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Have a character I created before the last patch, and parked her in Vanguard base in front of Lady Grey, and after four days of not logging in on the character (because I have been focused on my newly created character from the last patch), I popped on here to find that the timer has pretty much not increased and is nowhere near completion. And this is not the first time this has happened with Day Jobs. What gives?

You're asking if I am going to have to update the picture, right?

The entry at City of Data (Power 'Gamma Rays' (Temporary_Powers.Temporary_Powers.Radiation_Control_GammaBurstDebuff) reads: Contaminated Combining Positrons and Negatrons has resulted in a small explosion and gamma rays that will weaken the target, as well as have a high chance to knock back, confuse and stun them. Affected foes will also become temporarily repel all negatrons and positrons that come near. Not sure if that only means the target cannot be affected or if they radiate an exclusion zone around them.

I thought proc damage was flat and not modified by outside effects. I may need to ask someone who procs damage.

He has Fury set to 0. Move it up to 85 and Greater Psi Blade hits for 471.

They mess up anyone without sufficient +Hit or Accuracy.

Got a Street Justice character who manages, without Hasten, to hit some nice numbers in crowds: He doesn't have Hasten but does rely on Force Feedbac. Granted, he would not be able to that on a GM or boss.

Boy, it really does add a chunk, doesn't it?

No, they won't. You've no reason to wait for someone to run in, but should be dropping it on groups before people arrive. Moreover, because of the delay, if you immediately use Upthrust, it goes off at the same time. And there is no end of hilarity of dropping a Meteor on a group in a small room.

See the thread a few posts down:

So long as you only have one accident in a 6 month period.

Is this not like saying auto insurance is providing little value if you're not in an accident?

Yep. It is the most annoying thing about the powerset. You don't dare put it on auto as you'll miss the best opportunities to use it. And only impacted the AoEs when doing damage beyond a certain number at that.

Fair enough.

Consume Psyche mostly. The set has 5 toggles and an Auto, so no clicking there. The rez....well, you shouldn't be clicking that often. That leaves Consume Psyche and Psychokinetic Barrier. Set the last to autofire since you want its buffs always.

Have you 3-slotted damage?

Check the Tanker forums where the claim is now that Brutes should have been improved. You'll find some of the same people who said Brutes were fine just months ago.

Awesome. So thanks to you and @Lazarus. Means I don't have to do build contortions, just slot sufficient recharge or reach global recharge which is not particularly high. Thanks to both of you again.

So it does. Still, you are going to need 167% Recharge to maintain two stacks and the aforementioned 300% Recharge to maintain to three stacks. Three stacks is in the realm of needing to have perma-Hasten. Between the two, probably better to shoot for maintaining two stacks and using Winter's Gift to get to 60% or just live with one stack combined with Winter's Gift to maintain 40% because the other tradeoff to getting the recharge down to 15s or so is it is firing off every 15s and takings its cast time out of your damage rotation. That still smacks of having a weakness to recharge reduction because you have to make use of non-trivial build workarounds to get some protection.

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I am confused why there is the image of one of my Tankers on that thread.

When people suggested doing anything to improve Brutes in any way, Tankers flooded these forums to declare nothing needed to be done. Maybe they should have been a bit more receptive, eh?

If your Defender, who does not have expanded area or target caps, was keeping up with your Tanker pre-nerf, you were doing something wrong on your Tanker.

EA gets you +Recharge while in the midst of enemies.

You mean this Psychokinetic Barrier? The resistance lasts for 45s and the recharge time on the power is 60s. To maintain 3 stacks* , you would need to have +200% Global Recharge on top of +100% in the power itself--not exactly a trivial thing and certainly not something autocast will deliver on its own. And the default 20% is not really much in the way of protection. *Mid's does not indicate is possible, but then Mid's can be wrong. Could you perhaps toss out a screenshot of it triple stacked?