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Wait really? Huh, I never noticed. Probably because I never took it, but that's good to know given how T2 abilities can just be picked now at lvl 1.

I've decided to go with Fire/Kin... for now. Chances are, I'll also make a Fire/Time, so I'll have both options, but I'm going with Fire/Kin first. Speed boost and both siphons just feel really good at low levels and Transfusion is on a shorter cooldown compared to Temporal Mending, which I find can really matter at those lower levels. I plan on primarily teaming with my corruptors.

After doing Positron 1 three days in a row on a tanker, I'm looking to play something that feels good to play even at the low levels. I know I want to go Fire as the primary, because fire good times yay, but was debating between Kinetics or Time for the secondary. Anyone have any insights?

What makes Rad/MA very good together? Is it because of Storm Kick giving a DEF bonus?

Cool. I don't need it to be top everything, it just needs to be pretty functional. Now just have to figure out the slotting.

It's been a while since I've last played, but I'm thinking of starting from scratch with a new tanker. Is Titan Weapon still a pretty solid secondary for Tanker and would it pair well with Invulnerability? I had a Rad/TW tanker and I was working on a Dark/TW tanker, judging from my character list. Also had a WP/Tanker but it ended up being lacklustre if I remember correctly.

Cool. I'm debating if my next tanker should be DA/TW or DA/Rad and was wondering if Proton Sweep was worth picking up now.

Is Proton Sweep better now after the tanker changes from awhile ago or is it still bad?

That says Willpower/Street Justice to me.

I'm split between my Rad/TW and SD/DM. Rad/TW just feels godly with survivability and damage, but as I level up my SD/DM, I can appreciate the fact that almost nothing hits me and whatever does gets healed.

Finished the transition yesterday from FourSpeed's LBFF build to the very kitted out Spines/Fire here. I have a question regarding the interface incarnate: with the patch that fixes interface procs and what we learned about how the DoT proc works (it being cancel on miss), which is the better pick now, core or radial?

Basically the title, I have two different SD/DM builds that I've made through pines and I'm trying to choose which one I want. I'll link both but basically the second build loses 6% S/L resistance, 11.25% Toxic/Psionic resistance, 7.5% global recharge, Afterburners and Taunt for 5% AoE defence, 15% Slow resistance and Ball Lightning. Some insight on which will be the overall better pick would be helpful. Version 1: Version 2:

Good lord. I'm going to roll a SD/DM tanker pre-DM tweaks just because of this.

Quick question regarding Siphon Life in DM: Mid's says the Heal is 10%, what is it 10% of? Damage, max health?

... I may need to take another look at a Shield/Dark tanker.

What happened to Dark Melee?

I've been running this as well, started it two days ago. I have made some tweaks, because I also do some AH stuff and can cannibalize a few test builds that didn't pan out for enhancements, but otherwise I've been following allowing and the journey has been pretty smooth.

I have fond memories of my first toon, which was a willpower brute. It was a simpler time, with a bunch of toggles and just swinging away. I think I need to make a willpower brute, except not go with energy melee.

I consider myself pretty good at the video games and I kind of want to try some of these builds.

Oh, these are some really interesting answers, especially the shield tanker and the arachnos archetypes. I know some people can find tanking really stressful, so that didn't pop into mind, but I could see that working pretty well. As for the arachnos soldier and widow, I didn't know they had that many team buffs.

So, have a bunch of friends who play CoX for a variety of reasons. One of them mostly just RPs because they claim to be terrible at video games. Having never seen them play CoX, I don't know how bad they really are and they're probably exaggerating, but it did get me thinking on what would be the easiest team-focused build to play for someone who is 'terrible' at video games while still being effective. Gut instinct for me says something buff focused, like a Time Defender. Chrono shift and farsight great PBAoE team buffs, temporal mending is a PBAoE heal, distortion field and time stop are good CC you can just slap down in an area. And if they're feeling really motivated, they can temporal selection their allies. Another one I think would do well is a Kinetics defender, because fucking kinetics. I feel it's more active than Time, but if you were only focused on buffs, it wouldn't get that hectic. But that's just gut instinct, and there are plenty of people here that know way more than I ever will about CoX and builds. I'm not necessarily looking for slotted out builds, this is more of a fun thought exercise, though it would be interesting to see what powers people would take.

Yea, I think I'll go with Sovera's Claw/Bio build in the end. Thanks everyone!

I've heard that Fiery Aura was a little lackluster in general content, is that the case? My priority is general content over farming, I should have mentioned that first, my apologies.

I'm looking for some advice on building a brute for both general content and farming. Claw seems like a pretty good primary for both, but I'm stuck on picking a secondary and power selection. I hear Bio is a pretty good secondary for both general and farming, but are there any other secondaries that can give me a high performance in both? Also, any advice on power selection? As for the IO selection part of the build, soft-capping my defences is my first goal right? In the case of Bio, I'd be going for Smashing/Lethal defence soft cap for S/L farming right?

In regards to the binds, I threw them into a bind file for easy loading, but it didn't seem like they were working. It's fine if I copy-paste them directly into the chat bar, but they won't load properly from a file, even though I do get the message saying the file itself loaded just fine. Is there a different syntax for bind files that I'm not aware of?