Hey Shadow,
some more information about exactly what your goal is can be very helpful when trying to provide feedback on builds. I gather that your aim is low cost: are you planning on soloing or teaming? A little bit about what your play style is will also be helpful. Are you looking for help doing something in particular with set bonuses or do you just want us to check and make sure we don't see anything truly foolish in the current build?
The more information that you can give us, the better the responses you get back will be.
My main comment on the build would be that except in the new Tin Mage and and Apex TFs your two chance for recharge slow procs are pretty much wasted. Snow Storm and Freezing Rain alone will floor the recharge on just about everything. Unless you plan on running the Tin Mage and Apex TFs with high frequency (or regularly run your misisons and TFs at +4) I would suggest choosing more beneficial procs. The Achilles heel proc is excellent in Freezing Rain can be a wonderful choice.
You only have one slot in Thunderstrike, which makes me wonder if you actually plan on using it. If not why not pick up something that requires no slots like vengeance, Thunder Clap, or maybe Power Sink (because it's useful, it really could benefit from slots) to help with endurance issues.
How are you endurance wise? If you have troubles you might be able to eliminate some of them with a cardiac alpha slot, but you might want to consider saving up merits for a Numina or a Miracle +recovery IO as well.
There are some thoughts to get you started.
Draggynn on Virtue: lvl 50 Storm/Psi, 1389 badges
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My goals...hmmm well I solo mostly and do PUGs. My guild has left for greener pastures.
I would like to try task forces, but don't have lots of time for long missions back to back.
I don't PvP since they nerfed hurricane, got tired of energy stalkers jumping through my hurricane and 2 shotting me.
I was just wanted to build a strong all around avatar that can contribute and solo at +1.
I had vengeance once and I didn't find it all that useful. The healers tended to raise the dead teammate before I could activate it. I will consider it so yea I took Thunderstrike as a filler power to get the hold in the APP
End does seem to be an issue solo. And my thought was try to go to the damage buff for the alpha incarnate slot.
The other issue is the stealth IO worth it in hover? I pretty much run Steamy Mist all the time.
My slotting has in general been dictated by my low levels of influence, and the prices on the market now seem even more insane.
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Ah, right, forgot about that. If all you really want from the APP is the hold, you could go with Psychic Mastery and take Dominate and Mind Over Body. you would lose the additional energy resist in favor of psi resist but not need to take a filler power.|
Originally Posted by Shadow_Stone
I had vengeance once and I didn't find it all that useful. The healers tended to raise the dead teammate before I could activate it. I will consider it so yea I took Thunderstrike as a filler power to get the hold in the APP
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| End does seem to be an issue solo. And my thought was try to go to the damage buff for the alpha incarnate slot. |
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| The other issue is the stealth IO worth it in hover? I pretty much run Steamy Mist all the time. |
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And a comment I forgot to make before, I supsect you won't really notice the 3% psionic resistance, from Impervium armor, have you considered replacing it with a Knockback protection IO instead I think you would be very pleased with that change.
Draggynn on Virtue: lvl 50 Storm/Psi, 1389 badges
Draggynn's Guide to Storm Summoning(Gale-Tornado, updated 6/25/2011)
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Between reward merits, hero merits, influence, and AE tickets for rare recipes, there's many alternate ways to get all you need. Depending on what's more plentiful, or what's your best investment, you can get a lot bang for your buck.|
Originally Posted by Draggynn
Which is part of why it's so nice to have Hero/Villain Merits and standard Merits as an alternative way to earn things.
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Example, if you're sitting with a surplus of reward merits and influence, up converting them to hero merits for the most expensive stuff on your build list would be ideal. 100 reward merits and 40 mill inf will get you the most expensive of the generic set IOs (Numina Rec/Regen, Miracle Rec, LotG 7.5 for example). More reward merits than anything, just go straight for it. If you can speed tips, toss yourself some alignment merits every other day. AE would be a possible alternative for the 2+ mill salvage that you'll need for your recipes, if you don't have the influence to buy it off the market.
Sometimes, Alignment/Reward merits are going to be nearly the only way to get a recipe as they don't poke their heads about much (+stealth for example). Also, you can decide what level you want it with Alignment/Reward merits, which I find to be a great plus personally.
50s: Bla- Arch/Mental Cont- Mind/FF, Earth/Cold, Ill/Therm, Earth/Rad Dominator- Plant/Psi, Elec/Earth Corr- Fire/Storm, Arch/Sonic, Rad/Kin, Beam/Sonic, Psi/Time Stalker- Elec/SR Def- Storm/Dark, Emp/Psi, Dark/Elec, FF/Arch, TA/Ice, TA/Elec, Kin/AR, Cold/DP, Traps/Psi Scrap- Fire/Shield Tanker- Dark/Mace, Ice/Kin Brute- Claws/WP, SS/Energy, BS/Elec
Thanks for the 411, I was not aware of the alignment rewards. Looks like tip missions are more than just fun, but give you a means to get the rare recipes.
It would explain the cost increases somewhat as it is very "farmable".
Thanks for the help D
Good point about the Psychic APP, and I have had it in the past when slots were tighter, but I wanted to go more thematic now that I had some slots open up, so was considering the electric APP.
Unfortunately the hold in that set is at a higher level requiring a filler power (Thunderstrike). As filler powers go it seems ok.
Since I am always hovering, I never saw the need for KB protection.
I did pick up to chance for resistance debuffs (Achile's Heel) to replace my 2 -rchg debuffs (one for Freezing Rain and the other for my other aoe Nightfall. What do you think about that?
After you help I think I should be able to get at least the Numina +recovery to help with End and put it in health.
Need advice on slotting/powers on respec this is what I am thinking/have currently. Not hung up on getting purples and likely could not afford.
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Everwind: Level 50 Mutation Defender
Primary Power Set: Storm Summoning
Secondary Power Set: Dark Blast
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Teleportation
Ancillary Pool: Electricity Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: O2 Boost
- (A) Miracle - Heal
- (13) Miracle - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Dark Blast- (A) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
- (3) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
- (3) Devastation - Damage/Recharge
- (7) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Devastation - Chance of Hold
- (13) Accuracy IO
Level 2: Gloom- (A) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
- (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (5) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (9) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (9) Accuracy IO
- (15) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 4: Snow Storm- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 6: Hover- (A) Freebird - FlySpeed
- (37) Freebird - +Stealth
Level 8: Fly- (A) Flight Speed IO
- (36) Flight Speed IO
Level 10: Freezing Rain- (A) Pacing of the Turtle - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
- (11) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge
- (11) Curtail Speed - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
- (15) Tempered Readiness - Endurance/Recharge/Slow
- (17) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Recharge
- (17) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
Level 12: Hurricane- (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
- (31) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
- (34) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
- (36) Dark Watcher's Despair - Recharge/Endurance
Level 14: Steamy Mist- (A) Impervium Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (19) Impervium Armor - Resistance
- (19) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
- (21) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
- (21) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 16: Tenebrous Tentacles- (A) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Recharge
- (25) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Endurance
- (27) Trap of the Hunter - Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge
- (27) Trap of the Hunter - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
- (29) Range IO
- (29) Dampened Spirits - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
Level 18: Hasten- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 20: Night Fall- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (31) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (31) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (37) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (39) Dark Watcher's Despair - Chance for Recharge Slow
- (39) Accuracy IO
Level 22: Dark Pit- (A) Stupefy - Accuracy/Recharge
- (37) Stupefy - Accuracy/Endurance
- (39) Stupefy - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
- (40) Rope A Dope - Accuracy/Recharge
- (40) Rope A Dope - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
Level 24: Assault- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 26: Tornado- (A) Blood Mandate - Damage/Endurance
- (40) Blood Mandate - Damage
- (42) Edict of the Master - Damage/Endurance
- (42) Sovereign Right - Damage/Endurance
- (43) Undermined Defenses - Defense Debuff
- (45) Undermined Defenses - Defense Debuff/Endurance
Level 28: Tactics- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 30: Torrent- (A) Kinetic Crash - Accuracy/Knockback
- (45) Kinetic Crash - Recharge/Knockback
Level 32: Lightning Storm- (A) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
- (33) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
- (33) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (33) Damage Increase IO
- (34) Recharge Reduction IO
- (34) Devastation - Chance of Hold
Level 35: Life Drain- (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
- (36) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
- (43) Accuracy IO
- (43) Accuracy IO
Level 38: Blackstar- (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
- (45) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
- (46) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge
- (46) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 41: Thunder Strike- (A) Accuracy IO
Level 44: Charged Armor- (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
- (46) Titanium Coating - Resistance
- (48) Titanium Coating - Endurance
Level 47: Shocking Bolt- (A) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold
- (48) Lockdown - Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Lockdown - Endurance/Recharge/Hold
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 49: Recall Friend- (A) Interrupt Reduction IO
------------Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest- (A) Empty
Level 1: VigilanceLevel 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift
- (A) Flight Speed IO
Level 2: Hurdle- (A) Jumping IO
Level 2: Health- (A) Healing IO
- (25) Healing IO
Level 2: Stamina