Incarnate choices for Fire/Storm/Ice

[Argentae]

:: waves :: Heya all...
So, Lavan is officially an engine of elemental destruction been using a Council +4x8 mission as a benchmark. 

VERY happy with /Ice, Hibernate is a perfect panic button and almost immediately lets me pause and assess the situation. Seeing "Preventative Medicine" pop up is a great warning sign, *highly* recommend the Absorb unique.

Ice Storm is a huge benefit, and added to the already outstanding damage of a mature /Storm build, it's both thematically perfect and an ideal complement to the raw damage.  

 

Incarnate:

 

Alpha:

After a LOT of pondering, number juggling, and testing I went with tier 3 Musculature Core for the Alpha slot. Vigor was a strong case, as was Agility, but with the endred built into almost all the IO sets, Health 6 slotted with Miracle, Numina, Panacea, Regenerative Tissue and some focus on sets that boost recovery, Atlas Accolade, and a six slotted Reactive Defenses set (3.75 global endred), I rarely run out of endurance running at +153 global recharge. I do very little single target work, char/hold the occasional runner (Council wolves are a PITA), mostly AOE. Running Hot feet, Assault, Maneuvers, Ice Armor, Hover, Combat Jumping.

Being able to choose 5 of a set and leave out one one the damage focused enh lets me pick up more procs without sacrificing damage, the +22.5 pre ED half brings it back up to nearly +97ish and then I get the additional +22.5 on top of that. 

 

The core thing, as many have said with the Alpha slot, is picking the thing you slot the most. Lavan is all damage, all the time. Knockdown is his primary mitigation, with Flashfire stun and occasionally Cinders. The best mitigation of all is rapid defeat of mobs. 🙂

 

That leads to...

 

Interface:

I went with Diamagnetic for the -ToHit to stack with my defense (and the -5 ToHit from Smoke, which is great as a prep and aggro management tool). This made a big difference. Dropping Freezing Rain and Bonfire seems to put virtually the entire spawn at -20 ToHit almost immediately, so I think it's building the 4 -ToHit buffs each time the pseudo pets pulse damage, which is FAST. It also substantially improved the Imp's durability.

 

Diamagnetic let me go from being able to get through my council map fairly decently at +3x8, to +4x8 at good speed with only VERY rarely dying. Mainly if I'm unlucky and playing badly to boot.

 

Destiny:

I spent some time looking at details on this one, and was amazed at just how good Clarion really is. The Radial is basically a mini Power Boost in addition to being excellent status protection. It boosts almost everything, including Range, Healing, Controls, Endmod, Movement... 
The other Destiny options are not competitive IMO. And it makes the need for the Sorcery pool pretty much go away.

 

Lore:

Have not picked anything yet. Longbow is tempting for the -Regen if I'm going to try to tackle AVs. Not sure how durable it will be though. Might need to resec into O2 boost?

 

Judgement:

 

Leaning towards Pyro as it's thematic and as a targeted AOE it would work perfectly with my other AOE powers.

 

Hybrid:

I'm so conflicted. I don't know that Control will really be as useful as it was on my Dark/Dark, I'm thinking either Assault (AOE damage is a focus for the build) or Melee(would mesh well with the focus on regeneration for extra mitigation)? Support would be good for the +Def, and double effect on pets would seriously help the Imps survive their aggro magnate tendencies.  

Like I said, conflicted.

 

Any thoughts?
I had the build in Mids, but I'm on a MacBook Air M1 (plays CoH like a dream), and mids is recalcitrant about running in a CrossOver bottle. There's a problem with creating files from Mids so I can't save, and exporting makes it crash. I should finish trying to troubleshoot the configuration, but... I'd rather play the game. It works for what I need.

 

I'll attach a couple of screenshots from in-game. Still collecting IO sets. Ones with generic IOs are largely waiting for set enhancements.