macskull

With some rech you should be doing 2 rech and 1 end, since burning through 13 end every 30 seconds is kinda a waste.

I don't generally give two ***** about how powers look and rarely complain about animations looking bad (the exceptions are the Frozen Fists/Barrage animation and the Bitter Freeze Ray/Energy Transfer animation), but powers which cause negative effects for my character are what kills powersets for me. Really the only example I've got for that is Stone Armor, simply because I generally like to stay mobile and jump a lot, and two of the powers in that set remove my ability to do that. I don't particularly care that Granite turns me into a chunk of rock, but I do care that I can barely move around or jump while I'm using it.

Charging people for a buff which you shouldn't have to be reminded about in the first place is a great way to make new friends and get on peoples' good side, I tell ya. The simplest solution to the "SB PLZ" problem is to actually *gasp* keep SB on people. If you aren't willing to take the time to pass out one of the best buffs in the game, you're probably playing the wrong powerset.

On the contrary, many good post-I13 PvP builds are subpar in PvE because they're so single-target focused. Many pre-I13 builds would have at least some AoE but when the damage on AoE attacks got hosed, those went out the window. Trying to PvE on my Psi/EM is an exercise in frustration.

50% defense will get DRd into the lower 30s which I guess isn't terrible, but you don't have elusivity or def debuff resistance to go with it. If it's a mostly-zone build, and you can hit that amount of defense without sacrificing too much else from the build (which I doubt you'd be able to do without getting really expensive), it might be something worth trying to do.

added oz

You would probably change your mind if you went into RV (or Siren's some times during the day) on Freedom. I can run around Virtue RV in plain sight and rarely get attacked despite the fact that I'm standing right next to a few members of the opposite faction (and if I attack them, they stand there and die and then complain that I'm PvPing them in a PvP zone).

Sure, there are people in the PvP zones on Virtue, but when a team of two Stalkers, neither of which are built particularly well, and are more or less the only active villains in the zone, racks up 150 rep in two hours in a zone where almost all their targets are Tankers and Scrappers...

This made me giggle

Yeah, that "AE is an alternate leveling path" thing advertised all over the place really needs to go.

*rolls eyes*

Nah, only [The Fool] has any debuff at all associated with it, and even then it's a -3% tohit debuff, which pales compared to even the weakest NPC tohit debuffs and is entirely negligible when thrown into the equation with accuracy slotting and tohit/accuracy buffs. Until I start fighting characters several levels above me, I don't see a decrease in my hit rolls. Even if you do pretend the tohit debuff is significant, the damage and recharge bonuses granted by the power more than even it out in the long run.

Believe it or not I saw a few posters complaining about the fortune buffs on religious grounds, so $deity only knows why the prompt was added back in.