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I do enjoy street sweeping from time to time, but DA and PI has gotten a bit old. RWZ is rarely visited, except for a specific reason, unlike the PI parking lot which folks like me pop in to kill a few mobs. All the level 54 mobs are way up in the north section of the map. I would like to see them extended so they take up the entire northern square. The area around the ship basically. Yes, it would have some impact on drop ship raids, but I would think that would be minor.

Crabberminds are one of those builds you have to spend a lot of money on commit to total focus when playing. I don't play them, because the pets are uncontrollable and fragile. But if you can learn to keep them alive or at least manage their life cycle effectively, you can do a lot of damage. I think there are few players who really rock Crabberminds. Rarely than hens teeth, like really good HEAT players. On that note, I do have a Huntsbane build with pets that works pretty well. Doesn't rely on the pets as much, but uses them as extra damage.

12/11/2023 Small update, was missing Market Crash 1/4/2023 Overhauled the code, created a github repo, added initial tips

You can have good melee and AOE damage. While providing -resists and double leadership. Depending on how you build. Basically, you can be right in the thick of it providing a lot of support. Support/stalker. Ninijitsu which I do like, and have several toons, does not provide anywhere the same team benefits.

Things haven't really changed since I posted a bunch of mace only builds. No redraw does help a lot with switching between gun and mace, but you cannot avoid the gun for venom nade. I hoping in the next page they will fix some of the issues.

Fortunately, it wasn't Katie. Just one of the NPC. I think this means there is a hole in the map. She is quite stuck and never popped out.

Finally, caught up on the Vig/Rogue arc badge.

It depends. Proc heavily builds need -defense for better accuracy Mastermind pets are helped if you are soloing high level mobs Teams with lots of lowbies are also aided

A number of controllers and doms. I enjoyed leveling them, but they are really needed at high levels.

It's very hard to take both boxing, kick, and cross punch, then Soul mastery attacks and be able to slot them effectively. Here is a version that only takes Fighting, not Soul pool powers. You really need to take Follow or Build Up. Also, Mind Link is a must which I should have noticed first time. Arachnos Widow (Night Widow Training - Widow Teamwork)(1).mbd

From personal experience. You are going to bleed endurance. Badly. Night Widow can attack really fast, but also zero out their end just as fast. You need to have two endurance reducers in every attack and one in each toggle. I would give up the Widow pet and use those slots elsewhere. The pet recharge is too long and too squishy.

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Widows will need to take Ageless. Especially, Night Widows. Bane and Crabs can take Barrier, if they haven't proc'ed their attacks out too much. If you take Ageless, then you can take Muscular Core for max damage. Otherwise, see how your end usage is and take Musc radial for some more recovery. Assault core for Banes and Crabs. Now, for Forts and NWs, it's a bit tricky. They are very heavily lethal/psi damage, so you can consider taking Assault Radial to mix in some energy damage. But in the end I suggest Assault core. Especially, for NWs, widows attack so fast they can maintain high Assault Core stack levels. Interface is another place where you can pick up some extra damage types, but Bane and Soldiers can boost the toxic damage from Degeneration with Venom grenade by 40%, so I go for the 75% toxic/25% max hp debuff. Widows I go with 75% max hp debuff. Though they can stack a lot of -resist though Reactive due to their high attack speed. Interfaces are not super useful, so play around.

It's Yin WST week again. Gentle bump.

You don't get stuck because it teleport to random locations in DA, but it's a really big gap. [3681.5 38.0 275.7] There are floating tree under the map. 🙂 [3189.1 39.1 191.4]

I feel your really need to understand binds to use Trick Arrow effectively, especially /bind <key> powexec_location target “<power>”. Targeted AOEs benefit massively from binds. I put a whole bunch binds suggestions in the intro: What is really want is a bind that finds bosses, not a specific mob boss, I know that exists. But any boss.

Here is my take on TA/psi. I looked over your build and here is my obsessive option of how I would build it. More defense, this is a complicated point. Yes, Flash arrow is amazing, but due to all the patches TA lays down you will be taking fire from non-debuffed mobs often. Especially, in any chaotic pulling environment. You will need Ageless at 50 to handle the end drain. Unless you slot a lot of end redx and take Cardiac Since, you're trying to proc a lot. You are definitely going to need Ageless. I think Psychic Scream is a horrible power. Cast time is too long, damage is too low. Swap it out for Psionic Lance. Scrambled Minds is a really odd power. IMO it takes to long to take effect, but if the mobs are clumped up it's really nice. Take this over Psychic Scream. As food for thought, here are my TA/Storm and TA/Beam defenders. Both can solo 4x8 most mob groups. Defender (Trick Arrow - Storm Blast).mbd Defender - Trick Arrow - Beam Rifle.mxd

Ah sucks thank you.

You can create a whole new costume in your second costume slot. No restrictions. But epic pieces are not allowed. More customization in the epic slot or those epic pieces being allowed in non-epic slot is suggested often.

Alas, that would make venom nade seriously overpowered. It's already a keystone power of SoA. I agree that Bane range attacks suck, except Poisonous Ray, which is ok. Why do all Bane ranged attacks have a minimal cast time of 2 second? Regardless of damage, single target, or AOE. I know why actually, it's because they are copies of mob attacks and never reviewed. 😞 Shinobi like crits is a nice idea, I would just be happy with full crits in the current system. That would close the damage gap a bit between Forts, NWs, and Banes. Bane single target damage isn't as bad as you think in my testing. See early comment. Banes at least provide a decent amount of -res to a team, unlike NWs who primary benefit is defense, which is nullified at 50+. See my comments on Time defenders in the defender forum. Same issue different AT. Forts are the strongest damage dealer of VEATs, except a well run crabbmind. They can exceed NWs and Banes single target damage with some builds. Their AOE is much better than NWs and they have controls which are very useful even on hardmodes if you lean into them. They are a scrapper/controller with a nuke. They are just not as durable. Forts are in a good place now, maybe a bit more ranged Psi damage, but not at the cost of anything other power. IMO.

There is some available with page five, except follow up. Which using the scrapper follow up, which cannot be customized!

Not surprising I have strong opinions. To answer the question, Fortunatas above all others. SoAs are in a good spot, except pets should have a recall button. That's it, would fix all my issues with SoA pets. Ok, crab melee isn't very good, so maybe a little help there. *pulls out soapbox* Let's talk about Night Widows... Yes, you can make them super tanky. So, tanky I complete an 801.3 at 4x8 in under the two hour limit. Fun to play, no, it's like playing a pre-buff tanker w/o any aggro control. I do wish the dev team would re-run the build statistics with breakouts for the different sub types. It has been my experience that Night Widows are very rare. I mean why would you play a Night Widow over a Fort. Forts get a nuke and nice control powers. In my testing NWs does not out damage Forts in single target and have lackluster AOE. While also being saddled by one of the worst T9s in the game, Psychic Scream. Night Widows need some love. Testing:

Yes, articulates what I was feeling. Time is a great sub-50 set, but the drop off is noticeable due to Incarnates. It's the, pre-buffs, version of Sentinels of defender sets.

Suprised there isn't a badge for Bat'Zul. Badge name should be Spicy Chicken Nugget.

Two versions for the Awaken, one general defeat badge using the point system. Bosses give more points that, lts, etc... Called, the Somnambulist. Another Awaken badge for defeating, Subjugators, before they consume a seer. Called, the Liberator, or something about interrupting someone's meal like Meal Interrupted.