Saltyhero13

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The ST debuffs have an 8' radius splash effect that are consider an AoE. The debuff values are half for anything that gets "splashed". Thats what Mids is probably reporting.

My problem with Neurotoxic Breath is that its a very narrow cone and requires lots of repositioning to maximize targets. Expanding the arc of the cone would go a long way to improving this power.

Despite all the attention /Poison received recently I think it deserves another look. A few suggestions I hope the devs would consider for /Poison are:

• Make Alkaloid a HoT possbily adding a splashing AoE effect
• Look at increasing the ST debuffs to a 10-12' radius
• Increase the arc of Neurotoxic Breath to 45-90 degrees
• Increase the radius of Venomous Gas to 20'

I think your assessment is correct for ST. Spectral will allow you to set up containment on AVs during phases that PTOD (2/3rds of the time) are up. I wouldn't expect it to increase your ST DPS past 16% however (not including the negative energy proc). It will be tough for other Interface procs to beat that increase considering their secondary effects are heavily resisted or are calculated from base numbers before level scaling. On the flip side Containment is not resisted.

As far as AoE damage I do believe Spectral could help if you are careful but I doubt its contribution will be anything amazing. The biggest problem I see is that the nature of the damage proc is a DoT and will interfere with your main source of AoE containment provided by Mass Hypnosis. You would have to pay close attention to when you leveraged your sleep for containment. Its Immob proc rate and duration are too low to offset the loss of containment if you are not careful. With the above in consideration I don't see why it wouldn't be a better choice than some of the other Interface option for Mind/FF/Psi. For my playstyle Cognitive is the only other one that looks like a competitive choice for regular content.

What powers do you have and how often do you use them?

Last time I checked Immobilize does set up containment. Most pets propagate any Interface powers. The Tier 4 Interface powers give a 12% and 20% respectively. Much more effective than waiting 60+ seconds (on an extremely high recharge build) to set up containment.

Post-Incarnate with access to the Spectral Interface this is no longer true.

I believe that in the past Cast Time was needed to calculate the Recharge needed to "perma" powers. In the modern game this is no longer necessary. I suspect that at some point powers were normalized to where Cast Time no longer affected Power Duration time.

The formula (RechNeeded = BaseRech / (Duration) - 1) seems to be the rule. This means getting that figure or more will make the specific power perma. I am not aware of any exceptions though I wouldn't doubt it if any outliers existed.

If this is incorrect I would like to hear an explanation of how it works in game.

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Fade still has the 15sec(?) duration. I haven't made it to Soul Absorption yet but I imagine that it hasn't been patched yet.

Of course you did! It is ice after all.

Fissure only has a 50% chance of stunning. Its not reliable enough for stacking with T-clap IMO. Tornado is a much better choice than T-clap. However, without Frostbite Tornado is quite chaotic and tends to scatter mobs. It is still usefull against single hard targets or as an "oh crap" button, but the results will be very chaotic indeed.

45% Def to both Ranged and S/L is more than enough, however for most Praetorian content the number to reach is 59%. (No. I personally don't recommend that you try to reach 59% Def with IOs.) Considering your selection of sets, I could easily see achieving softcap to S/L. I am intererested to see how you pulled off softcapping to both and what tradeoffs you made to get there.

I was short on time earlier. I have more time for some comments for you.

First off for farming I would recommend an SS/FA Brute. DM/ doesn't have the AoE that SS/ has. I assume you already have this character so lets proceed.

I recommend Defense and Recharge bonuses for farming purposes. The build I posted shows you what IO sets and slotting you may want to consider inorder to reach these goals.

As far as your power selection goes, overall your power choices look solid. Without IOs its hard to tell how effective your build would be. Slot allocation looks funny in some places (e.g over or underslotted powers)

Two things stick out. I would absolutely find a way in get Midnight Grasp in the build. Its hits hard and will help immobilize runners as you turn them into ashes. It is essential to your top DPS chain. I also recommend dropping Acrobatics. You can protect against KB attacks using IOs. I wouldn't waste the power selection on Acrobatics.

Thats about it. Good luck.