If nothing else you need to play it to granite to see what quills coming out of that looks like. Prolly worth a chuckle. Definitely take both auras though. Never leave click free damage on the table.
Granite brutes can io built to overcome their movement speed problems but you probably will still need tp for those curbs unless you have room for spring attack. With +5s you can also hit resist caps on brute. They're tough but end of the day you just have to judge whether that's worth the trade offs. I have seen some no granite stoners back on the live servers but that's against the grain as granite is really the big draw.
There's already pretty good reward balance. Early arcs have better merits on red. Tarikkos is meh but silver mantis and Morty Kal are great merit/minute. Rsf and cuda are much better than their blue equivalents. Prior to i25 taking the pauses out of the respec trials it wasn't even close on those, and the treespecs are still fun and good reward/time. Renault isn't bad. Both sides have their good and bad. End of the go rogue or vidge, run the best of both sides.
I'd go with some combination of trollers and corrs, primaries as you wish, with kin, time, dark, cold. Maybe one an ill troller on the off chance you run into something that really needs tanking, but with darkest night and the time aura running that's unlikely. Rad or storm can sub in according to personal preference.
I've halfways wanted to try an SR tank since I heard arcana talking about how good the sliding resistance is with tank base values and hp. Think that was back when it was still in beta. But to do that would require me to roll a tank, which isn't my cup.
This seems fishy to me. It lacks the misspellings and grammar errors you normally see in legitimate investment offers and you never once called me beloved. Hard pass.
I'm on mobile so can't check pines but iirc purples get you into the yellow (maybe even red, I don't remember) for ED on damage even without the pure damage one. I always slot ar/dr/de/adr/proc on damage purples. If you're +5ing too you'll definitely hit red ed numbers.
I do this as a bind - /bind p beginchat /bind v target_custom_next (leave a space after). Obviously can change the keys to whatever you like but basically I hit p, type the name of my target and enter. then I can spam v as I run through the map. Great for hunts and find the boss tf missions. Try it for the Sybil, cyst, general, requiem targeting for speed itfs.
If you decline wakies and break frees you also have enough room to add powexec_name to the end with one of your most used powers. So my clawls/fire for example has macros that I switch into the regular tray slots for follow up, spin, and burn that combine each size of insp to red if possible, then execute the power. I put their regular icons in a square tray next to inspirations so I can see when they're off countdown. When not farming I just switch them back to their normal slot.
Have you tried the lockdown chance for +2 mag hold one? Might be worth a test to see if it works any better. Presumably it would only try to proc on the hold rather than the dots, though I'm just guessing. I'm as if not more clueless than the next noob on the new proc stuff.
Yellow aren't worthless, can craft and convert. Look for the ones that only have one other option for typed converting. Orange may or may not be vendor trash, check on the market.
https://forums.homecomingservers.com/index.php/topic,3161.0.html has some helpful tips and the first post links to three other useful threads.
That's about how long it took me to solo it. Not sure of the exact time because I took a break to cook/eat and took a couple phone calls. Time listed was 4:06. So with the break buying me an extra use of mission tp and TT recharging every 30 I think I only had to jetpack to a couple door missions and run to the bricks one after the FF. Still just terrible. Highlights include a glowie actually imbedded in a crate, which I'd never seen before, and a mob in a spot in the kill all oranbega finale where I'd never seen one. Were it not for the last objective showing on the map I'd still be running it. Not to even mention the kill 50 of x in areas where only a dozen spawn per circuit while two other teams are running the same tf.
Marconeville in Port oakes there are tons. And it's no longer bosses, it's lieuts and minions. As you run around there also kill any arachnos you see. When you finish marcones head over to the fort in the Northeast for the rest of your wolf spider kills (and pirate ghost kills if you're doing the red version of portal jockey as well).
Can't imagine they wouldn't. Would be a pretty major oversight if they went through all the heal sets changing it to heal/absorb without also changing set bonuses. Someone would have spotted it on live test, since tons were trying out bio armor there, or at some point in the years the private server ran.