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Between a higher base damage and scourge, this is not remotely true. Lots of theorycrafters do not realize how much base damage factors into everything

I am pretty damn sure -resist debuffs are calculated from base-unslotted un-buffed damage in each attack so its not adding nearly as much as people think. and with enough corruptors doing the same (or BP lore pets) a -resist cap can be hit. The 20-25% gain on buffs and debuffs on defenders vs troll/corrs secondaries is not huge when you look them up and does not come anywhere close to making up from the lack of damage. With that said, the 51% damage bonus wont break the game or even come close to other archetypes but still help Defenders

I knew I shoulda put "inb4 corr" in the OP somewhere

can it retain the 30% damage buff and maybe gain 3% more damage per party member? totaling up to 51% more damage isnt game breaking With defenders low base damage, and low damage cap it should be more tolerable or at least encourage people to take attacks or maybe consider playing a defender. Yes I know corrs are a thing yes I know that being at 51+100(enhancements) all the time is half their damage cap But damn, what few character ideas I have left are held back by either replaying corr again or being put off by super low damage.

Masterminds are definitely a bloom at 50 kinda archetype. While any level 50 with everything will outperform someone leveling, i noticed it more as a mastermind. I love my bot/traps because with all my slots, access to hami enhancements and some IOs that can only be slotted at 47 or 50 it shines because I can exemp down with it all. The pet buff IOs are gigantic, the +def ones are huge alone and the resist ones also tend to help Fitting your prot bots with acc/dmg nucs and def/end cytos to maximize their acc/dmg/end spending/their bubble def. huge At 30+, FFG, maneuvers and both prot bubbles my pets can get into the 45-50% def to all range, meanwhile each prot bot is in the 40%~ def to all range since they cant bubble themselves. As for your Ninja/Time, i have no personal experience with it but Foresight/farsight/whatever its called a level 28 and being in melee range with your pets for that -tohit time aura might be key. getting those +def pet aura IOs slotted will also push it more. At 50 you can slot Farsight up with 3 Membranes for maximum recharge/def/tohit. get mace mastery for [power boost] and bam. Stacking +def and mixing it with -tohit is what makes my Ninja/Dark mastermind fun. Maneuvers with a generic Def set of your choice, I use red fortune 5/6 Shadowfall with 3 Ribosomes and 3 random def pieces. I use: 1 LOTG 7.5% and Gift of the Ancients: Defense and Defense/End the 2 5% def to all pet IOs Their inherent +def that adds up to be roughly 25%~ def to all range. Now lets slap Darkest Nights or Fearsome Stare's -tohit in that And later on taking advantage of Team Teleport or the 'newly' instant Recall Friend and abuse the hell out of the Dark Servants gigantic -20%(base) autohit tohit debuff aura

It does both. I think, but it does make knockback into knockdown. Bonfire Rise of the Phoenix And the pets I listed.

Overwhelming Force: KB to KD makes the following pets great: Genin Commando Assault Bot ... i think thats it. Genin's crane kick isnt bad, but there are 3 of them coming at ya all the time Commando because so much knockback Same with assault bot. Few things sound great in this game but 10 or so enemies falling on their ass at the same time while burning to death is one of them

If watching healthbars is not something you wanna do I recommend a fire/dark corr. dark pit and rain of fire really makes passing time end of word line enter key kin/sonic def if you really wanna be a defender just to be a defender. people at end game just want -regen, +dmg and -res sonic/fire if you wanna buff and blast. but for what its worth, my thermal/fire defender is my favorite. Forge at 20 makes Posi and synapes more fun as long as you have someone to use it on. +50% dmg is pretty damn neat for a buff. slap assault onto that. permahasten build allows 4 targets to be forged, modest +rech you can have it on 3 targets. level 30+ peoples IO sets kick in and your heals will be needed less, if at all. same goes with rez and other stuff

Perma Hasten build Try Radiation/Fire/flame blaster. Heat makes sense with radiation. Whos going to argue with a green burning sword? Or a flame colored atomic blast? Radi blast: Skip Bolt, Haze, Bomb. Fire Manip: Skip Burn, Hot Feet and Consume. Also Combustion if you want, but I didnt. Or you can use Burn instead of Combustion Most of this characters life was in melee just melting stuff. Blazing Aura with 3 acc/dmg hamis and 2 50+5 healing IOs and 1 50+5 endmod Combusion>irradiate with blazing ticking felt amazing for low level stuff. But things tend to die real fast at level 30+ for combustion to even finish animating There are times I wish I had Burn but without a constant taunt effect I opted out of it. Hot Feet also sounds natural but its real late in the game and big on end. COnsume was just not needed because of the various +recovery enhancements these days. Plus 35/38 is when you(i) start working on Epic/Patron pools and ends up being a build tightness issue thing for me. With enough +rech Fire Sword Circle can be your constant enemy delete power, or the nuke. Obliteration sets and whatnot Radi Bolt is too low damage, Haze has knockback and requires range, and bomb just doesnt have the damage to animation time that everything else can do Flame Mastery because Bonfire can be useful. Flame Shield to stack with Tough and the all important Rise of the Phoenix. One Overwhelming Force: KB to KD in its baseslot turns it into a gigantic burn+ice patch Why the long post? Because I like DoTs and stacking a primary with a secondary to enhance or mesh well is always fun for me.

mastermind pets get a +2 level bump in incarnate content, hopefully that wont be forgotten about if the new said theoretical soemthing bored typing

I hate this emoji system so much because I cant reply to a post and if I reply to an emotion icon I look and feel weird. City of Heroes even live only had so much to do, and the point of a subscription based system is to keep players coming back however when player enthusiasm outweighs the speed of the content, people tend to do shit themselves such as creating a supergroup of only Radiation Emission users to pass the time. They like the game but want to do things differently in different ways just for the sake of different. There are probably tons of video game easter egg videos of players going slightly against the devs intentions, for replayability, fun or just exploration

To replay it or keep playing it.

I am slightly attracted to the idea of a level 50+++ Positron/synapes

Yeah but if you opt in to having a challenge its the same thing as a self imposed challenge. That new content has to be a single option Super Ultra Omega Nightmare Hell DefCon 0.5 only for this thread to make sense

I dont think self imposed challenges are artificial difficulty, while using mario again, artificial difficulty is the Hidden Block scenario where you have no idea that its there that leads to death with little to no way out

I edited too quick as my brain rebooted, i hold nothing against you.

I cant even wrap my head around this. Like, for Pokemon, people do Nuzlocke runs and such to challenge themselves And on various youtube channels, people blindfold themselves to games they know by heart such as Mario 64 Your telling me that.. t.. pperalkrhjarhturbbrbrbbr themselves to for up and see the ands? How many people have made no enhancements or training only enhancement alts? How many people now just do SOs? How many non-fire blasters are there now? How many people are STILL playing defenders/controllers/scrappers/tanks when villains+blasters are a thing? I cant even.

Yes, just for stacking rains and such. Because /storm can be a low attention set it leaves plenty of room for Water blasting Skip Hurricane, dont use gale. take 02 boost if you want but i didnt have room for it. Slap Overwhelming Force KB to KD into Tornado, and a regular knockback to knockdown in lightning storm. Why? Turns Tornado into a Smashing DoT. for AV and such the damage really adds up. And Lightning Storm can hit up to 3 targets with 100% knockback which can get annoying Whirlpool + Freezing Rain is funfunfun from Posi to itrials. Steam Spray just adds more dots. I got pretty far with a neon white male character named Balle Harry until someone else had the same idea when I changed servers. Steamy Mist is up to you, I ended up frankenslotting it with 3 Ribos, 1 LOTG +rech. other two slots are optional and up to you.

Hard no on Radiation. Radius on debuffs are SMALL and this is the biggest no Animations are long gets end heavy and choking cloud is meh the corpse bomb does not work on pets consider dark and color stuff greenish if you want the imitate radiation

Who does itrials now? even on excelsior its mostly 8man speed only trials. gatta be incarnated to get in. Most folks these days just firefarm for 15 mins when at 10 bars of patrol, or wst/itf its been well over a year since being on a massive itrial typing this out made me sad. mega single server where names are tied to @handles and your @handle is displayed next/bottom of your name with an option to hide others from your view when

This would require an awful conversion rate since its only function is to power fresh 50s, but im in. I just been buying insps and mailing to my main account to use as needed.

Even with IH and regen incarnate you can still get burst down. max hp too. went with barrier like i do on most every alt because not getting hit and taking less damage just outweighs regen then i just stopped making regens then i stopped making scrappers 90% willpower brutes over here (fiery aura excluded)

Staff/willpower brute Melee def from spin allowed me to slot ranged/aoe def end or dmg stance depending on situation

SR/MA With Storm Kick I am softcapped at Posis levels and i IO for +dmg. Weave just holds my def set procs Red Fortune Mako's Bite>Touch of Death Obliteration resists just accidentally happen. feels nice running around with like 30% extra damage

Weak regen long recharge relatively long setup game moves really fast for people to really stay put on top of end game burst damage sometimes being too much in the example of pets (mm, temp, incarnate) you get more mileage out of aid other i would vote to turn it into a techy dart, single target heal + heal over time(not regen). use the fort dart animation