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Thank you both for the responses. I think I was just doing it incorrectly before. I am going to sit down whene I get home and go through the process again while reading these posts (and the new guide linked). Thanks!

Thank you!! I feel I have wasted a lot of inf trying to figure this out but can never seem to get the settings right. Going to try some more when I get off work and see if I can make some inf.

Can someone explain the settings in the conversion window? I have read some of the guides on here several times and when I think I understand it I still get outcomes I’m not expecting. In set - is this within the specific set that the IO currently is? So if I have a thunder strike, it will concert to a different thunder strike? Or does it convert to a different ranged damage set? out of set - I can probably answer this one if I understand the first. I thought this mean out of the type of set. So if I have a PBAOE IO and concert with setting I could end up with basically anything else?

You are right, but my question was more can the rains individual ticks proc cores damage stacks?

This this thread is so active, figure I would make sure I’m not crazy. If a storm summoning defender doesn’t take freezing rain, they are gimping themselves, right? I did an ITF last night and couldn’t figure out why things were not dying faster. Only had two debuggers, myself and s storm defender with no freezing rain.

Someone else asked but I am also curious about how these play with pseudo pets (I.e. rain type powers). I am I trying to decide which way to go for my ice/cold. My gut says radial, but core may be good to increase AoE damage from ice storm and blizzard. Does sleet count since it technically does damage?

Should I be forgoing set bonuses in order to slot more procs in single target attacks? I know set bonuses are important, but also moar damage!

Does it always stun the minions pretty much due to the long recharge?

I would also be very curious if the chance for stun works well enough to slot it in heatloss. Would make getting in close to get a big stack of heatloss a lot safer.

The more ya know. Is it 3% on brutes or something’s? I don’t think I pulled that out of thin air, but maybe.

Assault doesn’t really give you very much damage unless you have multiple people running it. Don’t have Pines in front of me but I think it’s like 3%. I don’t think it would really impact your powers the way you are thinking. Maneuvers and weave are so good because of how powerful stacking defense is. Tactics can be enhanced to get decent to hit bonus. Also, I know it’s for thematic reasons, but box and kick are not worth using at all. Maybe as a set mule, but I would not use it over one of your DP attacks.

I can never copy the data links. I have to download the build, open pines, and file and find the file and open from within pines. Super annoying, but they always open after that.

I don’t think it has the same taunt that it has on tanker and brute sets, but I could be wrong. I never notice it creating more agro than normal.

No idea where my posts are ending up (tried posting twice and neither have shown up here), but I really loved your build, Constantine. I think the added capped range defense is well worth the sacrifice to global recharge. I did swap out flight for leaping and went ahead and took acrobatics. I got rid of the slot in aim and a slot in stamina, but not sure where to put them. Currently added one to one of the shields for the +6% accuracy (probably not worth it honestly, but not sure where to put it) and I added a knock back protection to tough. My knock back protection with this additional IO is up in the 20s, which is probably excessive. I was trying to figure out where I could get a 5th LoTG recharge IO, but couldn’t come up with anything. My other two posts I made had the updated build but they for some reason won’t post. I still really want to try Darkir’s build once test comes back up. Thanks again for all the input and discussion, I really appreciate it.

For AoE I still think fire has ice beat due to fire ball. It’s on a short(ish) cool down and does good damage, where blizzard is on a pretty long cool down, but considering it can scourge is pretty awesome. Fire may also catch up in single target damage if you can achieve insta snipe consistently. Someone has probably crunched the numbers.

My main was a fire/dark on live. Though very good solo, did not have enough -regen to solo an AV. I got a little tired of tar patch + rain of fire + fire ball repeat. To OPs original question, i wasn’t a huge fan of radiation blast on live, but that was a long time ago. The AE was kinda meh, the big damage single target attack, though it offered nice soft CC with the stun, the range was so short. Because I found the blast set so underwhelming, I would probs all suggest rolling it as a defender for the bigger debuffs and heal (I personally don’t like defenders, but I just prefer scourge). If you aren’t set on rad as your blast choice, maybe consider a different pairing? I hear water is a lot of fun. I am loving the ice/cold I have been leveling and ice would also go nicely with /rad. Sonic/rad is also good, but again probably better on a defender given the -regen from sonic.

I haven’t looked into martial at all, but I just recreated my old plant/psi Dom from live. Haven’t started leveling yet but saves the name and have him sitting. Psi used to be a great attack secondary, but due to the high resistance at the end game that everyone has been talking about, I am starting to wonder if I would be better off going something else. Decisions, decision!

Can’t you get perma fast snipe with domination? Does that make the snipe worth taking?

I am traveling so can’t plug this into mids at the moment, but you really don’t need to build for recovery with cold due to heatloss. Hearloss will solve all of your endurance issues and will basically be used off cool down. You can get your recharge high enough to make it perma, or nearly perma, depending on what you prioritize. I would also highly recommend building to some sort of defensive soft cap, or as close as you can get, probably ranged or s/l. There are a lot of people more knowledgeable than me on these boards, but I would prioritize defense, recharge, whatever else you want in your build.

Oh man, I can’t wait to look at this one too. I always liked /dark for thematic reasons and I love soul drain, but didn’t think I could get to the defense soft cap without scorpion shield. I also just realized I had sleet slotted for damage, which I never do while leveling, but was after the recharge bonus. I can probably reallocate those slots somewhere else. Thanks for posting!

Can you boost IOs in sets that do not cap at 50 up to 50? Or if a set that caps at lvl 49 can go to 40+5 or something?

I knew someone would finally take pity. I switched from agility because I was able to get to the soft cap for s/l without it, and hasten was within a second of perma, and heatloss was perma (I I remember correctly, don’t have it in front of me). Constantine, I can’t wait to take a look at the build you posted in Pines. I am out of town until Sunday but I am very much looking forward to crunching the numbers. I am not sure how the procs work in rain powers either. I feel like I read they are different than normal powers due the the pseudo pet dealing the damage. Is accuracy not needed in infridge at all, or do you feel it will just not be used often enough to warrant it? That’s the only question I can really come up with looking at the forum post, but I’m sure I’ll have more once I get it in pines. Sorry for any typos, on my phone! Thanks again for the feedback.

Thanks for all the responses. What is meant by this? If you are 50, is there reason to use normal, not attuned IOS as opposed to attuned? The way I was understanding it, attuned was the way to go always.

I understand it makes them keep their enhancement value regardless off level, but my question is around the level they start as. For example, if I have an IO that can range from level 35-50 and I have a level 30 and gives a, let’s say 34% enhancement to damage. The same IO at level 50 gives a 35% enhancement. If I attune the level 30 IO, what % enhancement does it give? Thanks!

Updated the original post to show my latest build, so disregard the one above this. I figure if I just keep posting in this thread someone people will eventually jump on board and start responding, right?