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It is what drove the completion of the trip to 50 on my SM/EA scrapper. That said, even with him being my first IO fully kited out character I do not play him much because on the whole he just did not feel like he was pumping out the damage he should. Edit: Were I to remake him (which I might after the six projects I am working on currently are finished...so think next year this time) I would probably go SM/Shield or SM/Bio. The game rewards the harder hit now as opposed to pumping out the damage faster in a lot of situations.

Its a good costume. Eye catching. Well, you could draw inspiration from:

Bio is as complex as you choose to make it but can be simple and quite effective if you follow two rules (one of which does not even apply until level 38): Use Parasitic Aura when entering groups of 6 or more Stick to one stance except in emergencies Efficient or Offensive While SR comes together sooner you can get a lot of bang for your buck on Bio by raising your Smashing/Lethal resistances early (Tough be thy friend).

Another option beside deleting would be to convert and edit in the new, smaller picture. But that would take some time and effort.

PNGs aren't massive, but jpegs would tend to be smaller (depending on the quality setting). Hmmm...had another idea. Let's test: The above is a compressed png which should be nearing a quarter smaller than the original you posted. Now let's try jpeg: That is now down to 12% (one-eighth) the size of the original

I feel somewhat bad about the need to skip those two powers and console myself with having taken every other power in the set. Elec having a damage aura on top of the one you get from Rad, I am just now contemplating proc'ing those bad boys out as it works out to be a minor hit to Melee Defense (3.75%) from what I currently have.

Radiation Siphon by itself has a decent chance (32%) to apply Contaminated and with not a lot of recharge bonus you can then follow up with a hit will consume it. When in a group you can also use Atom Smasher, which has a 35% chance to apply and keep an eye out for which targets get 'Contaminated' above their heads. I will say that Proton Sweep and Devastating Blow are miserable powers (a real shame in the case of Devastating Blow since it comes with a 50% chance to apply Contaminated) and I do not use those on my Elec/Rad Tanker, substituting in Cross Punch (Box, Kick, Weave) which gives you a recharge boost for every foe it hits and so helps you cycle back around on your Radiation Siphons. All this to say that I do not have too much problem getting Radiation Siphon to go off for extra healing. Of course I also have Electric Armor's healing but Radiation Siphon is a noticeable boost, and if you want you can squeeze in the Theft of Essence: Chance for +Endurance proc too.

Since two of the Seismic attacks knock opponents on their butts they don't leave the tar patch and the tar patch debuffs resistances. It's a marriage made in Heaven.

At its maximum WoW brought in $180 million in just monthly subscription fees. I am plenty sure 1% of that would be plenty for a lot of games.

Its DC's world but your character gets to do important/key things in it. As a villain you get to humble Supergirl and Wonder Woman at the same time. As a hero you get to...well, run in mindless terror of the Penguin, "OMG! How is he so dangerous! Bane was a pushover by comparison!!!"...errr, take on top villain and succeed where the heroes cannot.

You do know there is a thread where people post what they consider to be their better costumes? Seems to me your costumes pics would certainly draw notice there.

Now in a Posi 1 with nobody else having any Seismic sets and not generating pressure. Edit: Ahh, a problem from exemplaring down.

Just had this problem in a Yin TF where I got no pressure the entire run. But I was on a team with another seismic character and had no issue last night. Will also note the other seismic character on the Yin reported no problems.

I have to wonder how much the upper statement is the cause of the lower statement. Bio has 3 click powers. Two of them--Ablative Carapace and DNA Siphon--I resort to as needed, which occurs but hardly consistently. Parasitic Aura is more of a threshold/judgment call. I often refer to its use as a best practice when engaging groups of six or more. Not following that rule of thumb has certainly led to me needing to click the other two powers. But I am looking at the matter from the standpoint of a brute whose higher resistance cap along with building towards it (as goes Smash/Lethal) and preference for running in Efficient (because I like being able to non-stop go, Go, GO!) probably afford a bit more sturdiness than a scrapper in Offensive stance. At a guess a scrapper would need to overcap S/L by 7% to offset the hit from Offensive and still be behind where a brute could be while slotting DNA Siphon and Parasitic Aura with Health IO sets (which I did not do) to be at their most survivable even with the opportunity costs slotting that way would come with.

@Frozen Burn, those are absolutely stunningly incredible!

I have a Water/Kinetics corruptor who is great fun to play but after playing my new Seismic/Time blaster since Friday I am left to wonder if Seismic/Kinetics might have been even more fun. On the other hand, as a corruptor, in particular a Kinetics corruptor, you do have a secondary set of very useful powers eating up part of your time. And Seismic wants ALL of your time...every last bit of it. The set special ability triggers off using Seismic attacks. The trigger does last and by itself could be worked around but the usefulness of the secondary effects, particularly the knock up...its hard to not just want to be using Seismic attacks all the time. But a fully saturated Fulcrum Shift backed Meteor...on my! And on the gripping hand, Seismic being greedy might be the selling point for going blaster as the blaster secondaries are, short of blapping, like cats--not too overly upset if you're not paying attention to them and will be there when you feed them (your time).

You are not alone as I am a fellow SS/Bio (brute) and am continually left wondering when people say Bio has poor survivability. My SS/Bio wades into nastiness without issue most times.

Let it be said, the T9 is quite entertaining to watch unfold. The delay between cast and impact might have been annoying but as noted by Dona Eis Requiem you can activate other powers while it approaches like Upthrust. While not the biggest fan of knockback, the 12.9 knockback which will scatter corpses or anything which happens to live seems quite appropriate. The damage is delivered by pet, so you will need to turn on pet damage to see it in the Combat channel. I had feared the T8 power would be a skippable one but then noticed that when the trigger condition is met it deals Extreme damage, and boy does it. No power, at base, seems like junk though doubtlessly when optimizing for high recharge some will be quicker by the wayside than others.

May latest go at a Blaster (Seismic/Time Manipulation), The Bronze Magus:

Tested it while on the test server and now playing it.... It is a pretty nice set. I half wonder if it is a bit too good given how it periodically gives you a knockdown aura around you (though not so useful at higher levels as plenty of foes will ruin your day from range), has area attacks which cycle nicely, and "help your powers recharge" side effect built into its version of Build Up. Playing as Seismic/Time, doing the range bit and loving it so far. Will be able to say a bit more once I grab the T9.

Looks like Crab/Spider wear.

Check the damage value in Mids with Fury at 80. Its like doing your big single target hit to everything the rain is falling on.

I am not of the opinion that AoE only has merits for farmers or some sort of binary either you're doing it 100% or not. But different strokes for different folks.

But that is looking at just one (admittedly important) aspect of a character. Shadowmeld will boost defenses but taking the Soul Master epic means your other choices are single target damage and a pet (Moonbeam of course is awesome). The Brute could take something like Ice Storm which dumps a ton of damage, especially backed by Fury.

I think Climaxx's costume/design is actually pretty nice.