Captain Fabulous

It depends upon what you want to accomplish. Defenders have better debuffs while Corruptors do more damage. Ice is a good set with some nice controls.

DFB (aka Death From Below), it's a bit too long, but the 4 different buffs you get (along with 2 badges) are worth the effort of doing it 4 times. They'll stay with you till level 22. DiB (aka Drowning in Blood) is another trial you can do starting at level 15. Like DFB it awards 4 different buffs and 2 badges. Those buffs stay with you till level 29. But they won't stack with the DFB buffs; they will replace them.

Yeah, it's just not necessary. With the added difficulty settings I don't have any problems with them expanding the Incarnate system if they choose to do so. Since it's already fairly easy to make any AT godly and unkillable all the belly-aching and hand-wringing over power creep just isn't warranted. If you're already unkillable at the highest difficulty what does it matter if you're 20% more unkillable? On the flip side it gives those level 50s something to work towards and use up their surplus threads. It also provides an agnostic path to increased power that doesn't rely upon crafting expensive IO sets, which already heavily favors die-hard players over casual ones.

Did you try the other things I suggested? CoH uses OpenGL, and an old version at that. It can be finicky. I used to crash fairly regularly until I figured out it was a memory issue in combination with having Chrome open. I upgraded from 16 GBs of RAM to 32 GBs not that long ago and not a single crash since. Ultra mode graphics trigger a pretty bad memory leak as well, so it's best to go no higher than one notch below Ultra.

Run a video card stress test to ensure it's not the card. Don't use any ultra settings in the graphics options. Shut down other programs, especially your web browser, before playing.

I would be happy to have access to some of their unique powers.

You could have just unslotted the proc IOs.

I did this with an AR/MC Blaster. He also has the Fighting, Concealment, and Presence pools. The only AR power he uses is M30 Grenade. All common IOs so far. Very enjoyable. I mean, he's never gonna do Blaster-level damage, but that doesn't mean he's not fun to play.

I have stood right on top of critters with Stealth and they don't see me, tho things with increased perception like Rikti Drones will. Before the Concealment revamp Stealth was 35' and Invisibility was 55'. Now Stealth is 55', so it's equivalent to what Invisibility used to be.

I put AD on auto and then click Hasten as necessary. I have also muted the "recharging" sound because it's annoying.

Exactly what I am looking for, thanks!

Not Traps LOL. Cold, Dark, Kinetics, Nature, Storm, and Time are all good. For an Epic go with Mace for more defense or Electricity for more damage.

Thanks, but I was hoping to not have to cross-reference with an Oro mission guide to figure out exactly where all those missions are.

I recently did a rebuild with Stealth. Will have to see if that helps being able to run in and drop stuff undetected. I think I have ~33-38% defense to all without any sets, which ain't bad. I have a BR/Temporal Blaster who is far more enjoyable to play. All the Traps powers should be ranged/targeted like Seeker Drones. But you're right, they're designed for a time when more strategy was needed to deal with tougher mobs. It's just not necessary now.

This is where I'm at with my BR/Traps Corr. I'm finding Traps to be so utterly useless in 95% of normal content that all I'm doing is blasting and doing sub-par damage cause I'm not a Blaster. Seriously considering remaking her as a BR/Devices Blaster. I don't often run into a character I find so utterly frustrating to play (Claws/Regen Scrapper is another).

On top of it giving defense that's 16-258% above the soft-cap?

Has anyone compiled such a list?

For me it depends upon how complex the build is. If it's just common IOs, yeah, I'll respec even at 50 (I have many many times logged in a dormant character and exclaimed "WTH was a thinking???") But if it's a full set-IO build that would require a significant amount of effort to respec I'm highly unlikely to do it unless they're somehow seriously broken and unplayable.

28-40% resistance to all damage types is nothing to sneeze at. I'm not sure what people expect from a T1 power. It's gonna be pretty basic no matter what.

Yeah, there's a ton of control but not a lot of damage in that combo.

Stone Melee and Earth Control. Back on live I rolled a Stone/Fire Brute (when CoV first came out) and I was genuinely surprised how fun it is. Same with Earth Control on both Controllers and Dominators. Very rarely see these sets despite them being really fun to play and very effective. Ice Armor is another one that's really good but you don't see too often.

It's primarily a getaway power. But it's also good for traveling around zones or maps and not getting spanked.

Thankfully there are plenty of options to choose from.

Or a pool power. Or not worry about it cause someone on your team will likely have one.

Something just clawed at me from the dark recesses of my diseased brain: wasn't there once an intent by Paragon to expand the Incarnate system with more slots?