Draeth Darkstar

The Luddites thought they wanted to break those big orange pipes... until they succeeded, and found out what was inside.

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I *think* Bane Spider Mace Mastery avoids redraw from the Bane Spider Mace, if that's any consolation.

Oh, and to address your question of cost: You have several fairly expensive IOs in your build, but the good news is that none of them are PVP or Purple ones, which means that you can get them all fairly easily with the various Merits. If you were to buy everything crafted with straight influence, this build would cost you somewhere in the neighborhood of 1-2 billion, as a guess.

The most expencive IOs you have are:
LOTG +7.5% Recharge (100-150m)
Basilisk's Quad (75-125m)
Miracle +Recovery Unique (50-100m)
Obliterate Quad (50-100m)

These all cost 32 Astral or 2 Alignment Merits. Off the top of my head I think they're all 200 Reward Merits except for the Miracle, which I think is 240.

Alignment Merits you can crank at a rate of 1/2 per day via Morality Missions, + 1 per week via Signature Story Arcs, +1 per your first ever (per character) run of each Signature Story Arc, and you can also buy 1 per day for 20m + 50 reward merits if you want to go that route.

Astral Merits are super easy to collect in large numbers if you're doing the full incarnate grind, you'll probably generate upwards of 200 of them while collecting your salvage (if not more, I think my Ice/Storm Controller has collected over 300 by now, but I do a lot of trials with her).

If you had a mind to, you could collect all your expencive recipes via non-inf currencies and reduce the build cost significantly.

Another quick question before I start suggesting anymore changes:

Are you married to any of your pool powers, especially your ancillary pool choice?

Time really benefits incredibly from Build Up or Power Build Up being in the build, for example, but you're limited to either Soul or Power Mastery for that.

Do a search in the Scrapper forums for bAss_ackwards's DM/Invuln build. It's soft capped to, I think, everything but Psi and positionals and also, IIRC, has perma-hasten/soul drain and runs the best DM attack chain.

It's super duper expencive just to warn you, if you go looking.

Edit: Here's their user CP if you feel like looking through the post history instead of rummaging through the Scrapper forums.

To export your Data Chunk:

In Mids, go to the Import/Export Menu at the top center
Click Short or Long Forum Export
At the bottom left, check either "Only Export Data Chunk" or "Export Data Chunk as well as a DataLink"

I will take a second pass at it when you've got that

Personally, I'd be inclined to tell you that if you want to go /Poison, to take advantage of the fact that it's been Proliferated and make a Fire/Poison Controller.

If you're set on a Mastermind? Eh... Necromancy maybe.

I think you're going to be disappointed in the survivability of your pets.

If you don't go with a Defense based secondary, you might see the Bots hit 30% Def/All if you slot the Protbots for +Def, slot the 5% Aura, and run fully slotted Maneuvers. The damage resistance you're going to provide as Sonic is not going to make up for that last 15% defense to softcap (and it's quite a bit more in Trials).

If you have 30% defense, you're being hit 20% of the time. If you have 45% defense, you're being hit 5% of the time.

That means you're taking 300% more damage with 30% defense than 45% defense.

Robotics also does not, as mentioned, mesh well with Sonic's debuff anchor.

Immediate problem I'm seeing.

Don't slot Farsight for ToHit buff. Slot it for Defense. You won't need the extra ToHit and one of the key points of Time is that power boost+farsight can get you so much def/all.

Edit:

You're crippling yourself by going dual wield and slotting it for KB, it's already the weaker of your early blasts. You say you don't care about single target, but you're using incarnate powers, so I'm assuming you'll be running trials. You will want a decent, sustainable ST rotation for the AVs. Take Pistols instead and slot it with 5x Decimation if you can get another 6.25% or either 4x Devastation or 6x Thunderstrike if not.

4 Dark Watchers' Despair will serve you better than 5 Dampened Spirits in Time's Juncture.

Drop a slot from Hasten. The amount of recharge you're getting out of the third one with Spiritual Core Paragon is miniscule.

I would not bother slotting Temporal Selection with anything but a Recharge IO (I personally don't take it, but I'm not a big fan of single target, long recharge buffs. I have better things to manage, especially with such a busy set).

Get the last slot added to your Spring Attack for the defense bonus.

Consider a Lockdown proc in Distortion Field. Achilles can be slotted into Empty Clips or Slowed Response (or both).

Try 5x Doctored Wounds in Chronoshift for one of your 5% recharges. Then change the slotting of your Soul Drain to focus on Accuracy and Recharge.

Get some LotG 7.5s. Put them in Combat Jumping and Far Sight at least. Maneuvers would probably be a better choice than Assault too, considering Time can cap all defenses if built correctly. They're not much more expensive than the Basilisk quad and you can get them easily with minimal effort from Alignment, Reward, or Astral Merits.

Change your Stamina slotting to EndMod, PerfShifter EndMod, PerfShifter +10% Proc.

A Miracle Unique in Health would also be wise. Time is endurance heavy.

Without being able to import it, that's all I've got for you.

I wouldn't really care if it was Synapse, Citadel or Back Alley Brawler.

I would actually enjoy it being Statesman (and no, not because of Jack Emmert, because the 'Star Spangled Super Guy' is the absolute most hackneyed cliche there is in this industry and I find Statesman to be a very uninspiring instance of it).

I would rather keep Positron, Numina, Sister Psyche, and Manticore.

Bots/Traps Mastermind and SS/Fire Brute are two of the common superkillers.

I rather enjoy my Fire/Earth/Ice Permadom for silly, silly, silly AoE damage (Hot Feet, Mud Pots, Tremors, Fissure, Sleet, Ice Storm), but be warned that this combo is EXTREMELY endurance heavy if you make one.

Trap/Sonic Defender can cap all positions or S/L/E/N easily and F/C with a little more work while pumping out stupid -res/-regen which gives it tankability and good effective DPS for hard targets.

Fire/Kin Corruptor is the less appreciated cousin of Fire/Kin Trollers, but also quite potent.

Elec/SD (Heavy AoE) and Dark/SD (Heavy ST) are also great scrappers, to add to Fire/SD someone else mentioned, though both are more specialized than Fire/SD.

Oh, and there's basically nothing a perma-PA Ill/Rad or Ill/Cold can't kill solo, but it's slower going this route.

Add another vote for Blaster here. The original, Defender/Corruptor version of the set is just too weak.

Blaster Radiation/ pairs best (in my opinion) with Fire, Mental, Dark or Electric, to take advantage of your life in melee range and focus on area damage.

The DoT averages something to the effect of 50 damage per EDIT: attack (not per proc).

The damage resistance debuff caps at -10% with 4 stacks, and the stacks last 8 seconds. Subsequent procs do not refresh the whole stack, each application has its own timer and procs after 4 appear to replace the one with the least duration remaining.

I very highly doubt you will ever get comparable performance from the debuff that the DoT proc will give you, especially considering the debuffs from Interface are resistable.

As a note, the Spectral and Preemptive DOTs do the same damage as Reactive, and Cognitive and Degenerative do 80% of that damage, but in (theoretically) more exotic types.

Definitely go with Barrier for a MM.

Rebirth will frustrate you every time in Incarnate content. My pets *never* get whittled down in Trials. They're at full health, or something oneshots them... unless I pre-emptively Barrier before getting into a situation where they'll take hits. The huge resistance bonus on top of the defense will do a lot more to keep them alive than a heal will, and the regeneration is worthless on a pet because their max hp is so horribly low.

If what you're after is an AV killer, Bots/Traps is what you want.

The combination is very durable, has insane debuffing potential, and impressive damage output all things considered.

A high recharge trapper can get close to 50% uptime on 3x Acid Mortar, which is like.. -60% resistance (from memory), and it can also take the Achilles Heel proc and keeps it up fairly well.
It can easily maintain 100% uptime on Poison Trap's -1000% regen debuff, and gets a bit of -tohit from their Seekers and the two protbots' as well, plus has the defenses of the protbots and FFG to rely on.

Then there's how brutally effective DoT Interfaces are on Bots/Traps because of the normal pets' stacking plus Acid Mortar... and of course you can also spam toe-bomb Trip Mine.

The other benefit of bots/traps is that, not only is it good at crushing AVs... you don't feel weak in normal content either because the Bots are hellishly AE heavy.

In my experience, the thing that makes UGT a 'long' time investment isn't actually the trial... it's collecting 23 other people willing to do the trial.