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I can generally hit at least two enemies with Head Splitter, more if the enemies have a preference for melee. Basically, when the enemies have fanned out in front of you, just quickly step to their side and then execute Head Splitter. It doesn't take more than half a second and the crunchy damage is very welcome.

If you don't mind spending a little extra time, you can also strafe to the left of the enemies and keep going a short distance until they start to chase after you. They'll usually line up single file to chase you, so take advantage of this and knock them all down. You'll get more enemies in your super narrow cone this way and, once again, the damage is *really* satisfactory.

It's also worth noting that you can slot Fury of Gladiator: Chance for Res Debuff in Headsplitter, which stacks with Achilles Heel and can make quite a difference in how quickly you can defeat most enemies.

I think regen's fall from 'top dog' has jaded people's perception of the set. For the majority of the game, it functions very well; It is only when you start trying to do crazy things like solo AV's that it begins to lag behind the performance of other sets who have the advantage of possessing natural defense within their builds.

My own Regen characters have gotten a significant buff with the Incarnate system in that Spiritual allows me to achieve perma-hasten with much greater ease. This allows me to ease off the purple sets and their global recharge, and instead slot most of my attacks with Kinetic Combat to add significant amounts of S/L defense. I'm perfectly capable of achieving around 35% defense to smashing, lethal, and melee defense.

For the best regen experience I suggest rolling a Brute. The higher HP cap will really help you get the most out of your powers, Dull Pain specifically. You can also pick up Darkest Night to help reduce the damage of an AV to a point manageable by your click-heals, and reduce the accuracy of most normal enemies to the point where you are nigh-untouchable provided you've bothered to invest in personal defense.

There was an Architect Mission I played a long while ago, and I wish I could remember the name so that people reading this could check it out, but it was fairly popular anyway so I imagine a good deal of you probably know exactly which one I'm talking about. Anyway, it was a very small room, and when you entered the mission dialogue pop-up box thingy had a riddle for you, and there were some glowies in the room you entered, each one named a possible answer to the riddle. Get the right one and, yay, mission completed... Get the WRONG one however and... well, you don't want to get the wrong one.

I would greatly like more missions like THAT. Text and Story are great, beating things to an inch of their life is fun, but I really feel like this game needs some puzzle, or possibly stealth options every couple of missions.

Dude, future you is totally setting you up. Do you have any idea how often Tokyo gets attacked by giant... well, everything? Obviously he's trying to lead you off the path of that pope thing and get you squashed by Godzilla. I think you should book the first flight to Rome ASAP; Future you can't be trusted.

I kill him. Obviously if the world gets destroyed because of me, that means he can't kill me, so I win.

I typically run with Willpower when I don't have a specific concept in mind which really cares as much about the secondary as it does the primary (or vice versa if you're a tank.). Willpower can be mostly turned off so that it's graphical effects won't get in the way with whatever melee concept you had.

Willpower also synergies with pretty much everything due to it's endurance recovery options and the general 'jack-of-all-trades, and good at all of them' status. If you're powerset lowers resistance, it has plenty of resistance. If you like to-hit debuffs, it has defense. If you want to be in the thick of it, it has scaling regeneration to be in the thick of it.

I dislike that I can't seem to find information on how much -res Reactive Core is supposed to give per proc. One thread states that the cumulative total is -10% which seems... Terrible. So terrible that I'm not sure I believe it actually sucks that bad.

Checking Paragonwiki: It doesn't list damage debuffs as one of the things AV's are resistant too, so I think you've got a good reason to take Paralytic. They do resist defense debuffs however, which naturally makes Paralytic Radial the preferred choice.

I think it would probably be good practice, then, that most people try to keep Reactive Radial, and Paralytic Radial with them as those *look* to be the most effective. Diagmagnetic and Graviwhatever would both be resisted to too great of a degree to likely be very useful.

You are getting mostly word of mouth info here, so take it with a grain of salt.

General Consensus seems to place Reactive Radial as the preferred choice for more damage.

The pets I'm more uncertain about. It seems as though they are more or less interchangeable, with the only real difference being between if you pick the 'core' version, which is supposed to do better damage, or the radial version, which has a pet who cannot fight or be damaged, and is basically supposed to act as a damage sponge.

I would imagine that the pets themselves have various elemental attacks based on what that pet normally can do. Rikti probably have guns and swords. Phantoms probably do illusion type damage. etc.

Tough, and more importantly, WEAVE can be very useful on a Corrupter with which you are trying to soft-cap a defense value, typically smashing and lethal thanks to Scorpion Shield. Soft-Capping is getting your defense up to 45%, which is the minimum you need to 'cap' your defense against most targets. Most enemies have only a 50% chance to hit you, and every enemy will ALWAYS have a 5% chance to hit you no matter what. 100-55 = 45% defense to hit the 'soft-cap'.

Generally though? No, tough and weave aren't terribly important for a Corruptor.

Depends. I generally prefer a Corruptor. Higher damage cap, better damage scaler, and Scourge helps ensure that I am always doing damage, all the time. Besides that, I don't really have the defender 'mindset' to where I'm content with just shootin' magic healer goo all over my team. I like to make things die.

Micheal from Rage Quit.

I've adopted an ideology to deal with the issue of suspension of disbelief. Basically, when it is being challenged, I just pretend the media I am consuming is taking place in some sort of weird, parallel dimension where all my characters are insane people. Then I'm able to enjoy whatever I'm doing, and not complain about how it's not sticking to established lore.

It works for me, at any rate.

Really depends on the build, global recharge reduction, and activation time on the powers. To give a completely non-specific average I'd say about 3 Single target attacks and 2-3 AOE/Cone attacks, and then, of course, your nuke if you have one as well as any attacks that are more for mitigation than damage (parry, divine avalanche, most of the darkness melee pool, Air Superiority, etc.)

It really, really, *really* depends on your build though. I can't emphasis that enough.

I had been musing over the idea that incorporated a sort of 'dance dance revolution' style of game play. It would probably be a defender oriented buff/debuff/control set, but the general idea is that your powers all activate a sort of dance mode, complete with falling directional buttons and you pressing them in time to get a good 'score'. Depending on how well you do, and how long you decide to keep the dance going you get additional buffs/debuffs/controls.

So, say the first song is called 'Group Heal' or something much cooler than that. Activating the power would begin the dance by healing all your team members. Completing the first 'level' of the dance might do something like buff their regeneration and heal them again. Second level could buff their endurance recovery and heal them again. The third and final level might give everyone recharge reduction and another heal.

Then you could have offensive powers as well that worked in a similar fashion. Activating the power would do a slight pbaoe, then completing the first dance would do a stronger pbaoe while lower defense. Second level would do more damage and lower their resistance. Final level would do even moar damage, knock all the enemies down, and apply a mag 3 stun or something.

You would have an inherit power that allowed you to just stop the song, and you could also activate other powers while you are dancing to seamlessly activate a different dance. The animations of the powerset would change based on what directional button you are pressing, and if the devs wanted to get really creative (and busy) you could do different dancing animations for different powers, or even whip out various instruments for different powers.

Anyway, that's the general premise of the powerset. I think it would offer a very unique style of gameplay, although I imagine it would be kind of a nightmare to balance properly.

Evolution demands outliers for the survival of a species, and history would demonstrate that human society has always been moved forward by people operating outside of what most would consider the normal parameters of the human species. By seeking to destroy things we don't consider normal, we ensure the stagnation of evolutionary development within our species, thereby forfeiting any technological, medicinal, or artistic wonders these creatively mutated minds might conceive, and provide an easy road for another species to eventually replace us. Such is the prediction of Darwin.

So no, I would not approve of aborting someone just because they're a little mutated. I have no right to decide what is 'normal', or even what is best. I don't believe in 'best'.