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The powers in the Mind Control primary are pure psionic with no positional attribute. I think they fixed most of the mobs using those powers (i.e., Rikti mentalists/mesmerists) to add positional attributes, but I did run into a pre-Going Rogue iteration of Mother Mayhem in a non-arc Maria Jenkins mission where she still had non-positional attacks. There's probably a similar version of Malaise running around.

People don't seem to understand that you need to use immobilizes on AVs. AVs are immune to knockdown and holds when the purple triangles are up, but only have boss-level immobilize protection. TA has an immobilize, as does dark blast and psi blast. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Archvillain_Resistance

You will need to move the enhancements into the enhancement trays and vendor them yourself when the respec is complete. Enhancements not slotted or moved to an enhancement tray are no longer automatically sold at completion of the respec.

Have you looked at /Ninja?

I just leveled a DP/Ninja. While I like the buffs to the sword attacks and the +regen, I wasn't impressed with the set overall. I would rather have build up than chance to crit.

I've played around with Project Will (Force of Will) and Arcane Bolt (Sorcery), and while the damage isn't terrible if the foe is contained, the animation time for both is overly long. I used the attack while leveling and then respeced out of it once I had access to the epic pools (which have much better attacks).

Reactor room doorway in Penny Yin TF after Clamor exits and ambush is triggered

You can remove the repel from my herdicane when you pry it from my cold dead hands

I find +range quite valuable if you have cones.

Mine is Rad/Rad, but I find it to be really sturdy in most circumstances. Plays kind of like /WP with a heal. You need to be careful against mobs that do cold damage (i.e., Banished Pantheon in Dark Astoria) or if you plan to take an alpha strike at +4x8.

Entangling Aura is autohit, Choking Cloud is not, although hold duration for Choking Cloud is longer (7.5 seconds vs. 4 seconds).

Fair enough. I haven't played a blaster secondary with a sustain that doubles as a damage aura. For the sets where the sustain can only be slotted with healing or endmod, I think there are better places to put the slots.

My current /rad build has moderate defense (20%ish) but focuses on resistance and regen. I played around with slotting Gamma Boost but found it wasn't worth it. Stick an endmod IO or performance shifter proc in it and call it a day. Radiation Therapy not only provides +regen, it also provides a decent heal per foe in range. You can easily get the recharge under 30 seconds. I haven't tried using it as a proc bomb. Beta Decay debuffs foe defense and tohit and buffs your recharge. It's autohit, so it really doesn't need more than 1 slot (I recommend an Enzyme HO), unless you want to add an Achilles Heel proc. While the +regen from Particle Shielding is nice, the absorb shield is key. You want that perma, particularly against damage types you're weak against. You want to use it proactively, not after you've already taken damage. There are different philosophies for slotting Ground Zero (procs vs dmg). I currently have it 6-slotted with Obliteration.

In addition, Cardiac and Intuition Alpha provide a 20% range bonus.

I do a variation on this with all my toons. I seed new toons with 1,000,000 inf, then everything after that is earned in game or on the AH from converting drops or merits.

I never devote more than 1 or 2 slots to the sustain power.

I would try to get another 2 slots of damage resistance in Temp Invul to max it out. Swap one of the sets from Unyielding or Resist Energies? I assume you're just using Tough as a mule and not planning on running it.

Never mind, I changed the update path from update.xml to update_manifest.xml and it worked.

I did a fresh install of 3.0, but get no updates available when I search for updates. How do I force the update to 3.0.1.9?

What you're suggesting is converting Scrappers into Stalkers, which have powers that are guaranteed to crit. You can already get pretty close on Scrappers with the Critical Strikes proc, which provides a 50% chance to crit for a few seconds. I don't feel like any changes to Scrapper criticals is warranted.

Not disputing that, but when I referred to "full fury" I didn't mean 100%, just whatever you get when the bar appears full. The 175-200% +dmg is what I see in combat attributes during typical play.

At full fury, brutes will outdamage scrappers. Scrapper base damage scale is 1.125. Assuming 95% +dmg from enhancements, scrappers will be at 2.19 before criticals. Criticals have a 5% to 15% chance to occur depending on the rank of the foe and the power being used. Assuming an average chance of 7.5%, scrappers should average 2.36. Brute base damage scale is 0.75. Full fury provides about 175-200% +dmg, which is added to the 95% from enhancements, bringing brutes to 2.78-2.96. Some primaries offer more AoE, others are more ST focused, but all generate fury much the same. There are 22 to choose from. Play what you enjoy.

It's not always the same type. I think it might be whatever was at the top of the stack, but I haven't checked it. It just happened again 5 minutes ago - I was posting 7 or 8 enhancements for sale and of course the one that bugged was the Gravitational Anchor I was posting at 15,000,000. I could do that, but I find it really handy to keep large enhancements in the Stored tab.

On most characters I store 5-10 large inspirations in the Auction House. When posting items for sale, the item I'm selling will be at the bottom of the Stored Item list. I'll enter the listing price, click the post button, get the confirmation dialog for the AH fee (this only seems to happen selling pricey items), click OK, then discover that the item I wanted to list is still in my inventory and I'd just listed a large inspiration for $15,000,000 and paid a $1,500,000 fee. This has happened to me so often that I'm on the lookout for it. No matter how careful I am that I'm clicking on the correct item, it seems to happen about 1 of every 10 transactions over the confirmation limit.

It also meshes really well with Hybrid/Control Core