Silas

As a general rule, you don't need to farm a lot to get the IOs you want. In fact farming is arguably one of the least effective ways to get IOs. Playing the market will get you more cash and IOs for much less effort.

If you don't want to play the market you can still get the shinies you want by running tips on as many characters as you want. Generating Alignment merits is simple and you can buy any non-purple or pvp set IOs for a reasonable amount. For purples and pvp IOs, buy stuff like LotG 7.5s with the A-Merits and sell those.

If you really just want to farm though, your build will do fine. I'd put a -KB IO in either CJ or Tough so you're not getting knocked around by all the mobs. Running Maneuvers along with all your other toggles might be a bit much for your endurance bar. Then again, if you're killing lots of mobs fast you might get enough inspirations to cover it.

Ideally though, I'd play the market a little and put together a cheap frankenslotted build and run with that while you save up for the expensive build. If you need help playing the market read the Market forums, lots of people there willing to help anyone willing to learn

Positively furious.

Looks like someone knows how to auto-refresh.

Yeah, the 30s duration listed is only for the +recovery and +recharge. The perma-able part of Chrono Shift is the +recharge, which has the full 90s duration.

Perma CS = CS recharging in under 90 seconds. Plus cast time, so like 88ish seconds IIRC.

None of the Alignment powers should be affected by recharge buffs.

Admittedly, CtJ is arguably a more useful power in that it buffs you and your team, so if you use it whenever it's up it's a pretty good deal. I just really like the convenience of Frenzy. Any time I die, I can be back in the fight at full capaciy much faster.

Unless I'm dying more than once every 6 minutes, which tends to not be the case

Tricky.

Normally I'd say the go-to answer for Kinetics is a Corruptor, due to their higher damage cap.

I'd also say a Defender for Sonic Blast.

For this combo, I'd give the nod to the Defender. You may not be doing massive damage yourself, but Kinetics combined with the Sonic -res means the team will.

Fire/Dark. As others have said, Corruptor is the way to go with Fire. Rain of Fire does Blaster level damage and does double Scourge damage.

Defenders getting their support powers earlier doesn't matter for this combo, since the Corruptor still gets all their key DM powers by level 4.

No, has been confirmed as an oversight. Will be fixed sometime. In the meanwhile, play TM on a Corruptor

Reasons to make a Defender: Empathy, FF, Sonic Blast or Resonance. Maybe Traps too if you want to softcap to everything ever.

Reasons to make a Corruptor: Everything else + sex appeal.

8 Fire/Rad Controllers or Fire/Rad Corruptors.

Only, she says.

I personally went with Cardiac. Fire/Time is pretty end heavy. The extra resists also benefits Tough/Dark Embrace (I went for softcapped m/r/AoE defense).

The power of a Corruptor has never been in raw damage. It's the combination of decent damage and team support. Force multiplication. Honestly, I'm not impressed by Musculature. I've always gone Spiritual or Cardiac on my characters.

Since I'm a recharge nut, I always want enough recharge for perma Hasten. That aside, I'd say for most builds the sweet spot is between 50 and 80% global recharge. It's enough to make a significant difference to the recharge of your powers without requiring hugely expensive sets.

So I'd aim for about that much recharge. As for defense, the FFG gives you the luxury of making high levels of defense very attainable. What you can do is aim for softcapped s/l defense with Scorpion Shield and the FFG, which requires almost no extra slotting from sets. Or you could decide to softcap s/l/e or ranged as well. Depends how much defense you want, really. The most common damage types are smashing, lethal and energy, so aiming for 2-3 of those will result in a very sturdy character.

If we're purely talking about build power, I'd not go with DP. Go with Fire or Ice. DP is a pretty solid blast set but Time is a very busy set so it doesn't work that well with a weapon set IMO due to redraw and slowish animations.

Fire and Ice can both do very solid damage and have AoEs that synergize well with Time (the Rains).

I personally went for Fire, because ZOMG damage. It's simply far and away the best primary if you want to kill things. However, it provides no mitigation (other than dead stuff can't hurt you, I suppose) so it needs to be paired with something that does provide mitigation. Time provides that in spades. So I find it's a really good pairing, like Fire/Dark. Fire is all offense, Dark is all defense (so to speak). Same deal for Time.

A friend of mine went Ice and as far as I know it's worked out well. My own experience with Ice paired with other sets tells me it'd be a good pairing too. Just a bit less damage.

When deciding between Ice and Fire I'd say it comes down to two main considerations. What do you want more of, control or damage? If you want more damage, go for Fire. If you want more control, go for Ice. The second consideration is the popularity of the build, or FotM to use a silly and outdated term.

Fire/Time is (for many valid reasons) arguably the go-to pairing for Time. So if having the same sets as other people bothers you, you might want to go with Ice. Personally, this kind of thing used to be a consideration for me, but I've long since stopped caring. What other people play shouldn't stop you from playing what you want to play, but thought I'd mention it because it is a Thing for some people.

As for builds, I think there's a whole bunch floating round other threads where people have shown what they've got so far, what they're aiming for, etc. If you decide on a primary and put together a build I'd be happy to provide feedback on it.

Edit: I've also seen a couple people have gone for Elec as a primary. That also has great synergy potential, as Powerboost lets you slot SC for damage and still have great sapping and you'll be in melee range anyway for TJ. It has the advantage of 2 AoEs, which is nice. The only downside is a lack of a t3 blast, which is what really puts me off. You can supplement its damage with the Voltaic Sentinel, but you'd have to recast it every minute, it still doesn't do that much damage, its slow and honestly, Time has enough stuff to click as it is. Again though, very doable and solid if you want to go that route.

As for Epics, I'd definitely recommend Cardiac for your Alpha if you're going with Ice or Fire. I've not played with Elec in conjunction with a high-end set like Time, so I couldn't say if the minor end gain from it is enough to help. My suspicion would be that it wouldn't, but couldn't say for sure. Time is very end heavy. As are Fire and Ice. All three especially so at high levels of recharge (which you want for perma CS). Cardiac also has the added benefit of boosting your resist shields, so you can get softcapped defenses to all three positions as well as 50% or so smashing/lethal resistance. Makes for a very tough character indeed.

For Interface, go Reactive or go home.

For Destiny, I've gone with Clarion. When you're softcapped to all three positions, only taking about half damage from the two most common damage types, the next hole to fill is mez protection.

Judgement, whatever you want. My Time Corr is Fire, so I went with Pyronic. Even if it sounds silly. Pyronic? Whenever I see it written my brain reads it as moronic.

Lore, same as Destiny. Whatever you want. Cims and Vicky are the best damage, I believe.

Eveningstar2 and Muon, thanks for the kind words, I'm not sure how it is you've enjoyed the fevered scribblings of a madman, but I'm glad you did