Bionic_Flea

*Puts a virus in a worm inside of a Trojan horse.*

I appreciate your compiling and openly sharing your data. But why do you only sell complete sets? Is there some advantage I'm not seeing? Obsessive-compulsive mandates? Selling to individuals off market?

*Reserves Ukasic Flea*

That's when I read the Crucible. Or maybe it was junior high. 1979ish.

John Procter said, "More weight." Or maybe it was "More, wait"

My prior attempt at a build did go with Total Domination, Ice Mastery's Hibernate, Frozen Armor, and a well slotted Ice Storm. But I just didn't have enough slots. And part of the concept of this character is Sleep with Classic Sandman/Neil Gaiman Sandman/Marvel's Nightmare costumes. So I needed all the sleeps. I would have loved to have taken Total Domination and six slotted it, and thrown more slots into Flash Arrow, Glue Arrow, Mesmerize, Levitate, Entangling Arrow, and keep that deliciously slotted Ice Storm that would have done tons of damage. But I only have so many powers and slots. I had Total Dom on the prior build but I decided I preferred the slots to the power. Telekinesis is just there as a final one hit wonder pick. One of the benefits of Scorpion Shield, other than the defense, is that you can pick it without any prerequisites I might have to reconsider my mass hypnosis slotting. I had forgotten that recent change. Mids still allows the slotting of acc and obviously the sets include accuracy. But it might be worth using those slots elsewhere. I am now level 21 and it's been fun. I can Flash and Sleep large groups then pick a few off at a time with my other attacks and a confused helper. It's slow but fairly safe.

Thanks, Uber. If you ever need a buck or two to keep it running, let me know.

Thanks. That's good advice. Except I think I will keep the Confuse slotting as is, as I am leveling up doing TFs and arcs and it's nice having those set bonuses early. And I wouldn't be able to slot the purple set until 50. So your suggestion might be better for exemping but I think my set up is better for leveling. But I did play around with the slotting of Oil Slick and ended up with Bombardment Fire proc, Positron's Energy Proc, and Javelin Volley Lethal Proc with 58 Acc/ 91 Dam/ 58 End/ 37 Rech and that ends up doing average 726 damage every 70 seconds at a cost of 9.7 endurance (Using Mids Numbers). If I did the calculations right I should still be at 90% cap at activation. I could squeeze out more damage, more recharge, or better endurance, but I think I came out with a good balance for all three.

Arise, ARISE dead thread! OK, now with that out of the way, I wanted to thank @Redlynne for the posted build and musings on Mind/TA. I was thinking about making a character with a lot of sleep powers and settled on Mind/TA. I was wracking my brain on making a build in Mids and it just wasn't working out. But I was able to merge mine with Redlynne's and then tuned it a little and came up with something I think will work for me. Here's my take on it. I'll let you know how it goes after I've played it a bit.

Taunt does have a duration, so it could be expiring. You might also have aggroed more than 17 critters and exceeded the cap. Taunt is also a multiplier that is part of the Threat formula that determines critter aggro: Threat = Damage * Debuff Mod * AT Mod * AI Mod * Range Mod * (TauntDurationRemaining * 1,000) (https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Threat). The Threat formula takes multiple factors into account, including an AT mod that IS reduced by stealth. However, while threat is reduced it is not eliminated. When I want to pull into the bowl on a tank I will taunt them and then hit them with an attack- judgment if possible - and continue switching targets to taunt and attack. I'll get 17 to follow me but more will come if some of those 17 are killed before the threat wears off. The threat formula is also why toggle debuffs are almost as good as taunt for herding. Edit- Doh! Beaten to the punch by Ironblade!

Luck of the Gambler, Hasten, ATOs, Purples, yadda, yadda, yadda . . . BOOM!! Perma Dom. Oh, and you want it to be on auto because it's a vicious cycle - fire enough attacks to get perma - now you have a brief, little boost to tohit, a full blue bar, mez protection, and the bigger badder mezzes. If domination, the inherent, recharges before it expires you keep all that going. If you let it expire you have to build up your bar again and lose mez protection and all the other stuff.

Take that filthy villain's money and give it to charity! I just so happen to run a charity for orphans and widows. I'm happy to help!

Flipper's not evil. That's his evil twin, Ripper.

The Flippers Association of Paragon (FAP) love you.

Laser beam eyes can take an Achilles -resist and Energy Torrent can take an Annihilation -resist

I give you . . . PACIFIC FLEA! Ice/Ice tanker - He gives his friends invisibility, taunts, provokes, and intimidates bad guys, then lays down Ice Patch and Whirlwind to keep everyone from fighting and getting hurt! When things get bad he can Hibernate, Phase Shift, Unrelenting, and Burnout to start it all again! (PS - another full set of either Mocking Beratement for more defense and recharge, or Perfect Zinger for another psi proc goes in Pacify. Mids wouldn't let me slot it, but I think it should be able to take taunt sets. If not, just shuffle slots elsewhere.)

I'd be OK with that on a character by character basis, like other Null options.

The little rings around powers, whatever colors they may be, make me feel that I should click it. I do have the freedom to click it or not. But the ring being there makes me think that the game is telling me I'm doing it wrong if I choose not to click it. You may think that I am silly for letting little rings give me an emotional response. It's true. I am a silly little bug that has spent a large chunk of my life playing an online super-hero game with strangers. What could be sillier?

Hedge, the first paragraph of your link says you can get V-merits by killing Rikti anywhere after obtaining the Vanguard badge. "A Vanguard Merit is a special salvage awarded for completion of tasks or defeat of Rikti in the Rikti War Zone as well as Rikti spawned from portals as part of the Rikti World Invasion event. Merits can also be earned by defeating Rikti elsewhere, such as in missions from contacts Steven Sheridan in Brickstown or Angus McQueen in Founders' Falls, or in the streets of Peregrine Island."

MSR is stupid, and possibly one of the dumbest designs in MMORPG history No, U!

Playing to level 13 is just too low to make a reasoned decision on a power set. I would say it takes until 50 and a full build, but at least until you have the last power in the set with a few slots.

*Hits BillZ with Super Tranq Dart; drags him away*

Wow! This was an all-hands-on-deck situation. I hope Zelene got her/his issue resolved.

Another potential culprit could be Reactive Defenses +scaling resist proc which adds 3% resist to all at base health.