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For primaries that haven't been proliferated yet, it's a "what if". There are quite a few in that category on the list. I'm guessing the facepalm was in the sense of did you really think that someone with almost 30,000 forum posts made such an obvious mistake? Did you really think that in over 300 posts in the thread, not a single person had caught this obvious mistake yet? Did you really only notice that one obvious mistake, and not all the others?

Unless you want to maximize your survivability.

Actually, you don't need to do that either. If you first pull the elite boss to where you WANT the ambush to remain, even when the ambush obliterates you, you can still go back to the elite boss, now separated from the ambush. And you might be able to survive the ambush by running like mad for the exit. I think I did that successfully a couple times, but it's been too long for me to really remember.

Well, I FIRST tried +4x8. You get the +4 regardless. After a few deaths, I managed to get myself past the first corner that way. Then it started getting hard. I believe you're supposed to run it on x1 with bosses. I believe that's how I actually ran it.

But soft-capped defense is MUCH better than merely good defense. Combine that with other layers of mitigation, such as Invulnerability's resistances and Dull Pain, and you get something amazing. Have you TRIED an apple split? YUM!

Mauk2, if you stick the Miracles in Health instead and put the heal IO in Physical Perfection, you'll get more total regeneration due to the higher base. Or you could save a slot by just having the proc in Physical Perfection, and you'd STILL have slightly higher regeneration. If price is no object (as indicated by the PvP +3% def), consider using two L53 Enzymes in Invincibility to save another slot. Weave should have def/end instead of def/end/rech. And I'd put the def instead of def/end/rech in Manuevers. I'd personally skip Super Jump in favor of Ninja Running and Resist Energies, but I think I have more tolerance for non travel power builds than most people. I'd probably stick one of the slots in Confront to try to get better uptime on Dull Pain. Or maybe there's a way to use two slots to hit the soft cap on energy and negative (currently 43% as modified). Dono. Your build is a nice starting point, though.

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Me? Cheaper versions of builds? My last build ran me 8 billion, and that was with patient bidding over the course of a month or more. I'll spend whatever it takes for the tiniest advantage. I buy level 53 Hamios for God's sake. I'm not well.

OK, let me take a look at what I posted and make some wild guesses without actually checking the market. Two good purple sets at about a billion each, five Luck of the Gambler globals... guessing they're around a hundred million each. Panacea proc is probably 1.5 billion or so, so we're up to four billion already. Nothing else looks like it even comes close to those, but there are some fairly-pricey sets and pieces. Let's call it 4.5 billion?

But you certainly don't NEED to spend that much to have a very, very good build. I'm just not an expert on cheaper builds. Still, I think I get the gist of it. First, you're not going to have as good of recharge, because you won't want to be buying purple sets and probably no Luck of the Gambler globals. That's going to limit things a bit, but there are a lot of 5% recharge bonuses that you can get easily, and perhaps a couple more you can pick up. Power choices will still be pretty much the same, because the attack chain doesn't require much recharge. Where there's no good recharge option, you'll probably want to slot for defense instead. Defense can get pricey, but not recharge pricey. So you'd probably end up with a build with, say, 35% recharge instead of 82.5% recharge, not quite perma Dull Pain, but possibly better defense. It would still work out very well.

Ah, but it's "easy" to soft cap an Invulnerability Tanker. That's why I'd be more inclined to do it on a Scrapper. More challenging.

Yeah, Aeon's Army is brutal. Still, I managed to beat it no temps no insps on my Katana/Dark with only a dozen or so deaths in the process. And my Dark Melee/Super Reflexes got about halfway through before the instagib "zones" made it impossible to move further.

I honestly really liked that mission. Even on an uber build, at first it just seems impossible. But then you start working out strategy for each group, and it's almost a puzzle to solve. Who do you kill first. How do you do it. Where do you do it. I haven't been back, since I simply don't have any other characters with a hope of surviving, let alone beating it. But I liked it.

If you like brutal challenges, I seriously recommend having a go at it.

You should do something different.

You want recharge, recharge, more recharge, and defense. Divine Avalanche should be slotted as an attack, not with a defense set. You can leave the Luck of the Gambler global in there, but that's where I'd stop, and then put in five Crushing Impacts unless you're maxed on 5% recharge bonuses. You are WAY over the ED cap on damage in Soaring Dragon and Golden Dragonfly - using the purple damage IO in those is a very expensive exercise in adding very little. You'd be better off completing those sets, though you'll probably have enough melee defense and would be better off with Eradication for ranged and AoE defense, or with Armageddon if you're a big spender. The Numina unique would be better in a passive or toggle so that you don't have to heal to get the bonus. Doctored Wounds are your go to set for many of your healing powers due to maxing out healing and recharge, plus offering a recharge bonus.

As for power pools, drop Concealment for Fighting and pick up Tough and Weave. If you really want stealth, put a stealth IO in Sprint and click it on and off for two minutes of stealth, no power pick required. Between that and Super Speed, I believe you're invisible. Pick up a Steadfast Protection unique and a Kismet unique. Slot a Gaussian set somewhere, such as in Focused Accureacy. Put an Achilles' Heel proc in Gambler's Cut. Then use this attack chain:

Divine Avalanche -> Gambler's Cut -> Golden Dragonfly -> Gambler's Cut -> Divine Avalanche -> Gambler's Cut -> Soaring Dragon -> Gambler's Cut

As far as epic moments, here is a build that Umbral designed and Val Blademaster played that soloed four Archvillains at the same time without using temporary powers or inspirations. It'll give you a point of reference. In particular, notice the horrible regeneration. (Edit: LOL, just realized Warkupo posted a very similar Umbral-derived build.)

BillZ is famous for many things. His DPS isn't one of them.