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So did I miss it or has no one mentioned radiation melee yet? I'm disappointed.

I went with Rad Blast for my melee Corruptor. Two AoEs usable from melee range, and a full single-target chain usable from melee range as well. The fact that the attacks are also usable from range was not an issue for me. I took Air Superiority for a bit more punchiness, and for a bit of the soft control that many melee sets get. I may be wrong but I think the animation for Cosmic Burst is the same as the one for Midnight Grasp, so using it from close range it really could be a melee attack.

I'm not disagreeing that some more melee options would be nice, just saying I was able to make it work for me with what we have.

C was the clear winner for me, so it's nice to see that although many others didn't agree, we'll still be getting some of the options from that set.

I sent a link to a friend. Here's what he had to say about it:

I'm way too lazy to do any of this but I do appreciate the efforts of those who are. You will be making the purples I buy more affordable. Thank you all.

The short answer is yes, it is quite skippable. It has occasional uses for aggro management and certain rare situations but for the most part I doubt you'll miss it.

Regarding the OP I agree with everything said for the most part. I would just revert Eviscerate to its old, original form. It never accomplished what was intended by making it a single-target attack, so the set lost AoE for no benefit. I think 30% recovery for Regen and WP would be too much. At that point you're basically getting all the powers that Scrappers get but Hide thrown in for free. I think somewhere closer to 10%, or maybe 15% would be more realistic.

The one thing I'd add would be an animation time reduction for Placate. Rather than try to find some way to make the power useful by changing its function, speed it up so it can do what it was always intended to do. Give the new Placate to SoAs too. They don't get full crits so they are hampered by its limitations even more than Stalkers.

What I use is:

/bind key "powexecname Combat Jumping$$powexecname Super Jump"

I usually use Atlas for running tips, because it seems to be fairly consistent with giving the missions in the same zone. There seem to be some tip missions that are coded to be in a specific zone, and those will be in that zone no matter what you do. For others, abandoning the mission and re-taking it can sometimes get you a door in a different zone.

You can't use Invisibility the power to do it, but you could use Cloaking Device in concert with a stealth IO or Superspeed.

Telekinesis is a power I always skip. It was reduced in effectiveness way way back and ever since then it's too situational and a huge end hog. Levitate is a nice soft control but you'll have plenty of good attacks in Dark Assault so unless you want the extra soft control you could skip it. If you're going for an all range build I'd probably take it though. Mass Hypnosis is really a matter of preference. It definitely has its uses but I think you can get by just fine without it also. It's good for MoLRSF runs though.

I would never skip either of the confuses. Those are a big part of what makes Mind/ what it is for me. I'm not a big fan of Mind/ generally but the confuses and the single-target sleep that can put a boss to sleep in one hit are a big part of what sets Mind/ apart from other control primaries for me.

Ok I found the problem. I was having a derpy moment. Now that I'm level 48 it worked fine.

Yes I bid on and bought a stack of 4 on the market planning to slot two and "+" both of them.

Edit: I'll see if I can get some screenshots. I don't know if it's possible to capture the enhancement screen or not.

I tried to combine some level 50 HOs recently to "+" them and I got a message something like "Are you sure you want to replace this enhancement with one of lower level?" Both were level 50. I tried using one in my tray (dragging it on top of one already slotted) and also tried combining two identical ones already slotted into the power, but the game won't let me combine them.

So has there been some change to combining HOs that I missed? I try to keep up with patch notes and I don't remember seeing any change to that. I know I used to do it in the past all the time, so I don't know what's changed. Maybe I'm missing something simple?

I'm pretty sure I'm E on both accounts, though one might be a low D. I tend to spend inf as fast as I get it so I doubt I've ever been higher than D.

How are you determining that they are not working? Does the crafting cost change when you check/uncheck the discount coupon in the crafting window? I'm curious because I think they were working the last time I used one, but I didn't check the actual change to my total inf. I know the display changed, but I did not confirm that the correct amount was actually spent.