Bionic_Flea

I agree with everything Sandwich says!

It's your build. Make it to suit you. I just tossed some ideas your way and made changes to your initial build to something that would suit me. There are almost always painful choices to make when you have limited power and slotting selections. The shark I was talking about was the AoE Cone immobilize, School of Sharks. A group of sharks get launched from you to target and then swim in a circle. If you have Whirlpool going it looks like they are swimming in the pool. Spirit Shark Jaws is a single target hold that looks like a single giant Great White breaching up from the ground. It can look like its coming from the whirlpool if active, but its animation is over in a second while the school lingers a bit longer. I have School of Sharks, Shark Skin, and Hibernate on my Water/Storm Corrupter but Scorpion Shield with other stuff on my Poison/Water. I have never taken Neurotoxic Breath on any poison because a narrow cone slow with only 25% chance of a mag 2 hold doesn't seem worth it to me. But again, that's me. You gotta make what you like.

How does this look? More expensive for sure, but it looks good to me. I took out stealth because most of the defense it's granting you suppresses in combat -- any attack you make, blinkie you click, or critter that attacks you makes most of that defense go bye-bye. I added back Antidote and Alkaloid so you can at least pretend to heal and buff teammates and your Coralax pet. They also mule some nice globals IOs for you.

I took Agility Core (defense and recharge), Diagmagnetic Core (additional debuffing), Cryonic Core (seemed thematic with Water), Clarion Radial ( mez resistance as well as boosts to defense and special) and Support Radial (defense, damage, special)

Yeah, should be in the global tab unless you edited it.

JJD, just hopping in to say I think it's great you lost so much weight! Keep it up!

Yeah, you have to set it before going in, just like you would for a mission or TF.

Everybody gets to play on whatever server they prefer as long they follow the rules of that server. Let's not get into a server dispute, those never end well.

Scorpion Shield is a classic choice to get your defender to softcap defense to S/L and possibly E. Another thematic option is Leviathan Mastery - You can have Sharks circling in your whirlpool and it traps things there! You can also pick up Hibernate for an "Oh crap!" save, Shark Skin for S/L/C resist, and a very procable Hold in Spirit Shark Jaws

Thanks for the update!

Did you look for error messages?

No. It's supposed to teleport you to whatever you have targeted in your reticle, be that a teammate, NPC, or even certain items (blinkies and destructible ones). But if you have nothing targeted then its supposed to take you as far as it can in the direction you are facing. The target part I generally use to do a surprise nuke or AoE control in the middle of a group. Sometimes I also use a different macro to find a certain thing and then TP to target. The camera:max part is mainly for traveling across zones or large distances indoors.

It seems to be working fine now. Thanks everyone!

I recommend that you download the hero designer from Midsreborn.com. That will let you choose any AT, powersets, powers, slots, and enhancements and see what the numbers for all your attributes will be. How much damage will a power do, how quick will it recharge, how much defense you will have, etc. After you play around with it, you can post a build that you made and let build gurus have a look and suggest possible changes to make you even better! Here's a thread with three similar builds made with MidsReborn. They look pretty good, but expensive. Still that gives you a good idea of how to slot and something to shoot for.

I tried adding an exception last night and again just now on Avast. Still gets blocked.

Interesting side effect is that a corrupter can drop an Emp Arrow on a crowd and they don't even notice.

Are you getting any error message? If target's too far or blocked it won't work. If not, not sure why it wouldn't work. Looks identical to mine.

How about just replacing one of the recharge with Gaussian proc? How much of a difference in time are we talking about? Less than 5 seconds, I think.

I'll be your friend DC5! Seriously, hit me up in game. I play almost exclusively on Excelsior but I could always transfer or make an alt.

Hey Hyper, you're a professional techy-type person, do you have any suggestions or advice other than disable or get rid of Avast?

Hmmm . . . maybe it's Windows in conjunction with Avast? I just updated my Windows yesterday, not long before the problem started.

About an hour ago, Avast started blocking the forums completely as a phishing site. Even adding https://forums.homecomingservers.com to the whitelist on my end still blocks it. The only way I was able to get here was to turn off the Avast online security extension in Firefox. I checked Chrome to see if it was a Firefox thing, but I was getting blocked there too. Anything you guys can do on your end to fix the site's reputation with Avast? Any suggestions for me?

Nope. Why should I avoid anything that's beneficial? I may not chase capping fire resistance or soft-capping fire defense on any particular character but I still try to have at least some of one, the other or both.

First, I disagree with your premise. This community, by and large, does care about new players and is very willing to teach them "the ropes". So I can't tell you "why." Second, may I suggest that if you are learning the ropes you may want to join teams instead of leading them. There's nothing wrong with leading teams. In fact, I generally encourage people to do so. But if you are still learning the game it might be helpful to you to see how others play. If you do that, you would find that PUG teams are like that not just for you, but for everyone. People join and then leave for all sorts of reasons -- real life, to play with a friend that just logged on, to join another team doing something else that they'd rather do, whatever. This is especially true when running radio missions. People will generally stay for the entire Task Force or Trial; although even then people do leave for all the reasons listed above and more. To a lesser extent, they might stay together for a story arc just to see the end of the story or get a badge at the end, if any. But radio missions have no built in reason for people to stay. So they don't. If you want teams that stick together longer, you may want to search on the forums for individual servers to find SGs (SuperGroups - sort of like Justice League or The Avengers) or a themed team that sometimes start together at level 1 and play all archers, or all defenders, or fire/rad controllers . . . all sorts of different synergistic teams that play regularly together. Third, if you really think that the world doesn't care and that everyone is rude and abusive, and you aren't just being overly dramatic to make a point, may I humbly and respectfully suggest that you talk to a professional - a doctor, psychologist, even clergy. Someone that can listen and offer better advice than a forum for players of a superhero game.