Auroxis

Strange, the difference is a bit higher with my calculations. How did you calc the -res?

Fun is really subjective, and I would advise you to experiment with the different Defender elements of support and decide what is more fun for you.

By different elements I mean buffing, debuffing, healing, and blasting(less time casting debuffs/buffs/heals=more time to blast). The primaries contain different levels of the above mentioned elements, and it's up to you to decide which is more fun for you.

Once you add procs into the mix the differences become quite significant, and due to BF musculature won't make that big of an impact.

One thing I did to make dealing with the rage crash easier, was to have the damage bonus mod appear in the top middle area of the screen. If it's red, use vet attacks and other stuff. If it's green, business as usual.

You can get that through the powers menu->combat attributes->base->then right click damage bonus and monitor. You can then drag it around wherever you like.

+Def from powers(Weave, CJ, Maneuvers), and +Def from IO's(Steadfast +3%, Scirocco's 6-slot bonus, Devastation 6-slot bonus, Apocalypse 6-slot bonus, PVP +3%). You can also slot for +Resistance(Crushing Impact 6-slot bonus, Impervium +3%, Aegis +3%, PVP +3%) but it won't be nearly as effective as +Def.

The def crash won't happen if you have Rage active, so if your Rage stacks even a bit you're fine. The end crash and damage crash will still happen though, so you should consider the end crash while building your character.

Here's a Dark Armor tip you don't hear every day: Get the Kinetic Dampener temp power. It covers your weaknesses(+30% energy resistance anyone?), lasts 30 minutes, and is dirt cheap.

There is already an incentive for leading a team. It's faster than waiting.

This suggestion might actually make leading a team worse, as a team leader will have to manage the star as well as his team. You will have teammates asking for the star just for the XP, saying things like "I got my friend into this team so I deserve the star for a while" and you have the potential of ending up in some uncomfortable situations.

Here's another example: You're a level 50 leading a team(you don't need xp) and a lowbie asks for the star. You either give him the star and risk him booting people off/going afk, or you refuse to give him the star and end up with a disgruntled teammate.

I have an SS/Elec/Mu brute, and he's awesome. I loved the combination so much I have like 15 bil invested in him, by far the most I ever put into a character. Link to the build

I have lots of HP and Regen bonuses, and Energize just about at perma(Hasten as well). With the heal and regen that's about 70 HP/sec. I also have S/L defense softcapped and just about everything else over 20%. While defense is prone to failcascades against certain enemies due to the lack of DDR, by the time the failcascade really gets going the mobs are either dead or drained of endurance.

Compared to Fire Armor, it gives you less damage but more mitigation.

My best PvP experiences were in a game called Planetside, where everyone was on a somewhat even playing field and we had to use the rules of the game, cooperation(both on a small and large scale), and skills/experience in order to take over meaningful objectives and win. To be considered a great player you had to utilize wit, knowledge, skills, teamplay, and a strategic mindset. A well built character didn't matter nearly as much.

Another good PvP experience I had was in the MMO Warhammer Online. You didn't feel useless no matter which class you chose, and while a new character wouldn't be able to defeat a geared out character 1 on 1, the sheer size of the important battles and the availability of temporary pvp powers/siege weapons meant that powerful characters weren't that important.

So, I feel like a lot of the effort that went into fixing CoH PvP was invested in the wrong areas. Make the battle objectives more engaging and meaningful, and you'll get bigger battles. Get bigger battles, and the imbalance won't matter that much.

This option doesn't exist likely for these reasons:

1. Lots of players will probably get frustrated when they see how boring/hard it is to solo a TF. Sure you can quit at any time, but there's the reward at the end of the tunnel which will keep a lot of players playing and burning themselves out.

2. It serves the purpose of encouraging teamplay, which should be the case because IMO, teaming is so much more fun than soloing in this game. To encourage soloing in a game where soloing isn't nearly as fun as teaming is a bad idea IMO.

3. The vast majority of people do TF's for reward merits, incarnate components, and accolades. All of these depend on the TF completion time for efficiency, which isn't at all what soloing is good for(which is exp/inf/tickets/drops per minute).

4. Not having any padders around is odd, and is likely a very rare situation, but I might be wrong.

I also might not do the WTF this week, though that's due to the fact that my gaming computer's Hard Drive died. /minirant

Sister Psyche is actually my favorite Task Force Commander TF. My Elec Armor Tanker and Brute love Freakshow.

Having a hard time sticking with one character is very common amongst new players, and it's just something that you get over the more you play. The only good advice I can give you is to avoid deleting your characters unless you need a character slot.

That's a big improvement. Though there are still some things I would change here and there, they are mostly minor.

One major thing you should take a look at is that you're 2 bonuses over the rule of 5 on the 6.25% recharge bonus.

If you don't know what the rule of 5 is, it's that you can't have more than 5 of the same set bonus.

This goes back to my first point. If you were to use other sets together with common IO's you'll get almost the same numbers, thus the benefit is minimal.

I'm not saying there aren't any cases where this is useful, i'm saying that these cases are either too rare or not very impactful(if at all).