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Unpolished, would be a good way to describe it.

As someone who rolled my live BS/DA to PM/DA, I’ve been pretty disappointed. I stuck it out to 50, and a full build, and can say boggle and insight are missed opportunities, and the psi damage type trade off is both underwhelming in breadth and overpenalized in depth. I can also echo the sentiment that GPB feels slow. Psi Blade Sweep could have a little more range too. Please awesome HC team, put this primary on your radar for QoL buffs, damage tuning, and partial revamp.

I didn’t know this about Invader. I’ll definitely utilize that for my red side toons. What I really appreciate about that post is it outlines a sort of normal game experience, almost a completionist run (or completionist “lite” if you will). I stuck to it pretty close on my first toon back to the game here on HC, using no xp boost, to get a sort of classic experience of the leveling process and the content that was designed for those levels. I’m older and wiser now and have an appreciation for the level design and other systems at play. That said, I’m also not able to sink as much

https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/3184-blueside-critical-path/

Just wanted to update this for future reference. According to the patch notes from today (Issue 26, Page 4): "Tanker Melee > Psionic Melee > Greater Psi Blade: Should no longer do AoE insight damage."

Just wanted to update this for future reference. According to the patch notes from today (Issue 26, Page 4): "Tanker Melee > Psionic Melee > Greater Psi Blade: Should no longer do AoE insight damage."

I found myself in a similar quandry as OP and I have to second the Sup Crit Strikes slotting. I don’t have facts to back it, but it feels like it procs often, despite dmg auras being theoretically bad proc abilities, and I notice it going off even on ST like you said. It maybe sub optimal, but it does indeed work.

MrAxe posted screenshot evidence of Greater Psi Blade AoE on Tanker here: The leading theory is that it's a bug related to Tanker's Gauntlet passive.

Popularity; the powerset statistics for each Archetype for characters that are level 50. From this post in the GD:

Just going to leave this here.

I was one of the unfortunate saps that played MA on release. I loved the animations until I realized other classes were about twice as fast and did more damage, but alas MA/SR fit my theme. Then I found the the power of BS/DA. But Katana/Regen and Spines/Regen were far and away the most popular.

The "blade" attacks are the must haves. Psi Blade, Psi Blade Sweep, and Greater Psi Blade. Doesn't hurt that they are the coolest looking animations either. The T1, Mental Strike is superfluous. Depending on your attack chain, you can potentially also skip Telekinetic Blow, though I am partial to it because it's a very reliable knock up and provides a source of non-psi damage. Mass Levitate you gotta get too obviously because it's T9, and also because it's the only other AoE and provides another source of non-psi damage. The consensus seems to be that Psi Melee is best as a Stalker

Hero Plan by Mids' Reborn : Hero Designer 2.6.0.2 https://github.com/ImaginaryDevelopment/imaginary-hero-designer Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 49 Magic Scrapper Primary Power Set: Psionic Melee Secondary Power Set: Dark Armor Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Flight Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery Hero Profile: Level 1: Psi Blade (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (5) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/E

This being my first 50, some iteration will definitely be necessary. But I think I crafted a solid build to progress into the endgame with. I kept the goals for this build relatively simple: 45% S/L and Melee defense. 5 defense abilities for LotG Global Recharge Speed. Some thoughts: Will look to fit Superior Blistering Cold in one of the single target abilities. I need to research Critical Strikes more, but perhaps that can also fit into a ST ability as well. Going for 5 LotG mules doesn't allow for Hasten, but I have a feeling the global recharge