Anyone try Rebirth yet?

To be fair, I don't think people are looking at things from a bigger picture perspective. Sure the Radial path might be best for you, the individual, but in a team/league situation, you get far more bang for your buck mixing things up. If two people are using Radial, you'll likely get more with the third person equipping Core. By the same token, I hear people debating Barrier vs Rebirth when the fact of the matter is having both increased Regen and insane Resistance and Defense is better than one or the other.

The true power of these incarnate abilities is in their flexibility, their ability to be combined and in people coordinating them effectively. A coordinated team rocking the proper proportions of Rebirth, Barrier and Ageless with both branches to boot is positively nasty.

The same goes for Interface abilities. Everyone going Reactive or Diamagnetic is inferior to having a proper mix.

We don't have any content that requires that much planning and coordination of Incarnate abilities yet, but I wouldn't be surprised if future content does.



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Bingo.

Yep, there's a reason none of my characters are using the Reactive interface buff, and why I'm getting stuff like Clarion Radial instead of spamming Barrier. If everyone chooses the same buff, or hits them all at the same time, then stacking them yields limited returns.

.. That said, Rebirth radial is epic, and more people having gigantic versions of RA can only be a good thing (as long as they stagger them). I'll leave the +hp to accolades, IOs, and the cold def/corrs with Frostworks.