Korith

While I haven't actually tested it, my gut feeling is that brutes probably benefit the least from Musculature, on account of how they're built around Fury. That said, there are two things to look at:

1) No matter how much recharge you slot, powers have a fixed activation time. You can reduce the time you spend waiting for powers to recharge, but once you reach the point where you're not waiting for your powers to recharge in your chosen attack chain, recharge stops being useful from a DPS standpoint.

2) The damage boost from Musculature is additive to the global bonus from Fury and damage enhancements in your powers. Effectively, this means that the percentage boost that Musculature enhancements add to your build is diluted by having a high combination of fury, global damage bonuses, and damage enhancements.


Generally, the procedure is this: If the total recharge enhancement in your attacks is about equal to the total damage enhancement in your attacks, boost your damage. If the total damage enhancement in your attacks is maybe 30% higher than the total recharge enhancement, provided you haven't got your attack chains to the point where you're no longer waiting for your "best" attack option to recharge, slot more recharge.

So, in your case, improve on whichever is weakest. If it weren't for Hasten and your Global Recharge, I'd simply recommend slotting more recharge - but with the amount of recharge you have slotted, you might find you get more out of boosting your damage instead.


One further note - due to the nature of Fury increasing the more you attack, for low levels of recharge, boosting your recharge also directly boosts your damage. If you've already got a high amount of recharge and/or are capping out your fury regularly, however, this ceases to be of benefit.


In summary - you have a sort of diminishing returns either way. Whichever one is the weaker of the two (damage or recharge) would be the better one to improve, since your overall performance is roughly equal to your damage bonus times your recharge bonus...and it's better to have 5 x 5 = 25 (balanced) than 2 x 8 = 16 (unbalanced)

Moar Maths!

Hasten Recharge:
99.1% from IOs
9.6% from Alpha Slot
62.5% from Global Recharge
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171.2% Recharge (Normal)

70% from Hasten for 120s
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241.2% Recharge for 120s

Hasten has a "normal" recharge time of 450 seconds.
+Recharge effectively multiplies the number of seconds a power recharges in real time

First 120s: 120 x (1 + 2.412) = 409.44 seconds of recharging

This leaves 40.56s of "normal" charging time at 171.2% recharge


Remaining time: 40.56 / (1 + 1.712) = 15.0s


Without your Alpha slot (the "Before" recharge)
161.6% Normal Recharge
231.6% Recharge for 120s

First 120s: 120 x (1 + 2.316) = 397.92 seconds of recharging

That leaves 52.08 seconds of recharge


Remaining time: 52.08 / (1 + 1.616) = 19.9s

So, your Hasten downtime should have reduced by 4.9 seconds.


Now, if you were in combat during your testing, an enemy slow effect might throw off your results, as might an additional +recharge effect coming from another player's buff powers, Secondary Mutation: Quick Reflexes or certain Mystic Fortune powers.


All that said, yes, 62.5% global is a lot of recharge. I've a controller with 45% (but no self +recharge powers apart from hasten) and a scrapper and a Night Widow with around 62.5%. It's quite significant. Permanent Hasten requires a total of 275% from all sources - enhancements, alpha slots, its own 70% boost, and global recharge buffs via inventions, powers, etc. That's a whole lot of recharge...but it has been done.

Here's a table of actual boosts experienced, where the enhanced aspect of a power is fully affected by ED, by rarity and enhancement value.

Of course, Rare and Very Rare aren't available yet. For aspects of a power not fully affected by ED, the actual experienced enhancement will be somewhere between the listed value and the full strength of the enhancement.

Grav/Storm/Mu ftw

I wormholed the rikti from the first portal (wow, that was a lot of them spawning. I don't think my MM faced that many), ground them to dust, then wormholed the EBs (died once, I should have timed my accolades/inspirations better), then wormholed the EBs AGAIN (crushed them with a wiser use of Hurricane, Immobilizes, and inspirations for survival), then ran straight into the remaining portals with Surge of Power and took them all out before crashing (I exited the mission prior to being squashed by the swarms of remaining Rikti).

That said, the above powerset combination is nearly optimal for fighting Rikti (60% energy resistance, and Hurricane to keep the swords away ), only needing the occasional breakfree inspiration for when a Mez lands.

They can be viewed in the Incarnate Interface...the second tab I think. Hold the mouse cursor over each Alpha slot enhancement and it will tell you which components are required to craft it.

And screenshots and demorecord files.

...So you're counting December 0th?

...and then someone sets the AE mission on the team, and they use the Mission Teleporter to bypass the lock.

I can't wait for Captain Squirrel to take a run at that one...

My theory is that Zombie Man is the janitor, and Lemur the electrician.

...especially if you could throw in something like "target nearest and follow" to the mix.

Perhaps a badge for distance travelled with the walk power toggled on?

And I would walk 500 miles...

"I AM a boat, thanks to the new Vehicular Transformation powerset. Autobots, roll out!"