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It's old biases! Shadow Maul was always a great power even before the changes (though it did require some aiming). With the buffs, it's now a 120 degree arc that animates in half the time. And unlike new Touch of Fear, it's -tohit applies to every target hit.

One of the best cruise control melees you can make (whether on SOs or otherwise) would definitely be a Dark/Rad. Dark Melee gets a very solid AoE as early as level 4 which is a huge difference maker. Stacking -tohit from punches will help ablate some incoming damage as well. Rad Armor will also have a good chunk of it's tools by level 18, which includes an AoE heal and an absorption barrier which Siphon Life will do a great job of padding. End may be a little wonky without dipping into IOs, but it's pretty easy to smooth out by your late 20s.

Melt Armor is frankenslotted with 2 acc/rech IOs. This is a budget option vs slotting 2 lvl 53 D Sync Provocations (which is absolutely not budget friendly). It's there to add just a little bit more -RES on top of everything. I will concede that for a team setting, Gaussian could be moved to Tactics, but I prefer having 2 Build Ups on demand for my Blasters (or even just having 1 in this case because Soul Drain) for burst windows. Once Rad blasts start hitting, it's not a big deal. But, if everyone is running Leadership, +tohit isn't a big deal anyway! By the by, I get crazy good mileage out of the BU proc in snipe. Maybe I just have good luck. I have a blaster that runs very similar to this, the only difference being /Earth propping up the recharge very well!

Whenever I'm ready to play CoH, I simply take my private helicopter to my underground cave base located deep in the Siberian wilds. My gaming setup there comprises of a 1-storey high, 10 feet wide LED monitor with blue light protection (and zero input delay), light-up titanium mechanical keyboard, and an integrated device that uses my brainwaves to simulate a mouse. There's enough heat and food there to last me months, but my sessions will usually range from 1-8 hours depending on how I'm feeling. Oh and there's a little bed for my kitty cats!

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Anyone is welcome to take my builds and modify them how they see fit. My blaster builds are usually directed towards maximizing damage in a team setting while fitting in as much slow RES (personal preference) and sneaking some max HP in to hopefully live more than 1 hit. If you find something else that works for you, great!

Rad Melee wouldn't be my first pairing for Invuln, but I looked at it anyway. Here's what I came up with! Tanker (Invulnerability - Radiation Melee).mbd I'm not a big fan of Tower builds, so my armor numbers may seem anemic compared to what's common here, but I do feel like I did get a good balance of damage and mitigation. The DEF and RES are actually fine in a saturated mob, this is just with 1 target in range. What an End-heavy combo!

I agree with this sentiment! /Dark is definitely in a bit of an odd situation. With your sustain being tied to a ST attack, you will have to remember to hit it every now and then in combat. It has a 2 minute duration, so you wouldn't need to hit it any more often than a Fiery Aura toon would need to use Consume! As for a build, you can definitely turn this thing into an AV damage specialist, thanks to the debuff power Rad/ brings and the hard-hitting ST attacks from /Dark. Here's how I would do it! Blaster (Radiation Blast - Darkness Manipulation).mbd Right off the bat I'll say that this would be an absolute nightmare to try and solo with. You do have some tricks for mitigation, but you would have to select how you engage pretty carefully. With team buffs however, you turn into a guided missile that will make light work of any boss! Hope this helps!

The Devilman's Circus, Demons/Radiation Mastermind

I had to miss this week! Noooo!

The few times I choose to do Synapse, I usually do it with a very small team, as it prevents the large maps from spawning for the defeat alls. You can have a team of 4 before bosses in spawns and larger maps will start being prevalent. My fastest time is 36 minutes, and that was including Babbage!

Well somebody around here has to hit harder than a napkin. How else are we gonna finish all of these +4 Enemies Buffed TFs?

crumpets - Tanker (Radiation Armor).mxd This is how I'm currently running mine. It sacrifices a tiny bit in proc rate on Mu Lightning and Cross Punch but what I get as a tradeoff is capped Fire RES. I would say it trades for capped Slow RES too, but that isn't ever negotiable! I might finally get around to giving this another pass.

Not to necessarily bring your build into question, but my Rad/SS runs max procs and has 0 end, recharge, or survivability issues. You've seen it in action. It basically ends up feeling like a melee blaster that can't die in regular content. For that one I use Musculature Radial for most content and Vigor Core for Hard Mode. I always have Barrier Core loaded and Hybrid is Melee Radial or Assault Radial.

Now that I think about it I don't really use in-game chat much these days. I might answer a question in Help and very rarely you might see me recruit for something in LFG. I'm like a secret fairy, or a letter in your mailbox that isn't a debt collector trying to get in contact with the previous tenant!

Rum! Wait, that's not a snack. Vodka! Wait, that's only considered a food item in Russia. I'm bad at this!

The +4 Manti went great! Much Confusion was had, many agents were stomped, and we only aged about 20 years waiting for old school MoG to wear off! Here's us dogpiling Hopkins and Countess Crey!

I think I would go with Tank. Whenever I've tried in the past to make a Spines Scrapper, I'm always frustrated trying to pick a good spot for Critical Strikes. At least on Tank, placing ATOs is more straightforward. Ice Armor Tanks can softcap on SOs, so you have a lot of flexibility on your slotting. You can easily make a Ice/ Tank with Softcap defenses, capped HP, proc bomb'd attacks, and even throw in some tricks to give yourself superior resistances as well. It may lose on damage compared to other ATs, but it will definitely be cruise control and the inflated Tanker AoEs will feel great!

No problem! I wouldn't call myself a speedrunner by any means, but I am good at pretending to be one! Hess unlock done in 11 minutes for an easy 13 merits. My 5-man team was full of tiny Tanks, so +2 was about as much I could push it on the Hess TF without it being a total slog, and that wrapped up in 45ish minutes. Only 1 pic at the giant robot!

Nice! Tanking HM ITF is fun!

I would have a Melee/Pets AT! Since it would have no armor or support, your pets would trade damage output for more bulkiness and Taunt. Send them in first to take the heat, allowing you to run in and scrap! The Inherent would be a rally-style mechanic where your successful attacks grant your pets a scaling damage buff and heal over time!

You say I have a problem, I say have I only have 14.3% of a problem.

Jack absolutely wanted to keep everyone in the dark about what happened behind the curtains. Remember, this is the same guy that thought debt-capping added "challenge" and every TF should be "D&D campaign"-levels of group investment. Was the game tougher back then? Absolutely. But a lot of the difficulty was artificially placed to keep new players drowning and continuing subs to make any kind of progress. Detailed info was still given to us relatively early in the game's life-cycle, but even what was given to us came with its own slew of general glitchiness. My memory is hazy on when it was added but something is convincing me it was around the advent of the IO system. I'm probably wrong on that.

I'll take this as a compliment! Let this be a lesson to anyone that dare volunteer me to lead!