Characters Who Alpha Slots Totally Transform

My Fire/Sonic Corr. Massive end use, but with the Cardiac Alpha I now not only don't need the Mu pool but can go with the Scorpion Shield to softcap his smashing/lethal defense. Only run low spamming my AoEs nonstop running Superspeed and Disruption Field.

Considering I've only got the tier1 boost, not too shabby.

Edit: and the higher tiers will buff all my resist shields too, do want.

My Fortunata definitely gets a lot from Cardiac.

She runs 9 toggles, double Assault, double Maneuver, 1 Tactics, Mez shield, Hover, Tough and Darknest Night from patron.

Even with accolades and unique and all sets, she couldn't run 8-9 toggles without using blues frequently during long fights but with Cardiac, I rarely need blue.

With this build, I can fight toe to toe with Battle Maiden in Apex. I put darkest night on her and just fight in circles. Tough helps a lot so I don't die in one or two hits if I get hit.

Following up on the Widow track, I also have one that Cardiac transformed. Thanks to IOs, mine was largely immortal, but if I went all out and fought stuff at levels and numbers that I could actually survive, I would suck my blue bar dry. I had taken to keeping a stack of +recovery temp power recipes in her market tray so I could always have one handy for long fights.

Cardiac turned that around. Combined with the +recovery bonuses she already had, she now can't run out of end doing anything close to reasonable. I have now soloed Rikti Pylons with her, which is more of a stamina test than a speed one. (Not that she gets awful times, but at 8 minutes {~200 DPS} they aren't record breaking by any means.)

I also have a Brute that had largely the same experience. I was fine for missions, but against any kind of hard target, my SM/FA Brute would burn through her end bar much faster than the fight was going to take. Cardiac dramatically changed that.

I had some more subtle but still transformative changes in other characters with the Spiritual Alpha. For example, I have a DM/Regen that the +recharge enhancement allowed me to start running the high-DPS DM attack chain of MG->Smite->Siphon Life->Smite->repeat. That actually represented a noticeable change in the time it takes me to defeat something like a boss or EB, which is a pretty big deal for a Regen.

With cardiac my fort can run double maneuvers double assault, indom will, darkest night and super speed without having to worry much about end.

With Cardiac my Traps/AR can run Leadership, Fighting and Charged Armor with no end issues and the combination of the range enhancement and the ability to replace end slotting in powers means my two short cones are now at 54ft range.

nerve transformed my WP/DB tanker from a demigoddess into a full blown goddess.

Man, don't run fire/rad with a cardiac, get a musculature. It buffs basically everything you do.

Getting the musculature total core (or whatever the T3 with the endmod enhancement is) turned my fire/rad from a pretty solid if plodding x8 soloer into a dynamo. I can toss out attacks and controls basically at will while running hot feet/choking cloud, defense toggles and enervating field.

You really oughta buy some pants first.