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psst. spiritual buffs rebirth

I fought with this for a very long time for my latest respec (from that super kat/regen thread Werner, Jack, and others worked in). Unfortunately, with enemies getting larger and larger, that cone just doesn't hit as much as it used to unless you're very well situated, and unfortunately, its usefulness seems to be dwindling.
I ended up dropping it to keep SJ in the build (I refuse to rely on a temp travel, though).
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As a side note, we all know about how useful A-merits are for getting the good IOs, but, if you have a regular group of friends you play with (or people of similar interests), it is possible to run an ITF, Tin Mage, and Apex in about an hour (total) {or do LGTF instead of ITF, your preference}. Do this two days in a row and you will have enough merits for a LotG 7.5%, with leftovers.
My group runs these all the time (instead of incarnate trials), and after 20.5 comes, you'll also be able to use astral/emp merits on rewards, so even the more expensive things really aren't all that pricey in the end.
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Back to the build- if you're not getting tactics, I would at least recommend slotting a kismet in weave, otherwise your accuracy won't quite be at 95% vs +3s in all your attacks. Like you said, missing sucks.
With the slots you can drop from FH, BU, and SM, you can definitely get a few slots into tough.
If you're building for range defense though... that's a little odd. You only really have 1 power to slot a mako's bite set in (Soaring dragon), and all the other attacks you have are either PbAoEs (with no real range set bonuses, cleaving blow/eradications would be wasteful), or they're GC and DA, which generally have fairly unique slotting.

55% recharge is basically the minimum recharge you want in the build (that's just so Dull Pain is permanent without an alpha slot). You will find significant improvements if you can get this a bit higher, and even more improvements if you get your defenses higher.

In a general katana/regen build, I try to have enough defense that 1 DA will put you at melee softcap, and when you throw shadow meld, all of your defenses are at *least* 45 (if possible, 59, incarnate softcap, this typically costs a lot more money, however), while having 60+ recharge in sets.

Here's an example that isn't terribly expensive, if you work slowly at it, anyway.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.942
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

You can probably see how keeping those kd procs would make things rather difficult to keep values like this. If it were me, I would make Interface powers that have those sort of chance effects, rather than some of the more useless ones we do have.

I need about 20 nukes, peroxies, and lysos
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this comes to mind

Doing this means you lose what you were building for.... lots of melee defense.
The regen build philosophy is (typically) "recharge, recharge, defense, moar recharge,"

you did a good job of this.

the melee defense is just over 32.5, one of the four magic numbers (it means you're one purple insp from softcap), this is good. The ranged and AoE defenses are high enough that Shadow meld will put you over 45% to both as well, (while also putting melee defense over incarnate softcap, 59%)

It looks like the only thing I would change would be the slotting in dark blast. After a second of thought, however, I realized I'd probably keep it for that recharge set bonus, but take out the single thunderstrike IO, move the slot to shadow meld, and put a membrane in it. That leaves you with about a 50% uptime on shmeld, *if* you need to use it that often (better safe than dead).

Not sure what this is about... normal softcap is still 45% defense (if you need an explanation why, one can be given), while incarnate cap is 59% defense. "Hard cap," meaning, blue numbers in game, and absolute highest you can achieve, is like... ~214% or something stupidly high. Softcap is what's important, hardcap can be ignored.

I heavily disagree with infinity on losing shmeld or mog as well... Keep them both, live forever.
And if you can't "keep up with fast moving teams" with just SJ, you're doing something wrong.
Maybe it's a freedom thing, I don't know.

Where did you get this build from, by the way? It looks like something I put together <.<

^Awesome

I had to read this 3 times to get it.
I couldn't stop thinking, "what does Nihilii being socialist have to do with team play?..."

/e headdesk

have you seen the KM AS animation? It's probably the coolest animation evaar.