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Yea, I can keep it stacked on an AV but it's a big end suck. Got a slot I could steal back to add in a pure 50+5 endred though. May do that. Edit: Now there's an odd choice... I dumped inferno, went back to midnight grasp and picked up parasitic leech again. Better. As long as I do not miss with MG and hit it as soon as it recycles, I can keep a +4 Requiem rooted. But it doesn't work on Rom at all. Gorram it so much.

Oh, I hope I didn't mislead... the only thing I care about is being able to lock down is AVs. It looks like fire cages with the first five trap of the hunters will recharge in 5.24 secs with a duration of 32 secs. But at Mag 3 per pop even that is only going to work when purple triangles are not up, correct?

How do you have that slotted? I tried with Midnight Grasp but it was a total bust.

I'm not a fan of Rune due to the two wasted power picks to get to it and its inability to be perma, but I have been experimenting with Melee Core recently. It certainly helps on the survivability front. More regen is always welcome for SR and the extra resists make it a far more useful panic button than elude will ever be.

Altered quote for my take on the power.

I don't hate my fire/time blaster when she's on a team.

I wish I had even the remote sense of a possible clue to even begin such an endeavor.

Where as my blasters while solo are complete crap while my sentinels don't spend time eating dirt. As you say, YMMV.

2:54 with Assault Core Hybrid toggled on for my Fire/EM tank. Musc/Degen/Assault all T4. Had a much worse 1st run but then stuck another KB protect in Fly for 12 protection. Amazing how much DPS goes up when you're not getting blasted on to your ass.

Barely is greater than zero!

Cuz I had just gotten off my kat/nin scrapper and was still loving how damn brutal that set can be. But I think I'm through with Bio armor. It's damn nice for the extra damage but just folds too easily in too many of the situations that I'm in often. To expound a bit: Chance for BU in BU, followed by Soaring Dragon with the Scrap IO +50 chance to Crit, then Sting of the Wasp with the chance for -res debuff, then Golden Dragonfly with another Chance for -res debuff. It doesn't happen often but seeing a double BU backed GD critting is real pretty.

Arcanatime shows the truth!

This hasn't been in question for several decades.

While true it must also be noted that Fury+Rage on a brute is better than just Rage on a tank.

Pondering that, I see it as a problem with the game's design. We're given these mixed powersets with damres to SL and defense to FCEN and then put into situations where SL using foes cause massive defense debuffs to ALL types instead of just SL so they cut us and that makes it easier for the Khels to lay the smackdown on you because you end up with zero mitigation to nrg/negnrg.

@Soveraand @InfinitumI've been quite pleased with my ET/BS/TF/BS repeat attack chain. Get those lowbie DPA attacks outta there!

I still have yet to pull this off with any character I've built. But if memory serves, and it usually doesn't, did you say that it took you a damn long time on both? I'm pretty sure impatience gets me killed more than anything else these days.

Yea, Bio has a lot to do with it as @Hewjust stated. My mace attack chain is, as mentioned, clobber, jawbreaker, shatter repeat. Those three are the highest DPA attacks in the set, so if you're using anything else, your overall DPS won't be as high. Practiced Brawler is absolutely cutting into your time, but that just can't be helped. On my claws/sr(s), I keep hasten on auto and it's perma or dang near, so with its 2 minute duration, I use that as my guide to manually fire off PB so as not to waste end/time stacking it. The problem with just ignoring PB while pylon testing is that if you get hit, you're probably going to get knocked back, thus losing more time. Other possible differences will be the incarnate choices and they DO make a difference. I go with Alpha Musculature Core, Interface Degenerative Core and Hybrid Assault Core. If you've got all three of those at T4, and the tightest chain you can get (which, granted, needs a ton of recharge but as you're SR, you should be able to get damn close to the 112% global recharge needed on top of hasten's 70% to get it perma,) then I'd honestly be surprised if you didn't end up under 3 mins, which is my claws/sr scrapper's average time. And yes, I DO always test with assault core toggled on to begin the test run because I always have it ready for hard target fights. Total side note: I was amused that by pulling out my T4 Core Demon Lore pets (generally a no-no when testing pylons) BZB's time dropped from 3 mins to 1.25 mins.

True point. I have long term rage issues with Romulus' autohit fluffy.

Thanks. Probably would help to get all the accolades. More HP means more absorb.

I'm seein that as well.

Love this. To add to the story from my PoV: Ok, got hybrid assault T4ed at vet lvl 6 thanks to stealing all the emps from my other 50s. Time for some pylon testing. Zone in: DAMNIT! There's a gorram ship raid going on. Ok, they're going counter clockwise. I should at least get one good test in. Boom, 1:44. I can live with that. Huh, pylons are respawning. Must be a single team trying to get this done. Screw it, I'll help. Another pylon down. Some more respawn. Huh. What's goin on here. Hit another pylon, there's @HelenCarnate Wait... seriously? They've soloed all those pylons? And apparently wanna keep going? Ok. Oh look, shields are down. Ok, to the ship. Geez... I've faceplanted 5 times and she keeps goin? That's one hell of a sent build....

Just saw this exact issue with my mace/bio scrapper in an ITF. -50% defense is a very bad thing. @Papaschtroumpf DDR is what makes super reflexes so damn glorious. Defense Debuff Resistance. With it, defense is useful ALL the time. Without it, defense is useful for a couple incoming hits when they have defense debuffs.

Waltzed into a max diff master run settings ITF... it didn't go well. My AV killing time is glorious... my survivability sucks ass. When you're sitting at -50% defense, the two absorbs and 1 heal just can't keep up. Ageless with the +DDR might help. But as hopeful as I was... even this may not be the combo I seek. Pondering SR/Mace tank now.

I bounce adaptations as needed and yes, I'm goin full recharge build. ST chain is clobber, jawbreaker, shatter repeat. At vet lvl 6 now, stole more emps, T4ed assault core. Averaging 1:45 pylon times with it enabled.