Sailboat

I used to team with a Mind/FF Controller a lot. I always felt like he brought a lot to the team, especially since we were temperamentally able to take advantage of the sleeps (i.e., we didn't constantly cast one-slotted Rain of Fire on everything he'd just slept).

I don't have Mid's here, but a couple of quick observations:

Typical slotting would be 4-slotting the toggle defenses and 3- or 2-slotting the passives. You've 3-slotted your toggle defenses. Are you getting to the ED cap for defense (56% enhancement) from them?

You've 4- and 6-slotted some of your passive defenses. These have a lower base defense than the toggles -- you might be (I can't verify in Mid's right now) getting less for the slots than if you simply switched the slotting with your toggles. Also, you have -knockback IO in one of them.

In fact, you have THREE -knockback IOs slotted, despite the fact that Practiced Brawler negates knockback. I strongly recommend taking them ALL out.

Crippling Axe Kick and Eagle's Claw are both oddly slotted, probably under-slotted. It looks like you're going to be light on offense...you've only got 4 attacks, one of them underslotted for recharge (Touch of Death is notoriously low on recharge) and two of them underslotted for damage. Slotting Kinetic Combat in main attacks, to get half the defensive bonus but commit only 4 slots, makes sense only if you use the other two slots to really fill out the power. I've done it, but used a Mako quad and triple or the other 2 slots, for example. And you might get more defense bonus and better offensive enhancement out of six-slotting a positional defense set like Makos or Touch of Death...and it would be cheaper. And if you can manage to get to the soft-cap without using all your main attacks, I prefer to frankenslot them for best total enhancement.

You've 4-slotted Physical Perfection and put some enhancement in, but left Health at one slot. Health is twice as effective as Physical Perfection and the enhancement should go there first.

You haven't added any slots to Stamina; how's your end recovery? You might want to at least yank that third slot out of Conserve Power and toss it into Stamina; it's spilling over the ED cap in CP and Stamina would get full benefit from at least one more IO.

The slotting in the Leaping pool seems extravagant. That's a lot of slots. I know there's some nice stuff in there, but evaluate carefully whether that's the best use of precious, precious slots.

Eh. I was satisfied with being finished at 50. But nooooooo...so many people kept pressing for more, specfically not just content but more stuff to do to advance your 50, stuff that would take a while so they could keep playing abd getting tangible rewards for their 50, not just influence and recipes.

So here we are. It is, by design, supposed to take a long time. That's the only reason it was worthwhile developing; if everyone finished it in the first few days after release, it would be pointless.

Speaking in general terms and not specifically about archery, which is a "newer" powerset, it's misleading to ask if sets still have redraw issues. Sets originally had NO redraw issues, and redraw was added to the game, partly at the request of players. At least one legacy set, Spines, does NOT have redraw issues because it was never adjusted, and as a result it's somewhat slower and clunkier (because of the "baked in" redraw times).

So "redraw issues" per se are newer than not having redraw issues, and are generally an improvement over not having redraw issues -- because the delay only happens if you redraw now, whereas before it was part of every attack even if you did not redraw.

This is probably what you need.

My hopes to respec my MA/SR Scrapper have been on hold ever since the new changes to Martial Arts, while I struggle to decide which attacks I want, and remain hanging fire despite the lovelyoptions to pick SR's many powers earlier now that Fitness is inherent.

I like knockback and I recognize what great mitigation it is while thwe boss ragdolls around helplessly on the floor and gets a few more kicks to the head, so it's hard for me to want to get rid of Crane Kick. But I also like the new Cobra Strike. And I've always like Eagle's Claw for looks and herd-hitting, even before they improved it with the crit boost. Ib fact, I like every attack in the set, but am willing to part with Thunder Kick because of it's low burst damage.

So my attack chain consists of (in no particular order):

Storm Kick
Crane Kick
Crippling Axe Kick (I can take this out if knockback is counter-indicated)
Eagle's Claw

and my AoE attacks are

Eagle's Claw to set up
Dragon's Tail

If I add the lovely new Cobra Strike, I'll have a lot of attacks -- since I already have a lot of recharge cranked up AND Hasten, it seems kind of silly to give up, say, 5 slots in Health (3 green and 2 uniques and the regen and endurance therefrom) to get an attack which will essentially by idle unless I just feel like using it. But..I do like variety.

I have seen many people assert that the new MA is really good for mitigation, without actually seeing anyone go over in detail why they're saying that. I assume that the best way to maximize the mitigation in my case is to drop Crippling Axe Kick for Cobra...but isn't Crippling Axe the new hardest-hitter?

I'm kind of floundering here, and would appreciate any insights or preferences anyone has to share about Martial Arts, particularly as paired with SR.

Thanks!

What I don't get about this alleged experiment (aside form the bizarre slotting and obvious intent to "prove" a specific point) is that you used a Force Fields/Energy Defender against a single boss.

A mature Force Fielder totally owns a single boss. Mutliple foes can present quite a challenge, but just ONE guy is all-but-helpless against you if you use any of several different tools. The two easiest would be Force Bubble or Force Bolt, either one.

MY FF/Energy Defender, built more conventionally, used to farm the Winter Event missions for my own amusement. Snaptooth is an Elite Boss, and a hard hitter -- much stronger than the Rikti scum you tackled here -- and he was completely helpless, spending most of the fight upside-down and ragdolled, flattened against a wall by Force Bubble.

And that was before IOs. AND before the Defender damage increase in Vigilance.

I'm not some kind of super-genius. You can do this too.

A FF Defender may not be the ultimate warrior, but in this case you have the perfect character for lopsidedly crushing a single boss. Slot normally -- not like your first posted build -- and it'll not only be doable, it'll be easy.

Make a Corruptor if you want Scourge.

The only unique-looking term I see there is "inpVel." Googling that gives a bunch of topics on valve control and "Computer Simulations - Finite Element Program." Do you have some kind of simulator on your computer that could be running in the background? Like "Seti at home?"

It's vaguely possible (if this isn't anything you're doing intentionally) that the machine has been hijacked remotely by someone using it for distributed processing. Might be worth running the usual suite of antivirus/adblocker/anti-malware apps and doublechecking that your firewall is in place.

Redemption: "If you are already a Hero/Villain and have never changed your morality, your first morality mission will give you 60 reward merits."

Reward screen:

[NPC] Your Mysterious Double: Surely we can discuss this?
Mission Accomplished
You gain 34,625 influence.
<Your Supergroup> gains 344 prestige.
You received 50 units of Reward Merit.

Is the text of Redemption's dialogue simply out-of-date?

And 23% sounds about right for fully-enhanced Tough on a Tanker. But only to smashing and lethal.

Might want to just roll plain white salvage nowadays. My goodness!