rsclark

Those 2 are in the offices behind the shut doors.

Currently they proc every time damage is done and ignore the whole "every 10 seconds" limitation of normal procs. Reactive turns caltrops into a burn patch.

Well, gifting the temp powers is easy, but so is using them relatively safely. The big problem is accomplishing anything during stage 3 besides standing by the door.

New softcap aside, my FM/SD scrapper had no problem blowing by everything in the halls and destroying a barrel/crate before they could kill me and moving along to the next one with a green or 2 (and similar results with my widow minus a couple of deaths, but she's not even level shifted). But I never saw more than 3 people in a group, and they were always fighting instead of going for the breakies - and there's no way I could take a single hit in those situations.

Aggro management doesn't exist in those timed areas. BAF is joke on any character, but Lambda is very much a fend for yourself situation during part 3.

Emp/DP. Alpha+1. Only stealth is IO. Not a def build - nothing more than 15-20%. How would I do the weapon/acid part of Lambda?

I can't even imagine running past 300 bosses with rocket swarms and living.

Your evaluation of resist>def might be accurate if it were possible to get capped resist to virtually everything as easy as it is to do with def. To make a fairer comparison you need to look at 1resist vs 4def, which is much closer to the ratio you get in the actual game.

I was running my widow with mid 60s on all defense with just solo buffs on a team where I was normally averaging 80-90 def with team buffs. It was like playing naked. On Lambda, at least, 80 def = 0 defense a large portion of the time.

Really handy when villain-side points you to the wrong door with the way point. Also handy if you're getting powerleveled and hit a mission you just can't sneak to.

I strongly disagree with Psylenz slotting on summon demons. First off, the heal will really only help with the area heal. The ally heal will always wait until it can heal for full effect, so it will actually delay healing even if it is available until health drops lower. That increases the chance a demonling will die before the heal goes off. It's a big risk for a minimal gain in efficiency.

Secondly, there are 3 IOs with end reduction that all only affect a small portion of your powers. The end red in the heal will only help with the heals and the end red in the pet damage will only help with powers that do damage. Those pets are only getting the effect of 2/3 of 1 IO on any given power at the cost of using 3 different IOs.

You're better off sticking a single common level 50 end reduction IO in there and maybe keeping the pat damage mixed one (since you will use the damage powers more often). That gives you 1 full IO at 40ish % for all powers and around 70% for attacks - compared to his 30-something% for everything.

For an expensive slotting of demons, stick in 2 hamis with resist and end reduction and one common IO resist damage if you want to max that, but switch that to a damaging proc or anything else you want. Then fill up with acc/damage hamis or acc/damage pet damage set singles.

For cheaper. 1 50 common end reduction, 1 common resist damage, 1 acc/dam, 1/acc/dam from a different set, 1 acc/dam/end red, +1 whatever, but I recommend more resist damage to take advantage of those shields.

Also, his prince will run out of end 9 seconds into any fight. You basically have to have a Common IO end red in the prince or he will not function.