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I have it on my seldom used alt build (fun build but can see the age in it) for my claws/SR. I grabbed it at the time part as it would let me slot 3 more purple sets (ranged, hold and immobilize) and get the recharge bonuses. Mobility was not an issue for using them, as in addition to CJ and Swift she has 5 GotA +7.5% slotted, Hover plus Quickness, in a word extremely mobile. And yes seeing the Gravitational Anchor proc is fun.

I'd pretty much echo Santorican's thoughts with respect to overall accuracy, but it depends a bit on what you intend to be able to fight. Guess I'd be a bit happier if you were at 95%+ vs +4's for Follow Up at least. If it lands you're golden, if it misses and you are fighting +4's (and worse trying to defeat the one or two troublesome non- S/L foes in the spawn) might make for an annoying string of misses.

The other area with room for concern/improvement would be recharge, both overall and in several key /regen powers. Down time on Dull Pain is a significant bit off perma, enough so MoG, for example, can't cover you for all (or even nearly all) of Dull Pain's down time. MoG itself, in part due to its own longer timer, also has a much longer down time (almost twice) than several of the high defense /Regen builds I've seen. The question is what do you intend to be able to handle with the build and will the passive nature (no worrying about getting Parry/DA to hit) of the defense and the inclusion of the smashing component be enough to make up for the lower recharge (and resulting lower health recovery).

Fair number of slots used where I wouldn't. Some are personal taste, some probably would be best moved around. Overall the build will do well enough for most general pve play but I'd say there's room for improvement as well.

Heal Other and Healing Aura - 6th slot in both of these is rather optional, bonuses gained both in enhancement and set are minimal at best. *shrug*

Power Bolt and Power Blast - consider taking the 6th slots from HA and HO and adding them here, then putting Explosive Strikes chance for smashing damage in those slots.

Resurrect and Clear Mind - A 2nd slot in both these would definitely not be what I'd do. And I wouldn't slot Clear Mind for recharge in any case. Range or Endred, using it proactively I'd drop an endred in there, used reactively I'd slot range, unsure which go with range. The animation here is the killer and you can't alter that. One of these slots needs to head to Hasten, it's the one you want slamming hard against ED for recharge.

Hover -
Q: What level of foes do you intend to be able to effectively combat?
Hover (much like Combat Jumping) is a marvelous place for all sorts of fun special IO's such as LotG +7.5% rech (which you have), Kismet +6% to hit, -kb (both BotZ and Karma) and Winter's Gift. I'd consider moving 1 or 2 slots here to slot Kismet and a -kb IO at minimum. Kismet on an Empath I don't usually do ... but then I usually have Tactics for some +To Hit. Without it anything more than about +2 cons atm and you'll need outside buffs or debuffs to keep from rapidly heading into "I can't hit anything" country. Kismet is no Tactics but it will push you to +3's before the 'missed' float text gets worrisome. How much of an issue that is depends on your tolerance for missing and what you tend to fight.

Fortitude - not what I'd do, but think this one falls more into the realm of personal preference than anything. Hard to disagree with any sort of slotting in Fortitude that maxes defense and recharge, the rest is gravy if you've the slots for it.

Power Burst - Nothing wrong with Thunderstrike, it's an excellent set but ... why it and not another Decimation? It's a change in focus in the build away from recharge and towards a range defense build.

Recovery Aura - Hmmm, I've never done anything other than 3 recharge IO's. More endurance is really fairly useless until you push it up to near +1000% to start countering nuke crashes and the set bonuses *shrug*

Hasten - 3 recharge IO's

Recall Friend - I'd slot a BotZ or Winter's Gift in here or something else ... let your global recharge take care of the recharge here.

Super Speed - I often enough have no travel powers in these days of Ninja Run. On the otherhand my Emps rarely don't have a true travel power still. But personally I'd choose one of the other and not have both. And my preference these days is typically Swift with Flyers and Hurdle with Super Speeders.

Regeneration Aura and Adrenaline Boost - The enhancement values of the powers themselves good, set bonuses *shrug*. I'd slot both with Doctored Wounds. Global Recharge for my Emps always takes a high priority for my general teaming builds. Given the potential to slot 2 sets of Obliterate (with their +5% recharge) later on I could see staying with the current slotting in one of the 2 powers.

Absorb Pain - The slotting/set used here along with Thunder Strike are probably the two things in the build I'd most heavily urge you to alter. I don't use AP, none of my Emps have ever had or felt a need for it ... but a full set of Miracle baffles me. The unique should be largely wasted if used here. Can't imagine the team you'd need to be playing on to actually need to use AP ever 2 minutes or so. Which leaves you the option of not benefiting from the +recovery or firing it at someone who doesn't need the heal and running the risks associated with doing so to gain the buff.

Nova and Thunder Strike - 5 slot and slot with Obliterates would be my first choice. I'd definitely strongly recommend slotting Thunder Strike for damage first and foremost, then once you're ED capped slot to taste for stuns etc..

Noting that all the previous builds include stamina thought I'd add one that is Fitness and Stamina free. I find, particularly in a teaming Empath, Fitness is relatively painfree and easy pool to skip and allows one to open yet another power pool if desired, for instance Teleportation for Recall Friend. Intended for teaming the build has little in the way of defense relying on teammates, high regen (from aura), inspires etc. to stay upright in combat. Vengeance and Resurrect (and even Combat Jumping) are pretty much independent of the remainder of the build and can be freely moved around to suit ones tastes and/or swapped out for Recall Friend. If you have access to Ninja Run Super Speed also becomes much more optional as well. I would note however a stealth IO + Super Speed + Recall is a very solid task force "stealthing package" and won't work quite as well if Super Speed is dropped for something else.

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Emp Elec team (v1.00.i18 sets): Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Empathy
Secondary Power Set: Electrical Blast
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Electricity Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Heal Other -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(9), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(9), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(37)
Level 1: Charged Bolts -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(7), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(25), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(40), T'pst-EndDrn%(43)
Level 2: Lightning Bolt -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(3), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(7), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(15), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(25), T'pst-EndDrn%(43)
Level 4: Ball Lightning -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(5), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(5), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(13), Posi-Dam%(34), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(43)
Level 6: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(15), RechRdx-I(17)
Level 8: Clear Mind -- Range-I(A)
Level 10: Short Circuit -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(17), Efficacy-EndMod/EndRdx(42)
Level 12: Fortitude -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(23), LkGmblr-EndRdx/Rchg(39), LkGmblr-Rchg+(46)
Level 14: Super Speed -- Zephyr-ResKB(A)
Level 16: Healing Aura -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(21), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(37), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(46), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(46)
Level 18: Recovery Aura -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(19)
Level 20: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(21), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(39), LkGmblr-Rchg+(45)
Level 22: Tactics -- AdjTgt-ToHit(A), AdjTgt-ToHit/Rchg(23), AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx/Rchg(39), AdjTgt-EndRdx/Rchg(40), AdjTgt-ToHit/EndRdx(40)
Level 24: Vengeance -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 26: Regeneration Aura -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(27), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(27), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(31), Dct'dW-Rchg(31)
Level 28: Tesla Cage -- BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(A), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(29), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(29), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(31), Lock-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(42), Lock-%Hold(42)
Level 30: Combat Jumping -- ULeap-Stlth(A)
Level 32: Adrenalin Boost -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(33), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(33), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(33), Dct'dW-Rchg(34), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(34)
Level 35: Voltaic Sentinel -- ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(A), ExRmnt-Dmg/EndRdx(36), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(36)
Level 38: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A)
Level 41: Electric Fence -- Dev'n-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(A), Dev'n-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(48), Dev'n-Dmg/Rchg(50), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(50), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(50)
Level 44: Charged Armor -- TtmC'tng-ResDam(A), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx(45), TtmC'tng-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(45)
Level 47: Power Sink -- P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(A), Efficacy-EndMod/Rchg(48), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc/Rchg(48)
Level 49: Resurrect -- EndRdx-I(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Vigilance
Level 6: Ninja Run

Or vs large +3 or +4 spawn(s). They'll each debuff a little bit harder do to level scaling. +4 PPD Awakened are fairly nasty for overall debuffing defense. The nastiest 1,2 "debuff smack you" I can recall running into (outside of some crazy AE stuff) was +4 arachnos playing tag team. Tarantula Mistress with Mental Scramble followed by a Psychic Wail from a Fortunata Mistress (a large single debuff, so the debuff %, even when 95% resisted, is that much larger followed by a innately high accuracy attack from a +4 boss)

Still even with the above I never noted more than around a 3 to 4% defdebuff ... course I was a bit busy to pay close attention usually. Generally the sheer overwhelming damage would kill me before serious defdebuffing would happen.

Very good article covering this and similar topics:

paragonwiki.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics

Ghost Widow's Hit Chance =
Power's Acc * Rank Acc * Level Scaling Acc >>> (1.0 *1.5*1.4)
which is 2.1 and gets multiplied by results of the following (and always falls between .05 and .95 the "clamp")

Her Base Chance to Hit (which like any critter is .50) + To Hit Buffs (hers is zero far as I know) - Defense Mods (.45 the soft capped target). This portion is also always "clamped" between .05 and .95 before being multiplied by the Accuracy portion of the equation above.

So 2.1 * .05 = .105 >> meaning Ghost Widow would have as I understand it an 11% (rounding 10.5% up) chance to hit a soft capped target.

Edit: And its because of the clamping on the equation that more defense or to hit debuffs won't help assuming a soft capped target and no To Hit buffs for GW ... To Hit Debuff would lower the .50 portion of the .50 -.45 but going lower merely means the result would be less than .05 and the clamp would raise it back to .05. Similarly more defense would also make the .45 a larger value but bring the result to less than .05 and clamping put it back to .05.

It's no so much that Elude is a bad power as it is that Elude has been outdated by IO sets and IO set defense bonuses. Especially in /SR it is relatively cheap and easy to use IO's to soft cap your defenses. Once your defenses are soft capped ... well Elude doesn't make you any harder to hit in the vast majority of pve content. So it becomes a +recovery, +run speed, +jump power that 180 seconds after you click it drops your end to zero which drops all your toggles and then it prevents you from recovering endurance for the next 20 seconds.

One thing I would definitely NOT do is slot Follow Up with Guassians. Follow Up requires you to hit the target to gain its buff, Guassian's itself has NO accuracy in the set. It also has no damage enhancement. The combination of no accuracy in the power and minimal global accuracy means your final chance to hit is 65% vs +2 foes assuming you aren't debuffed (it isn't even reaching 95% against even cons). Fortunately you have enough defense to not need the +def set bonuses of Guassian's. I'd strongly recommend slotting Follow Up with pretty much any melee set over Guassians.

Overall I think the build is quite solid for fairly typical PvE missions. Here's some thoughts I do have.

1) Use level 25 sets in the sets that go that low vs lvl 32. Why? They will exemp with less loss of value, often none when compared to level 32 sets. And will give you the option of exemping down as low as lvl 22 without losing sets bonuses.

Taken in part from Paragon Wiki:

Here's a build I put together (fairly quickly) with emphasis on movement (run and jump) speeds. It's a few tenths shy of 45% for the defense caps but I think it's plenty close enough for any build not expecting to solo AV's, pylons, +4/x8 spawns, etc., sans inspires. The lack of Follow Up and a Kismet would bother me more even then, heck it bothers the Mids builder in me as is.

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Speedy Maiden2: Level 50 Science Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Swipe -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(3), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(7), Mako-Dmg/Rchg(15), Mako-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(25), Mako-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 1: Focused Fighting -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(5), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(11), LkGmblr-Rchg+(11)
Level 2: Slash -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(7), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(31), Achilles-ResDeb%(40)
Level 4: Focused Senses -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(5), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(25), LkGmblr-Rchg+(37)
Level 6: Swift -- Run-I(A), Run-I(23)
Level 8: Spin -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(9), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(9), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(13), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(27), Oblit-%Dam(46)
Level 10: Practiced Brawler -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 12: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A), Jump-I(50)
Level 14: Combat Jumping -- Zephyr-Travel(A), Zephyr-Travel/EndRdx(15), Zephyr-ResKB(40)
Level 16: Health -- Numna-Heal(A), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(17), Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(17), Mrcl-Rcvry+(34), RgnTis-Heal/EndRdx(34), RgnTis-Heal/Rchg(37)
Level 18: Focus -- Thundr-Acc/Dmg(A), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx(19), Thundr-Dmg/Rchg(19), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), Thundr-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(29), Thundr-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-End%(37)
Level 22: Quickness -- Run-I(A), Run-I(23)
Level 24: Agile -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(42), GftotA-Run+(43)
Level 26: Dodge -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(42), GftotA-Run+(43)
Level 28: Lucky -- LkGmblr-Def(A), LkGmblr-Rchg+(42), GftotA-Run+(43)
Level 30: Boxing -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Shockwave -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(33), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(33), Posi-Dmg/Rng(33), FrcFbk-Rchg/EndRdx(34), FrcFbk-Rechg%(40)
Level 35: Evasion -- GftotA-Def(A), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(36), GftotA-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(36), GftotA-Run+(36)
Level 38: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(39), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(39), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(39)
Level 41: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 44: Physical Perfection -- RgnTis-Heal/EndRdx(A), RgnTis-Heal/Rchg(45), RgnTis-Regen+(45), P'Shift-EndMod(45), P'Shift-End%(46), EndMod-I(46)
Level 47: Weave -- GftotA-Def(A), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(48), GftotA-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(48), GftotA-Run+(48)
Level 49: Elude -- Winter-RunSpd/Jump/Fly/Rng(A), Winter-RunSpd/Jump/Fly/Rng/EndRdx(50), Winter-ResSlow(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- HO:Micro(A), HO:Micro(29)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 6: Ninja Run

Another +1 for Shock Wave. Very helpful in keeping my claws/SR in one piece when things go south. For example if someone triggers the ambush waves of Novas and Dwarves in the first mission of the ITF. Between mobility and shock wave the dwarves spend most of their time getting up and chasing me around not clumping all over me using their mires. As an aside I have also kept the old HO's she had (a Nucleolus and 2 Centrioles) in the power, the range is lovely and makes it that much easier to hit a whole spawn.

*Glances at section title, reads "claws/regen build" ... and wonders how this question, whatever it was, happened to be in the wrong section? Stalker?

According to an old guide I found they respawn after 30 minutes

cut and pasted from the Guide:

[color= blue]I've run around the pylons like a madman, killing each one... now what?[/color]

well, provided you did it in under half an hour the shields to the mothership will now be down. if this isn't the case, then you probably went over time and will have to go back and kill the pylons as they respawn. Each one respawns half an hour after it was destroyed, so the first one you killed will be the first to respawn etc...

I'll second the "grab the accolades" thought.

Perma Hasten .... move a slot from Conserve Power to Hasten and bingo.

However, I personally think adding to Max Health, Regen, and net recovery/endurance sustainability are going to be more important than shaving a few seconds off Hasten's recharge to make it perma.