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Wish i could help but my mids is showing all your defences at 115%+ which means its bugged out. I have an old one looks like this: FIRE SR - Sentinel (Fire Blast - Super Reflexes).mbd

My mids figures are all over the place so i don't know what help it'll be. At first glance your going to require destiny ageless/alpha cardiac or vigor, or maybe both, to run all those toggles or you'll have 0 blue after a single attack chain. Don't bother slotting the OF in whirlpool, i don't even think its worth the 2 procs i chucked in they only have a chance to fire off something like once/10 seconds. You didn't put anything in health, you'd want at least the panacea and miracle in there and i'd try to find a slot for the preventetive. You can see how off my mids is, all those toggles running and its only showing 0.5 end drain, which makes me wonder if the def+res+recharge figures are just as off. Corruptor (Water Blast - Dark Miasma).mbd

Agreed, mercs/thermal is one of my favourites but its a lot of work keeping forge on perma, especially when teaming. Only reason i put those 4 secondaries up was the ease of play, theres like 2 clicks/mob and its over and your only watching for serum. And thermals debuffs still don't recharge fast enough to match any of the other 4.

Forgot to mention the exorbitant endurance clicking overgrowth is. Mines slotted with 5 adjusted and when i hit overgrowth and wild growth half my blue bar vanishes, i think it may be the heaviest endurance clicky in the game. With 2 rech io's in i remember it being full endurance to 0 endurance in 2 clicks.

Mercs are all you need. Dark or Time or Cold or Traps. Win.

Brawl and boxing. You don't need those slotted if all your using them for is recharge theres better ways. Chronoshift may look as if it will solve your massive endurance issues. Thats misleading. You'll have a small boost to your end but the recovery part fades fast and won't cover your attack chain with 0 endurance slotted in them-it will work if you plan on running ageless. Drop the slots from brawl and boxing into temporal mending/Times Juncture/Farsight/Distortion Field, 6 preventetives, 4 dark watchers, 6 reactives, 5 unbreakables, the powers will be better slotted and you don't lose any recharge. Find a way to get more end red in your attacks even if it means dropping a proc or 2. Toss a kismet+to hit in hover.

Real quick lookover, i'm not the best for pet slotting , @StrikerFox has done a ton of testing so they can give much better advice. Did some slight shuffling for obvious stuff like you have luck of the gambler in manouvres for 7.5% rech instead of the 6th reactive piece for 8.75%, the preventetive proc that could be tossed in the heal for the same rech bonus. Soul extraction wants recharge its now one of your best powers, don't just use it to mule pieces (although i still do too) theres some stuff further back showing ways to proc it out for max dmg if your prepared to look. It'll pop the same amount of pets as you have nearby and pretty much double your dps for a short time. Procs in the aura holds almost never fire off so i wouldnt waste slots on them. Lockdown maybe will hit 1 target in an entire mob, the damage pieces will do less than nothing, slots are much better elsewhere. Not sure about lifegiving, theres some love it others will tell you its a waste of time. I take it because it looks good and usually just run a performance shifter and a couple heal pieces in for a bonus. Necro pets won't fight in it anyway, they are too busy running after stuff. I wouldn't bother with any melee defence, anything that close will get tagged by the hold, anything that does hit you- you can heal through it. If you are slotting for defence ranged is much better but i wouldn't bother with that either. Forgot to put edict of the master back in my bad. Found my old build, something to look at, its not that different. NecroFlora - Mastermind (Necromancy - Nature Affinity).mbd NECRO NATURE - Mastermind (Necromancy - Nature Affinity).mbd

No purples, no winters, same power picks i dunno. Melt armr and heat exhaustion are your av killers you want acc+rech in those and as much recharge in the build as you can, without purples thats tough. When i play cone toons the shortest cone (in this case tentacles) is my range , there's a couple hammi's in there but they are probably the cheapest enhances in the build that match it to nightfall. Personally torrent would be my first pick and i'd drop dark blast for it purely because its soft control and can slot a force feedback+recharge which would fix a lot of problems, its a 1 click hit a mob and it'll fire off, i can't think of an instance where i've hit 8-9 enemies and it hasn't fired off. So i dumped all the melee defence to come up with this which is 1 luck insp from 45% ranged. If your only in melee for blackstar which will neuter enemies chances of hitting you and then hopping back out to ranged blast there's no reason for melee def when you have a tank. Which is why all the slots got ripped from forge-your only applying it once every 120 seconds to your partner, it doesnt even need the recharge i left in, you could move that or slot something else. I have no idea if this would work, i do have a dark/thermal but i haven't logged it on for a couple years and i took the fighting pool. What i do remember is the endurance issues. And how squishy it was. DT - Corruptor (Dark Blast - Thermal Radiation).mbd

For sure, its a real pita watching build posts get pushed further and further back every time someone asks for a build that we know has already been posted 15 times in the last 4 years and then having to search for a link. Getting a bit tired of seeing 5 players asking for the same combo 1 after another because they cba to do a lil search (not that the search works that well)

I've been playing one of these since day 2 or 3 and ended up with 1 on every server with a farm and content build. I ended up running this after repeated respecs and trying different levels of defence/resistance/recharge etc. Its pretty squishy. And i have no idea how you'd get fly in unless you dropped ss+cj for hover+fly and ran with hover on. It'll melt stuff just about fast enough for you to kill before you get killed but its no +4/8 itf tank thats for sure, i'm still running ageless on it. If your after something tough you may want to consider a fire/rad tanker. Damage wise there's almost no difference but the survivability is much higher. RAD FIRE SLOW RES - Brute (Radiation Melee - Fiery Aura).mbd

Would this work? I have no idea, not a big fan of shield brutes on live and HC hasn't changed my mind. Having never played the combo all i can do is toss on some randomised build. WM SD - Brute (War Mace - Shield Defense).mbd

Mines ancient but i just respecced it dropping a ton of defence for fold space and capped slow res. ELEC ELEC - Brute (Electrical Melee - Electric Armor).mbd

Does elec affinity's energizing circuit help? I run an ill/elec and i haven't noticed it.

But it looks so cool, sometimes thats 90% of the game for some players.

Didn't lifegiving spores get some treatment from page 7? I haven't had a chance to test it out yet but i'm sure i read it got some re-work.

After hail of bullets, bullet rain is my fav power in the set. Skipping that will really hurt as will leaving out executioners shot as your now down to 2 very low damaging st attacks and 1 that relies on procs but your running agility so the chances of those procs firing off gets lowered. Overgrowth isn't perma or even close, the massive end drain you'll have when its down will chew through your blue bar at incredible speed if your running all those toggles when it runs out. If that times with a hasten crash mid fight you'd better have a load of blue insps/recovery serums up. HoB/Dual Wield/Bullet Rain/Empty Clips all have the option to take ff+rech proc that would help bump the recharge to get overgrowth perma, if i were you i'd be looking at ways to fit them in. If the plan is to be a pure support you'll probably be fine, just don't expect to be taking down any mobs or hard targets at speed. Defense seems low for all those defense toggles. Not much point slotting entangling aura that way its just a huge end drain, the procs will almost never fire off unless your in epicly long fights and the basilisks is just a bad set to slot in there all round. So late and i have to log but you maybe better off with this, i did 30 seconds of fiddling, you'd still be relying on force feedback procs but they should be enough (forgot to put 5 armageddon and a ff+rech into hail of bullets) Guerilla Guns - Defender (Nature Affinity - Dual Pistols).mbd

Amazing how that looks so similar to my original build. I did have the artillery in confounding chant initially, the only difference was the winter pieces frozen blast went into freezing rain over brawl. So i got my t4 ageless that fixed everything except the recharge on single target stuff, they don't quite cycle fast enough but i can live with it for the extra damage that comes from musc so far. Its an even better combo that i hoped there's synergy i didn't even consider. Confounding chants stun stacks with tornado's for purpled eb's. The contagious proc/confuses from reverberant stack with impassioned serenade. If i had an extra slot i wouldn't bother with the annihilation procs i'd toss it in indom will, psi attacks leak through occasionally and even with ageless and the ff+rech firing off, its not perma. The artillery set in freezing rain/ageless/force feedbacks get me perma freezing somehow. 1 death so far, i just stood still and let a mob of +4s melee me and didn't even reposition. Pure laziness. Its a lot of work. I'm looking to dump leaping for flight, that would allow me to hover over mobs and cycle attacks, right now i'm having to hop up in the air and pop lightning storm to prevent kb's, then jump about like a madman lining up the cones. I don't think i'll have the endurance to run hover+fly+evasive on top of everything else though. I think your right about agility, i'm only getting 2 tornadoes/lightning storms out which seriously hurts the dps. Every other storm i played i'd be triple stacking. I'd love to dump that artillery set. Definitely keeping the procced out dreadful discord, its the fastest recharging cone and the majority of my mob damage once freezing rain drops. The sleep can be useful even when the procs miss but if i had to give up a single power that would probably be it. I'll craft an alpha agility but thats a couple weeks away (i always make them with shards and save the threads and for some reason game bugged out and refused to give me a notice of the well for this weeks wst) and see what the difference is, i can already imagine myself liking the recharge better. Appreciate the response as always.

Agreed on all of the above. And yet i'm still building towards musc radial, damage+end mod. With indom will i can skip clarion for ageless and not worry about endurance (had some embarrassing toggle drops so far mid tf's but its only vet lvl 3) I'm pretty sure agility is going to mess with the procs firing off and i'll always take musc/intuition when i can i'm a big fan of the extra damage on AT's that have almost none. Your spot on about recharge but the biggest problem i'm finding is lack of slow resist, original build had about 60% but i had to drop almost all of it to get the def+resists up, turns out that was the right way to go after a few itf's and aeon no way i would have survived the aggro when i got stuck soloing stuff without it, the few times i've been 'glued' i had to turn on ss and waddle backwards. If there was anything in the build i could change i'd put in more slow resists and take my chances on the ff+rech firing off to keep attacks cycling. So far its tons of fun. I do love symphony procced out cones they hit way harder than you'd expect and the single target stuff is just about sufficient. Would be nice to get some achilles proc in freezing rain/annihilations in the cones but i really struggled to find slots, it was all i could do to keep the procced out sleep cone in it. Artillery set in freezing makes me sad but i don't see myself surviving any speed runs/harder content without the defence. Thanks for looking it over, i always miss stuff i have to respec out of/into later, already onto 2nd respec, i'll stick with it for a bit til i get t4 ageless and see how that affects things. I have to wonder if agility recharge messes up proc rate will ageless? I don't really do math/city of data so i'll just play the game and find out the hard way. The names! i totally forgot to check what was free.

No such thing as odd choices if they are the ones that work for you, we all play the game our own way.

Haven't seen one of these yet and since its 2 powersets i love i decided to give it a go. Mids has been hard work, aiming for 45% ranged and 75% s/l on a build with no heal and attempting to proc out as much as i could to squeeze out some extra damage. Would appreciate anyone looking over it/critiques/rip it to shreds comments: Well build 1 worked out really well, but the constant repositioning and total chaos was a lot of hard work so i enhanced a 2nd build. Defensively it sucks but i got in all the powers i wanted and just slotted them the way i wanted and its a ton of fun. SYMPHONY STORM - Controller (Symphony Control - Storm Summoning).mbd SYMPHONY STORM - Controller (Symphony Control - Storm Summoning).mbd

Interesting concept and a rarely used combo. Couple questions. Is WoC essential or just there for the cool factor? I don't see any immob protection from stuff like cj/weave/evasive, what am i missing? I shuffled stuff. Alpha went first. Its a dark so i went intuition. You could (maybe) get more recharge by dumping a purple set for an extra ff+rech or 2 in propel/wormhole, propel looks way overslotted for damage. I tossed in grav distortion field just because. I don't much like the aoe holds on trollers but given a choice between that/WoC i don't mind looking less cool and saving an end draining toggle that looks like its going to be all but useless on a build that seems designed to wormhole/fold space mobs from a ranged flight position and just tp in for soul absorb when the mobs in no position to fight back. Pinched slots from DN to bump to softcap. Didn't like the way fade was slotted and i'm not sure about that pre-emptive set in soul absorb. Really hate to see the main st hold slotted with a basilisks. So i tossed that out too. And put some acc in lift. Feel free to swear at me for the comments/changes. pretty sure i posted one of these way back when someone was asking there weren't any on forums and i still haven't rolled one so i'm not really in a position to comment on them but i do love me some grav and dark. One day i'll try them together. Mage of Dark Portals - Controller (Gravity Control - Darkness Affinity - Psionic Mastery).mbd

Meant to click option 3 as i prefer to see : a) new content b) new powersets/updates to old ones c) new enhancement sets

They do? Its hard to tell they clump so fast its a click click tk-levitate. I'll have another look thanks.

Pretty sure PB does 0 for serum, it only affects defence, anything with resist in it is unaffected, like cold buffs.

Can't open your file or see what powers you took but if your going fly pool make sure you take evasive manouvres or you'll find yourself with no immob protection and glued to the floor when you least expect it. I don't like shout, good damage but it feels like the animation is over long i prefer the t1+t2 with screech. I like soul patron for power boost, hitting it just before you enter melee and soul drain/nuke can seriously increase your survivability and it'll bump more than just your defences, it'll increase your heal. I like shockwave, its good soft control, i find it better than sirens song but the damage is pretty low. With 3 cones you can get a nice cycle of knockdown/sleep and - resistance going on. I haven't played fender combo but i do have it on a corr . I might go something like this, i find endurance an issue on dark til i get incarnates so i run theft proc in the heal. DARK SONIC - Defender (Dark Miasma - Sonic Attack).mbd