Hyperstrike

Nobody runs benchmarks for fun. Nobody runs benchmarks for productivity. You run benchmarks a couple times to make sure your system performance falls in a range you define as "acceptable". And for situations where the Mark I Eyeball is simply incapable of delivering meaningful data. Everything beyond that is simply masturbatory impulse. And you know what they say about going blind...

Honestly, on latest generation wifi, the appreciable difference between wired and wifi can't really be seen outside of BENCHMARKS.

Nothing says "Arrest" like "Howsabout a little FIRE Scarecrow?

Do you want WITH or WITHOUT Granite? The "Without" option still has Granite. But it's not really slotted in an effective manner. And it's really set up as an(other) "Oh Shit" button in a build that's chock-full of them.

Second vote for Fire/Rad. With a caveat that if you want a REAL treat, try to put together a teaming group, and do a full team of fire/rads.

This assumes you're taking it for the Defense boost.

It's a timing thing.

Yeah, there's just something to be said for a Tank that has a nuclear bomb go off in their face, blinks, smiles, and goes right back to breaking villains; s**t.

Yeah. Actually it does. I'll leave it there though. You're entitled to your opinion. Which is my object lesson.

Nah. Remember, bicycles are irredeemable. Trikes? Even more so!

Actually, I made one of the vids for the "Matrix Room" while still on live.

That might be it...

Yeah, that's the nice thing about having massive desktop space. I can shrink the CoH window and keep a copy of Mids open.

Yep. When they rebuilt the exterior of City Hall, they dropped in the extra entrance. And yeah, /cleartray is a godsend.

It's got a few problems. This was just a hack to see how much I could squeeze in without resorting to Rune of Protection and ignoring things like Health and Stamina... Here's a ROP build...

INSTRUCTIONS! Note: This is exploiting a geometry hole to get in behind the map boundaries. At the GMs and devs discretion, this method may cease working AT ANY POINT! Use this at your own peril. Also, things like ATT and Teleport Friend style powers that require you to indicate a location DO NOT WORK out here! A character HAS TO have a form of Teleport Self (Starless Step) to do this! You should ALSO have something that let's you FLY. Otherwise you can't get there from here... 1: From Pocket D, enter the Tiki Lounge 2: Take a couple steps forward and turn around. 3: To the RIGHT of the door 4: At the ceiling, in the area between the doorway and where the Tiki Hut roof is, if you position yourself JUST RIGHT, you can find the hole. 5: Carefully place your teleport indicator THROUGH it, you'll see it pulsing on the backside. 6: Teleport through. This will leave you inside Pocket D, but outside the bounds of the Tiki lounge and under a section of roof. 7: Position yourself with the "downhill" slope of the roof in front of you. 8: Turn LEFT slightly and run until you drop down behind the walls. 9: You'll see the back of the Vault Reserve room. 10: You can fly down and get under the floor. This will wind you up OUTSIDE Pocket D and able to explore the area. Below and to the LEFT is one of the Rikti Motherships. Up and to the left from there is the square-looking asteroid with the gas station on it.

For a second I read this as Invuln/Shield and was like..."That'd be cool, but having only Brawl, Kick and Shield Charge probably would make it hard to keep Aggro..."

To be honest, one of the reasons I'm squeezed as much out of things like Shield and Invuln is that I'm generally a lazy player. My manual dexterity and fine motor control SUCK DISEASED MOOSE WANG. And my "skill" at playing never really grew beyond "I can Tank it!" I mean, how pathetic is it that I've Tanked a Fire/Fire/Pyre blaster on an STF/MLTF? And you know what's REALLY pathetic? I ACTUALLY MANAGED IT! Proof that God occasionally smiles on fools and other children.

I could PROBABLY cap several of the Resists. But it'd likely compromise the build elsewhere. Here's just a "Just trying to max Def/Res" without really trying. https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1559&c=650&a=1300&f=HEX&dc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

And I looked at the +Rech numbers. They're right on. My only obvious problem is a small quibble. Boxing <<< KICK!!! Boxing, simply as a mandatory pick to get into Fighting is a total waste. Kick really isn't much better. HOWEVER, you can dump a Force Feedback (Chance for +Rech) in there. Sure, the utility is "minimal". BUT NOT "NONE".

Outside of a few corner cases (like trying to solo 4-star content)? Yeah. I can vouch for that. If you're trying to do 4-star content, realistically, your safest bet is ALWAYS going to be "teaming" If there's other options, you'll have to talk to others. I really don't have the lifestyle bandwidth right now to explore various "gimmick" builds.

Depends on what you're aiming for. Please remember that the more Defense you have, the more effective it is. Both flooring your chances of being hit AND acting as an ablative shield to DDR attacks. As such, it's not always an X-slots brings Y-value. There's also Z (cumulative effect). It can also be highly situational. Like a Regen monster at a Hami raid.

Considering you can cap all your Resists (save Psi, and still be 40+% there) AND incarnate soft-cap your Defenses while maintaining an elaborate Heal/+HP + Regen cycle. BEFORE Procs? And that's BEFORE discussing DDR.

Basically, in terms of durability, Stone still is the Gold Standard in terms of "toughness" in the generic "you can't hurt me" sense. All around Defense, Resist and Regen. But there are sizeable compromises in terms of damage output. In terms of maximum toughness and general balance, Invuln and Shield are the ACTUAL Gold Standard. Maximizing toughness and damage output/utility.

Haven't been able to play enough to pass judgement. Have been VERY time-constrained for most of 2022. (And NO, that does NOT make me a happy Tanker.)