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Good call. I had grown accustomed to just dumping those into health without thinking of the value. If there were plenty of slots, 2-3 Healing IO + procs would be worth the effort, but just one or two means stick with commons. This will help with saving INF for sure.

I'll have to investigate further on the effects of the raw enhancements. I don't really have a huge concern with operating without set bonuses though in exemplar mode. I don't have much desire to solo TFs or anything really.

I don't have any specific powers, just what makes the character effective really. Additionally, I have 3 LotG 7.5% saved up (level 50's but I play mostly at cap anyway) to use for the three slots that can take them. I'm just trying to save cash mostly as my overall bankroll is on the order of 800 million between all my characters.

Super jump is intended to be the primary travel power. Super speed is there for stealth capability for those teams that like to skip mobs. As a travel power I rather dislike it, but the side benefits are worth the extra power pick given the fluff at the end being tossed in. Super Jump (vice Inertial Reduction) provides access to Acrobatics. This is one thing I found with my previous Kinetic Defender, it was vital to have some knockback protection as well as any status protection possible. Kinetic gets the most rewards from being in melee range and having these sorts of protection is exactly what is needed to survive there (pre soft-cap S/L days at least). Having softcap S/L might make these obsolete but going from some Hold protection to none is difficult after seeing how useful it is.

Honestly that was only there because I wanted the pet power and the basic slot had limited options for something being useful. With the proc, it can one shot hold bosses if it triggers. Accuracy is pulled from global bonuses. I have no idea on the expense but it was about the only thing that made sense for the one slot budgeted to that power.

That seems doable, but it misses out a few of the quality of life things I normally prefer to have, namely a vertical capability for travel. Two kinetic combats is rough but with v-merits not too terrible.

Overall, the S/L cap is probably worth it but I do like having some actual danger in playing. Both builds look cheap enough with the suggested changes that I can have both I think and I can see which is more effective and fun.

Dreadful Wail is pretty much pointless to slot damage in, same as any Tier 9 with Kinetics. You can damage cap easily with Fulcrum Shift in those types of situations. Screech is a good one to have for bosses, especially those with godmodes. It's probably easier to do it a different way but this would work reasonably well. Presumably Obliteration is the only thing that adds S/L defense which is why you chose it.

I do like having some risk in playing versus just being effectively immortal with no care towards positioning or mob count. Even in the 20s it is possible to create a steamroller team with this character, but it still takes a bit of planning ahead instead of mindlessly diving in. I'll likely build towards both options to see if it really matters as neither build appears ridiculously expensive. The only hard part is finding more LotG 7.5%s, though they seem to be falling in price last I checked a week ago.

Thanks for the comments.

Compared to 8 Corruptors? 8 Defenders? 8 Controllers? 8 MM? 8 Dominators?

8 brutes and tankers don't stack too well but everything else does.

A potentially better one might be (for an electricity based character):

"So, the other day, I arrested this guy's heart..."

Maybe?

Wow that's awesome. I always hated the "requirement" (*) for Fitness in every character I've played when the game came out. I can certainly pick new powers but it will cause slot problems I think. I'm still stuck in the non-set thinking though, but I'll get over it.

One follow up question with regards to sets: does the set all need to be slotted into a single power to have the set bonuses?

* - required in the sense that it prevents just standing around moments which I rather dislike.

Guess I'll have to live with low resist on elemental. Can't be invulnerable to everything!

I messed around with Mid's and Kinetic Combat looks good to 4 slot in as many attacks as possible along with some accuracy IOs. Good suggestion. Previously I was trying to find other good ones like Mako's Bite or similar which are also ridiculously expensive and don't really provide a huge amount of defensive capability while losing the accuracy I have come to get used to with double slotted (10-40 randomish normal) accuracy enhancements.

Hit 42 just a while ago. +1/x5 is tough, especially when you end up fighting +2 2x Heroes, 2x Nullifier Longbow packs. Freakshow and 5th Column are hilariously easy relative to everything else. By far the worst is Tsoo though... The minions with Siphon Power get like 6-7 stacked of the buff and everything just wrecks you.

All the good IOs appear to be so very very expensive. Steadfast proc was like 20 million plus! Such a huge disparity in usefulness and cost of all the various IOs. Wish there was less of the economic metagame that seems to be a requirement in MMOs

I don't see the difference between them on paragonwiki. Villain merits appear to be worth 50 regular merits or something, but the article doesn't really give much information on the usefulness relative to each other.

It takes like 200 + 150 + 120x4 or something for the full set of Orange IO recipes (Numina and LotG). Right now I have about 60 of these things with no other obvious usage for them. Should I be saving these for something else?