Why I Like Rad/Rad -- A Guide (long post)

Power Mastery, no question.

Conserve Power and Power Build Up will both be six-slotted with recharges. Temporary Invulnerability and Total Focus will each get four slots, damage resist and damage respectively.

Conserve Power is a bigtime bonus for my build; even with end reduction enhancements tossed around, accelerated metabolism with two slots of end recovery, and six-slotted stamina running all my toggles drops my end recovery to half of base. With Conserve Power running my endurance is no longer an issue, as suddenly I'm regenerating 110% of standard even with all of those going. Six recharges means it'll be down 60 seconds, then up for (I think) 120-150 seconds. I can be patient!

Power Build Up is just flat out good. At level 43 I'll have all the big damage attacks of Radiation Blast at least three-slotted; the boost to damage means I'll be able to lay down some serious firepower. Further, the increase in secondary effects means I'll fly faster, hold longer, debuff better.. it's basically doubling everything a Rad/Rad is good at and then some. Six recharges means it'll be up for 60 then down 15. A long time if it drops mid-fight, but again, I can be patient!

Temporary Invulnerability.. four slots might be excessive, depending on how the cap falls. Regardless, it means that against the most common attack forms (especially in melee) I'll survive longer. I tend to ignore my own health in favor of my teammates, both in terms of not watching my bar and putting myself in precarious situations to keep them alive. This will help mitigate the consequences of that somewhat. Depending on caps, might end up 3 slots of damage reduction and 1 slot of end reduction, just to keep this from sapping me when CP is down.

Total Focus gives me yet another attack- and a good one. Total Focus and Cosmic Burst together should mean that I have some serious short range hitting power without resorting to Atomic Blast. EM Pulse followed by Total Focus, Cosmic Burst and Atomic Blast ought to render even highly resistant enemies dead or held. Four slots, along with AM, EF, and Assault, should be enough to put me at 300% damage, which I believe is going to be the cap; if it'll stay at 400%, then PBU and that fourth damage slot ought to do it. I'm gambling on this with my slotting for my other big damage powers as well, so knock on wood.

I have a 38 Rad/Rad defender. I have a question I wanted to ask about Irradiate.

How do you folks think 6 slotted like this would work: 2damage, 2recharge, 2 endredux

Would it recharge really fast and then because of the endredux do you think it would suck up as much end? Do you think being able to do it over and over very fast would be beneficial to damage over time or do you think the 1-2 shot version of all damage is better?

Oh and one other question: how do you folks slot AM so that it provides the maximum END regen and still is perma? I have hasten 4 slotted with recharge.

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I have a 38 Rad/Rad defender. I have a question I wanted to ask about Irradiate.

How do you folks think 6 slotted like this would work: 2damage, 2recharge, 2 endredux

Would it recharge really fast and then because of the endredux do you think it would suck up as much end? Do you think being able to do it over and over very fast would be beneficial to damage over time or do you think the 1-2 shot version of all damage is better?

Oh and one other question: how do you folks slot AM so that it provides the maximum END regen and still is perma? I have hasten 4 slotted with recharge.

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Someone on the forum did some math, and I somewhat agree with the results:

Irradiate should be 4/1/1 Damage, recharge, end redux, or 5/1 damage, recharge.

I have mine 5/1, so it charges at about the same rate as NBomb.

For AM, you need 5 slots in Hasten, and 4 Recharges in AM for both to be perma, so you can have 2 end recovery in AM.

I'm new to the forum, so forgive me if this should be posted elsewhere. I have a 15th level rad/rad defender that I created mostly to sidekick and hang out with a friend who has a 27th level blaster. I went along just for fun and to be his human bandaid, but I've started enjoying this character more than either of my higher level characters on other servers.

What I'm wondering about is the comments concerening slots for rest. I'm still fairly low-level, so I've been using my slots on my offensive and debuff powers. Is it worth using slots at this level on rest? I'm assuming the enhancements are to decrease the recharge time?

No, don't bother slotting rest. The enhancements you have now aren't going to speed it up very much, and later on you'll have Hasten and AM doing it better than a slot or two would. Rad is a very tight build and you'll need those slots elsewhere far more.

Personally I love Rad/Rad, it was my first character, and it'll just keep getting better. I see that I really need to get RI now, and I'll drop X-ray and EH to take RI and Irradiate, as I plan on playing solo and using a lot of aoes. Love the guide, it gave me a few good ideas in where to take my defender, but instead of super jump, I opted for teleport, which I now takes a lot of bashes from people, but I just love using it, so I refuse to respec it out. I also use ss, and may consider taking stealth again, as I had ss and stealth on when I respeced in the test server, and it was pretty nice. I personally use a lot of proton volley and ef, and aim is my best friend, and I hope to actually get a slot or two in it later, but priority goes to cb now, then emp, neutron bomb, and then finally atomic blast. Thanks for the great guide, and good hunting all!

I love rad/rad and all the powers (unfortunatly ) and this is how I'VE seen most people feel about the powers and what their use is in battel.

RADIATION EMMSION:
Radiation Aura: great to have
Radiation Infection: has use in low lvls but get's less as you grow
Acelerate Metabolism: no question I'm pretty sure the devs would delete your character if you don't take this
Enervating Feild: ofcourse
Mutaton: sometimes yes, sometimes no, depends
Choking Cloud: Some ppl say it sucks more than a tornado and some ppl say it's a "have to take" power
Lingering Radiation: pretty good
Fallout: you're kidding right?
EMP Pulse: not even the stupidest person in the universe would not take this power

RADIATOIN BLAST:
Neutrino Bolt: not like you have much of a choice
X-Ray Beam:get at low lvls, but always get rid of at first respec
Irradate:yup, your gettin it, no choice what-so-ever
Electron Haze:most ppl don't even bother to think about getting this
Proton Volley:good power if you can fit it in but usually can't
Aim: always helps and always has use
Cosmic Burst:a "nice to have" power but I think it's worth it
Neutron Bomb: your main attack later on so... yup get it
Atomic Blast: A good damager but not always good to use, your choice

As I said before this is what I have seen most ppl think about the rad/rad powers, but tell me your opinions

I think you are confused on some things superdude.

Radiation Infection--has some use in low levels, is a must have at high levels

Cosmic Burst-- is not a "nice to have" power, it is your best offensive power

Neutron Bomb -- I don't know anyone who uses this as a main attack

I would like to say those weren't my opinions on the post but the ones I've seen on others, hmm... maybe they just didn't know much about it

When I am chaining AOE attacks I go Soul Drain > Irradiate > Neutron Bomb > Dark Consumption. So I would consider Neutron Bomb to be a main attack during my AOE run.

I wouldn't know much about using the higher lvl rad/rad attacks myself for mine is only lvl 20 but what do you guys think are the most commonly chosen?

I cycle between Neutrino and Cosmic Burst on single target and Neutron Bomb and Irradiate during AOE's. I know quite a few members of my SG have Proton Volley slotted heavily but I could never find the slot for it in my build. Oh and of course Atomic Blast is there for removing a lot of enemies at a time.

I know this is a wild try. However, I would like to know what happened to my long time friend Felicity Devine. She dissappeard one day. Does anyone know what happened to her? Thank you.

Classic Necropost, good luck in your search.

The term necro post is a common reference to when threads on the forum have been inactive for a long time and then someone replies to that post, resurrecting that thread to an active status. I in NO way meant to indicate necro being a statement of condition to your lost friend. I would also point out that the thread topic is misleading to your intent.

I, too, have had friends that played for long periods of time that suddenly leave the community for some reason. I have had good friends disappear, and I am NOT belittling you in your search for your friend. I sincerely wish you luck in your search.

Thank you. I appreciate the courteous and empathic reply. People enter a transitional state of an ideal favored faction of good versus evil, in the game. Yet, inday to day experiences, it's hard. We all have good and bad experiences in the game with different people/avatars through the years.

The game offers an escape to all of us, but perhaps the ultimate escape is to someone terminally ill. Introspectively, I turn; what could I have done? I had hard days. I was polite, yes, but I failed to realize the value in the other player. We all live real lives (as least for the most part, some AIs may wonder the game). When people pass hrough the spheres of our influence (and reciprocally, vice versa), how can we respond appropriately when... we’re tired?

I don’t know, and that may be one human nature’s worst faults. When someone doesn’t respond to you in an email, snail mail, fax, phone call, twitter, etc. we wonder what we may have done wrong. Automatically, we fault ourselves for something.

Sadly, this was a closer friend to someone else my family, and not me. However, the abrupt erasure of all characters on all servers indicates a problem.
I appreciate your sensitive and understanding response. Thank you.

When provided limited data, you have to go with those data as a presumption. She probably died. In the endgame, perhaps losing someone that can bring you hapiness (or someone you love happiness) w/o knowing before hand the effect, is one of the biggest tragedies of life.

Again, thank you. I appreciate your explanation and need to deal with reality as it has presented it self. I wish you the best. (I have the means and used it, to some degree, to find this person but there is no new data in the file). Sadly I have learned this to believe that died. (usually cancer, but wth? )

If you need help, look me up on Champion, (Singularity Sam). If I am in the opportunity in the future, I WILL help you.

Uh, I don't know if its the same person, but Felecia Divine is (afaik) still alive and active on the Champion server.

Might not be who you're looking for though.

I would suspect if a player did pass away, their characters would not be deleted unless someone has their account name and password and would just 'sit on the shelf' as a silent memoriam.