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Has nothing to do with having 3 forms, it's best to visualize how it's getting exploited currently. Now to be clear, I could care less about pylon times someone is able to achieve using this exploit and I'm quite sure this isn't even close to the record that some other ATs have been able to set on pylon times. The bigger problem is that kheldians need to use this exploit to even attempt to match the damage output that other ATs are able to output and without it, this pylon time would likely be over 200-300 seconds. The exploit should be removed, but kheldians need to be changed and those changes need to be buffs. No one is saying that they should be nerfed (aside from removing the exploit).

This makes some sacrifices on fire, cold, toxic, and psi resist and slightly lower defense totals, but should output a lot more damage by procing out your attacks while taking RoP and melee core hybrid incarnates to cycle between to get higher resists to the most common s/l/e/n and make up for the lost f/c/t/psi resist from set bonuses. Energy Drain will help with making up some of the defense loss, but you'll want to watch out for the rage crash. Couldn't find room in the build for Hand Clap unless you're willing to use Mystic Flight as your travel and then you could replace Super Speed for HC. It doesn't quite hit 100% recharge debuff resist but should be high enough at 85% (you could also move the Rectified Reticle slot in Rage to kick and 2 slot Superior Avalanche to get it to 100%). Can always swap the levels at which you take powers as you need for whatever levels you exemplar to often, RoP is definitely picked up late on the build. CJ can be swapped for Maneuvers if you prefer as well. This build uses musculature alpha and reactive radial interface to maximize damage and provide more -res debuffs. Definitely test it out on test server first to see if it works. Brute (Super Strength - Energy Aura).mbd

This is the most important part in the end. Radiation will also help with endurance management since Battle Axe is end heavy, so it's a good pairing!

Axe in particular sounds like what you're looking for in a secondary. It has a good amount of AoE's and Axe Cyclone actually draws enemies in closer to you, which can be helpful on maps where mobs are more spread out. As far soaking up hits and remaining standing, I would not personally go with radiation armor. It's a decent set but ideally you would want a set that can mix both high resist and high defense, Invuln is perhaps best for being able to stand and soak stuff up without failing. I actually got curious to see if I could get invuln to sit at soft cap defense with 1 foe in range of Invincibility and capped 90% resist to all with just 1 SMoT proc and the 5% resist/defense from barrier core detiny and came up with this below: Again, radiation armor can be made durable and should easily handle most general stuff without issue, but if you're trying to soak things up, Invulnerability is the way to go (unless you're ok with dealing with Granite on stone armor, it could technically be considered more durable as it can also hit soft cap s/l/e/n/f/c and can be hard capped to all resists while having higher regen from Rooted and a more readily available heal in Earth's Embrace).

It's a pretty good build, there are certainly ways to add a tiny bit more resists and/or defenses at the cost of damage output and recharge, but I would ask what enemies are you struggling against with those conditions? As it is, it should be able to handle +3/8x against "most" stuff. A few general points: Are any difficulties surviving tied to the -20% defense from rage crash? If so, popping 1-2 luck insps should easily fix this. The one unfortunate thing with pairing a defensive based set with SS is that rage crash can significantly impact your survival. What specific enemy groups are you struggling against? Energy Aura does have some inherent weakness to toxic and psi, both because of having low inherent resists and lack of typed defense buffs to toxic and psi. You can get more resist by doing some full set purples for the 6% boost along with doing 5 piece sets of Unbreakable Guard in resist powers. How much are you really needing Leadership pool in the build? The reason I ask is that you could consider going for Sorcery pool to get RoP. While it's not a permanent resist buff, it can help for any situations that you can anticipate being difficult to handle. Ageless Radial is certainly helpful in providing debuff resists, but you can consider changing to Barrier Core. It can function both as having a permanent 5% resist/def boost as well as saving it for emergency situations for the first 30 seconds of it's duration. I don't know what you picked for your hybrid incarnate slot since it's not in the build, but Melee Core can provide a solid resist boost and be interchangeably cycled with RoP to increase the uptime of having high resists. Consider adding Haymaker to be able to 6 slot Superior Unrelenting Fury (6% resist to s/l/e/n/f/c on final bonus slot) and possibly Hand Clap as well (can be 2 slotted with Sudden Accel KB to KD and FF +rech) which helps to add some additional soft control through knockdowns. HC can be left towards end of the build as the incarnate level shift and double stacked rage will help significantly with the required accuracy for it to hit without additional investment. By taking the Agility alpha, you're going to be hindering your proc chances because of the recharge buff on it. Consider taking Nerve (accuracy will further help with HC and it also has a defense buff) or else Musculature to further boost damage. I think you could consider in procing your attacks more. Dead things can't hurt you and that is especially applicable to SS which doesn't suffer from ignoring dmg/acc slotting because of it's ability to double stack rage. This will come at a cost of lowering some of your resists, but you would kill enemies faster by slotting Fury of the Gladiator -res in FS, Annihilation -res in Dark Obliteration, and generally slotting a lot of damage procs in powers like KO Blow, Foot Stomp, and Dark Obliteration. You can essentially 4 proc these powers and leave the remaining 2 slots for the acc/dmg and acc/dmg/end winter set pieces which will also give you a solid slow resist boost. Without knowing what area you're specifically struggling against and need to improve, it's hard to suggest what needs to be changed.

One small comment that I'll make is that the infographic is a tiny bit misleading if you're just looking at the resist/regen values. The resist and regen totals that are shown are with the melee core hybrid toggled on and set to 10 foes in range (this has a 2 minutes active and 2 minutes cooldown, so not permanent stats). You are able to cycle between RoP, melee core hybrid (for 45+ content), and MoG to where most of the time your resists will be at these values (assuming melee core hybrid is fully saturated). Without melee core hybrid, RoP, or MoG toggled on, this sits at 70% s/l resist, 57% e/n, 65% f/c, 64% tox, and 44% psi (these values are counting the 5% res/def minimum from T4 barrier core and 1 stack of SMoT which adds another 6.7% resist). The regen rate will be at 1175% and 173 hp/sec without melee core hybrid toggled. As @VoidSpawn stated, aside from procs/uniques, all other IOs on the build are boosted to +5. Void Mod Spaghetti Betty - Hero Tanker Build plan made with Mids Reborn v3.7.14 rev. 3 ────────────────────────────── Primary powerset: RegenerationSecondary powerset: Super StrengthPool powerset (#1): SpeedPool powerset (#2): SorceryPool powerset (#3): FightingPool powerset (#4): LeadershipEpic powerset: Earth Mastery ────────────────────────────── Powers taken: Level 1: Reconstruction A: Preventive Medicine: Heal3: Preventive Medicine: Heal/Endurance5: Preventive Medicine: Endurance/RechargeTime5: Preventive Medicine: Heal/RechargeTime9: Preventive Medicine: Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance11: Preventive Medicine: Chance for +Absorb Level 1: Punch A: Superior Gauntleted Fist: Damage/RechargeTime11: Superior Gauntleted Fist: Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime13: Superior Gauntleted Fist: Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime Level 2: Quick Recovery A: Performance Shifter: Chance for +End7: Synapse's Shock: EndMod7: Synapse's Shock: EndMod/Recharge9: Synapse's Shock: EndMod/Increased Run Speed 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Damage/Accuracy/Endurance Level 14: Translocation Level 1: Special Set Bonuses ────────────────────────────── Accolades: Task Force CommanderThe Atlas MedallionFreedom Phalanx ReservePortal JockeyEye of the Magus ────────────────────────────── Incarnates: Vigor Core ParagonMelee Core EmbodimentBarrier Core Epiphany *Edited to fix screenshot of mid's build.

No need to take my word for it, load any char into the game that is running musculature or intuition alpha incarnates that you have. Open up your combat attributes (found at top after clicking on power tab at power tray) and look at your defenses. At the same time, open up your incarnate abilities tray. Right click on the alpha slot and do clear power from slot to unequip it. Notice how the defense does not change for any defense boosting powers or total defense. The top part near the icon (where you circled the "defense debuffs" in red) shows the correct attributes that are buffed, they are only hold duration, defense debuffs, and range. You can ignore the wording under the "grants power" section. I'm sure there's an explanation to why it was worded that way, but I cannot recall why it is and it absolutely does not boost your defense at all.

Buffing "defense debuffs" means that any of your powers that lower enemies defense when they hit will have that -def effect boosted. So having musculature or intuition alphas equipped with the "defense debuff" will make a power like Melt Armor or powers from Radiation Blast which have -def secondary effects inflict higher defense debuff values. The only 2 incarnate alphas that affect "defense buff" values are agility and nerve alpha slots. The key word here is buff vs debuff, defense debuffs is an effect that applies to enemies, defense buffs is an effect that applies to powers that buff defense values (i.e., Combat Jumping, Weave, Scorpion Shield, etc). I don't know if when you took those defense totals images that you labeled as "pre-incarnate" and "w/ musculature" images you had a different alpha selected instead of musculature and didn't realize it or possibly had a version of mids installed with bugged boost values on the alpha slots. I'd suggest checking those again with the latest version of mids installed.

Yeah, that's not at all how that works. Unless the alpha incarnate slot specifically states that it is boosting "defense buffs", you are not getting any defensive improvements.

Why would musculature alpha slot change defense values?

Do what you need to while leveling, for end game there's no real need to use slots on it and the build I posted is for end game. I have my own opinion regarding Chilling Embrace. I find that for end game, you will kill through mobs far to quickly for the slow to actually do anything significantly useful. It may potentially be helpful while leveling. A lot of your endurance issues should be remedied once you get Energy Absorption and and some recharge on it and global recharge on the build. While leveling, I would probably pick up Gash as you'd want more attacks, particularly with the global recharge not being there yet.

Crushing Impact would be my suggestion. It provides recharge, accuracy, tox/psi resist, and some s/l resist.

Here's a quick rework. I'll defer to others on best places to slot the Scrapper ATO procs/sets, I don't play scrappers often to really know which powers they're best used in. Some general suggestions, avoid recharge boosting alpha incarnates as that will hurt your proc chances. You'll normally be using Energy Absorption in a full mob and the power can be stacked, that will add a decent chunk more defense to where you won't need a defense boosting incarnate alpha. Go for musculature alpha, it buffs damage and end mod which will help boost the end recovered from Energy Absorption (along with that, no need to slot EA for end mod, using it in a mob will completely fill your endurance bar). 5 slotting Panacea in Hoarfrost allows you to fit in the Impervium psi resist and still get a global recharge bonus. I went for more Shield Wall pieces to increase your e/n resist. There's no need to slot Winter's Gift in your travel power, Ice Armor caps slow resist without any additional help and a 2 piece Launch will boost your s/l resist. Kismet isn't something you need to slot on every build, only if your accuracy to +3 enemies is below 95%. With the addition of FA, you won't have accuracy issues and don't need Kismet. Wet Ice is an interesting power. It provides a very minor defense boost but doesn't accept defense enhancements. You don't really need to slot a Cytoskeleton HO into it, but since the HO buffs defense, it will slightly boost the small amount of defense that Wet Ice offers. Can easily replace it with a 50 end reduction IO to save influence (similarly, can replace the HO in FA to a 50 end reduction to save influence). The build below does factor in the minimum 5% resist/def from T4 barrier. Antorius (Axe-Ice).mbd

Psi isn't extremely common and most mobs that do have some psi damage don't hit extremely hard. Psi defense is not something that's practical to chase after because there aren't a lot of useful sets that have it as a high % bonus. Psi resist, if you have the extra slots, can be easy to get. Impervium armor psi resist IOs can be used up to 5 times so slot them into any power that takes resist enhancements. Rime or Hoarfrost, Permafrost, Icy Bastion, and Tough will provide 4 spots where you can put them in which is 24% psi resist. Aegis unique can be slotted once and will be another 5%. Any full 6 piece purple sets other than Apocalypse will give you another 6% psi/tox resist. Between the 4 impervium armor, aegis, shield wall/reactive defense uniques, and slotting Permafrost for resist, you should be hitting ~43% psi resist before any set bonuses. 2 full purple sets would net you another 12%. If you go for T4 barrier core destiny incarnate, that's another 5% and you'd be hitting ~60% psi resist at 50.

Try it and let us know! I personally prefer the tanker resist proc in either the T1 or T2 attack so that it's available early and can be stacked by spamming the attack. While self affecting procs do trigger with higher frequency, PBAoE auras still only check for proc chances every 10 seconds so you won't be double stacking the resist proc. Can also become harder to proc with 1 foe in range like an AV.