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I know they said the in-game events would be next month, but I don't know if those count as the celebrations at the end of April seeing as they will be in May.

I'm not in any rush to get them. I just wondered because I already have plans for using the respecs on several characters. Issue 20 has shown us how much of a grind the Incarnate system will be and I feel the need to consolidate my characters down to three primary Incarnates. The characters I need the respecs for are in the process of being stripped of IOs.

As far as your build goes, you need to read about enhacement diminishing returns on Paragon Wiki. Basically, slotting more than 3 generic IOs of the same type is a waste of slots.

Your toggles have no endurance reduction and you will be suffering due to that.


I will post my Scrapper Super Reflexes template again to show an efficient way to reach the soft cap (45%) for defense. This may not be the absolute best way to do it, but it isn't expensive and it leaves plenty of slots for other bonuses you may want. The important thing to keep when adapting this to suit your build are the toggles, how they are slotted, and the defense set bonuses. The Luck of the Gambler sets don't have to be in your build right away, but they provide the most benefit for those seeking to do DPS.

While leveling with this build, don't worry too much about IO sets until 47. Stock up on purple inspirations at the hospital when you get a chance and one purple should get you to the soft cap when you really need it.

Boxing can also take that set. Most people take Tough and Weave anyways.


OP: You can look at powers in a few different ways. In Mids', go to Window, then Powerset Comparison. The most used comparison is damage per animation time because this determines DPS of an attack chain. Mids' displays it as "Damage / Anim". Jab is the worst attack available for DPA.

Another thing to consider is damage per endurance, but they are generally balanced for a set unless a power does more than single-target damage. This leads to the last thing to consider. Status effects like stuns and knockdowns are useful. Be sure to hover your mouse over the effect to see the chance of it occurring. For Jab, it is only 10%, which isn't very reliable. The magnitude is also too low to stun anything higher than a LT.

I would not take Jab. In top-end DPS builds, Punch is even too low of DPS to use. Gloom and other Epic pool powers are better for DPS than Punch or Jab.

No build is out of your reach, unless you just don't put forth the effort. Yes, purple sets are extremely expensive. However, there are equivalent non-purple sets that offer a lesser recharge bonus, and using those won't break the build.

You can gather INF in short periods of play time. You don't even need a "farming" character to get started. Some people don't like playing the market because it is risky and it takes a decent amount of INF to get started. I suggest doing tip missions and collecting Hero or Villain merits.

You can easily gather tips in Terra Volta by killing grey-con bosses. The trip there is fast if your SG base has the teleporter for it. That should take less than 5 minutes. On villain side, the island in the South-East part of Sharkhead has a good amount of level 20 bosses on it. Next, stealthing or running to the objectives for each mission should take less than 5 minutes per mission. Once you learn which tip missions are annoying or hard for you to do quickly, you can dismiss them while in Terra Volta so you only get the tips you want to do. Overall, it should take you about 30 minutes per day to do tip missions as long as you're not using Fly as a travel power. It may take you longer at first, but the speed will come as you learn the mission layouts and learn which ones to skip. Do the morality mission when your alignment is full. If you're on Hero side, the alignment mission that has you fight your mysterious double is significantly easier and faster than the one requiring you to rescue a bane spider.

After four days, you should have two Hero or Villain Merits. Turn those into a Luck of the Gambler: Global Recharge IO and craft it and sell it on the market. That should get you about 150 million INF. Do that three to five times and you will have more than enough INF to get your character into almost any IO set build as long as it doesn't have purples or PvP IOs. There are other IOs worth buying but the market changes all the time and I don't have time to look up what is the most valuable. The point is that almost any character is capable of earning enough INF in a short amount of time per day. You don't have to already have a "farming" character to make enough INF to get into the IO market.

I just tested Burn again. My last post was based on what I observed in the combat log before today's patch. Now, the Burn patch does properly trigger Reactive procs.

However, Fiery Embrace does not boost the damage done by the Burn patch. It only boosts the damage done in the initial hit. I can't say for sure if it worked that way before the patch.

The island in the South-East part of Sharkhead. It has some sort of ice bosses around the cliffs. There are plenty of Sky Raider bosses around the runway. It is nowhere near as good as a hazard zone on Hero side, but it is the best place I found for killing level 20-30 bosses on Villain side.