Frosticus

Mayhem has quite the jowls for a 5'6, 115lbs woman. Jowly

It does have 1.2x acc though so you can skimp a bit on acc slotting.

I'll give you three clues because I'm not really in the mood to be overly nice anymore. I also believe people that take the time to actually learn something have a greater understanding of it than those that are just told the information

1. Once you understand the mechanics of benumb it will invariably mean you understand more of the game and will cease saying things like:

Does the old one still count toward TF commander?

Once you understand the mechanics of an AV encounter most of them are pretty much identical. In that regard many many different power set combos can be built to defeat at least some AV's without a lot of player skill required.

When you start getting in to some of the AV's that present a lot more challenge like Positron, Infernal, Recluse and such, is when you see how well a build holds up under the challenge of solo'ing AV's and you start to see a lot more technique, or skill if you will, enter into the picture.

Or at least that has been my take on the process and I'm approaching the 100 AV's badge (not that it exists outside of my mind), no temps/insp/clicks accolades/no aideself, with my fire/traps corr.

If your target stays under the rain all debuffs expire after 15 seconds and none of the delayed effects kick in.

If your targets leaves the rain at any point the debuff lasts the 30 sec after and the delayed effects kick in.

As a stormy it almost makes more sense to drop FR on them and then gale them all out of it after a bit so that it actually works like it is supposed to.

35% is still very good and very tangible. As mentioned if you are getting overwhelmed pop a purple and problem solved.

That said, you may not be planning to "tank", but AAO has different plans for you

With the bug in sleet you almost want things to scatter so that it actually works. Almost.

Earth/Fire or Plant/Fire.

Plant because it gets very good control early in the game and will let you really feel how strong doms are pretty much right out of the gate. Additionally, nothing will ever surpass the damage /fire does so it is a sound choice for late game too.

Earth because it creates a very large margin for error by having quite a few very powerful controls and because the -def will let you succeed where other toons wiff and die. Especially in the early game where lots of teams have a tendency to set the difficulty higher than it should be.

Mind/fire is a good choice if you want to solo. It has an abundance of single target control backed by the high damage of /fire. It feels very powerful right out of the gate too, but in a different way than plant (single targets vs entire spawns) It is worth noting that all the sets except gravity will solo faster post pets though. Plant, not because of its pet, but because of seeds.

Arch/Fire played in melee range.

I'd imagine a perma pet build could at least technically do enough damage to kill an AV. Crabs aren't known for their st damage though.

Banes can easily put out enough damage, but survival is a different matter.

IMO you should build (ideally) close enough to softcap where DN will put you over by enough to take at least one defense debuff.

You should be able to cover all your bases with DN in one direction and Fearsome Stare in the other direction if you are getting swarmed. They have matching tohit debuff values.

Oh boy, there is so much incorrect information in that post my eye is twitching.

Here's a fun little exercise that might help. Tell me specifically what happens if I hit (an even con) Valkyrie AV with Benumb when she rezzes and before she hits MOG. When you can answer that question in detail this conversation can proceed. In the mean time I'm going to PM Castle about the sleet/freezing rain bug again, maybe that will stop the twitching.

I love the end discount of vigilance, always have.

If you tell me my storm/sonic is being a "bad defender" for getting use out of it I'll respond by telling you that you are an idiot as I can pretty much guarantee I do more for the team's reward rate than your "good defender".

Same goes for my cold/dark, who gets to use HL primarily for the debuff rather than needing it for the buff like all my other colds. Same goes for my traps/son, and my dark/rad blast.

Being able to go buck-wild when we get into the thick of things is just great. All my defenders are slotted more aggressively than the corruptor version would be because endurance is less of a concern in teams, which is where I primarily play them.

I understand the complaint that it isn't as visual as scourge or containment, maybe they could change it so that when you start receiving a vigilance discount is spams vigilance over your own head...yeah. If your net worth is determined by the gimmick text appearing over enemy heads then I feel bad for you.

The damage buff while solo is nice. Defs designed* with the intention of solo'ing were already fine at it and I'm not sure this change has made builds not designed for it much better like a single attack emp/psi, but maybe.

*When I say designed to solo I mean designed to actually contribute in all types of play. I personally don't have a defender build that can't fit in all team relevant buffs/debuffs while also fitting all solo relevent buffs/debuffs with the full gambit of attacks too. They might be out there though, playing some set that isn't available to the rest of us that makes it impossible to build for. From the way some people talk about it on the boards the power sets are out there. Who knows.

In all seriousness I was a bit disappointed with the not being able to save my double. It seems like no one ever actuallydies in this game and then the one character I really like goes and actually dies.

It wouldn't have bothered me if the things I defeat by cleaving them in two with headsplitter were dying too, but nothing ever dies. Except my double , who was arguably the second best character in the whole game