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Does Shinobi-Iri (Def and Stealth Power) of Ninjitsu cancel out/detoggle and vice versa Infiltration?

I am convinced to give Trip Mine another chance. It's not like I was using Deceive.

I kept trying to cast it and it'd keep getting interrupted by me taking damage.

SR will only be weak to the psi attacks that don't have positional types. Still, that's rare. Also, the psi resist the sets are getting is so minor, it's not making that big of a difference. The highest being 5% on a Tanker. 5% is only really nice when one can build up on those resists. Which, figure the +8% Resist from 2 Unique IOs (one giving a little more resist as you take damage), and possibly just 1 6% Psi Resist IO (doubt to many are making out that Psi Resist IO). So now 13-19% Psi Resist instead of the 8-14% Was Psi Defense ever really anything tho?

I have both of those and while I didn't get the RoP and Shadow Meld on my Regen (as that's not very concepty) I found my EM/Bio/Soul survives better than the EM/Regen/Soul

That seems a bit off. Looking at Spectral Wounds, Blind, all of Mental Control except Levitate (makes sense since it's a telekinetic attack), and all of Psychic Blast except Telekinetic Blast (which has a smashing and psychic component, but I always felt it should've just been smashing for damage, as it's a TK attack that's done mentally) are pure psychic attacks. So, they didn't have defense against those psychic attacks. Spines has always been mostly Lethal damage, so it should still be checking lethal over toxic. Haven't checked the other Toxic attacks, but some I believe are just toxic damage.

Ill/Traps Troller Should I just go with Assault Radial? I read it gives Phantom Army Double Hit when PA is cast while Assault is active. Or should I go with Control? Tho, Illusion lacks the controls. Or one of the others?

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Make a Scrapper with the Leadership Pool and you just pulled off what you asked for. Also, if you pick the right Powersets, you can buff your friends more and/or debuff enemies. Shield Scrapper buffs your friends and debuffs enemies. Bio Armor will debuff enemies. Willpower will debuff enemies. 🙂

I have to say, I have more fun soloing my Ill/Traps than my Elec/Storm

I never found it required, but still it's so useful, especially for those trying to hit Softcap with Maneuvers. However, past that one power, does one really need any other from the set other than a desire for them?

If we go outside of the two mentioned, I'd suggest /WP. The set that came out with Dual Blades.

If I'm not mistaken, for Incarnate content, you're going to want 52 or 56% Defense to hit softcap. Which may be the issue you're having.

3 Touch of Nictus (Heal/Rch, Acc/End/Heal, Acc/End/Rch) and the Theft of Essence: Chance for +End Proc (awesome proc to use for this power imo) on my EM/Bio/Soul Scrapper

I've been enjoying Illusion/Traps myself, if you're looking for something else.

For pure survival, I'd say EA. For less redraw, Dark Armor has one power for redraw and EA has two.

Can't speak for the defeat foes, but figure the lives one will need an ACC check. I do fine with it on my IO build with just 42% ACC

Because Time's -Regen is sadly a joke and it's -Resist isn't that great when it doesn't have the damage (like Storm) to make up for it. What Time has, is good survival, tho I don't feel it's much better than Darkness, but Time may be a little easier for others in those terms.

Well, I wanted to put all 4 Damage Procs in Hold in the power (2 Psi, 1 Lethal and the Purple), but the issue was enough +recharge to get perma Phantom Army.

So far...my thoughts have been... Not keen on Time Bomb. Big Boom is always nice, but the time to cast it and that it seems to be interruptible in casting, so thinking of respeccing out of it. While I don't care much for Deceive either, I may take it instead. I do like being able to just set Poison Trap and Acid Mortar. Feels better than Radiation's toggle debuffs while on teams speeding through missions. Triage Beacon, I like for some things not all. I wonder if it'll be less useful on Incarnate content, but it's at least good for the set bonuses. Might switch Purple Hold Set in Poison Trap and PvP Hold Set in Blind around. Get the Purple Proc in Blind instead of Poison Trap.

For me, I have converted Emp Merits to Reward Merits, but I've also used them to get my Incarnate's finished. Since I do Incarnate content (ApeMage the big one), it's usually to get those Very Rares taken care of faster/easier.

I like the idea of keeping AE from granting Vet Levels over Emp Merits unable to be turned into Reward Merits. Because really, that's just handy for players and especially new players. Then famers can do some TFs until they hit whatever vet level they feel they don't need anymore. Though, I'd think they do content besides farming anyways.

On Coercive Persuasion and the fun factor I do agree 🙂

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