wait..."

Wow! I wish you fair winds (I know, I know, they don't matter to a sub) and a speedy return!

No, no KB... you put the burger in the OTHER end from the hamster!

lol@Cath for thinking that a mad face would slow me down!

Poop... lol@me for being slow

lol@Sun for having his own puppy in Silverado

*whistles*

*hands behind back*

Who, me? Say something?

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