Psyonico

When you've got perma-PA, Spectral Terror isn't an every fight thing like it is when you don't have it. However, Spectral Terror *is* useful for over aggroing. If you are planning on exemplaring regularly, I would suggest getting Deceive in before 38. I made just a couple changes to your build to fit in EMP arrow. I dropped Tarantula and moved a couple slots around to get enough slots into EMP arrow. It still requires Spiritual to get perma PA, but it gives you everything you need.

This has really gotten me thinking. Thanks to Flash Arrow's unresistable debuff (at least 1/2 of it is) getting perma PA and effectively capped S/L/E defense is possible. I've decided to re-work my build to fit in Scorpion Shield and Tough/Weave without losing any recharge. I'm thinking I'm going to work toward this build instead of what I previously posted.

Depending on what you're trying to do, that few seconds can be the difference between living and dying. As for the build; If you throw in Spiritual Core Paragon, you've got Perma PA. However, I noticed you skipped Flash, Poison Gas Arrow, and EMP Arrow. PGA and EMP (once it gets fixed) are really great powers, Flash, some people love it, others hate it. I can see why you skipped them, as with Flash Arrow you've got capped S/L/E Defense, but the damage mitigation both PGA/EMP provide is excellent. Here is my Ill/TA for comparison, nowhere near as much defense, but has a bit more global recharge.

/Dark Melee is another good choice depending on your primary. Dark has a self heal that can fill the hole that (for example) shield has.

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I'd say the concern is burn-in if you're playing for long periods at a time.

Now I'm confused... Are you saying that controllers can't solo level 54 AVs without damage mitigation? I'd say that's pretty much a given. I chose my illusion/storm over my illusion/dark because of the comment you made about to-hit debuffs being helpful when you aren't at capped defense, the concept is the same though... PA doing the tanking and some damage while I whittle away with tar patch, blind, spectral wounds, with howling Twilight there to do a good chunk of -Regen. If, however that is still out of the scope of what you're looking for, I suspect a dark/energy perma-dom would be a good choice. I can't crunch the numbers right now, but I suspect with power boost and clarion radial you could get the ~10 stacked confuses needed to confuse through PToD, then your pets could (slowly) whittle away at the AV while you basically just keep confusing it and throwing in an attack randomly when you aren't casting confuse/hasten/PB/clarion/domination

I'm surprised it took this long for someone to post this video.

1. you're moving the goalpost, you said you can't do it without capped defense/to-hit debuffs, I showed you it's possible. 2. I put up all my defense numbers on the right hand side of the video (I forgot my toggles at the beginning of the fight, so they were lower than what they were after I turned them on)

Ok, to make things go a little faster, I slotted a Degenerative Interface.

Fine, I just soloed (edit: at 54) Chimera on my Illusion/Storm with just an Alpha and a Destiny slotted, not capped defense, and did not use hurricane. It took me about 14 minutes to do and for some reason it didn't record correctly, otherwise I'd upload the video proof of it. I'll play around with my settings and do it again later.

Looks like you've over slotted for accuracy at the expense of Damage and End Redux, which is where your problem is. You also don't have a Numina unique slotted, which will help a little. I've made just a couple of small changes to the build which should help with endurance without sacrificing much. Dark has no Defense Debuff Resistance, so Ageless Radial is generally a good idea to fix that, it will also fill up your endurance bar every 2 minutes if you are still having problems.

My Illusion/Dark soloed Arbiter Sands in the MLTF without defense at the soft cap, I probably would solo the Maria Arc as AVs but I did it before I was fully built out and the flashback version is only EBs, even with AVs turned on, when you're solo.

I've gone up to 801.7, which is all EBs... my Stone/Dark tank, probably my sturdiest tank against non-psi damage, was the last one standing in the team most of the time, but would go down pretty quickly if the rest of the team wiped.

Have you tried @Linea's 801 AE Content? most of the higher difficulty ones will wipe a tank without decent (de)buffs on the team.

https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/The_Center

Regen gets nerfed!

Earth Control doesn't need a buff, so I don't see why the animation time would change

I believe it is the same

Willpower has the same thing.

Illusion is fine for group play. You don't have quite as much lock-down as a set like earth, but you're still going to contribute a lot.

I like Fire/Fire, though I will admit, it's very much a kill-or-be-killed set up. I suspect that will be different once I have his build complete (he's only level 43 or 44 right now).

How do procs work in Distortion Field? I would think they wouldn't have a great chance to proc, meaning it may not be worth putting them in there. I like your build a lot, though I question skipping Flash and Temporal Selection. I suppose with Perma-PA you probably don't need Flash, but Temporal Selection is kind of a beast of a power. I also personally prefer taking travel powers earlier. Here's my take on an Ill/Time, has perma PA without relying on a Force Feedback proc. This is purely a hypothetical build, as I don't have one myself.

This is the same person who believes "dedicated" ATs are better than people who take and use their secondary.

Here is my Stone/Spines build, basically negates all of the penalties of granite (except for the -jump/fly). Should be fast enough out of rooted for you, and if not, that's what Teleport is for.