Fireheart

Well, no, but I can certainly share my awesome Human-form leveling build:

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.707
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Starlight Saint: Level 50 Natural Peacebringer
Primary Power Set: Luminous Blast
Secondary Power Set: Luminous Aura
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fitness

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Gleaming Bolt -- Acc(A), Acc(3), EndRdx(5), Dmg(21), Dmg(40)
Level 1: Incandescence -- ResDam(A)
Level 2: Glinting Eye -- Acc(A), Acc(3), EndRdx(9), Dmg(21), Dmg(40)
Level 4: Gleaming Blast -- Acc(A), Acc(5), EndRdx(11), Dmg(23), Dmg(40)
Level 6: Shining Shield -- EndRdx(A), ResDam(7), ResDam(7), ResDam(13)
Level 8: Radiant Strike -- Acc(A), Acc(9), EndRdx(13), Dmg(34), Dmg(43)
Level 10: Essence Boost -- RechRdx(A), Heal(11), RechRdx(29), Heal(34)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- DefBuff(A)
Level 14: Proton Scatter -- Acc(A), Acc(15), EndRdx(15), Dmg(34), Dmg(43)
Level 16: Luminous Detonation -- Acc(A), Acc(17), EndRdx(17), Dmg(37), Dmg(45)
Level 18: Incandescent Strike -- Acc(A), Acc(19), EndRdx(19), Dmg(23), Dmg(45)
Level 20: Hurdle -- Jump(A)
Level 22: Health -- Heal(A), Heal(37), Heal(43), Empty(50)
Level 24: Stamina -- EndMod(A), EndMod(25), EndMod(25), Empty(50)
Level 26: Reform Essence -- RechRdx(A), Heal(27), RechRdx(27), Heal(37)
Level 28: Glowing Touch -- RechRdx(A), Heal(29)
Level 30: Solar Flare -- Acc(A), Acc(31), EndRdx(31), Dmg(31), Dmg(46)
Level 32: Quantum Shield -- EndRdx(A), ResDam(33), ResDam(33), ResDam(33)
Level 35: Photon Seekers -- Acc(A), Acc(36), EndRdx(36), Dmg(36), Dmg(46)
Level 38: Dawn Strike -- Acc(A), Acc(39), EndRdx(39), Dmg(39), Dmg(46)
Level 41: Light Form -- RechRdx(A), ResDam(42), RechRdx(42), ResDam(42)
Level 44: Build Up -- RechRdx(A), ToHit(45), RechRdx(48), ToHit(48)
Level 47: Conserve Energy -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(48)
Level 49: Thermal Shield -- ResDam(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Acc(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- EndRdx(A)
Level 2: Rest -- RechRdx(A)
Level 1: Cosmic Balance
Level 1: Energy Flight -- Flight(A), Flight(50)
Level 10: Combat Flight -- Flight(A)
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He's a lot of Fun for me!

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Fireheart

That didn't seem right, sir, due to the extra DoT, but 'proving' it forced me to look up the data on City of Data, get out the calculator and compute total damage divided by activation time and... Huh! That's pretty miserable! Thanks for the enlightenment.
Damien, I'm planning a full respec on the character so I'm planning to drop Boxing in, right from the start, at level 6 and slot it up like any other attack. I'll put it on 'auto' as my fast fill-in-the-gaps attack, just like I had Barb Swipe - except it Did seem to take over and fill my attack-chain more than needed - hence the question. I'll pick up the Tough and Weave later, when they're appropriate.

What I wanted to confirm is the DPA issue with Barb Swipe, because everything Except the animation time looks great.

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Fireheart

And rightly so, very nice Hair and other parts... and one deep breath away from sudden full-frontal... Great art with... er, dynamic tension.

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Firehear

Hmm, I'll make a list...

Temp Invulnerability doesn't need 6 slots and should get those slots earlier. The 'Psi-hole' isn't that bad and you can power through with Dull Pain.

Unyielding doesn't need more than the first slot, until you start filling in Sets (Despite what CMA says in his 1-20 guide-let). Its extra resistances are miniscule and even full SO slotting will only raise its contribution to +15% resistance to exotics. I'd actually slot it (later) with Steadfast - End/Res and Res/Def, and some random End/Res to round it out, and leave it at that.

RPD isn't needed at this early level - Unless you take it at L1 and wait on Temp. Inv. until later. Especially not if you 4-slot Temp. Inv. relatively early. Temporary Invulnerability is 3 times as potent as RPD - without any slotting at all!

Blinding Feint - If you skimp on Accuracy ANYWHERE, this is not the one to do it with! You absolutely want Blinding Feint to hit your target, every time! If you Miss, then you don't get the buff. It's a mini Build Up, every time you hit (+10% To-hit, +30% Damage, for 10seconds) and with a bit of recharge, you can double-stack it, briefly. As part of the Empower Combo, the bonus goes to +14% and +40%.

Weave is going to need more EndRed - IMO.

Sweeping Strike - The Obliterations are 'positional' defense and that doesn't stack with the 'typed' defenses that your powers give you - I'd choose another set, here.

This is all based on my own experience with Invulnerability (L50 Inv/EM Tanker).

Following CMA's Defense-Capped Invulnerability guide does produce one of the most potently defended Tankers in the game, but unless you're planning to try soloing Recluse, or suchlike, you'll never need that much defense. Further, unless you're willing to sink a billion Inf into the character, you'll be fighting with all the other min-maxers for those Kin-Combats and other defense-boosting sets. (Okay, that was hyperbole, I have no idea how much it would actually cost.)

For myself, I found slotting my attacks to boost Attack Values, and letting Tough Hide, Weave, and Invincibility carry my Defense, over the Resistance in Temp Invulnerability, RPD, and Tough to be absolutely sufficient. Scrimping, crunching, and contorting to eke out another few points of Defense isn't worth it, to Me.

Yeah, I saw. I was just talking in general about Endurance, not commenting on your build. I'm certain you have the experience to know how to manage Endurance.

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Fireheart

Oooo-yeah, that's so sweet. My WP/DB Tanker had an old Warriors mission to clear, so I cranked the diff to +4x8 and went Wading through giant pools of whites, yellows and oranges, all trying to get into melee range, all feeding RttC with More Regeneration - and I just mowed them down (somewhat slowly - I Am still a Tanker, after all) while laughing my butt off!

Of course, that was Solo - if there had been another player, competing for Aggro, then RttC just wouldn't have protected Them! However, DJ_O is talking Invulnerability, and Invincibility is much more potent at holding aggro. He'll have to work Endurance management into his playstyle and build (slotting SO-class EndRed into every attack helps tremendously), but it shouldn't be a terrible challenge and Stamina and Physical Perfection should balance it all out.

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Fireheart

I have a stable 1-2-1-4 attack chain (with the occasional Brawl filling gaps) almost at once - and this serves fine, until my first combo, at 16. When my second Combo arrives, at 20, I notice - If Ablating Strike was just a Leeetle bit faster, I could smoothly chain my two combos without Power Slice's punctuation. Except that the game has some timing bug, which Does Not Like This... so you actually Need some small (non-Combo) attack to perform between the Combos, something to interrupt the Combo-timer, before you restart it with the next Combo.

This is one reason the 'one combo min-maxers' keep Blinding Feint in the mix - the other is that it's a really good power!

One key issue with Dual Blades, that is not as much of a problem with any other set, is Accuracy/To-Hit. The Combo system requires that your attack Must hit, or that Combo is broken. An nice thing about the first two Combos is that they only differ by one attack and If you Miss that last attack, but the other one is available, then you could quickly trigger the other final attack and still get the benefit of a Combo (just not the one you wanted at first). However, this does emphasize the need for Accuracy/To-hit for a Dual Blader and can make some otherwise good IO sets really sub-par for your needs.

I don't have experience with the upper-level Combos, my highest level Dual Bladers, both Tankers, are 30 (with Fire/) and 32 (with Will/). However, I do have several other lower level Dual Bladers and experience Exemplaring into those lower levels, so I beg of you - Don't gimp your lower-level experience with the set, just because the plan will work when you're 50!

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Fireheart

Sadly, Ladies do not get the Baron boots.

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Fireheart

So, it's Jack?

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Fireheart

Agreed! Lesbian Catgirls make their own demands!

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Fireheart

No No! I want to see "City of a Million Amerikatts"! And/or "Amerikatt's Praetoria", where Marcus Cole turns over the empire to Amerikatt and retires to the Bahamas! "Amerikatt and the Amerikittens Save the World!" - although we may have already seen that on Saturday Morning Cartoons.

Or... What if Amerikatt was a Russian Warshade named Komrade Katt?

The mind swirls in a fog of imaginary purple cats...

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Fireheart

We ALL like the curves, Miss Neko!

And the straights, too, but the curves are the most fun!

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Fireheart

You can also vote for FArts!

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Fireheart

Ummm, no. Actually, not just no, but Hell No! If you need Tough at 14, you're doing it wrong. If you're on a team and dying 'often', then your Team is doing it wrong - and so are you.

While a Fire/** Tanker is still a Tanker and perfectly capable of doing a Tanker's job, the strategy and tactics are different. You don't play a Fire/** like a Stone/**. Fire is Dynamic, you don't just plunk yourself down in the middle of the mob and taunt-bot your damage-sponge to victory! You also don't join a PL team expecting your lowbie tanker to be able to perform at 50+ level - the game doesn't work that way.

Despite not doing everything the way _I_ would, Neofusion has the critical bits in the right places.

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Fireheart