Scarlet Shocker

Wombattery & Assault (hope it's not been done before) Mace, obviously

Perfect. Licence Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Theatre of Hate, Cramps etc and stuff... get some atmosphere going!

That's the point: Like the rest of this thread, you've been had! 🤣

Personally I'd like to see the entire Incarnates system done away with in its entirety, though I'd be ok with keeping the Itrials, even if slightly detuned to cope wtih the lack of slot boosts/level shifts. Except the execrable pile of repetitive dogshit that is TPN which can go do one. Preferably in @Snarky's crypt where it will never see the light of day again.

for those who like a visual representation rahter than raw stats

This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Voice of Scythia 2.0 b - PPP: Level 50 Magic Defender Primary Power Set: Trick Arrow Secondary Power Set: Sonic Attack Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Fighting Power Pool: Concealment Ancillary Pool: Leviathan Mastery Hero Profile: ------------ Level 1: Flash Arrow (A) Siphon Insight - Accuracy/ToHit Debuff (3) Siphon Insight - Chance for +ToHit Level 1: Shriek (A) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage (9) Superior Defender's Bastion - Damage/Recharge (9) Superior Defender's Bastion - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (11) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (11) Superior Defender's Bastion - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge (13) Superior Defender's Bastion - Recharge/Chance for Minor PBAoE Heal Level 2: Glue Arrow (A) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge Level 4: Hover (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (15) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (17) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All) (19) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage Level 6: Hasten (A) Recharge Reduction IO (13) Recharge Reduction IO Level 8: Kick (A) Force Feedback - Chance for +Recharge Level 10: Poison Gas Arrow (A) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep (15) Fortunata Hypnosis - Recharge/Accuracy (17) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Recharge/Accuracy (19) Fortunata Hypnosis - Chance for Placate Level 12: Howl (A) Annihilation - Accuracy/Damage (21) Annihilation - Damage/RechargeTime (23) Annihilation - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime (25) Annihilation - Chance for Res Debuff Level 14: Tough (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (25) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (27) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (27) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (29) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All) (29) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3% Level 16: Shockwave (A) Annihilation - Chance for Res Debuff (21) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown Level 18: Disruption Arrow (A) Recharge Reduction IO Level 20: Weave (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense (23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed (34) Kismet - Accuracy +6% Level 22: Shout (A) Superior Vigilant Assault - Accuracy/Damage (31) Superior Vigilant Assault - Damage/RechargeTime (31) Superior Vigilant Assault - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (31) Superior Vigilant Assault - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (33) Superior Vigilant Assault - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime (33) Superior Vigilant Assault - RechargeTime/PBAoE +Absorb Level 24: Oil Slick Arrow (A) Annihilation - Accuracy/Damage (36) Annihilation - Damage/RechargeTime (36) Pacing of the Turtle - Accuracy/Slow (37) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge (37) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff (37) Annihilation - Chance for Res Debuff Level 26: EMP Arrow (A) Superior Entomb - Accuracy/Hold (33) Superior Entomb - Recharge/Chance for +Absorb (34) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold (39) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold (39) Basilisk's Gaze - Chance for Recharge Slow Level 28: Amplify (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff (34) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up (39) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception Level 30: Dreadful Wail (A) Fury of the Gladiator - Accuracy/Damage (36) Fury of the Gladiator - Damage/Recharge (40) Fury of the Gladiator - Damage/Endurance/Recharge (42) Fury of the Gladiator - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge (43) Fury of the Gladiator - Accuracy/Damage/End/Rech (45) Fury of the Gladiator - Chance for Res Debuff Level 32: Ice Arrow (A) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold Level 35: Screech (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage (40) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime (40) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance (42) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge (42) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime (50) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge Level 38: Shark Skin (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance (43) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance (45) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime (45) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance (46) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime (46) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP Level 41: Spirit Shark Jaws (A) Lockdown - Accuracy/Hold (43) Lockdown - Chance for +2 Mag Hold Level 44: Summon Coralax (A) Soulbound Allegiance - Damage (46) Soulbound Allegiance - Damage/Recharge (48) Soulbound Allegiance - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy (48) Soulbound Allegiance - Chance for Build Up (48) Call to Arms - Defense Bonus Aura for Pets (50) Expedient Reinforcement - Resist Bonus Aura for Pets Level 47: Acid Arrow (A) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff (50) Annihilation - Chance for Res Debuff Level 49: Stealth (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed Level 1: Vigilance Level 1: Brawl (A) Empty Level 1: Sprint (A) Jumping IO Level 2: Rest (A) Empty Level 1: Swift (A) Flight Speed IO Level 1: Hurdle (A) Jumping IO Level 1: Health (A) Numina's Convalesence - Heal (3) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery (5) Miracle - +Recovery (5) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb Level 1: Stamina (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod (7) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End (7) Power Transfer - Chance to Heal Self Level 50: Vigor Radial Paragon ------------ ------------ Set Bonus Totals: 16.5% DamageBuff(Smashing) 16.5% DamageBuff(Lethal) 16.5% DamageBuff(Fire) 16.5% DamageBuff(Cold) 16.5% DamageBuff(Energy) 16.5% DamageBuff(Negative) 16.5% DamageBuff(Toxic) 16.5% DamageBuff(Psionic) 14.13% Defense(Smashing) 14.13% Defense(Lethal) 18.5% Defense(Fire) 18.5% Defense(Cold) 18.5% Defense(Energy) 18.5% Defense(Negative) 11% Defense(Toxic) 11% Defense(Psionic) 12.25% Defense(Melee) 13.5% Defense(Ranged) 13.5% Defense(AoE) 6.3% Max End 5% Enhancement(Max EnduranceDiscount) +37% Enhancement(Accuracy) +8% Enhancement(Heal) +10% Enhancement(Range) +42.5% Enhancement(RechargeTime) 21% SpeedFlying GrantPower Preventive Medicine (when PreventiveMedicine) 137.3 HP (13.5%) HitPoints 21% JumpHeight 21% SpeedJumping Knockback (Mag -3) Knockup (Mag -3) 76.25% MezResist(Confused) 76.25% MezResist(Held) 76.25% MezResist(Immobilized) 76.25% MezResist(Sleep) 76.25% MezResist(Stunned) 76.25% MezResist(Terrorized) 200% MezResist(Teleport) (20% chance) 20% (100ft) PerceptionRadius 8% (0.13 End/sec) Recovery 58% (2.46 HP/sec) Regeneration 15% ResEffect(SpeedFlying) 15% ResEffect(RechargeTime) 15% ResEffect(SpeedRunning) 18% Resistance(Smashing) 45% Resistance(Fire) 45% Resistance(Cold) 27% Resistance(Energy) 27% Resistance(Negative) 27.75% Resistance(Toxic) 27.75% Resistance(Psionic) 18% Resistance(Lethal) 21% SpeedRunning

I am having a shit ton of fun with this one. It's amazing, robust, strong and oodles of entertainment. I've only ever been able to take out Ritki Pylons on a few toons but I tried this and did it with ease. She doesn't do a huge amount of DPS but barely takes damage unless somebody can get past all her mitigations or drain her end entirely (and even then it's not impossible for her to fight back and win the day, with the use of a couple of strategic insps) - so really survivable and robust, with enough damage to take down a lot. I actually need to find some new challenges for her - so I'm open to your suggestions. I'll post her build below as best I can but I wanna say thanks to all of you for your various advices on things defendery, because she's a tonne of fun and is now up there as one of my core HC characters. I should add that she's T3 on most of her Incarnate slots with only Vigor at T4 (I started on Cardiac and realised I didn't need it) Anyone fancy helping me Duo the lvl 45 TFs?

I don't have a problem with how people play the DFB so much as the fact that DFB exists. This means that it's very very difficult to get a low level mission team to run, you know, actual content, and get up to a reasonable level quickly and easily with some good companionship. This game isn't hard, and there's a lot of amazing content out there that simply doesn't get played any more because people whizz past it. But it's not so much fun to solo, so one is forced into a situation where we either PL to incarnate level or take the path less travelled which becomes a grind. Personally I would make DFB an exclusive mission: Run it once after you've created your character and then you're locked out (kind of like training missions) - I'd remove all XP from the AE - so that folks could enjoy creating and playing original stories - and then delete XP boosters from the P2W I know that is somewhat heretical, but it would force folks to play the game rather than to endlessly loop PLing to 50.

We need to be able to choose hats for Animal heads, which doesn't currently seem possible. I would also dearly love to have 2 VEAT costume slots for every veat character even if it's just a "hat on/hat off" option

I could have, but if I'd done that I'd have two wasted slots. So I spent the afternoon tweaking... and I stopped by to see my friend Cap'n Mako and ask if his buddy wanted to join my team. Overall performance is much better

I'm having a great time with this one! It's absolutely amazing. It's not a killing machine per se, but it is survivable, has massive debuffs and is a lot of fun to play. I've not yet got it quite slotted out but it's a ton of fun even before it's fully finished

Quick update: A respec turned into a project but the problem is fixed and the toon is much better than before - so thanks for help!

but it's ideal as a proc mule! Thanks for help peoples

Thankyou so much. I need to respec

I've never seen this before but suddenly I'm popping off Flash Arrow and I get attacked. I'm running SuperSpeed and Combat Jumping and I've normally been able to get pretty close to foes and pop FA off to become almost invisible - but now from even a distance they notice me, attack at range and charge. I've picked up a few Alphas unexpectedly this way. This is only very recent - Ihave no clue what changed. My build seems solid and I have no reason to think I should be attracting aggro (lvl 50 Defender, TA/Sonic) What's going on here? It's making one of my prime opening powers useless

slightly tangentally, but this is very relevant and quite enjoyable:

two pi or not to pi, that is the question!

Midjourney seems to be unready

Incorrect. Imperfect, yes Unfinished; agreed Needs some love: Definitely Doesn't suck.

The lesson I take from this thread is NEVER SIX SLOT BRAWL!

Philistine! 😛

I love that the caption needs a caption to ensure the obviousness of the obvious thing is obviously noted

some interesting answers with a few surprises. I am a huge fan of Thermal - increasingly so. I rolled an Earth/Thermal on live that rocked (pun intended) called Magma Mage. He doesn't kill fast but he kills everything with the controls from Earth (which does come with a very solid -Def component remember) and the magic of Thermal that keeps Rocky alive with shields and then literally melts your opponents. I'm also a fan of Kin melee - it does seems slow in attack but I've never noticed it doing less damage than others - but that said my experience of melee is limited.