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In Dark Miasma...two words: Black. Hole.

Given the 8 man criteria, a Controller might also be considered. My Ice/Emp, on Live with just SOs, was a boon to any team...obviously back when teamwork mattered 😆

90% is the cap, but if you have enough DDR, you really won't need to cap Resist. My SD/WM tank (no buffs, no MoT proc, no Incarnates) looks like this and he's pretty much unkillable (with 60/51/54 Def in positionals). Add Melee Incarnate and he's capped in S/L and almost in E/N.

My pleasure, for sure. NUTCRCKR and the gang were a g-d wrecking crew and defeated Crimson robot-douchebag before the 33rd minute (at +2, since we had a couple non-incarnates). Also thanks to @Pep Rally for leading the subsequent missons team...where many evil Malta were vanquished, as well. Great fun, much leveling. Looking forward to Torch, next week.

@Warboss...goes a long way to explaining why the Rad tank(s) struggled [for the first time in a LONG time]... Glad I brought a shield tank. 😝

IOs - There are a couple of "classic" uniques, I don't see. Unbreakable Guard 7.5% HP, Shield Wall +5% Def/teleport, Panacea +HP, Power Transfer +HP, Numina's Convalescense Heal/Recovery, Miracle +Rec..not to mention save up for the Brute AT sets. MOAR FURY! Tough - See the aforementioned UG +7.5% HP, add a slot and UG Res/End and run it all the time (which also gives a global 2.5% reduction in end use) 🙂 BA - Absolutely! Why not get free damage and free taunt? Yet another power to accept uniques or AT specials. It takes PBAOE Damage, Taunt/Threat and AT sets. Avalanche unique will have KD, Fury of the Gladiator unique is Res debuff, damage procs galore....not to mention alot MOAR FURY, if you put the AT special in it. Finally, I'd take one of your three slots in Stamina and move it to Health. Then two slot Stamina with PS EndMod and +End proc, backfilling Consume, with the sixth piece of PS. That bonus is 7.5% Jump/Fly/Run, so you could reassess the use of Synapses in PP (if it were the run speed you were looking for) and consider the Power Transfer, for even more free HP (and 6% Regen if you replaced both with PT). Then with Health, you can add the Panacea +HP and move the PM +Absorb from Healing Flames and back fill with the remaining PM (looks like Heal/End is left). Adds a few more HP and a bit less End per click. Well thought out concept. I like it!

THUGSRUS can solo +4/8 with bosses (but only S/L farms or general content...fire farms are a bit too much), but +3/8 is more enjoyable, as @Apparition mentioned. She still needs some tweaking, but here's an example of what Thugs/Dark can do: https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1529&c=752&a=1504&f=HEX&dc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

Isn't it "Chimera"?...but you deep fried him, regardless, it looks like! Sorry I missed it, will try next month.

Shield benefits best from the positionals, then as much resist as you can fit, if maximum survivability is your goal. This guy is War Mace, not Rad Melee, but it'll give you an idea. Posted link is all procs and Incarnates turned off: https://www.midsreborn.com/builds/download.php?uc=1578&c=732&a=1464&f=HEX&dc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

And my niche was (is) kinetics. Back on Live, where infl. was MUCH more difficult to obtain, I'd take Nos and park him under the Atlas statue and send tells (on Champion) for lowbie kinetics to come get some...

When you say "handle", do you mean taking damage or dealing damage?

Mastermind was the first "new" AT I did, when CoV debuted. I remade my Necro/Dark Miasma (Lich-ilicious) on HC, and he's still a blast, even with basic IOs and a few targeted uniques. I will say, my Thugs/Dark (THUGSRUS), with the same basic slotting, does more damage (and less debuffing), so as many have said before, it's all what you want to contribute....

And I'll champion the alternative (when using Inv armor) of putting it in Invincibility, where it has ten chances to proc, with every saturated mob. It's my experience that it's almost always up, when in mobs.

If your current laptop has integrated graphics, that would explain it. Any device (laptop or desktop), with *any* dedicated graphics card will run this game at near ultra settings.... When remote, I run it on a 2 y.o. Dell/Alienware G3/3500 laptop, that I paid less than $1000 for (brand new), and its cheapo Nividia GTX 1650 Ti doesn't even blink at extremely high resolutions.

I call that the "slide show". Your comment took me back to 2004, when I first installed the game on a Dell Pentium III 800 desktop computer with a 64MB, yup, MB videocard...and it was even an "EB" processor, with the 133 FSB. The slide shows, with a full team, is what prompted me to first upgrade to a 256MB X1950 card, then build my first desktop, with a P4 3.2 Ghz (Northwood), overclocked to 4.1 Ghz. A damned Hot Rod, for that time...

Grand fun on the Citadel run. We were only five, but mighty! Many Council evildoers were vanquished. See you all next week on Everlasting!

Nice callback...right there with you, but in 1982 had a Commodore 64, with a cassette tape drive, connected to a 9" b/w TV. Took over 20 minutes to load the Chess Challenger game (Sargon-something), LOL.

The Bright Novas are defense debuffers. Bio has no DDR, right?...

You can almost play CoH on a toaster. I've got a 4 y.o. laptop with an i5 dual core and Intel on-board graphics that I "dual box" with. Yes, it's too slow when in large groups, with lots of effects, but it is, technically, playable. ANYTHING with a dedicated graphics card will run CoH at near ultra settings, so yes, the HP you are looking at will run it, no problem.

Just did, for ya.

Gotcha, yes. If we're still talking about monkeys (5%), and my ancient statistics brain still works: (1/20)^2 = 0.0025 or 0.25% Rare indeed.

While you can extrapolate statistics into frequencies, the base value of probabillity (one flip), will always be 50/50. The coin doesn't care how many times it's flipped. Each flip is unique. If the probability of monkey is 5%, it will be 5%, every time you activate Secondary Mutation, regardless of how many times it happened in X activations.

5% - every time If you flip a (presumably balanced) coin 19 times and get heads what are the odds of getting heads on the 20th flip? 50%

Ancient, old-schooler chiming in. One of the first toons I made on Live, the Rad/Rad Defender is an AV debuffer, extraordinaire. Comes along with AM and, while not SB by any means, is a welcomed buff for any tank. Also comes with an AOE heal and again, while not game changing, is a nice addition (you probably don't need much healing anyway as a tank, right? 😆). Oh, and hover blasts and debuffs with every attack.

Solid build(s), for sure. My only observation is, on the tanky build, why did you use one piece each of DW and NC in Dull Pain? Neither is unique and you could get one more bonus, if you matched pieces.