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The range part has been mentioned before. But it goes with the other bugs the AT has, like one of the big attacks in Fire being doing less damage than it should. Toss it into the bug forum for sure.

I've recently made a post regarding sonic/bio and how it was a dark horse. I believe the underlying why of it working so well is indeed all the CC that is incorporated in the regular attacks. When the mobs are constantly knocked down or disoriented we have a lot of breathing room, in particular with Bio's brand of regen. Now with Fire Cages this has gone up a lot though Fire Cages would do the same for any other ranged set. But having done a recent Manticore TF it was noticeable. Go in invisible with superspeed with the stealth IO, cast Dreadful Wail. Cast Screech whose Disorient stacks with Dreadful Wail's. That's one of the annoying bosses who pops a T9 now CCed until death. Fight another of those annoying bosses. At around 20% use Shockwave so it flops down instead of activating its T9. Once I have leveled the character more and put it through its paces I'll make a write up for Sunsette.

Ugh, don't get me started on capping Bio to smash (and the rest really). Such contortions I had to make in my last sonic/bio to even get to 40%. But in that particular example she has the tools to keep mobs at range (slotted fire cages with sonic is a thing of beaaaaauty!).

Ah, reading comprehension is not my forte.

I used Waterfox in the past, but because of such small niggles eventually I went back to Firefox. If it works it works and that's good enough for my casual internet self.

Oh. Good show my indeterminate gendered internet person. I'm pretty old school and was just copying the URL which had been turned into a mp4. Now that you mentioned it I went and checked, and hello, a gif version link was provided. It works!! Case solved, Dr Watson.

https://i.imgur.com/ag6kZ1B.mp4 That's not an image though. Right click that image and choose image location, then try with that.

Alright, yes, copying directly into the post *does* work for images \o/ What tripped me up is the fact imgur converts an animated gif into an mp4 which does not work. I'm not quite sure how to work this since they were my usual image sharing service.

I use Firefox and it does not work for me. I insert the URL and click Insert Into Post but nothing happens.

So it sort of averages as a 30% boost with offensive's raw damage boost *and* the toxic damage tick. Not as much as I thought but still pretty good.

Those percentages include the damage boost from Offensive or just the toxic damage? Sunsette mentioned the actual numbers from Offensive being actually 12.5% rather than the proclaimed 25%.

Insert other Media - Insert Image from URL does not seem to work. At first I thought it was because it was an animated gif that imgur had turned into an mp4, but when I tried with a .png it also did not work. Perhaps an option to load from the computer instead of an url would be good too.

I will have to get to 50 and test some more. But I like this character so much it may finally have cured my altitism.

If there is one thing that being slot starved has shown me is that the gains from Hover are so small that we can leave it with just the LotG 7.5%. Now if we are *not* slot starved then some extra set bonuses won't go amiss, but I don't know what it is not to be slot starved anymore (maybe I should stick to sets like SR 😄 ).

Weak sauce. If you go to the trouble of writing a guide why not make it a complete one? 'Grab vidiot' is good advice, but hardly where it could have ended. As someone who did the leg work of the accolades yesterday (and hadn't done it in a decade) I was reminded of how the badge part of one accolade will send us to one zone, and then the plaques part of another will have us return to it. So a better way of doing it would have been to copy from Wiki the locations for each zone to ensure there is no back and forth for the people who are here... looking for a guide.

Do you know those builds that are great but come with a warning sticker 'it only really starts at level 32/38/when you're 50 and IOed to the gills'? This is not one of those. So, Sonic/Bio. Undoubtedly a good choice for the -res and t-.. NOPE! Yeah, it does -res and its good, but not *that* good on a Sentinel. No, it's Sonic for the... AoE 😄 By level 18 we have three cones. One of them is a Sleep, one is a KB, and one is pure damage. By level 18 we also have access to the Sudden Acceleration KB>KD IO which turns the KB cone into a useful tool, and also Force Feedback since we are starved for recharge at that level. The AoE is *nuts*. Open with the KB-turned-KD cone (Shockwave), mobs fall on their rear. Throw the damage cone (Howl), damage is done. Throw the Sleep cone (Siren's Song), *more* damage is done *and* all/most of the mobs are now sleeping. At the low levels there is now a gap. Use your T2 for Defensive Opportunity. That's it, your two first cones are back up. ONCE MORE TO AOE-LAND WE GO! By level 25 I noticed I could throw myself as tank in a full TF and was *thriving*. The secret ingredient is Defensive Opportunity. The heal is small, but we are cycling AoEs and suddenly every mob we hit is recharging endurance and filling our HP bar while we keep them either flopping or napping. A *single* cone refills our Opportunity bar from zero to max but if badly positioned then two will do, and we are back at healing up while throwing out CC-baked-in AoEs. Now, if we look at Pines the damage does not look like much as befits quick recharging AoEs (that role is saved for Dreadful Wail). 105 damage for the so called damage cone? 81 for the KD cone? But Pines does not take in consideration Bio's 50% 30%-ish (courtesy of @drbuzzard's testing, 25% from offensive + toxic damage tick) plus the sonic res, which, really isn't much, but it's there and stacking on itself. Pines shows Dreadful Wail as doing 406 damage with Amplify but with Bio's 30%-ish it's now 527. My Elec stalker has Pines showing Lightning Rod doing 697 damage with Build-Up, for example, but it does not have CC baked in nor does he get to sit down and then do a pure AoE cycle until everything is killed. A slight revising. The Stalker had the Gaussian BU in Aim which Pines accounts for. With the same BU proc on Aim on the Sonic which I had not placed in the original numbers, plus Bio's Offensive Adaptation, our T9 goes up to... 694 damage. Not shabby. Actually /Bio does not add that much. Testing with Fire/ showed an increase that changed according to the skills used with as low as 8% for the nuke. I did not test for Sonic though, but no reason to believe it is different. The weak point of cones is that mobs come to us, and then we need to hop back (or hop up) and get some distance . But this is solved at level 35 where we drop the sleep cone due to being the lowest damage, the shortest range *and* not having a -res component attached to it. Instead we grab Fire Cages. It gives some much needed set bonuses, it doesn't do much damage (though Bio and the -res of the other cones helps), but it keeps mobs in one place for the cones. It also recharges fast enough to be a near gapless cycling of AoE between it and the two other AoEs. In the ST department Screech (coming at level 26), Scream and Shriek are enough for a gapless chain (until 26 alternate the cones for a filler), all fed by Bio and the stacking -res. Screech's baked in Stun is always good (and guess what it stacks with? It rhymes with mail) but not a novelty in Sentinel builds. Still, bosses will be stunned and stay stunned in the first five seconds or less of combat. My current ST chain is Scream, Screech, Scream, Shriek. Defenses are always difficult to work in Sentinel Bio, so I aimed at 40% with the intention of using Barrier Core Epiphany to fill up the last 5% (Barrier defense/resistance dwindles over time, but we will always have a minimum of 5% defense even at very end of its use). The 'this is the most fun I have had' comes up often in these forums but I will for once join in. The constant AoE really made this a fun leveling process. The cycling of cones and Defensive Opportunity coupled with proactive Ablative Carapace allowed me to just go in and start smacking packs early on. I have not felt the need for Parasitic Leech, but for those who want to take it or don't want Flight/Afterburner it's an option. Athletic Regulation also has defense debuff resistance and requires no slots, making it the smart option, but I do love flying, and flying requires Afterburner, so it's my one non min-maxed sin in the build. Leveling build pre-35, or, how *I* leveled it. Don't take the slot levels as gospel and fill up what you feel you need the most. In my case the AoEs took precedence and I went all the way into 30s+ without slotting my heals or shields more than the base slot. Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.962 http://www.cohplanner.com/ Click this DataLink to open the build! Complete Build pos-35. Just slowly buy all the expensive crap and slot up at your own pace: Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.962 http://www.cohplanner.com/ Click this DataLink to open the build! If there is any conflict with the planner I'm using Mid's Reborn (https://forums.homecomingservers.com/index.php/topic,6298.0.html).

Since no one bit i'll post my own. It's not min-maxed since I took Aid Self and Flight/Afterburner, but just change to something else you want: | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1444;657;1314;HEX;| |78DA65944B4F534114C7E7D25B4B4BCB431E054A5BCAABA595D20A1B5F71216862C| |0903471E303AEED0837DE00694B023E162EDC9868D48D1B9F89CF8D5F4504FD0E6E| |7C7C837AB8FF3F607227B9F9CDFCE79C3967CECC9DF9CD99F0970BF7CF2A2372CEB| |16AB5C552DD726EE96AE09255DFA85A8E4F490BC897E0C4E2BC76B4CECF3ABA5CAF| |DA65CB8170303DA36FEAD59ACE97566CED54F6872ABCB0B6E6E4E7B4B56EAF2E87D| |C41695DEB4AC4EDCEEB8A5DB6573546E7EDE595BA98F5CDAEDBE5FCFEC2A5B50D89| |65D5EABABAD52B098DCAF730A8D81AA65A12144DD564911A34CB6405BC92161AAE4| |F93EA365CED4817D90E2E8A8D411B8336CDB469A6CD55B1F1C1C6EF0B410BB580E1| |3019015B5BC936F091E4ED87AFE9DFF6B95AFB0E787497FC0E76FD001F8B4F80F10| |2EF9A30F71EECF9407E047B3F919FC1EB926B90BEC101C68B8A1037557F12E3FE04| |383048A6C0A89C7E0B6AAC5A32A8618F6811D627C2FA24589F04EB734D62B6D1AF2| |D05BF27B2870E9E57470EB925D2E060861C27B3E092ACD3E91E464375729D2189DF| |8DF846776E4F0BAA149990B928E3461BD2D45389DA07C5DFF7C2745748BD255F82C| |3AFC8D760F10D6849F41822A918779A940871AE17673587E3E0480C198EB09A23AC| |EE18ABFA4C7249D237B98918635BE46D307D87BC4BDE036F482E43F41D3A81EA8C9| |F214F92A7C0EC69F201F8D3873F66CF77F42B72CCEE80C7B6C96FE42E3831819C0D| |D96F8615CDB815F58992E37DCA4DC26AE2385900278BE414390D9AE29BE7DDC9B3A| |245DE9D22EF4E59765A60C4821B31661EFCE98D81C3FEDE5066B31EA5E0518A1E65| |CAA34C7B94398FB260F2F910C5709560BBBC04CCED57E8E0E5E0EC9F43C5302E4A2| |72DEFC465ECF3B7C7FAEFFFCA739CDD3FBC34E669| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Holy crap, I decided to try Sonic after looking at the AoEs listed here... and IT IS GOOD! I will make a build and post about it, but my lord, it's rocking my sox.

On my own water/rad posted a bit below I tried KO Blow from the shark school to help with ST damage, you could try that. It hits like a truck.

I see four cones mentioned in Sonic, but isn't at least one just a sleep? Or are they all damage AoEs?

No reason behind it. It's not a perfect examplar build where powers and slots are carefully level tailored. It's a level 50 respec aiming for certain figures.

Aid-Self is a 30% (on my stalker who has 1600HP it heals 466HP) heal on a 6 second cooldown. Calling it bad is a bit headscratchy. Yes, it needs uninterrupt IOs, yes, it cannot be used on caltrops or fire patch or when DoTs are up, yes it works (a lot) better on a defense based build. If any of these three is up then insps or the medpacks.

It's because I'm using Mids Reborn instead of Pines. https://forums.homecomingservers.com/index.php/topic,6298.0.html | Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Reborn to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1465;670;1340;HEX;| |78DA6594DB4F134114C6CF74B7D6522AF79BDC5BEED06D2BA88F8A0A260A494BC15| |7B2299BD2A4A1CD52A33CFAAE896F268AA01115D4F8AF78FB137C16F4C10BFAB09E| |DDF31548BAC9EE6FE69B3973BE39B3BBF377AFD5BEBF7EEF12A9F0D582B9BEBE7C8| |59F65CBF6CF9BB97C96DC2BC0772BE4E505732D67AD18D37676D5B2377A2A72E676| |A954B4CBC6A2992DE7B3666179DAB68B7728942A160BC66C219F5B2DD778ED4CC9B| |256C222BB6A7E2D57E7F5E62C73C5B2D757F3A58E99523E6B54569E37B3163FDCF6| |463B3B19E6BB9B2A97E3A7A48F28A9932F01C685BA01C684A736DD609D664247B13| |AA53096169E5E009784358BC21E9EAD904FF9754F3BA3834A58EF0335612309835C| |3ECD0B76486B519ED6CB3D3F3CF8DFC9BCE637E09EB0F52DB82B0C05E424DC75025| |1F2B4ED21A2A0ACAD82E3A2B583FD8C103C87A6641FEDE7856727C18BC2AE0BE057| |C945AD4461E40AC3731FF7EA2497BFEE25EAF21ADC0377847DAFC05D6184A31AE0A| |5E18BF8EB8B69E2F333FC7E043F08A39F84CF798F4DC8DB94112FD125302D1CB82F| |79061E800F91970BD682FAB4A02E436094C7DA702E6D4199BFC5B93AE0B3E3A7684| |3BFC0DFC2E13FE021F857787994A813EB75C624870A54DE5587BA1DBE6880DBBDC8| |D0FB582A30FA04DC049F0AC7B6C06DE10B7617416C04EEC6E02E067731B88BC15D1| |CEE76387610EE0671A21ABB1B11CD37E296A25BA78973926BE250D8C073C651C171| |C44D340B751E33644C333016BF297171CC49D60BFFD51325902BB12F739207E00F6| |1977EF4656A946244F80B4C0B6B17C08CB05FAF7C928E33761CE776B9CA892A2559| |A54C56295355CADC71162829FDE84F40CA5382BC334D14E75B0D8FAA93A307C78A5| |23794F7076ABC25B5DEAF9AFDFDA4F2484EEE591303EBAB366E63D7FF0137A8E7B0| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

I can't say if it does work consistently. I know it does on Bonfire and Tornado, Carrion Crawlers too, and the recharge goes to us, not the pseudo pet. I'll make an effort to finish leveling and tricking out this build and see how it behaves.

Some good accomplishments there, though once incarnates, lore pets and temp powers come in I think any AT could do the same and not so much sentinels. But I haven't leveled anything to 50 less alone pick incarnates and solo the stuff you've done, so hey :D