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How I learned how to do it was by looking at builds and asking why things were done that way. Why do so many people 2-slot Stamina in the same way? You will find that characters without a heal tend to 3-slot Stamina in a specific way. Why is Hasten 2-slotted with Level 50 IOs which have been boosted +5 in levels? Why are certain IOs 1-slotted? (See above article I linked to) Etc.

EA is in the conversation.

When to slot a character for me depends on how much I am going to solo the character. I've started slotting at 7. I've slotted as late in my 20s as I could tolerate.

SOs in this economy? Level 25 Common IOs can do a build at Level 50 for like 2-3 mill last I estimated. Even if they want Level 35s in the end, it is on the lower side to IO out. I say enough for Level 15s, 25, 35s. I'm just going to assume that can be done for under 10 mil. More so if you are willing get them via the market with lower bids. One can run around perfectly fine with Commons until a long term stash can be created and then those Commons can be migrated to the next character. I bet a support build could be done insanely cheaply even doing a build with Uncommons.

I really don't like 6-slotting purple sets as the Damage IO is really overkill. You could slot in a damage proc or use the slots elsewhere.

I blame pushing the envelope on my Tanker post changes as to why they fell for the second time ever. Yeah, nothing to do with coming back from a break. *ahem*

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I did a build for a Ice/sr and popped it on Test. I think I did radios at +0x8. I liked it well enough that I rolled it on Live. This isn't to say I don't agree with it needing to be a smidge better, see the above mentioned Chilling Ray. I did move on from the build, but that was more of me being content with the one Level 50 Sent I already have versus adding in another.

My friend got huge into Heroclix so at one point he gave me all of the CoH stuff he had.

Because Fire/kin is an option.

1. I grab both sets of ATOs. 2. I grab various IOs talked about here. 3. After that you are looking that the sets which can be slotted for those powers 4. You start looking at any goals of the builds, perma Hasten, soft cap, Res cap, attack chain, etc.

This also doesn't factor in a mob's own -Def attacks with a Defender's lack of DDR or +ToHit which is what I find more annoying. I try to get as much Def within reason on a Defender with some purples on occasion and leave it at that.

Run, yes. This biggest difference for me was the graphics card being built-in or not as that imp[acts getting better graphics. CoH doesn't play nice with Intel so using AMD is better right there. Again, not critical, but 16GB RAM is the more ideal these days.

People are literally quoting Eminem in the thread.