You'll probably get more/better advice posting on this in the specific AT forums.
Well, you haven't really given enough information for anyone to help you.
Go to the Brute or Stalker forum (whichever you are, the powers are quite different for each), found further down the main list, and post some details about your build there, as well as what you want to improve in the build. If you use Mids', be sure to do a Forum Export and post the build in your thread.
Why do you say you have "no access to IO sets"? If you're worried about the costs, you don't need the pieces that cost tens or hundreds of millions of Inf; there's a lot of great Uncommon sets that can vastly improve your build for pennies, and anyone with the Going Rogue expansion can run Tip Missions and use Hero/Villain merits to get the expensive stuff cheaply.
If you don't have GR, you can still use Alignment Merits, but it's more expensive; you have to pay both Reward Merits and Inf to get them.
@Roderick
after scouring the forums to help fix my terrible build, i think i got a pretty good build tree. however, i have no access to IO sets so i was looking for some basic slotting advice.
if anyone can help, please let me know.
Thanks!
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