StormyDarkness

The problem with that attack chain is two fold for how the character currently feels strapped for time between Forge, Psionic Tornado, debuffing, and tossing my control/pets about. The second being that I wasn't planning on taking a ST attack (Spectral Wounds would be my other ST attack), thus making my attack chain Blind-SW-Psi Tornado (all 2.5 second animation)-SW.

I wasn't aware of this, and that sounds amazing. Duly noted and I'll work it in somehow.

I could just take out Venge for spectral wounds, apply the slotting from the rez to SW and then give the extra slot from the now rez to 1 slotted End or Dmg/End and just lose a LotG 7.5. Though admittedly I don't know how important that LotG would be when considered I just put a 6.25% set bonus into PA. Would 1.25% *really* give me that much?

My main problem with this was a lack of wanting to get rid of any of the powers that I already have.

Interesting, it actually ends up being a bit better recharge (by a whole .3) with better damage. Even without the build up proc, that's a very viable thing to do. Thanks.

I'll look into this.

Yeah, I was running into a "I want it faster recharge, but there's not much else adding a slot would help in this. I figured 2 seconds lost would be better than just a slot thrown away completely.

It's just as situational as Venge, but this way it's offering a set accuracy, recharge, and a hella nuke after using Venge (over 850 damage!) Plus, it'd be a viable tactic for speed runs to nuke a final boss room, then everyone has Venge and the venge bait is actually invulnerable for a while we mop up the rest of the room leaving (ideally) only the AV.

Mostly it's the reason for feeling justified taking Venge as it'll do tons of damage if/when someone dies, regardless of if it's planned. And if the person doesn't die in a mob? I got recall friend for that.

Arctic Fog gives you resist to Energy, Fire, and Cold.

Dark's shield gives you smash/lethal/neg/toxic resist for greater resist to any typed damage by psi. It also gives you an endurance increase power of dark consumption, some more variation of control, a self rez which is good depending on how aggressive you are, and Soul Drain to greatly increase the Blaster Level pseudo pets of Ice Blast (Ice Storm/Blizzard).

Psi gives smash/lethal/psi resist along with 2 holds (TK and Dominate), and also a mass sleep and PBAoE confuse which could be used for cheap purple sets.

Power, meh overall is what you'll fine. Force of Nature would be nice, but that's up to you. Also, it gives the best Smash/Lethal resist, so you'll be putting a heavier bandage on the Smash/Lethal resist whole of Arctic Fog. PBU has previously been mentioned, a melee attack of okay-ness, and conserve power which should be easily trumped by Heat Loss, unless you're specifically wanting to not even have a chance of toggle dropping on Blizzard.

Elec, the immobilize would be a good extra single target for you, but overall meh (imo), Thunderstrike is a small AoE so you can hit more than one enemy (unlike Total Focus), Charged Armor just increases your energy more, along with giving you Smash/Lethal resist, which Tough doesn't do probably enough with how common it is, an extra hold allowing you to possibly skip Bitter Freeze Ray (I dislike the animation for it, as already stated), and a nuke recovery power that comes up much faster than Conserve Power or Dark Consumption, but with Heat Loss, is it really needed to be up that often.


Just some APP things to think of. There is some synergy there, but it may not be your style. I say if you're looking for damage, go Dark, Controls, go Psi, Grab bag, go Elec, and tankage/greater support, go Power.

The other factor, to me at least, is animation time. Freeze Ray has 1 second animation while Bitter Freeze Ray has 2.5 seconds. If you take Psi Mastery's Dominate, you'll be able to do 6 mag hold in the time BFR's will take to do 3. Elec mastery will only be .1 and change animation time from the same result.

All three are nice. FF is Defense + positioning powers. Sonic is Resistance and Resist Debuff mostly. Ice is Defense and a few other things other than just resist debuff.

If Power Build Up works like Power Boost (and once again, I'm not 100% sure if it does or not in this regard), it won't up your ice shield defense.

A viable option if you like the stealth/port role. Stealth proc will help even more.

Frostwork isn't a heal, it's an HP buff. As such, the only way it's really a "heal" is that people will have a higher regen because of the increased HP. Also, it'll be harder to kill them because of the higher HP. That's all it does (besides the toxic resist which is meh imo).

I understand this, but I'm fine with the overkill.

It's a buff set with some heals. AB + one recovery aura = "crashless" nuke of any flavor.

If you're slotting for damage on a pet, it effects all power's damage. If you slot accuracy, it effects all their powers with accuracy. If you slot a proc for ranged AoE damage, it'll only effect powers that do a ranged AoE attack.

As such, with Clouded Senses, you'll be raising fluffy's accuracy, to-hit debuff, etc. and giving him a chance to deal damage with a proc when he makes an accuracy to-hit debuff power (from my understanding). This pretty much means everything but auto-hits will effect.

On my Dark/Elec, I went with 5 slotted Siphon Insight with a 6th slot of Deflated Ego recovery debuff. That being said, he's supposed to be a sapper, so having that in Fearsome stare and fluffy ends up being quite useful, as it's a general to-hit debuff set, any power that does to-hit debuff (on fluffy should be near all) have a chance to proc at certain times if close enough to fluffy, gets hit by fluffy, etc.

Doing a little Mids, I easily got my Melee defense to 33%, though going for Smash/Lethal defender would be better most likely.

My Rad/Ice, I got 30.6% Smash/Lethal and 31.9% Energy/Neg defense, not to mention 27% Melee and 25% Ranged defense.

Edit: Not that I did that with Electric Mastery, meaning 46.1% Smash/Lethal and 30% Energy resist before Surge of Power, which brings capped those and approx 50% resist to everything but Psi.

I believe you'll get a general response of yes, yet no on this, as your point has some flaws.

Most AoE debuffs have the potential to effect the entire mob, but with most being an accuracy or a low(ish) radius, it's not a given that you'll in fact debuff the entire mob. Some are only ST debuffs (Poison is the main offender in this, but some sets have their powers) yet potent.

On the non-empathy side of buffing (Sonic/FF/Cold), they give a non-purple patch buff that allows them more survivability that's easy to deal out to the entire team with less than 30 seconds of focusing on buffing, assuming that you're on an 8 man team. Thus, because of the lack of resistances for upper level enemies, I believe buffing is technically better.

On the Empathy side of things, RAs do effect the entire team and fortitude should be prioritized to the team's needs. If the tanks is dying due to lack of defense, forting him would be the first priority. Then people who get themselves in trouble or people dealing damage and so forth. There's many ways to look at how to prioritize fortitude, as long as the team is alive, enemies are dying, and you're using your buffs, I don't particularly care. If fortitude could effect every team mate, then the strength of the buffs would be lowered and being given 3 heals would become silly. Thermal at least has two heals and two resist, not defense, shields.