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You can have a thematic and good character. Just like I can always play builds that do +4/x8 with ease without ruining anyone's fun. Let's not pretend you can tell in a 8 player ITF that someone has min-maxed their build. The direction Homecoming has taken the game between the various 'fixes' and balancing makes me not want to play. That's not a good outcome since they could have kept players like me interested and kept people who are more into thematic builds. There's room for both in CoX.

I just bid 70 mln on a stack of 10 enhancement converters. And I clicked twice. 1.4 bln gone. I hope someone enjoys it.

I posted about a pylon simulator that I am coding here: I'm trying to check for accuracy right now, so if anyone has a lot of time for a given build (hopefully 10+) please give the post a read and get in touch with me.

Before anyone gets too excited, I'd say this is at an alpha level stage. I have a lot going on in my personal life right now, so I doubt this will be ready any time soon. I'm trying to make a pylon simulator to make testing ideas easier. It's a lot easier to draw a solid conclusion with 3000 actual runs than a couple times that are subject to a lot of variance. Basically the program right now lets you set up the skills you're using (only care about anything with offensive ability here as I don't model incoming damage), define how you prioritize your attach chain, and then runs a sim to graph a PDF and CDF of the Monte Carlo run. Where I've gotten so far is thanks to @modest, @Bopper and @RubyRed. I think I have most of the basic sets working okay for the melee classes, but don't have data to test yet. By basic I mean ones without power redirect (like Titan Weapons with different animation times) or psuedo pets. I have handled some specific cases of these, but want to rework how I'm doing that to hopefully make it more generic and save me time in the future. I think it's possible basic sets for ranged classes would work fine too. There is something I would love help with to know I'm headed the right direction: data. Specifically, I need actual pylon times for some more sets. I don't have a lot of time to do the coding, so it would be very helpful to farm that out. So far, with Modest's help, we have lined out a Rad/claws tanker (in the gif), Fire/shield scrapper and savage melee/energy aura Stalker. What I'm looking for is this: data from melee ATs (and possibly blaster/defender too) the mids file for the build 10+ pylon times are really needed for me to judge if my results look good or not the only Destiny I have modeled right now is Ageless T4, although I could model lower tiers. If you are using clarion +special for shenanigans, that will have to come later. nothing other than assault hybrid. I strongly prefer if it's left on passive for the runs, because I haven't modeled active Assault yet, but if you already have a set of times with it active, it could be done. If you have the above, you can post it here or I'm happy to talk you on discord at Dismiss#5787. If there is someone interested in helping code this, I'm open to it since it's a lot for one person, but you'd need to be familiar with JavaScript. Warning: I am not a programmer by trade, so if you are and want to help.... I'm sorry, I'm sure there is stuff that is not proper. @UberGuy I've also heard you've updated Ruby's API for the latest versions for your cityofdata site, so I'd love to talk to you about that too.

I'm the one coding the simulation. My ideal outcome in the end is that you can basically specify exactly what the target is and simulate against that. That's probably a long way off as my initial goal for a beta is to just get the melee classes in against a pylon. It's a crazy amount of stuff to code and I'm the only one doing the coding (although Bopper understates his help). Without him, @modest and @RubyRed's help I would have given up a while ago. I can't make any promises as to timelines, but I'm doing what I can as I get time to work. Right now I need to iron out some weird things happening with debuffs (I think), code in psi melee, street justice, dual blades and titan weapon special mechanics, brute's fury and then... basically the whole UI. So it's not going to be soon....

To add to the fun: Rad/claws tanker. T4 Reactive Radial T4 Ageless Radial T4 Assault - not clicked Recovery serum was used. Chain was Follow Up, Slash, Gloom, Focus. Interject Radiation Therapy when cooled down. 3:16 I think I got lucky with some procs on this one.

Question on if I'm just stupid or if the information isn't there. I'm trying to figure out the details of the interface incarnate procs, but I see no damage/frequency when I look through the data. Am I missing it or is it somewhere else? I'm thinking I'm just dumb and I'm missing something. I found the duration, but that's all. Appreciate this info, super useful for the project I'm working on.

How does pets accuracy play into this? I'm not familiar with MMs. Do the pets get a level shift? I know pylons con at +2, so are they as effective against +4 targets?

I've built the basics of a Monte Carlo simulation of Pylon runs due to wanting to get some practice with Object Oriented Programming and JavaScript. It currently handles dynamically calculated buffs (e.g. hastens impact on cooldowns and impact of any down time), Pylon's regeneration, buff procs (e.g. Critical Strikes), damage procs and hit calculations. It takes a defined attack chain with the user inputting the enhancement values in each power and defined set of other buffs to cast (e.g. Hasten, build up) and runs 5k iterations to generate a probability density function like so: https://imgur.com/7t9uefg I'm debating if there's enough interest for me to finish this, since there's still a significant amount of work to do (handling debuffs, handling sets that have special mechanics like Street Justice, adding incarnate powers (ageless is of particular importance and the entire UI). I know I would find it useful for testing different builds I come up with to see the impact on P10,50,90 outcomes and compare means and standard deviations. I'm thinking about some way to save and overlay runs so you can visually compare. Would people be interested in this?

Yes. It has a short gap (.686 seconds) while hasten is down, but 9 seconds of downtime isn't a big deal there. Fire is not very intense on end. The build has 3.72 end per use from Incinerate, 5.38 from Cremate, and 8.01 from GFS. That's a total of 17.11 end over a cast time of 6.072 seconds with Aracanatime factored in. So, ~2.82 end/sec from the attack chain. The build uses 1.19/sec in toggles giving you a total drain of 4.01end/sec. Panacea and Performance shifter procs are worth .6875 end/sec with Atlas Medallion and Portal Jockey (I usually count these because they are so easy to get - although in this case I think you may be okay without them too) giving the build a total recovery of 4.09 end/sec. Should be good to go. The end discount bonuses on some of the new sets (in this build 5 piece Reactive Defenses) should not be overlooked. Sure, you can solve the end problem with ageless destiny, but I had enough recharge and this lets me take Rebirth Radial for healing and regen which is something shield lacks.

Here's my fire/shield build. It can run the single target attack chain indefinitely. Hasten has 9 second downtime, but that's not a big deal. I also took Mu for more AOE. You will burn through endurance AOE, but you can always use that serum temp power. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1535;714;1428;HEX;| |78DA6594496F525114C7EF1B10A18CA52D1D053ADBDA57E8601C625C586B3A90342| |17167EA2BDCC2B38412C04497266AA2EEDCB834C6951B3F801FC1A9267E05176E3A| |C421D568C5C3FB1F90C84BC9EFDCFFBDE7DC73CEBDB7C95B0B9E9757EE5C148AEF5| |2DE2C97D753E992592CCA92236966ADB4A87D4EFAF5D6F5F5A4CC4B692C5AB2741B| |76A431B5203765A12C8D54CE92F94C7D185C2AE46449162A46DD70AF6D6FE78D545| |1CA8CC73657A559B40A59AF3D58B4B2B90A8DFCF5A98C2C957356317CB968A58D54| |C5CC6FD5D2B8B99E34CB15CAA29BD29BA4DF5DA7E0AF4A7FF409B797068AADE8224| |CC6802ED4434D8804F107A87F677E03EF5114053E0E45EAB6762C031EBFCE3441F7| |06330D0E91AF860C14CDA5C2D7097A281707C775EC62AFC067B07D5E01E7C08E383| |3010E525C277C1567ADD4844B04985E8AEBE239176B5D369DA28BFCDA30A7B67522| |56F791B0FB10ED50EC356DE4EFE51E79794DD70AF2EA5E027B1799CBA08F7CFC769| |3AAC21FC39E0F68AF206A77042FA0E6FE33E089B3CC73CCF360744FB573F153BC10| |721021CE41A1789D7C9A9DF6696AA484B14A0BF3E945F9F4623F997C8A0F696D0F6| |7D3B325703A3790E9D026330B7D38C7B4A0DF27DF3EF86A7D4FB9921760EC1938FC| |1CD469ED00776FE02BF61EFD028EED31F7C1E903CDEEF823F289706E911D5EF31E3| |CF99AF986F9169C780706A95383EC3B2878EE177299A882A77E338F987FC04FB47C| |04BEEAC80E6A1EFDC0FC081E7A8418C71A7DFC34FCA6E69933CC59707A0E0C523D9| |3DC83493EBDE90E3011608698ED7CD3A90E834FD798E1D7405A9C6F419CE3F4EBFF| |BFE988DE78D3D58996D9788B926851665B94B91665B54559D3795B52145B71051AA| |FBDBAEB6EFCD710CA147AB9FF4F5395ABA8C71343AD9E651A8FE962AFD96F1C7E07| |CD7E4FD063DF63D5BE9BBE28EEE886BBF6DEB1B7D9645F6BB2D79AEC577469129CE| |B4A886CD6FF0299AAFF26| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Cytoskeletons don't boost the DDR from Active Defense anymore. I'm not sure if that was an i24 or i25 change though.

Active Defense stacks with itself. That's not a big deal for the mez portion, but the extra DDR from 2 stacks of Active Defense can be very good. With double stack and ageless you can get close to 100% DDR with shield

I typically do 2 piece Preventive Medicine (Heal and Heal/End) for the s/l bonus and +5 each of them. The other 4 go to resistance set. It's not the most health you could squeeze out of it, but shield can get good resists if you push it, and True Grit is one source of that.

The problem with this claim is it ignores the extreme amounts of defense debuff that are in the game. 20% defense might as well be 0% in high level content. On the other hand, the defense capped character is dodging all the debuffs. That's one thing most people tend to ignore in this comparison.