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I mean...its at 92.5% damage slotted? I wouldn't personally want to drop Call Hawk, it does huge damage with all those procs in it.

Dont need Achilles in them, its in Ravens 🙂 Issue with spore cloud is it generates a huge amount of aggro. Sure, they have some debuff on them, but everything now wants to kill you. I can see the argument for Entangling Aura, could drop spores for it tbf. Slot 5 Unbreaks and a +2mag proc. Find the slot from somewhere else.

Here is a build for you along with some explanations about why I have picked and slotted in the way I have. Mastermind (Beast Mastery - Nature Affinity).mbd Firstly, I selected sorcery because I saw you mentioned that elsewhere. I didn't have the power picks or slots available to truly invest into this pool fully, but I did manage to grab 2 slots into Spirit Ward with x3 Heal/End HamiO's which gives you an extra absorb toggle you can throw onto your Dire Wolf to keep him healthy. I have picked up a bunch of personal attacks which you can use to help your pack out. Please note the slotting here is leaning fully into damage procs which is the correct way to slot MM attacks for beast as it significantly boosts the damage output (vs just 5 or 6 slotting a set) Call Hawk, Energy Torrent and Explosive Blast all have Force feedback +Rech procs which you will have really strong uptime on and therefore you should be able to maintain perma uptime on your really important buffs (which your survival will depend on) Wild Bastion and Overgrowth. I have put the Panacea +HP/+End proc into Lifegiving spores, this then gives everyone who stands in the patch (including you and your pets) a chance to receive the proc which is a much better use than just slotting it into health where only you get to receive the benefit. You must slot all the pet uniques, which this build does. Dire Wolf has a damage proc from the slow category because a lot of his powers do slow and Overwhelming Force KD proc in your T1 pets is fairly common practice because then you have 3 pets giving you regular KD soft control. Strongly recommend getting your 4 passive +MaxHP and +MaxEnd accolades too, the extra tankiness and sustain is really important. Any questions please fire away 🙂

Below are two builds which you are free too look over, I will outline my choices and why below. Both builds are with Vigor (healing/accuracy/endurance redux) in the alpha slot but I haven't left this active in Mids because it plays havoc with the accuracy numbers of powers, just know once you have it slotted your powers will be 95% chance to hit. Soul Mastery Build Defender (Empathy - Rad Blast - Power Boost).mbd Gives you access to Power Boost. This is for using before Fortitude if you want to really supercharge someone's defense (and tohit) -> w/o PB 23.79% def (18.75% tohit) and w/ PB active you can achieve 38.54% def (37.19% tohit) It also comes with Soul Drain + a %Build Up proc, which is great to jump into a mob and fire off before going nuclear with Atomic Blast. Your DPS comes from loading your blasts with damage procs. Proton Volley is your strongest attack as it can take 5 damage procs and will hit like a truck. Cosmic Burst is the same, but it does have a noticeably longer animation time. X-Ray Beam is cheap and cheerful, can be woven in between each volley and burst to keep the attacks flowing. AoE is handled with Irradiate and Neutron Bomb spam after opening with Soul Drain + Atomic Blast. There is a Winter KD proc in atomic blast which will be great soft control and 2x -res procs which will ensure your 1-2 punch of Neutron bomb and Irradiate hit much much harder. Hasten is perma. Fire Mastery BuildDefender (Empathy - Rad Blast - DPS).mbd This is your DPS option if you want to do more damage instead of being able to super charge your fortitude buffs (this is the route I would personally take) You now get access to 2 crazy proc-bomb attacks in Char and Fire Sword Soul Drain is replaced with Aim still with a build up proc Cosmic Burst is replaced with Char, which gives you access to the purple hold proc and you gain GFS which then gives you access to the purple melee proc X-ray beam loses its damage procs to keep the global recharge and it now recharges faster than it casts, so if you have nothing else to do and have powers on CD, you can literally spam this as much as you wish. *Both builds have Burnout, which can be really useful in AV fights allowing you to use Adrenaline boost on 2 high damage teammates *The 4 passive accolades are REALLY important, please collect them if you haven't already done so

That is a fair and frankly more reasonable way to look at it. Everything you could want is almost handed to you vs live. Like now, if you want a PVP, you just play the game. They drop and you can convert very easily. Back on live they were almost impossible for the common player to get their hands on. Also, I seem to recall converters only being available from hero merits back when they first came out? Am I wrong with that? I recall suddenly doing alignments on loads of toons just to get my HMerit to get converters. I also did a lot of ticket farming and rolling lvl 30-34 bronze rolls to try snag steadfast uniques. Its just all stuff that is really unnecessary today because it's all so much easier. I am looking at this through the rose tinted spectacles of Winter Pack IO sales, so if that wasn't a thing, I certainly would have had to do a LOT more market work than I did back 3-4 years ago.

Utterly stupid take. A 5x set of Hecatomb back on live used to cost 600M, does it now cost 600M? Steadfast 3% unique used to cost 60M, does it now cost 600M? Does it cost you 2-3B to get a Gladiator Unique?

I am still sold on making Dark Extraction a PBAOE and it summons a pet for every dead body around you for a set period of time. (maybe give the option for team tp clone to port the new army of fluffies around)

a subzero build from the discord, should come join us over there its way better than the forums XD Controller (Pyrotechnic Control - Poison).mbd

That's not quite what I'm saying. It being an bug/unintended is irrelevant to the point that Khelds are poopoo and changeling currently overcomes that hurdle. Obviously, if they can fix the AT and we no longer need to spam 5 attacks a second, that's fine by me. But the potential fixes are in the future, and now currently there is a solution and it's Changeling.

Well currently Changeling provides more damage 🤷‍♂️ so there is a solution currently, its just not universally loved.

This is what you're looking for:Controller (Symphony Control - Marine Affinity).mbd

I think those builds are questionable at best. Blizzard taken at lvl 49 with 3 damage/recharge HOs? There are so many inefficiencies its hard to say where to begin with them.

This thread is for all ATs, its just always been in the scrapper forums both here and on live.

Welcome to playing a set that got nuked

I would run something like this: Aimed for S/L/E resist cap with as close to the 1606 hp cap as I could get. Recharge is taken care of by 3x FFB procs which will be getting spammed anyway Vigor to help with endurance management alongside Power Sink Both ATO procs in Direct Strike will give you some HP sustain Reasonable Slow resists to shrug off the debuffs that might slow your summoning down (would probably pair with Ageless Radial to give you more endurance sustain and recharge/recharge resists) Defender (Storm Summoning - Storm Blast).mbd

100% what gyyv said.

FYI, from i27p6 "Weapon powers now play a draw animation the first time you use a weapon after your character is has been in an idle / non-combat animation. With typical mission pacing, this should mean each weapon will only play its draw animation the first time you use it in combat on a mission map, unless you idle somewhere on the map for long enough for your character to return to the idle state." So don't worry about redraw, its a non-issue. Assault Rifle/Tactical Arrow is a really strong all ranged blaster option that is quite popular if you wanted to play a pure damage role.

That must be an ego hit

because combat jumping is amazing?

I would argue Acc/dam acc/dam/end from winter IOs and then a Overwhelming Force Dam/KD proc and 3 procs. Then you get extra soft control on tap

Yeah, but ninjas on meth is funny. I like my ninja/kin because warp speed ninjas at the damage cap is hilarious, I just have to keep it to +0 or +1 for them to survive. If they removed the level discrepancies found in the the pets, I would love my ninja/kin even more.

you'll find everything you need in here.

I'm not overly rich or overly poor. I am ok regarding Purples, I have 4 bins worth in my personal SG with a maybe 150-200 IOs in it? I have another SG base just for my Winter IO bins, I have 8 bins for both regular and superior. I have about 35-40B in liquid assets. Could probably fund another 10-20B if I stripped my accounts of the largely unplayed toons. To many I would probably appear rich. I literally spend 95% of my time playing either of my Warshades on either Torch or Excel. Its all largely immaterial as I really cba to make and level and play new toons. Thing is, I still don't feel rich. I don't actively work the market, so my resources are dwindling every time I "spend" them. So I am really frugal despite what I have. Maybe if I had another 100-200B I would feel like I have the funds to just play and make what I want. *shrug* I guess I don't feel rich enough to do that atm because I could get through that wealth if I slotted everything I could think of playing.

100% second this. My standard orders for attacks fired for a generic PI radio team with arbitrary team comp is vastly different to my attack orders hitting Hamidon on a perma 300% recharge in a full league. In fact I cannot physically go fast enough to keep up.

Mash. With priority given to the highest DPA attacks.