UberGuy

I'm not usually a fan of focusing on L/S defense on Regen, but with the high-ish global recharge target stated it's not bad plan. The primary benefit IMO is that it frees slots because KCs need only four slots to get the defense bonus, where ToDs and Oblits need six. That's the main reason why my build has "cheat" HOs in it - they save slots I spent on six slotting.

That looks OK to me given your stated goals.

One suggestion - if your main reason for six-slotting QR is to get the +5% recharge bonus, consider instead using Doctored Wounds in the five slots you have in Instant Healing. Also, IH's regen numbers don't change dramatically with heal slotting, and you can use five slots of Doc Wounds to max out recharge in IH at the expense of having maxed out heal.

Doing this could free up at least three slots from QR. If you do free some up, you could add them to Tactics. Running Tactics (which you have to do to benefit from the Gaussian's proc) with no end reduction is going to be pretty hard on your blue bar, even with a Regen, given the other stuff you'll certainly be running.

I think Vigor is the best of the new Alphas. I have several characters who benefit from both increased endurance management and increased +regen.

Reusing an analogy invented by others in the Scrapper forum, our character's survival mechanisms can be viewed as a 3-dimensional solid, like a cube but with sides of unequal length. The length of each side of the solid is how good our character is at defense, resistance or HP recovery. Make any one side bigger, and the shape gets bigger inside. The bigger the volume you end up with, the harder you character is to kill.

Most forum goers today probably have some awareness of how defense and resistance have non-linear the effect on survival time the closer you get to 100% resistance or 45% defense. (59% in iTrials.) HP recovery is not like that. Adding a given amount HP/sec recovery always cancels a proportional amount of damage/sec, while adding a given amount of DR or defense allows you to absorb or avoid increasing (average) fractions of total incoming damage.

This means that when you already have a lot of HP recover, it can takes a lot of additional HP recovery to make otherwise deadly amounts of incoming damage survivable. But if you have a lot of defense or resist, it may only take a little bit of additional defense or resist to make otherwise deadly average amounts of damage survivable.

Characters like Regen have very tall HP recovery sides to their "survival solid", but a very short resistance side and no defense without dipping into pools or IOs. Willpower also has a very tall HP recovery side (though it doesn't max out quite as high as Regen's), but out of the box it gets a nice base of defense and resistance. Regen gets the most bang out of Spiritual Alpha, because a lot of Regen's +HP is tied up in clicks, which Spiritual both makes stronger and recharge faster. Willpower gets very little out of +recharge, but benefits from strong +heal enhancement. Because they are already so good at HP recovery, it takes a lot additional to make them noticeably stronger, but fortunately Vigor and Spiritual do give pretty big increases to them.

Something like SR or Invuln may not seem like a great place for Vigor, but the fact is, they have very large Defense and/or Resistance sides to their survival solid, and small HP recovery. Using IO sets can earn them a bigger +HP recovery side, as can taking a power like Aid Self. But the real kicker is what happens when they take Rebirth Destiny. Rebirth is fantastic on characters with small HP recovery sides to their survival solid, because it helps dramatically increase that side. Because the other two sides can already be very big, the increase in total volume can be extreme. At Very Rare, Rebirth's smallest boost is +100% regen. With Vigor, that becomes +145%.

One of the most endurance hungry characters I have is a melee Night Widow. Before Vigor came along, Cardiac was the only thing that gave her the for endurance management to fire her max-DPS attack chain without running out of endurance. She also has Radial Rebirth for the wonderful +regen. Core Cardiac's DR enhancement does very little for a Widow, as they have only one enhanceable source of damage resistance, and only to Psi damage. Therefore, Vigor was the clear winner, offering increased HP regen from Health and Rebirth and still good enough end management to fire her primary attack chain without stopping.

I also have a BS/Invul Scrapper with Rebirth Destiny, and I also am thinking hard about switching him from Cardiac to Vigor, even though I will lose being at the Scrapper cap for L/S DR. The reason is that, even with Cardiac, his resistance to other damage types isn't that great - the survival solid just for those damage types is smaller, so making the HP recovery taller has a bigger effect. (I'll have the choice, I can switch to Cardiac for L/S-heavy content and to Vigor for content rife with "exotic" damage.)

Of all the new Alphas, Vigor is definitely my favorite.

It seems a bit much to read that into what someone says in the AE. The whole deal with the AE is to be able to create your own fantasy mission/story, so it makes the most sense that the patron is talking about something he created in the AE, not the events of the SSAs.

Somehow I missed the inspiration thing. That's fairly spiffy. Yay for a reason to actually want inspirations from the Paragon Market (or Paragon Rewards).

Edit: It looks like I missed it because it wasn't in the beta version of the same patch's notes. (Or possibly it wasn't in that build, but that would be kind of odd.)

You... don't have reconstruction?

That strikes me as an incredibly odd choice for a post-I4 Regen.

I wouldn't bother slotting MoG for defense except to put an LotG:+Recharge in it. You should be able to save slots there.

Unless its contrary to your concept or you want PvP stealth, consider taking Superspeed instead of the Stealth pool. If you take Shadow Meld, also consider taking Hover. This will give you places to slot the two LotGs you currently have in Stealth Pool powers. Fighting with Hover on will increase your +defense. (I would normally recommend Combat Jumping for this, but you have Flight, and I assume you really want it. See below comments about Inherent Fitness.)

Don't slot fly with common speed IOs. Fly is now capped at around level 25 with zero flight enhancement. Either use two Blessing of the Zephyr for some ranged defense, or move the extra slot somewhere else. If you do take Super Speed and don't especially care if it lets you run at max possible speed, consider slotting a Winter's Gift: Slow Resist unique in it.

You appear to have perhaps focused on +HP bonuses. You should not. With the recharge you are sporting, Dull Pain will be permanent, and it will cap your HP, meaning you will get no benefit from +HP bonuses. You may have also been going for +heal bonuses. You probably should not, as the only thing they affect on a Regen is the self-heal in Dull Pain, which which is enormous already with Spiritual Core Paragon. Consider replacing most of your Miracle set pieces with Numina's pieces. A Regen doesn't benefit hugely from additional +regen, but you will be able to usefully obtain more +regen than you will get +HP or +heal.

Consider respeccing just to get Inherent Fitness. You can free up a whole power pool. You could use this to add Combat Jumping with/instead of Hover, or to gain access to Leadership for more +defense.

Where you have two common heals in Heath, consider two pieces of Numina's. I believe you will actually net more +regen because of the +regen bonus for two pieces.

Finally, and perhaps most importantly, you have almost no +defense. You should consider focusing on it more.

Here is my DM/Regen build. This is one of my most poured over builds. I do not recommend you copy it exactly, as it contains some build choices that I don't claim are strictly optimal - some of them are concessions to concept or just being how I like them. One specific example: I chose to "frankenslot" Siphon Life so it had both good damage and good healing. This is not critical for a Regen to do. I could have slotted another set of Touch of Death there for more melee +defense.

It also contains a wildly expensive PvPIO for +defense and one purple set to help achieve the +recharge it has, and currently uses Enhancement Boosters in at least one place (Hasten). Definitely consider those optional. But hopefully it will give you some ideas.

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If you send someone a tell, you will be informed if they are ignoring you. I know for sure it will tell you this with global tells, but I think it will do it for non-global ones as well.

Based on this thread and my own testing, it looks like this publish contained this patch. What I have confirmed is that Radial Vorpal's +def bonus is no longer a function of foe level (viewed in combat attributes), and that Vigor's enhancement bonus appropriately bypasses ED (viewed in the enhancement screen).

If this is correct, I am well pleased that the patch itself has arrived, as this has many fixes I have been looking forward to. I am very perplexed at the nature of the delivery, though, given the lack of announcements. The lack of forum announcement is unusually but not unheard of. The lack of in-game warning messages is extremely unusual.