MajorDecoy

I think it has something to do with Active defenses being a Click. I have energy shield and it didn't disappear with the change either.

You need the 45% Endurance Reduction?

With just the 33%, I'm considering picking up Focused Accuracy just to make more of a dent in my endurance bar.

And I didn't say that it was worthless. I admit that there are some builds that it's quite nice on. But my Invulnerability tanker isn't helped significantly by the extra resistance the ultra-rare offers. If it was more inconvenient to make the ultra-rare, I wouldn't bother.

You didn't read that post at all, did you?

Is that with or without the unclaimed veteran slots?

Actually, going by the pattern, 5/6ths of the enhancement would ignore ED.

That said, I don't much care for this idea. Right now, people can stop at Rare, going to Ultra rare provides a nice little bonus, but nothing to get terribly excited about. My tank, for example, has cardiac. Going from the 33/20/20 to the 45/20/20 (because he has no intangibility, fear, or sleep powers) provides about .6% more resistance. Even a Stone tank in Granite form only gets 1.6% more resistance from going from Rare to Ultra-rare.

But your suggestion is so grossly overpowered... going from a 13.33% resist bonus at ultra-rare to a 25% resist bonus at Mega-ultra-rare. That's just the percentage ignoring ED.

It currently takes 4 Notices of the Well to get an Ultra Rare, double that to get two Ultra Rares, and then assume that it takes two Favors of the Well to make the Embrace of the Well you need to craft the Mega-Ultra Rare. That's 12 Notices of the Well and somewhere around three months time.

Actually, I'm pretty sure that a Westin Phipps Strike Force would go something like this.

"Okay, I'm going to send you to Praetoria, where you're going to destroy a robotics factory that's producing some new stealth robots. You'll need these goggles to see them."

You then go through a portal and fight oddly squishy robots.

"What's that, you were actually sent to a nursery in Paragon, not to Praetoria? I have no idea how that happened. Shoot. Let's try again."

Well, to be fair, there are situations in which I can't use Assassin's Strike but I can use Moonbeam. Some enemies have auto-hit (or high accuracy) auras. In that situation, doing Moonbeam from outside of the aura radius and then running in to use high damage attacks will be better than using Dark Blast.

Also, Moonbeam seems to be awesome for single pulls.

I would like to see the snipes get decreased activation times though. 6 seconds is just unreasonable.

I still want to have a character with Inferno/Rise of the Pheonix/Quasar/Stygian Return/Black Star/Soul Transfer/Dawn Strike Thrown in Self-Destruct to start things off.

Hamidon Enhancements would still be stronger because Hamidon Enhancements provide larger bonuses anyway.

Just compare a Hamidon Dam/Range to a Hydra Dam/Range. And, for fun, we'll throw in a Positron's Blast Dam/Range.

Hamidon: +33% Damage/ +20% Range
Hydra: +25% Damage/ +15% Range
Positron's Blast: (level 40) +24.1% Dam/ + 14.5% Range

I think most people just take reward merits for completing the trials anyway.

All the Devouring Earth in tip missions have base 64% to hit, rather than 50%.

Quartz really just never got looked at after the global defense reduction, I'm sure. It served a purpose once; Quartz made the Crystal Titan room slightly more challenging to herd.

But two Quartz means that you essentially need to be at the defense hard cap in order avoid damage. And yes, separate spawns do come that close together now and then.

There was a time that you could cap Smashing/Lethal resistance with Tough instead of Temporary Invulnerability, and Tough had a lower endurance cost to boot.

What, you don't have a power that grants you 90% defense for every 20% to-hit bonus the enemy gets?

On my Invulnerability, the guys who summon cairns are more annoying than the ones who summon quartz. On Invulnerability, when defense fails, I've got 90% Smashing/Lethal resistance.

I think my shield tanker would find Devouring Earth a lot easier to deal with if I set up a macro to target quartz, because right now, it takes me upwards of 5-7 seconds to manage to target it, during which time, I'm not really attacking.

You have access to three builds. If you can afford it, do both.

What are you even asking here?

Do you intend to fight primarily psi enemies? If not, the first one is better.

Yes. I don't know how I ended up with "first" there. Maybe I wanted to "Defeat bosses and minions first." Either way, I forgot the cardinal rule of "re-read before posting."

But there are tactics you can use against Malta and Carnies. It's easy to target Sappers first, and Ring Mistresses... well, those require a bit of luck. If you can avoid the first Mask of Vitae, it's easy enough to keep her from being able to cast it a second time.

There's also tactics for Nemesis; defeat the lieutenants last. If you happen across a spawn that is entirely lieutenants... well, the one time that happened to me I just decided to drop the mission.

But you can't stop the Guardians from summoning a crystal eminator. And that 100% to hit bonus is from a bygone era, when there was no aggro cap and Invincibility tanks would get 10% defense per enemy in range.