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Google is a weird place. I confirmed this while listening and watching my son with his speech therapist. They were singing "old McDonald had a farm" and somehow the discussion turned to 'what does a Camel sound like. Google has the answer which had everyone looking at me suddenly when I played it ... 🤪

Just going to add a few thoughts. Focused Senses does provide +perception and should help against Stealthed Foes and against being Blinded. Arachnos being the major offenders here. Tactics at 50th might exceed the +perception of Focused Senses but I am not sure as it varies by AT and I've no idea how tanks scale. It can be upwards of nearly 50% stronger which I suspect is the defender end of the AT scaling. It also passes this benefit on to any teammates/allies in range a huge benefit against Arachnos and others causing the 'Blind" condition. Unfortunately I am limited to a phone and can't look at Mids so unsure if you've capped your DDR, but given your slotting I'd be very surprised if you haven't (at 95%). If you have most likely you'll never get significantly defense debuffed by anything ... you'll be dead before that happens in all likelyhood. Although I think Billz could speak to that better than I. My only experience there is as a solo scrapper, not tank but I've certainly managed to annoy towers worth of Cimerorans and multiple mobs of Arachnos and the like with my scrapper. As for Weave and the defense cap, you currently don't have either +defense unique so adding both is a quick +6% defense (all).

I don't even bother with putting it on auto anymore. Between capped defenses, global recharge for plenty of time to click at my convenience and the ability to click if I get scrapper locked and forget while moving between spawns means on a very rare occasion I get bounced embarrassingly on my arse. Even more rarely would I get mezzed (and now that's solved by a click when, oops, needed).

Plant/Storm, Claws/SR, Earth/Storm, Electric/Fire, Cold/Ice, Dark/Rad, Fire/Energy, Fire/Kin are all older sets I've enjoyed. There's (unfortunately for the indecisive) a bunch of newer sets and proliferation in the last few issues from just pre Sunset to here on HC. Sentinels are a whole new AT. And the leveling pace even without 'power leveling' is rapid if one desires it. In short pick 1 or 10 and level them all and see what catches your attention. You've got literally a 1000 slots a server and transfer between servers are earned steadily making moving between servers easy ... let your altitis run rampant.

😁😁😁😁😁 Welcome home. Pretty much any AT and power sets can farm. Particularly if you don't really care how fast and you are talking a level 50+Incarnate build. We have Empaths doing solo runs of the ITF at max difficulty. That said for getting back into things your melee AT's are generally going to have an easier time of it for someone returning to the game and don't need to be as tricked out/Incarnate builds where system mastery is as needed to do it. Basically jump in and have fun. PS: While my computer wasn't quite so ancient it was old enough to go kaput on me and I was nervous about playing on a lousy slow hotspot connection. While getting started downloading an old SG mate reminded me the game was playable on dial up ... yeah it's that old and it ran smoothly until the computer's legs gave out on me

I sense a pattern here ... lots of "More"

Does that suppress all your graphics and not just Hurricane but Steamy Mist etc.?

@MoonlighterI may have missed it but what power sets, AT are you running?

While story content at any level would be great if resource intensive what's being asked for, I believe, is more variety in level 50 (high level) zone mobs, in particular in and around Portal Corp.

For me the bio or lack thereof is often related to why the character was created. Some most definitely have an origin story and background. Others were created to see how X or Y or X/Y power sets work and a backstory doesn't really exist though I may develop one over time. The some what unfortunate commonality is even if they have an extensive story is it rarely gets written out in the bio. I just want to get in game and continue the story (or see how the sets play). But every now and then I get motivated 🙂

Never played in a game where that was the case, but that is definitely what I see pointed out as the cause for this concern in CoX.

On basic IO's I'd tend to slot recharge to get my traps downtime as short as can. Until getting into sets (and moving towards builds like the ones upthread) the unenhanced values for the various trap debuffs/mez are strong enough that I'd prioritize getting them ready for the next spawn.

This 'picture' is making me think back on a team a Corruptor of mine was on. 6 Masterminds with 6 pets apiece. I won't even try to figure out those odds, but 43 chances to proc should see one long streak of proc goodness.

Yes there is a "dot" you can toggle on to include it in the displayed stats. This might get tricky though if, for example, you have Tactics in the build 6 slotted with Gaussian's. Toggled 'on' it will have the benefits of the proc in your stats. But toggled off and it not only won't display the procs effects but won't include the buff from running Tactics either. Unsure if there's a way to get just the Tactics buff short of unslotting the proc temporarily (and note you'll also lose the 6 slot defense bonuses doing so). Can't use Mids to see if that's possible somehow. PS: if while working on a build what I'd probably do is use the ability to flip to the alternate slotting (missing the proc, but the same to hit, endurance etc in Tactics) to check what to hit values I'm getting and how that effected my accuracy in other powers and flip back to the 6 slotted (actual) build to check out defense numbers etc..

The idea Empathy's heals break stealth and healing causes aggro both like to crop up from time to time. I leveled 6 Empaths to 50 on Live (and had one of nearly every secondary in progress) and 1 here on HC before my computer went and died. I've never seen any strong or clear evidence of either being true, though I admit I've never rigorously tested either notion. That said some healing type powers will cause issues but it's because those powers have additional effects, not because of the healing component. Two that come to mind are Twilights Grasp and Transfusion.

Interesting, I know my Emp/Rad/Dark experienced similar behavior. But this was a long way back on Live, well before Sunset was even on the horizon and the tics of damage I took as a level 50 were nowhere near as much albeit relative large compared to the amount vs appropriate foes. Something like 6/tic vs 1/tic. Never occurred to me it might be a bug or has something changed in between? Edit: And yes I was lvl 50 clowning around in AP vs Skulls and Hellions

First quick thought. Make sure the same things are active in both builds. I've seen folks have a power being counted that has a build up type proc. Or something like Soul Drain is active but set for 10 in range instead of 1 etc.

Very, the 801 series (801.0 thru 801.3) is basically designed to stress various forms of mitigation up to and including "the kitchen sink". Any limits you place on yourself are just that, self imposed. So temp powers, inspires, kb/kd, pulling, war burg nukes, kiting, ... the sink, nothing is "off limits" unless you want it to be.

There are several Pain/Sonic builds in a thread down this page which should give you a place to start with Pain powers. I'd love to work up a build (or 5) but I've only got a phone for internet these days. Likewise I'd hunt down a thread about defender water blast and use that as a basis for the blast side of the basis. Even if none of the builds are actually Pain/Water they should give you a solid idea of which powers in each get slots and with what sets see use.

I can't look in Mids to see what exactly you're seeing and in general you are correct (i.e. The Rule of Five). However, it's not the numerical value the Rule applies to but what it's called --> Large, or Tiny or Huge. This is why a build might appear to exceed the limit with 7.5% recharge bonus. The LotG is named differently than the same value appearing for example in Panacea so you could end up with 10 7.5% bonuses. I am not aware of the same 'loop hole' existing for the 10% value but I'm also not as familiar with some of the newer sets in which this might occur.

No to removing aggro caps. Perhaps a slight boost to a Tanks cap, because it's their thing. But n8o to anyone herding maps worth of mobs and holding their aggro. Not sure how the changes to accuracy and to hit would improve anything especially for the massive reworking that would be required.

It's been awhile since I've used it in game but iirc the KB is only a chance to happen (per archived CoD 5% chance). Most of what you see is the Repel effect. Absolutely no expert on procs but pretty sure the chance for KB, combined with toggle AoE makes for pretty unreliable proc rate.

Yes if they are already placed either using unslotters or via a respec. Then if either not placed or successfully unslotted use your email to move them to the character you wish to use them on.

Or Earth Control or ... being the lone Corruptor on a 6 Mastermind 1 Corruptor late 30's team. 42 other bodies bouncing around didn't exactly leave clear lines of view, yaaah! for tab target.

Agree with post overall. Just wanted to give a shout out to the Devs for putting together the game we all love so much and somehow manages the vast majority of the time to handle teams/players as diverse as the comic ones above represent. As a long time GM in the tabletop realm I know exactly how near impossible this can be to pull off (especially when both are present in your current team).