Best incarnate AoE toon that has status protection.

I don't know exactly what you mean by out of the box suggestions, as most of the heavy AOE builds are well known.

Something different, status protection, AOE, and incarnate potential (which I figure to mean team friendly)...

Fire/Cold/Psi Troller

Fire Control has the AOE damaging abilities, Cold offers Sleet, and Psi has Mez Protection and Psionic Tornado.

I like the teleport bind for rain/teleport type powers.

/bind lshift+lclick "powexecname shield_charge"
/bind lctrl-lclick "powexecname lightning_rod"

Once your recharge is high enough to have them up for every mob, you would probably see little result from the first two tiers of the spiritual alpha slot tree. However, as the higher tiers are available, more of the +recharge % from them will bypass ED constraints.

Scrappers
spines/da
spines/fire
elec/SD
Elec/fire
Elec/da
Fire/sd
spines/ela
elec/ela

Brutes
Some of the above
SS/fire
ss/SD
ss/da

stuff like that are ones that come to my mind

Well, you're talking about incarnate alpha slots, so I'm assuming you're talking about end game builds.

Out of the box AoE? ok, here's out of the box

SS/EA/Mako brute, KM/EA/Mako might actually work better, but I havn't tried that one.

Clearly the sanity of this needs questioned, here's the deal though:

All your AoE comes from chaining the three PP cones. Use alpha slot recharge power to bring these up faster.

/EA for the needed endurance, just sit back and blast then jump in for an end drain then stomp to finish.

Is it going to be the best?

hell no.

But it's solidly good, def cap against all but psi, and toxic of course, lots of AoE, heavy ST (in melee range) and you will seriously surprise anyone who tries to peg what your playstyle will be like.

No-one expects a blast brute.

Significant problem:

On teams with a tank, building fury can be nearly impossilbe. Your AoE chain won't build fury well, and everyone will be hitting the tank.

Surprising side benefit:
That sharky immob can actually protect you more than you think. Stripped of their melee attacks, a lot of mobs are substantially less dangerous to you.

Again, it's not ideal, but hey: You wanted different!

Quote:

Originally Posted by Xinner I want to make a new toon. What Toon would be the best with AoE Status protection Great incarnate potential Will be a lvl 50 toon only. Looking for out of the box suggestions.

I'm currently leveling a Dark Melee/Fiery Aura Scrapper, and it's possibly one of the most fun characters I've had since my Fire Blast/Cold Domination Blasterruptor.

With Dark Melee, you get exception single target damage (not spike damage, but very steady and high DPS).

With Fiery Aura, you get Burn which, since the changes, is all the AoE you will ever need. You also get Blazing Aura if you need just a tad more AoE, and Fiery Embrace to further increase your damage on top of Soul Drain.

The downside is that it's a big costly on the endurance side, but that's easily fixed since you get Consume AND Dark Consumption.

But the best thing about it? You get 2 heals, one of which is part of your attack chain!

Very survivable (I can solo +1/x4 at level 32 easily), and it'd even be more survivable at 44 with Shadow Meld from Soul Mastery. Massive AoE damage. Exceptional single target damage. And it only gets better with the Spiritual Incarnate since it not only enhances your two heals, it also helps you recharge your big powers like Soul Drain, Shadow Meld, and Fiery Embrace much faster.

The only thing not covered is "Status Protection". Fire is vulnerable to Fear, Confuse, and Knockback, if I remember correctly. And you can only free yourself of immobilize through casting Burn. The KB is fixed with an IO or two. But the Confuse and Fear holes are still there.

Do you mean IO's like Kismet Def/Recharge work in mindlink? I assumed they would be wasted, or the recharge bit would be.

With the bulk of powers, if you can get a multi-aspect IO in a power and part of it enhances something the power has that isn't normaly enhanceable, then the multi-aspect IO will still work in full. There are a few exceptions though (one with the shield and strength of will's recharge can not be ehancened, no matter what.)


I thought of this a little while back and tried DM/FA scrapper during open beta (when it was auto-leveling new characters to 50) and have to say it was better than I hoped it would be. I covered imob protection with combat jumping, got enough KB protection from IOs, and many armors have fear and confuse holes, but in PVE play those two are rare enough that it tends to not be a problem. You're right about most of the attacks being single target, but burn's up every spawn, and soul drain can be slotted for a bit of damage as well.

Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler That...was a Herocon 09 exclusive easter egg. The powerset will not have doves associated with it. Namely because you guys would want to color tint the damn doves, or make them hawks/ravens/flying sharks/etc and that's just a headache I do...not...want...to deal with.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Come Undone You're right about most of the attacks being single target, but burn's up every spawn, and soul drain can be slotted for a bit of damage as well.

That's the thing though! At first I thought this combination would be kindda lame for me, cause I like AoE damage. But after slotting my Blazing Aura with damage, and Burn, and the recent addition of Fiery Embrace, I really don't need any more AoE! Enemies already drop so fast that I just need to be survivable enough to survive the Alpha hit.

In my original build, I wanted to slot Soul Drain and Dark Consumption for Damage just to squeeze out more AoE. But I don't even need that!

Just hop into a spawn, Soul Drain -> Fiery Embrace (optional) -> Burn -> Chew on the boss...done! Next!

Sometimes they die so fast I don't get to use them as fodder for Dark Consumption...