wyrm

I'm somewhat in the same boat as Arcane, in that I already find several of the HOs in particular to be useful in a variety of builds, particularly when it comes to slotting efficiency. I certainly wouldn't turn down extra bonuses, but I'd have to ponder the extent to which this would change my slotting on builds where I don't currently feel the urge to min/max a character. Could I imagine myself, for example, slotting much-maligned damage/range or damage/mez into a sixth slot on a few powers to get the equivalent of Procs4All, or would I still be better off going with individual damage procs in each power? Just as one way I might approach this. As a form of "slot gravy" where there's no down-side for doing what I already do, this seems great. I'll ponder more on how much it would potentially change things beyond that. Interesting idea, for sure!

Don't underestimate the mitigation that comes from Rooted's regen bonus, especially when Earth's Embrace is active. I put 2500 or so hours on a Stone/EM tank back in the old days, and re-rolled him as Stone/Spines on Homecoming. The only time I turn on Granite is for major AV fights, or things like the Nictus ambush in the ITF. The rest of the time, having almost 3400 HP and regenerating 70 or so every second, combined with Rock Armor/Stoneskin/Fighting pool, is enough. I don't bother with Brimstone or Crystal at all - but I slot the heck out of Rooted and EE, and built for perma-Hasten outside of Granite, to keep EE's health bonus up as much as possible. And I built to soft-cap psi defense with Minerals up (which isn't hard...), since there's nothing more embarrassing than a granite tank getting smoked by a bunch of Wisps or those floating idiots from Praetoria. I don't think I've turned Granite on at all in a Shard TF. I'm also a fan of Teleport. Shift+LButton is my best friend. It's a playstyle difference, in the end. You can definitely build a stoner to take advantage of def/res set bonuses. I just feel like the mitigation is good enough elsewhere, and there's enough Leadership floating around on any given team, that using set bonuses to counteract -spd, and give +regen, +HP, and +recharge, is more fun for me.

Yeah, I sold one for 15m and another for 10m, listing them targeting a 5m sale, but when I listed one for 5.2m it just sat all weekend. My attribution was that someone with more inf than they could use was playing some silly market PvP and "painting" the last 5 window periodically by buying high to make it look like the IO was going for way more than it consistently was, to trick people into eating big listing fees.