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I'd argue a fully IO'd TW/Bio scrapper is top damage, it is a completely busted combo

Is there a known Ski Slope time Leaderboard out there? Haven't found anything on the forums and im curious what the best times people have gotten so far!

So there are a couple IOs that you want in every build possible, so that is a good place to start. Steadfast 3% Def, Gladiators Armor 3% Def, Shield Wall 5% Res, Kismit 6% Acc (somewhat optional), and a couple Knockback Protection if you dont have a mez protection ability or take Acrobatics from the Leaping pool. 3 Slot Health for Miracle: Recovery, Numinas Rec/Reg, and Panacea: Chance for +HP/End. I generally 2 slot Stamina with Performance Shifters (EndMod and Chance for +End) on every build, sometimes 5 slotting Stamina with Performance Shifters if I run End heavy. Gaussian's Chance for Build Up in Build Up adds a ton of DPS to your rotation, and Reactive Armor's Scaling Resistance Damage is also very powerful for a single IO. Lastly Ill throw a Celerity: Stealth in Super Speed or Sprint if I dont have it, and a Winter's Gift Slow Res in Combat Jumping, sprinkling some Blessing of the Zephyr KB Protection in any other Travel Power I have. A lot people will go for Perma-hasten, or close to it. This usually entails lots of 5 slots of Purple IO sets (Pro-tip: almost never use the pure purples in these 5 sets, i.e. Hecatomb: Damage, use them as singular damage IOs since they are I think 52% dmg, versus a normal dmg IO which is 33%, the reason you don't 5 slot with the pure purple IOs, is 5 slotting with all the others, you are very very close to the cap for their primary stat, you can see this when you hover over the power in Mids). For Recharge, and honestly every build regardless if youre going for perma-hasten, you should always have 5 LotG: Global Recharge Speed. Rule of 5 caps it so you can't benefit from more than 5 of the same set type, so its pointless to have more than 5, but I throw one in every single Defense power I have to reach the goal, and you should too. For normal IO slotting, like Hasten or Fiery Embrace for instance, never 3 slot them with Recharge IOs, always 2 slot normal IOs, the Enhancement boost them to +4, +5 if youre really feeling it, but the difference between +4 and +5 is very small. 2 slotting these gives you another slot to throw in something else which is very valuable. Soft-Cap Defense is 45% and Resistance is 90%. Very few builds will obtain this for all the types, most will get Smashing/Lethal capped (except Stone Armor, you can cap almost all the Defs and Res), but it is ideal to still have a decent amount of both Def and Res in all the different sets. Once you figure that, you mostly use the same sets per type in every build if you are min/maxing since they are the most efficent at that (for instance Kinetic Combat for melee abilities gives 3.75% Defense to S/L in a 4 slot set bonus). I always use both superior ATO sets for whatever archetype I am, they have very good set bonuses. Some sets are near impossible to meet the cap on more than 2 or 3 types, but that's pretty standard with how this game goes, I generally shoot for high 30s for Def and Res, and I always have fun with the toon. Last little bit I want to add are Frankenstein builds. Throwing 3-4 Chance for X dmg procs in an ability rather than a full IO set can be beneficial if you are satisfied with the set bonuses you have prior. For instance, on my War Mace/Energy Scrapper, I have 5 Chance for X dmg procs in Shatter (my 2 piece set is Armageddon: DMG and Chance for Fire Dmg, since you are not fully slotting with a bunch of IOs that would give more damage, using a purple pure IO really helps in Frankenstein abilities). I also always Frankenslot Snipes (Moonbeam on my Scrapper for instance) due to the way they work on homecoming (Instant cast in Combat, 5 chance for x dmg procs make it hit like a truck) Hopefully that helps, just a couple of things that I always keep in mind when I build my toons! The better you get at it, the more fun it is to just theorycraft different builds. When you think you have finished a build, always click View Totals to check your Survival Stats: Defense, Resistance AND your EndRec versus EndUse. With the Ageless Destiny in the game and potentially the Cardiac Alpha (33% end red passive) you can push for not a ton of +recovery set bonuses more than usual. I like to get my EndRec about twice my EndUse, since EndUse is just toggles, not your average enduse regarding button pushing. quick EDIT: check out other people builds and try to understand what they did what they did. I've learned a lot from builds shared that have great %'s and copied their style

https://cityofheroes.fandom.com/wiki/Halloween_Event_2008 Scroll down to Event Salvage and it will tell you about them. Unfortunately they are just mats for event stuff and a free costume slot - can't actually equip them!