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Does anyone have a suggested slotting for Aid Other?
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I've been able to successfully use it as a granite tank in most situations with 1 interrupt reduct in it. I slotted it 2 recharge 3 healing (The rechareg is for granite) beyond that, but there's no reason you couldn't shuffle that as needed. It's quite usable without any interrupt reductions though, so unless you like to slip it through DOTs you can manage without any.
Thanks for the suggestions. This is my first time getting the medicine set and I was feeling a little lost.
Stimulant duration is 45 seconds. I timed it with a stopwatch. 
Great guide. One nitpick - melee characters with no defense can use aid self in combat just fine. My Fire tank has it slotted with 3 interupt/2 heal/1 recharge. The only time I have problems is when I'm taking an alpha for a team of 6+, and I *still* usually manage to get the heal off in time. Characters which lack defense should have little problem as long as they do not take alphas for large teams.
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Psst..
/macro heal "powexec_name Aid Self$$e Roar" Press it twice I think.
You can bypass the aid self tricorder animation and heal yourself as your roar. Any other emote works, personally, Im waiting for i7s backflip emote.
Not my discorvery, I learned it from the tank boards very recently.
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I have taken to using the alakazamreact emote.
There is something fun about a magical healing pumpkin. And the nifty bit is that your tricorder still appears, but it floats in mid air high above the magic pumpkin.
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Psst..
/macro heal "powexec_name Aid Self$$e Roar" Press it twice I think.
You can bypass the aid self tricorder animation and heal yourself as your roar. Any other emote works, personally, Im waiting for i7s backflip emote.
Not my discorvery, I learned it from the tank boards very recently.
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I have taken to using the alakazamreact emote.
There is something fun about a magical healing pumpkin. And the nifty bit is that your tricorder still appears, but it floats in mid air high above the magic pumpkin.
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It may have something to do with it being 5 am where I am, but I tried this and all I have to say is:
LOL
absolutely hilarious
Even though this is a necro post, I need to point out a few things.
According to City of Data, the interrupt time is 1 second. That means that 3 slotted for interrupt reduction, the total interrupt time should be 1 * (1/(1+1.14)) = 0.47 seconds. I swear it feel shorter than that though.
This means that resistance sets can use aid self just fine, as long as there isn't massive DoT or autohit debuffs. Actually I'm pretty sure you can use aid self through an autohit debuff if you can get it off inbetween the ticks. However most of the tick every 0.5 seconds, so you can imagine how giagantically lucky you'd have to be to get it off. This hypthesis is formed in pocket d which has a tp surpressor. I found I could get aid self off inbetween -tp ticks if I timed it right.
Also, you can move as soon as the interruptability portion is over without messing up the heal, you do not have to remain stationary, you just can't do anything else.
Finally, you can't compare heals to resistance, it's apples and oranges. Heals don't scale with incoming damage, resistance does. However, aid self provides more mitigation in most scenarios. And in the ones it doesn't, you'd die with aid self or tough anyways.
Sorry for the necropost but a quick question.
Can you use the emote macro trick for Aid Other and Stimulant? My macro is /macro Mez "e Roar$$powexec_name Stimulant" and it just isn't working for me 
I also tried switching the order to execute stimulant then the roar but still no dice.
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This means that resistance sets can use aid self just fine, as long as there isn't massive DoT or autohit debuffs. Actually I'm pretty sure you can use aid self through an autohit debuff if you can get it off inbetween the ticks. However most of the tick every 0.5 seconds, so you can imagine how gigantically lucky you'd have to be to get it off. This hypothesis is formed in pocket d which has a tp suppressor. I found I could get aid self off inbetween -tp ticks if I timed it right.
Finally, you can't compare heals to resistance, it's apples and oranges. Heals don't scale with incoming damage, resistance does. However, aid self provides more mitigation in most scenarios. And in the ones it doesn't, you'd die with aid self or tough anyways.
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I find that as a Inv Tanker that Aid Self really has no problem since I can focus on the timing. With my fire Blaster if I loose concentration for a second I am dead, so getting Aid Self off between damage is more difficult but still doable with 1 interrupt IO, and with 2 IOs I am fine.
Technically you are correct that heals and resistance (and defense for that matter) can't be directly compared. But as a Tanker where I usually am not in danger of concentrated burst damage, a general comparison of effectiveness against constant damage is sufficient to show the advantage of having Aid Self over other powers.
And wow talk about necro posting, but this guide still is very useful.
As an update for IOs: Since the heal sets do not have interrupt, I usually drop two Numinas or Miracle (depending on how rich the character is) for the first bonus of bonus regen or bonus end recovery. Then I use regular IOs to up the Interrupt and recharge. Just make sure not to get more than 5 of the same bonus from other sets. And yes with unlimited resources you could slot better, but I have yet to get to that point.
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Does anyone have a suggested slotting for Aid Other?
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I would think maybe 3 heal/3 recharge or Interrupt
or
2 heal/2Recharge/2Interrupt
of course if you have access to Hami's you could replace the heals with Golgi's
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