Giant2005

Make a Fort.
Between Tactical Training: Manouevers and Mind Link, you will be giving out as much defense as a Bubbler's buffs (minus the Bubbler's pbaoe big Bubble). That big bubble can be compensated for by the to-Hit penalty in another toggle" Darkest Night.
While adding as much defensively as a Bubbler, you will be lowering your opponent's damage with Darkest Night, increasing your team's to hit with both Mind Link and Tactical Training: Leadership and increasing their damage with Tactical Training: Assault. All of the above is in addition to the leadership powers available to everyone (The leadership pool powers are also very effective in the hands of a Fort).
Your primary can floor all of your opponent's regen and recharge making them inflict less damage and take more. It can also keep your enemies off their feat much the same as a storm defender via Psionic Tornado, it possesses the most powerful single target hold in the game and has a very usable nuke power with no drawbacks.

When it comes to defending your team and adding offensive tools on top, the Fort really makes a Bubbler look useless. To be fair though Bubblers pretty much do suck these days and it isn't a fair comparison.

First let me say that the build has capped Fire defense, part of "The Lazy Man's" build requires not having to worry about maintaining purples or Vengeance to stay alive.
Having said that, I'd still like as much recharge as I can get my hands on.

Can anyone find a way to improve my build by getting me some more recharge without sacrificing my defense nor laziness?

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Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Super Strength
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Jab -- Mocking-Taunt(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(31), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(31), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(33), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(34), Mocking-Rchg(34)
Level 1: Fire Shield -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(5), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(7), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Aegis-ResDam(9), S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(33)
Level 2: Blazing Aura -- Oblit-%Dam(A), Oblit-Dmg(21), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(21), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(34), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36)
Level 4: Healing Flames -- Heal-I(A)
Level 6: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(7)
Level 8: Boxing -- Stgr-Acc/Rchg(A), Stgr-Acc/EndRdx(31), Stgr-EndRdx/Stun(33)
Level 10: Temperature Protection -- Aegis-Psi/Status(A), Aegis-ResDam(11), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(11), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(15), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(15)
Level 12: Stealth -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), GftotA-Def(13), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(13)
Level 14: Grant Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 16: Plasma Shield -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(17), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(17), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(19), Aegis-ResDam(19)
Level 18: Rage -- ToHit-I(A)
Level 20: Consume -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 22: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), GftotA-Def(23), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(23)
Level 24: Tough -- Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(A), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(25), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(25), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(29), Aegis-ResDam(29)
Level 26: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), GftotA-Def(27), GftotA-Def/EndRdx(27)
Level 28: Burn -- Oblit-%Dam(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(36), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(36), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(37), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(37), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(37)
Level 30: Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 32: Foot Stomp -- FrcFbk-Rechg%(A), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(39), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(40), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(40), Oblit-%Dam(40), Oblit-Dmg(43)
Level 35: Fiery Embrace -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(46)
Level 38: Rise of the Phoenix -- Stgr-Acc/Rchg(A), Stgr-Acc/Stun/Rchg(39), Stgr-Stun/Rng(39)
Level 41: Electrifying Fences -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(42), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(42), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(42), Posi-Dam%(43), RechRdx-I(43)
Level 44: Ball Lightning -- Posi-Acc/Dmg(A), Posi-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Posi-Dmg/Rchg(45), Posi-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(45), Posi-Dam%(46), RechRdx-I(46)
Level 47: Summon Striker -- BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(A), BldM'dt-Dmg/EndRdx(48), BldM'dt-Acc/EndRdx(48), BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(48), BldM'dt-Acc(50)
Level 49: Mu Lightning -- Mael'Fry-Acc/Dmg(A), Mael'Fry-Dmg/EndRdx(50), Mael'Fry-Dmg/Rchg(50)
Level 50: Spiritual Core Paragon
Level 50: Ageless Core Epiphany
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(5)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), P'Shift-EndMod(3), EndMod-I(3)



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I think you are better off being a /Pain.
You will have the same resists as Sonic but with some tasty heals and damage buffs.
You will however lose your mez protection but that can be fixed with the Clarion Destiny power.

Well to be fair, if you are all moving en masse to stay within each other's big bubble, there is no reason you can't stick World of pain on auto and have it hit everyone anyway. The resistance of it is actually better because it doesn't have the psi hole. The only thing you would lose would be the hold, immobilize and diorient mez protections. You would gain better resists and a whole lot more to-hit and damage and still have it hassle free and lazy. You would also gain the passive heals of Soothing Aura while still being lazy.

75% resists plus capped Defense (I assume you would top off the 8x manoeuvers with pool powers for more defense) is pretty tough but in high end game content is isn't enough to keep you alive. I have a tank capped in both defense and resists and he still faceplants during the ITF or Incarnate Trials without assistance and resist cap is obviously higher than a Corruptor's. That extra layer of mitigation offered by Soothing Aura would be enough to make your team survivable enough for such content.

In a team of 4 or more, /Pain > everything else.
4 stacks of World of Pain will give you capped resists and a nice damage and to-hit bonus.
You can Enforced Morale each other for mez protection plus a little recharge.
You can Painbringer each other for some more damage and ridiculous recovery and regen.
Soothing Aura x4 makes for some nice effortless heals or in a pvp zone, soothing aura x2 + Painbringer will cap your regen.
Anguishing Cry has the same -Resist Debuff as Disruption Field but also adds a aheft to-hit Debuff but personally I wouldn't bother with Anguishing Cry nor Disruption Field, I would choose Rad as my primary and slot everything with Achilles' Heel: Chance for Resistance Debuff to silmutaneously floor your enemey's Res and Def while attacking.

I know that ever since Burn got the buff, Fire has been the reigning champion but is it really all that much better?

Not enjoying the 5 target cap of Burn, I decided to do a little tinkering with Dark Armor and used a bunch of proc IOs to turn Dark Regeneration into a nasty attack. With is having double the target cap of Burn, it appears superior. Is there anything I am missing? I know Death Shroud is slightly inferior to Blazing Aura but not by a margin large enough to make up the difference. Also some people like Fiery Embrace although I never use it myself because I am constantly damage capped through inspirations.

Here is the math, tell me what I am forgetting please.

Burn: 6 Obliterations, 5.88 recharge time +198.8% recharge
5 Targets
153.7 Damage per Animation (With Reactive)
x5 = 768.5
71.8 Smashing 20% Chance
x1 = 71.8
Total Damage = 840.3



Dark Regeneration: Theft of Essence Proc, Armageddon Proc, Obliteration Proc, Scirocco's Proc, Touch of the Nictus Proc, Perfect Zinger Proc, 8.82 recharge time, +195% recharge
10 Targets
52.9 Damage per Animation (With Reactive)
x10 = 529
107.1 Fire 33% Chance
x3 = 321.3
71.8 Smashing 20% Chance
x2 - 143.6
71.8 Lethal 20% Chance
x2 = 143.6
71.8 Psi 20% Chance
x2 = 143.6
71.8 Neg Energy 20% Chance
x2 = 143.6
Total Damage = 1424.7

It says
Program Version: 1.942
Game Issue: 12
Database Version: 20.1 (10/May/2011)

Is that the most current version? Considering it is claiming we are still in Issue 12, I am assuming no.

I am a Claws Scrapper with the Soul PPP.
So Dark Blast has a higher damage per animation and should be my primary attack of the two. Does this hold true when factoring in redraw times? Or does the redraw animation push Focus ahead in Damage per animation?
Not overly worried about the secondary effects of these powers at this time.

So that sounded a lot like no they won't be changing the cap then...
Damn.

Brutes have a Regen cap of 2500%, Scrappers and Stalkers cap at 3000% I assume the reason for this is the Regeneration secondary set.

Now that we too are getting our hands on that set, is our Regen cap being raised? Or are our Regenners going to be stuck with Red-Headed Stepchild Syndrome?

The procs I am mostly interested in are the heal involved with Siphon Life and the Entropic Chaos proc IO.

Don't ditch the pets.
Don't think of them as pets, think of them as long lasting DoTs. With reactive interface think of them as long lasting DoTs that do incredible damage.
There isn't another power available to a crab that will do more damage and with the right build you give up virtually nothing to do it.
I have all my defenses soft capped, I have enough +recharge to keep my pets and hasten on perma and full attack chains in both aoe and single target damage.

My build isn't even particularly expensive - in the time since 20.5 dropped, the fact that with my pets prisoners never escape during BAF has erned me enough extra alpha merits to buy and sell lotgs to pay for my build a couple of times over.

Unless they think running off and suiciding sounds like a solid plan, they aren't overly hard to keep alive with double manouevers running, an additional +10% defense from the IOs and the destiny heal.