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Originally Posted by Balthazael

There was a large mothership raid on Saturday evening, but as far as I know the LGTFs never happened, so there was no invasion.

Originally Posted by Pinkpup

I can answer the first question;

Five Doc Wounds has a set bonus of 5% to global recharge, and extra recharge is always good.

Originally Posted by RedLineage

I really wish I would have known you couldn't +5 a store bought IO. I found this out the hard way, after buying 2 sets of Kinetic Combat for my recently respec'd Scrapper. They were on sale, and I will respec them out for 'real' IOs. but I was frustrated for a few hours afterwards lol

Originally Posted by Maudy

Anyone know how to swap out the login screen on a Mac? The Statescrotch image is basically keeping me from playing the game right now. Must. Go. Scour. Eyeballs.

Originally Posted by Mr_Kingkillaha

You can run the WWD SSA with any hero/vill toon over lvl 20 (I prefer to run WWD 1 or 2 with lvl 20-30 toons). You can get the merit once every week per toon. 1 merit will buy many different single IO recipes, some of the better ones cost 2 merits. Add alignment missions for more merits, and multiply by however many toons you can run every week and it all adds up fast. 2 merits may also buy you some enhancements that you can sell for 50-100 mil, so that helps buy all of the cheaper sets really fast (dont waste a merit on any cheap enhancement, sell something expensive then buy from the market). My build I posted cost around 1 billion inf (without the 4 Lotg which I bought with merits), where that other one with all the purple IOs may have cost 20 billion. His has some advantages, but IMO they aren't worth that cost after incarnate powers. Depends what you are planning to do with the toon though.

Until then, I threw this non-set build (with the same powers) together to emphasize some things to watch for on slotting. Mainly look at the Recovery and EndDrain first.
Mine: (3.63end/sec)-(.69enddrain/sec)= 2.94 end/sec net gain
Yours: (3.73end/sec)-(1.04enddrain/sec)= 2.69 end/sec net gain
You have less end recovery, and your actual attacks which are not included in end drain cost more endurance to run. Slotting powers like physical perfection for end mod is no replacement for slotting end redux in your usable powers because it has such a low base number. The same idea goes for slotting +tohit in focused accuracy. You are getting 2.49% extra added to your tohit, at a very high end cost. I dont remember the exact formula on how accuracy works, but 1 acc enhancement in each attack is usually enough, especially with the +20% acc from focused accuracy.
The stun, def debuff, slow etc.. you have slotted in some attacks do give you some higher numbers, but not as helpful as just making the attack hit harder.
Don't slot knockback enhancements in a power that has .67 mag kb. That pushes it from knockdown to knockback (aka harder to hit with your next attack). Trust me, I love knockback more than anyone here, but turning a knockdown power into knockback isn't helping you any. I have some doms with 45 mag knockback that are pretty awesome, but they can piss off the melee guys quite a bit.
Moment of Glory- any defense added to the power is giving you exactly 0 more survivability. You can search about the soft cap elsewhere, but anything over 45% def is not doing anything other than helping dilute defense debuffs. 1 resistance enhancement there IS putting you to the resistance cap, but since nothing can hit you anyway it is practically useless.



You should start playing with sets on mids (costs 0 inf to try them out) and see what you can come up with. Sets are better at enhancing more aspects of a power with less slots, but you have to watch for sets putting you over the ED cap. In this case maybe taking 1 or 2 out to slot elsewhere is probably better depending on what set bonuses you are focused on. Also watch for wasting slots on powers with low base numbers that don't really need enhancing. Figuring out all of the tricks to good slotting takes a bit of studying, but just keep reading these forums and see what people say about others builds. Im no expert but I have learned a ton in the last year that I really started using sets.

Originally Posted by _Klaw_

I don't want the devs to spend much time on this I think an icon over their head showing they are conversing would be all that is needed.

Originally Posted by T_Immortalus

I just put the operating system info up there for the obvious "what operating system are you using? it could mess with your window placement" responses, or unforeseen responses for that information.

Originally Posted by Texas Justice

It still has Fitness as a Power Pool selection since some characters may still have it on their characters that way.

I know I still have a few characters that I haven't felt inclined to respec just to opt in to Inherent Fitness.

Originally Posted by Gaia

What chance do you really think that LB can hold her for any length of time?
I've had some who have failed this in the past and she was available to pick as a patron later - no need to worry about missing any other content because of this. The tech to allow this was introduced with GR much later.

Originally Posted by Mr_Kingkillaha

Are you planning to go with sets on your final build, and what sort of budget are you working with? If not much, would you be willing to run the "who will die" SSA and hero tips with a handful of characters every week to get hero merits? It can be quite a bit of work, but your toon will be ridiculously stronger in many ways.

This is a rather expensive build someone else posted that should give you some ideas of what sets are capable of, but unless you are drowning in influence I think you should only look at this for the general ideas and not actually plan to build it:
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=275993


And for comparison here is my relatively cheap claw/regen scrapper build:
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Eventually I could try actually putting together an affordable SJ/regen build, but I think helping you understand how to use sets so that you can build for your own playstyle would be more beneficial.

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Originally Posted by Mr_Kingkillaha

Ill throw out some bits of advice, then see what you can do with it.
Recharge, recharge, then if you can make it fit, more recharge. Regen is actually pretty good if you can get ridiculous amounts of recharge. Reconstruction/dull pain/instant healing/MoG should all be as close to the ED cap as you can get. Then stack recharge bonuses and get perma hasten if you are willing to get rid of a power (revive). I highly recommend it. You also will want the recharge/heal alpha when you get to incarnate.

Moment of glory- those def IOs you have aren't helping (already almost double the softcap), and only 1 of the res IOs are (though even the 15% resist isn't necessary with all that defense). I suggest 1 LotG +rech proc, and 2 lvl50 recharge IO.
Superior conditioning- Im not sure how bad street justice is on end, but I dont think you need this power once you slot some sets in your attacks. If you just want it to get into the energy pool, I doubt it needs more slots since you already have quick recovery and physical perfection (probably don't need this either, definitely don't need all of the slots in it).
Resilience- 2 lvl 50 res IOs would be plenty for this power, also this is a good place to put the steadfast +3% def proc.
Regen could always use tough and weave.

To maybe help you understand why I say these things, on my claw/regen scrapper build I have:
64 hp/sec base regen (with perma DP)
instant healing on 50% of the time 157 hp/sec
reconstruction recharges in 16 seconds
dull pain recharges in 96 seconds
MoG recharges in 65 seconds

What this means is that for the 90 seconds that instant healing isn't running, I can use dull pain, reconstruction, MoG, reconstruction, then turn instant healing back on with dull pain ready right after. Also dont forget that a /regen with 4 purple insps on is practically unkillable for those 60 seconds.

Originally Posted by Verene

Level 40? neat. I had the 2 EBs spawn on me at once solo on it last week, but they were only the +1 i was set for. Figured it was wai since she's there to help. Luckily it was on my /storm corruptor so hurricane made it doable.

Originally Posted by New Dawn

You should really practise on Mids, play with it, do whatever you come up with, then post a build.

Then ofc what you can hope for is advice that will make you a better builder because of it in your mind. We will all preach and prefer different things but you got to have your own priorities and concept to min/max into.

These forums shouldn't have people that will put you down for trying to come up with things for yourself or put you down for what you did. So if I were you come up with a build see if people can help you with your thinking as a builder of builds.

Originally Posted by Mister Rik

Hmm. This just got more puzzling. I took my main, the same character who just quit her SG, and had her create her own SG. I went into "Edit Room" mode, and clicked the "Room Details" tab, and there were all the Wall Mounted Weapon Displays and Signature Character Items that she supposedly "lost" when she left her previous SG. Weird.