MoonSheep

looking good sleet can also take the achilles heel -res buff for even more -res vengeance is a good LOTG +rech mule, giving you an extra +7.5 rech. with heat loss your teams won’t be wanting for end. also bear in mind you can ‘accidentally’ cast a blind eye if someone is dying and then.. oh no, a death.. time for veng 😇 thoughts and prayers. you may want to drop tactics or you’ll have quite a lot of toggles running have you got the ‘standard’ +end and absorb procs in health/stamina?

power boost is amazing for short circuit / ball lightning combo and does wonders for vengeance, worth it just for that alone!

@Moon Sheep 🙂

top guy, i’m always down to team on excelsior if you’re about and wanting to chill mate 👍

hey, great combo to choose, a real powerhouse. some thoughts below if helpful: - if you’re going for a team build, don’t waste your slots and power picks on tough/weave, it just isn’t needed on a team oriented defender/alt - add an extra slot into charge up and have the gaussian chance for build up, it procs near enough every time - add more slots into infrigidate, it’ll need a high level of accuracy for tough targets before you get sleet - swap out one of the leadership powers for veng and take it as low as possible, it’s great on low lvl TFs - lvl 26 and lvl 32 powers can now be taken at lvl 22 and 26 respectively, see if you can incorporate this into your power level selection - in sleet put the chance for -res defence debuff proc - slot short circuit for end mod, power transfer is a good one as it has end mod and damage - pick up power boost in your mastery, it boosts near enough every power in your primary and secondary - i’d also get rid of combat jumping for teleport target, bring corpses to you and veng from them - if there are powers available after scrapping the fighting pool, pick up spirit ward and slot it for 2 absorb. it’s a nice one to toughen up the lead tank slightly

oh man, this is rage inducing like nothing else having a kin on the team that sits there using their lame ineffective blasts at range and not blessing the group with God’s Fulcrum Shift 🙏 and The Lords Speed Boost 🙌 should be punishable by a gruesome and memorable death it’s the reason my co-main is a kin defender, to play the set right

that one guy is loving Neocron

you’re right - i pm’d you as i saw you had misunderstood my post and felt it was the nicer/calmer option than letting the thread descend into an argument, we’ve had too many of those in the last few months my fault for setting my expectations too high i suppose

in my view, this mindset is the downfall of CoX - the game and teams are so much more incredible, powerful, interesting and diverse when people build their alts with the intended archetype and teamwork in mind the “me me me” fad has made the game boring and homogenous

ooh, a TF i want to play, i’ll message the lead and get involved -joins team- well, i’m in now. time to turn off the chat window, nav bar, status bar and let ‘er rip in every direction for the next hour! - The average PuG team, 2004-2023

talos or atlas park seem the most normal place to live - nice streets, some greenery, good transport links, not too overidden with crime imagine living in mercy island!

haha.. i feel i am slowly getting closer to finding this mystical brawler a stalker/scrapper or tank, maybe shield or fire for the extra damage, ice or elec melee… trying them all out on test

i have two lvl 50’s which i play almost daily since returning may 2019 (kin/sonic def and mind/fire dom) + now a lvl 41 psi/shield stalker which has slowed down i’m still on the hunt for the perfect third alt..

tempted by fire/DM myself, or fire/ice - an eternal classic

as dark has such a great self heal, have you considered playing more into +recovery sets rather than +regen? i have a D3 tank on beta i play around with and it seems to work quite well

put it on health or another auto power unless you’re looking to use it for the set bonuses

Some initial thoughts as someone who plays a mind/fire dom Overall, the slotting doesn't make too much sense, your main damage dealing powers appear to be very underslotted, whereas you have overslotted powers which won't give you much benefit - e.g. smoke You'll be able to slot with rare IOs reasonably easily from playing lvl 50 content and TFs, the inf will come in over a few sessions Here's the initial changes I'd make: - 4 Slot char with basilisk's gaze, or if you use it often, 5 slot it with the ascendency of the dominator. if it's too pricy, at least get the +Dam proc - Don't slot flares - Fire cages is overslotted - Fire blast is a primary attack, 6 slot it, or 5 at least - decimation if possible - Smoke is heavily overslotted - Consume is overslotted - Blazing bolt and blaze are hugely underslotted, give each 6 - these are you main damage throughout the build - Rain of fire may not be too helpful - Incincerate should be 5 or 6 slotted, another great attack - Consider taking ice mastery for Sleet if you are not thematically wedded to fire, it's vastly superior. Sleet will benefit your team and the ability of your imps to take down mobs hugely - If you take a shield with your mastery choice, give it 4 slots - One travel power is enough. If you have too many powers left over I'd recommend either leadership for vengeance (turbo charge your imps) or the teleportation pool for Fold Space to bunch things up, which I'd 3 slot with 1 acc and 2 rech

hope you’re able to complete it before the eventual heat death of the universe

RNGesus give’th and take’th, do not question his ways 🙏📿

reading your story makes me think of the paradox where people are able to read LFG to see a TF advertised, message the lead for an invite.. then lose all communication abilities for the rest of the TF, completely unresponsive no matter the chaos unfolding

the late 30’s and early 40’s were quite painful - though i have positive memories of being part of great teams in FF with kin support and incredible looking grav controllers the respec TFs used to be a lot harder too, sometimes you would fail them no matter how hard you tried

are you familiar with how to monitor certain combat attributes to see what your current defense, damage bonus, dmg resistance etc is? i tend to keep a few stats monitored on every alt to see what my current numbers are

you are underestimating my ability to mash those F keys during times of chaos 😛

wandering peregrine island destroying the portals that rikti comms officers used to spawn - back in the day they used to reward good XP i don’t know if the game genuinely was grindier back then or whether i was just awful at playing it, used to do a lot more street sweeping

i play my alts permanently stacked with T3/T4 insps and more backups in email where needed - it‘s why i don’t build for defense, my dom is stronger than any tank as it’s permanently juiced up to the eyeballs with insps 💉 i’ve considered playing my next alt “sober” for a different style of play