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People can always take the Melee Hybrid to give themselves a Taunt Aura 🙂

No, it just slows and chance for immobilize.

Does the performance shifter in Geode work all the time or only when you use Geode?

I base it solely on the concept. However, I always take the Radial Side for the untouchable pet. Longbow is usually my go to Hero, if nothing else fits. But that's because I love the giant mech.

My tank is Dark/Titan and I'd say use it on opening up. Go straight into Momentum like with Whirling Smash.

I did it with lots of IOs and using Inspirations when needed (with ambushes going, they dropped enough). While I felt fine, there was risk and I have to say, I worried a bit on a team of lowbies with just SOs doing it. I also had the advantage of a few more powers due to being over it's level.

I'm wondering if that was the same team I was on. Everlasting? I was on a Claw/Stone Scrapper. The ambushes did feel endless. A little tough imo, if the group doesn't have either a great makeup or IOs to rely on. I know I ended up flying to most of the nodes, clearing the spawn, clicking and then flying out, as the ambushes were to much and staying together didn't seem to help much at all. Made me wonder if the ambushes were continuous or just a big number of them.

Focused Burst looks awesome! Last I recall it was terrible. I don't recall Serpents Reach as it's been awhile since I played Staff.

Which is why, for Spines, it's range attack isn't bad 😛

Should be noted you can still get Electric Melee up to soloing AVs for accolade. You're not going to take down a pylon in 2 minds, no, but still, solo AVs, I feel is enough. Though, that may have also been taking Zapp...I don't recall...I'd have to go back and check.

Well, for Spines, you use Spine in melee and it's part of it's ST rotation. Focus for Claws.

Agreed. Not to mention they tend to be some of the fun powers to use in a set. Hurl Boulder. Impale. Focused Burst. Of those, only Impale is good for it's set, even if it's not saying much for the set with it's ST 😛

I've have an Elec/Elec Brute. I built it around the idea of max resists supported by it's self heal (Energize). Even at 90% Resists, basically, on everything except Negative (57%) and Toxic (42.5%), I was sad to see that was not enough to be survivable like soft capped defenses 😞

I would go straight melee, that way the Epic Pool could be range and control, maybe with a self buff in there as well.

I'm curious what your build looks like to have capped def and res. I couldn't do it on my Scrapper with IOs.

Have you played it since it was sped up?

Seeing as how I want to see a Temporal Aura Defense set for melee (as I posted in the Epic Recycle Thread), I wouldn't mind a StJ/Temporal Manipulation to make up for it if needed. I feel they'd need mez protection, but I'd like to see them actually do damage. I'm afraid these class would be weak damage wise.

Same. Didn't want to support it, just because I was worried it'd become something permanent. Had me give up Spider-Man comics for quite awhile with that storyline. Same as OMD. Same as Miles Morales.

When Doc Oc became Spider-Man, by taking over Parker's body (Calling himself The Superior Spider-Man), Doc Oc came to realize just how much Spider-Man holds back his strength. Even MCU put Spider-Man into at least 40 ton range I believe.

Tier 9 can be skipped. So can Blinding Powder. Seishinteki Kyoyo only needs 2 slots, both of them EndMod/RCH IOs that I'd suggest +5ing if you love the build. Not a power I'd go more slots of for, not even set bonuses, unless you really have the slots to spare.

I don't recall the Ninjitsu Stealth not working with Super Speed Stealth, why wouldn't it work is Infiltration? Concealment, I understand it won't work.

Have to remember that writers also go by power creep and rule of cool.

I'd say there's also the fact that the writers don't seem to know just how much weight is going into things. 50 ton range...even 100 ton range...they think that's enough to stop a moving train or stop a commercial jet from failing.

F RM A AM S IN E IN R EX I GD P IN There you go!

Ninja gives the psi resistance and the toughness to keep going...self heal and a endurance restore.