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Did you factor in Follow-Up granting a 37.5% boost to damage and that the buff can be stacked twice?

Upthread I posted a costume for my Energy Melee/Shield stalker Super Chilled. Somewhere along the way I grew disenchanted with the cold aspect of his concept and reimagined him more in line with his underlying Energy Melee powerset as a super energized hero. One rename and bio update later and Super Chilled became Empowered. Now I have gotten around to giving him an updated costume:

You definitely need to share more often. Liked them all but really felt Northbound and Coin Miner were outstanding.

Radiation Melee is supposed to trigger the splash too but it also consumes the Contaminated effect. You know, I never tested it but presumably if other splash-qualifying attacks do not consume the effect then presumably you can hit the same target again for splash damage for the duration of the Contaminated effect. I know it lasts long enough on my Tanker that he can apply Contaminated with Radiation Siphon and have it still there to be consumed by his next use of Radiation Siphon, which he has recharging in 4 seconds.

Since my Rad Melee is a Tanker I was more focused on the heal, but the mechanic splashes damage when you hit a Contaminated foe with a Rad Melee attack. Is there any way to abuse that for fun and killing?

I am shocked and saddened to hear this. I only knew Heraclea through thoughtful, inviting, and informative forum posts. My sincere condolences to friends and family.

Yes, Inexhaustible boosts Regen like Health but unlike Health it also boosts Recovery and may be slotted with either Healing/Absorb or Endurance Modification enhancements. So you might look at it as a replacement for both Health and Stamina with the choice left to you on how much its base boost to both Regen and Recovery should be further improved. In my experience (playing an SS/Bio brute) Recovery does not need the help Recovery in excess of what you need to sustain your attack routines is getting you nothing beyond padding in case you face Recovery debuffs or drain--and you have other tools to assist with Recovery in DNA Siphon, Parasitic Aura, and Efficient Adaptation. The same could be said for Regen but the game far more focused on dropping your health than your endurance.

I am blaming @brasilgringo and hence @Player2 for driving my thoughts down a road which brought to mind a certain recently seen movie (on a fictional group I've long enjoyed): I do not even have intentions to make the character, though just for the costume I am greatly tempted.

On my previous best DM character (DM/Elec brute back on live) I tended to look at Siphon Life as a damage dealing ability with a healing perk. Both the damage and healing become more useful with high global recharge.

Rather than go for a total makeover my first thought was to stay in the neighborhood of the original:

😁 Perhaps the better word would have been Iconic.

One man's bad is another man's epic. 🙂 It looks like I'm struggling in some sort of cosmic battle...and I look GREAT!

All sentinel ranges are shorter. Arcs are sometimes different (e.g., Archery Fistful of Arrows). Sometimes entire powers are different (Sentinel Dark Blast: Dark Obliteration vs Blaster Dark Blast: Tenebrous Tentacles or Sentinel: Beam Rifle not getting a snipe power where Blaster Beam Rifle does). It does not look like just using a formulaic procedure to decide the changes. As for Seismic Blast not being a fringe set...by definition it was a new set, utterly unrepresented in use previously. Given the abovementioned differences between sets (which was skimming some examples and in no way an attempt to be exhaustive) I can see there being a bit more involved than you seem to indicate. If you want to believe the developers are evilly trying to deny people who enjoy playing sentinels enjoyment for however long it takes for Sentinel port to arrive for unclear, nefarious purposes that is a choice I will not attempt to dissuade you from.

Maybe the OP will avail themselves of it.

I uninstalled and reinstalled 3 times last week with no issues regarding files disappearing. But if the issue is tied to the version being uninstalled it may be that I never had that version installed to begin with.

Seems to me that when you are playing a melee class, seeing things is often not the easiest regardless of powerset. I am not going to suggest that Seismic does not add its own distinctive extras to the pile of things which obscure vision but rather note that in terms of being particularly noteworthy... ...well... ....I'll just drop this screenshot from the Khan TF I just got out of: Can you tell what I am hitting? Can you tell how many enemies there are? Can you even tell what powers are being used? Its Reichsman btw and somewhere off to a side is Gyrfalcon (I kinda had my hands full with Reichsy). Frankly I'll take a little bit of uplifted earth every now and then. Beats staring at demon a@# all the time.

Just got out of a Synapse with a Sentinel (character level 44 with set IOs) was doing an impressive job of tanking despite the lowered level of Synapse. She mentioned something about needing to pick up Taunt. At one point my basic IO slotted Stalker went to try to help her out of what looked like a tight situation. Yeah....she was fine. I was too after she finished everything up and I picked myself up off the floor with an awaken.

Pretty sure there is no real life [Tab] acquire target (or lane) mechanism.

I started a StJ/Nin some time back and he was fun enough for me to check a final build for him on test server. Alas, he got put on the back burner because I really enjoyed the feel of a DM/EA I'm working up. This is what I had for him:

For all the grief directed at blasters, gotta say on this TF I'm currently on its a fellow melee who is knocking things all over the place. Really screwing my ability to do massive area damage from hide. Edit: OTOH, they wouldn't be grouped if they weren't around her. So learned to time it to get things before she goes into knockback.

Given my childhood and my father's abuse of my mother before she left him, I am not thinking I need lessons on the seriousness of actual spousal abuse from someone who does not know my background. It was a cultural reference to a television show line where the spouse in question gave as much as she got and arguably the couple was truly in love with each other.

If you have idea what work goes into adding a set to an AT how can you conclude it is a flimsy excuse?

[Tab], [F], <hit attack which isn't on cooldown>

They didn't have the time to complete the changes to the set for Sentinels and it will be coming in a later patch is what I read elsewhere in the Beta forum.

My initial go at Rad Melee was a Rad/Shield scrapper. Talk about endurance hungry. Also I knew less about making Rad Melee work at the time and building characters, so I moved on from him with lessons learned. Of course I could go back and fix him now, and Rad Shield does hit like a tank dropped from orbit....