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The trick I use to get fast tip drops is farming bosses in Terra Volta. Bosses seem to have a 25% tip drop rate, so I ignore minions and LTs unless my AoEs are ready. Learning which contacts to dismiss speeds things up a lot. I Ouro to Talos to do my first 3 tip missions because almost every mission will be there if you investigate the tips while standing in Talos. I then use my base teleporter to get to Terra Volta fast for the last two tips and Ouro back to Talos to finish them.

I haven't timed it, but I would estimate that it takes me less than 5 minutes per mission, including tip farming and travel time. I am picky and don't accept the escort missions or other annoying ones because I know how to farm tips quickly on hero and villain sides. So, that's about 1.5 hours per LOTG and I don't need an amazing build or even an AT that is good at farming. I just stealth to the objective and complete it.

It sounds like you just have a very good ticket farmer and map. The OP probably won't be at that speed of ticket farming for a while.

1. A typical even level minion has a base of 50% chance to hit you. The minimum chance to hit is 5%. There are accuracy modifiers for level differences and higher ranked foes, but those are calculated after defense. Therefore, the soft cap is 45% defense.

A small inspiration gives 12.5% defense. 45% - 12.5% = 32.5%. That's why that number is used often. It may be difficult to reach 32.5% defense and still have a lot of recharge bonus in your build, though. 32.5% - 12.5% = 20%. That number is much easier to reach.


2. The Miracle and Numina's uniques give a decent amount of recovery. Most people slot those in Health.


A general note about AE farming: It is one of the slowest ways to earn INF in this game. You could speed-run tip missions, collect alignment merits, and turn those into Luck of the Gambler global recharge IOs which sell for about 150 million right now. That takes about 30 minutes per day. You could also learn to play the market and make several hundred million per day once you get the hang of it.

The DoT has a stack limit, too. Other posts say it is 6.

I would suggest getting more than one Interface. Reactive is good for soloing, but so many people will have it that critters will be at their debuff cap very quickly. Pick up something else for teams.

The main thing that is taking you down is defense debuffs. Almost every attack from Cimeroreans debuffs defenses. When they hit you once, you lose about 6% defense, increasing the odds that the next swing will connect. Willpower's low defense debuff resistance isn't enough to counter the cascading defense failure that you have experienced. The best way to be prepared for ITF as a Willpower Tanker is to bring lots of purple or orange inspirations, or make sure your team has a bubbler of some sort. Even a resistance buffer who can put you at or near the S/L resistance cap would make it much easier to take the hits.

AoE knockbacks are horrible to use on teams. They scatter herded enemies so that nobody else can use an AoE attack effectively.

Power Siphon accepts recharge, endurance reduction, and to-hit. Like most build-up powers, it is best to slot it with 2-3 recharge IOs. Some builds may put sets in it for a set bonus, though.

Try searching the forums for builds.

Endurance looks like it might be an issue without any endurance reduction in your toggles. Don't stress too much on hitting the soft cap before 50. If you can get to 32.5% while leveling and just use small inspirations when you need them, you should be fine.

Impressive, but I would like to see you try that on a real encounter and not an AE creation. Lord Recluse's Strike Force has three encounters with about 5 AVs each, if I remember correctly. Try soloing that!

Most posts about soloing AVs have been done in developer-made encounters, like task forces. Those tend to throw a few more wrenches in the gears by adding debuffs or special mechanics that teams have to work around. Those are the truly impressive AV soloing posts, in my opinion.

Super Reflexes is easier to soft cap defenses, so it will be easier to add enough recharge to run a good attack chain. You can probably run the top attack chain for SM without using purple sets. With Willpower as your secondary, you will have to choose between survivability and DPS.

If you can't reach 45% defense, the next best place to be is 32.5%. A small inspiration gives 12.5%, so any defense between 32.5% and 45% ends up being wasted in most situations when you use an inspiration.

It seems like you want to be able to do everything with your character. Getting just S/L defense is going to leave you weak to the most common damage type in incarnate content: energy. If you want to farm AE, you would be best at handling critters that only do fire damage. So, you would need 32.5% S/L, E/N, and F/C defenses to do everything you say you want to do. If you drop Hover and use Maneuvers, that may help you reach your defense goals.

When using generic (non-set) IOs, slot level 50 ones. They scale down when you exemplar with no penalty for doing so.

Obliteration is a bad set for powers that need endurance reduction, like Blazing Aura.'

Superior Conditioning is over-slotted. I would only put one IO in it, but two would be ok.

Physical Perfection is another that only needs 1-2 enhancements because it doesn't do enough to warrant more.

The Cardiac Alpha may solve your endurance problems, but it isn't going to solve the root causes of your endurance problems. Your IO levels are all over the place and many of them are below single-origin levels. That leaves you with much less enhancement value than you should have. Your build is also missing the Miracle and Numina uniques that most people put in Health. If you fixed those problems, you should be able to use the Spiritual Alpha instead of Cardiac.

Have you looked into attack chains? Doing damage efficiently and as effectively as possible is important for someone whose primary role is a damage-dealer.

I get an error when I try to import that to Mids'. Anyone else?

AllYourBase, try copying that data chunk (highlight and ctrl+c) then go to Mids' and press ctrl+i. If it gives you an error or doesn't work, then something might be wrong with 1.93 Mids'.

Edit: Just tried again. Not sure what was wrong with my Mids', but it worked this time.

What kind of lag is it? Also, can you post your system specs?

Your data links do not work. Please post the data chunk.

For those who are too used to inventions, origin enhancements are the single-origin, dual-origin, and training-origin enhancements that were used way back in the early days of CoH, before the invention system existed.

Origin enhancements suffer from two problems: the purchasing interface, and the expiration of bonuses as you increase your level.

If I need to replace my enhancements with better ones, I typically have to right-click and look at the detailed information on each enhancement to figure out which ones enhance the value I want. The color isn't enough because there are many colors that are too similar. The names are far from an indication of what they do, too. If the purchasing interface had fast tool-tips that told you the function of the enhancement, that would help a lot. If the enhancement type was in the text or somewhere else visible on the purchasing interface, that would help even more. Anything would be great to make it easier when trying to find the enhancement type we are looking for.

I know the origin enhancement system was originally designed so players would have to purchase new ones as they leveled. This created a drain on the economy to keep influence moving. However, since the creation of the invention system, the game's economy has expanded to a point where the cost of origin enhancements are trivial for most players. Thus, the original purpose for the degradation of enhancement value has been lost.

My suggestion is to change origin enhancements so that they don't degrade, but they also ramp-up in enhancement value as you slot higher level ones. Smoothing out the transition from TO's to DO's to SO's would be beneficial to players as they lose their "beginner's luck" accuracy bonus as they approach level 20. The gradual increase in enhancement value would give some motivation to purchase more expensive (higher level) SO's. The lack of degradation would prevent situations where players stop the team's progress because they need to spend 15 minutes at the vendor to replace their expired enhancements.