Silas

And don't forget Drain Psyche and PSW

awww man why'd you have to do this in my thread

My understanding was that GR would have 1 level of the Incarnate system and i19 would have the rest.

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ISSUE 19: INCARNATES is announced next
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All the details will come after Going Rogue
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Incarnate System will be 10 Incarnate levels
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the first level will be available in Going Rogue, along with new incarnate abilities
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Issue 19 will bring 9 more levels and more abilities

As I said in the other thread (dunno if you saw it before thread got nuked) your dom would probably be better off with s/l defense. Scorpion Shield is win.

Your example of surviving all late game content at far higher settings than standard was you bumrushing the Freedom Phalanx. Now, you did acknowledge that you were buffed to the gills, in fact so buffed to the gills you took a direct hit from a +4 AV and it barely hurt you for more than 20% of your health.

But that's a reflection on how many buffs you had on you, not the value of a resistance shield vs softcapped defense. If you've got softcapped s/l you can pull off that kind of stunt even without buffs.

I'll admit, softcapped defenses help most on buff-light teams or small teams. If you've got 2 sets of cold shields and thermal shields on you, it doesn't matter unless you're out of their range and/or they're terribad at shielding. But if you're on a full balls-to-the-wall speed run without any kind of significant buffing? It's a godsend. It also gives you a lot more freedom for inspirations.

My Fortunata (softcapped to all 3 positions) takes nothing but greens and oranges on TFs. My kin (softcapped to s/l) takes nothing but 1 row of greens, oranges and a row of blues for Transference after nuking. My fire/fire dom (softcapped to s/l), same deal as the Fort, nothing but greens and oranges.

But yeah, it's a build preference and having tried both I know which I prefer

Last thing being about the Apocs: For a malefactoring build it's fine because you're not gonna have Blaze for the lower level TFs whereas Blast you'll have at any level. For an end-game build, Blaze should be your main attack, not Fire Blast. It gains a much greater benefit from the enhancement values of the set (most importantly recharge, 89.9% vs 62% from a set of Decis).

If you look at the DPA and DPS numbers, Blaze is just stupidly, stupidly good. In a build where you've got Perma-Hasten level recharge you can be throwing it out every few seconds. Plus with all the Fire AoEs and kinning being so busy it's not like you're going to be knuckling down into a full attack chain very often. My kin uses X-Ray Beam (a mistake, will respec back into N.Bolt sometime I can be bothered) just as filler. If I'm not kinning, or AoEing, Bam, Cosmic Burst.

I meant that if he has a billion, he has enough to invest in a SS/FA. I didn't say he'd need the whole billion, just that SS/FA does require some investment.

I'm afraid I can't comment on the build in detail atm, but generally speaking about def/res and regen:

Enhancing your regen gives you much lower returns than +hp does for your hp/sec but as Werner said getting defense will make you much sturdier than +regen or +hp will.

Way back when IOs first came out I had a Fire Tank who I got to about 20-25% M/R/AoE defense and it was a night-and-day difference. If I redid it today I'd skimp more on Ranged/AoE and get more Melee defense since that's where the hardest hitting stuff is. Ranged attacks and AoEs tend to be the smaller or DoT attacks which your regen is better suited to taking care of.

I'd say aim for 25ish melee, 20ish ranged and you could get away with 15-20ish AoE.

If you've got the slots and don't otherwise have a fast recharging attack to use to build Fury, yeah.

And yes, it is If you've got procs in your attacks when Rage has crashed the procs will still do full damage, they're unaffected by damage buffs or debuffs.

If you're as rich as Smurphy you should be able to afford a build with smarter use of resources.

It's trivially easy to get a fire/kin to the s/l softcap and have permaHasten level recharge if you're using stuff that expensive.

If you've got the slots and don't have anywhere else to put a purple set, fair enough but I still think it's silly.

Build smart, not hard.

I'm not making a judgement call as to how much of the Hecatombs in Brawl slotting was a haha-look-what-I-can-do joke or simple extravagance since he just posted the pic with no other explanation...I'm just saying it's not a build move I'd recommend.