Kioshi

FootStomp melee!

1) Low dmg FootStomp, 4 sec rech, +22.5% def to all so you can softcap easily with two applications, and a good LoTG mule for the defensive sets
2) The normal boring FootStomp we have
3) Rage
4) Ranged Footstomp, like Fault but with 80' range and normal FootStomp damage and radius, the set can't have just PbAoEs after all, it also does -def because mobs don't see it coming from afar (so that you can slot the achiles -res proc)
5) Taunt, but since your taunt is a FootStomp, mobs get KD'ed when you use it
6) Stygian Dark FootStomp, works on alive and dead enemies to replenish your health and end, and of course alive mobs fall down too, the set is kinda end heavy after all
7) Mag 4 Stun FootStomp (the utility power), this is the skippable one because it does no damage and stun is annoying sometimes with wandering mobs
8) FootStomp on the face, this is the extreme dmg ST attack with KD (because KB sucks) and a mag 4 stun (sorry, hold isn't thematic)
9) Teleporting ZOMGDMG FootStomp mininuke with 30' radius

People might complain tho because of Rage crashing and mobs wandering from stun but all the KD and utility powers might alleviate the shortcomings.

Oh I just added that to clarify, because the OP might not know it, I've ran into a few players that didn't realize the cloak has great defense and is not only a stealth tool.

I'm a Mac user

But I use Windows when playing (bootcamp) because of Mid's and because the Mac client sucks, it crashes like once per hour while the Windows one basically never crashes here.

When I said you'll be damage capped with Posi Blasts, I meant that without the dam/range IO you'll reach the 99% max damage for slotting a power, more than that is wasted.

AT damage caps are something different and you'll only reach 500% by doing stuff like eating a ton of red insps or being buffed by a 10-mob fulcrum shift by a kinetics toon. For enhancement purposes you'll want to max the damage slotting for a power at 95%ish, the 5 posi blasts (minus dam/range) already give 100.7%, if you use the dam/range instead of the proc you get about 130% which is wasted because it caps at 95-99%.

Yeah for Brutes it sucks. For a Corr maybe it's not worth chasing as much as a Blaster because of the lower base damage and especially if Scourge doesn't benefit from it (I think it doesn't, not sure).

Check your ranged defense, you must have some with IOs for e/n def, if it's good enough you won't need psi def because very few psi attacks have no ranged component (dominate, mesmerize and I think terrify, the way more common pink psi blasts are ranged).

Get CJ. It barely costs any end and will help. And the steadfast +3, since you have money for miracle and LoTG, the steadfast is dirt cheap compared to those. Leave grant cover for later, or just skip it.

Weave is also recommended because /SD has low defense numbers compared to /SR. SD is only easy-ish to softcap on tankers and even that requires IOs and well, usualy, Weave. Plus Tough will double your s/l resist if you slot deflection for resist as well as defense.

You don't need the karma KB IO, shields has kb protection.

I tested it on pocket d so no gameplay action, the big arrow is cut in half on my game (the others like when it changes to enlarge a window is normal but it's smaller)... But well I'm willing to put up with that if it means the cursor doesn't disappear. Or maybe installing one of the previous packs with the smaller cursors if they don't disappear, since my problem is not with the cursor size as I can always spot it in the OS and other games.

Someone said it was because devs wanted the obligatory power to be useful to the toon, now I don't remember who and if that had any grounds, but Poison has a tier 1 that you can't use to benefit yourself (Alkaloid) so well at least now that's not a valid argument.

Anyway yeah it sucks. I only used Gale on some parts of the Posi 2 TF I did yesterday because some suicidal scrapper was soloing mobs (and was gonna die) and I went out of my way to help him more than once, and if Seeds was recharged I woudn't have used Gale (I was still on DOs). And this stupid power still has an accuracy penalty.

Even on my Mind/Storm (no AoE immob) I leveled to 30ish long ago I barely used it past the teens, Mind has enough tools to mitigate anything.

Yeah you're right. The cone is not so bad, comparing to Corr and Blaster Psy Scream, it does the exact same damage (which is a bit more than the tier 1 blast in the case of Corr Psy Blast), with shorter recharge and shorter cast time (has lower range tho). And that's with lethal ammo because I don't know how to select incendiary on Mid's.

Tenebrous Tentacles on Blasters has the same rech, same range (a bit wider arc) but does less damage than Empty Clips (and less than Dark Blast, the tier 1), again lethal ammo values, so it's not as bad as I thought. The blast set cones that actually do damage in between the tier 1 and tier 2 blasts are the 16 sec recharge ones (Electron Haze, Frost Breath, well Fire Breath does more damage than Fire Blast but Fire Blast shouldn't enter any comparison lol). Howl also does less damage than the tier 1 and is on a 10 sec rech like Empty Clips.

So thanks, your answer made me compare the cones and I saw EC is actually good - maybe it just doesn't look that way because it's DoT on a long animation. But I used to have the impression that Frost Breath sucked hard until I looked at the numbers, and it's not even a DoT, it does its damage in 2 parts (maybe it's the lackluster visual effect, unlike Fire Breath).

And well since I've settled on a DP/Dark corr, the animations won't be a big deal for me since it's a 'safe' toon. I was a bit worried about using HoB when I was leveling my DP/Fire but I guess I'll be ok with the corr (she's 22, god I have so any toons at 22 it's not funny, that's why I haven't bought TW and StJ, because my Beam Rifle toon, the only powerset I bought, is also 22 lol - he was 30 but BR/Poison was redraw hell so now he's /Traps). If I made another DP Blaster I'd probably go /MM but I already have a Dark/MM.

I guess I'll try this too.

When I left the game I used a 22 inch at 1680x1050, now I use a 2560x1440 27 incher.

BUT - I don't have bad eye sight, I never lose the cursor in the system and in other games, only in CoX. My previous computer didn't run Ultra Mode, but I can run Skyrim and whatever else at the same resolution and I know where the cursor is if I move my mouse one inch. In CoX, even doing a circular motion to find the cursor, and even in compatibility mode where it becomes a low res and bigger pointer, sometimes it takes like 5 seconds for me to find it.

I hope this can help me but I don't think the size of the cursor is the problem for me at least.

Yeppers, plus Dark Blast has Life Drain and -tohit to add even more to the survivability.

I fall in the middle. That's why I never managed to like PBs until the recent buffs, now the human PB I'm leveling really feels like she packs some punch (Inner Light is awesome even at SO level).

But when I don't like the style, no way. I couldn't play Kinetic Melee even knowing it's very good because I disliked the animations. While DP I made three toons until I was satisfied with one because I loved them (I was about to give up because I wanted a blaster, but I was disappointed with Blaster DP, but a DP/Dark corr made me happy).

But... When a powerset I love and played a lot is nerfed I abandon the toon - at least I did in the two times it happened (fully IOed Ice/Psi dom and EM/Nin Stalker). Even though PSW was broken, the changes made me too sad. Em was a different case because I think it was overnerfed, not adjusted like psi assault.