New Dawn

I can say what I hate most about Regen.

I would like to see the MoG cast time lowered. The air punch is too slow even for my disabled mum with arthritis. I would like to see it eliminated when running in and then I would like to see MoG last 30s.

The MoG animation. Punching the air. I could run in, see something suddenly and think "Oh boy I better" and MoG, to stop running and stand still for a lengthy enough amount of time whilst a team mate(s) who is unaware of what I saw runs by and straight in to defeat. But never mind I just spent 3 secs of standing still for 15s of awesomeness . Yep that will help me get through that remainder of a 20s average fight duration except half the team is missing, so that won't will help me get through the 40s fight duration

When I go awesome, not only do I like to feel different, I like to look different, the molecules in my body have been altered by the extremophiles in my system that work faster to restore my body. I like to change costume only the costume can't change back when MoG crashes. I know a faster costume change would lag servers because everyone can costume change often but not everyone can MoG and to be able to MoG from one costume change to another is better.

I don't think given the rest of the set which might be over-rated a tad, I mean for a start a clicky secondary lowers the dps of a primary that I am asking for too much.

I think it would be too OP to have lower no phase period in PvP.

Can't say I need a lower no phase period in PvE because I literally don't.

Icicles was put there to help Icetankers before defense scaleability, not removed after defense scaleability but a no phase period was put in. I am going on memory as I don't keep notes at all but all appears fine to me.

Ice is more or less about right as is.

My suggestion using the build you have with the slots that are there already:

When you play one, you have a tohit bonus. You could find yourself content that reduces your basic tohit of 75% down to -75% within taking an alpha. That's a huge drop in accuracy. This could happen at level 30. You haven't fully slotted, Foc Acc is too many levels away. Do you think the Power Siphon alone is going to counteract that? It's not exactly build up is it? So anyway, your death shroud is missing yet costing you end, cloak of fear is missing costing you end, Oppressive Gloom is missing but the end cost is hardly worth caring about, your attacks are missing costing you end but the real pain it the butt is watching Dark Regen miss, costing you end before you die.

Now that doesn't have to happen but watch the tohit debuffs.

Your having the equivalent of 2 slots wasted due to enhancement diversification. I pretty much think that you can get decent bonuses and more bang for buck putting the slots elsewhere. To go from 167% down to less than 100% for the sake of a bonus, I wouldn't do it, 9/10 there is an alternative way to slot the build and achieve roughly the same result.

I think Poison is the most complicated set to create and get everyone behind. Storm is a set that wasn't fully respected for a good while and then not fully understood for a good while longer. Certainly the -range in hurricane was underestimated, ignored and so under utilised when a lot of late game issues was easily sorted with it and other powers complimentary to it. Every attribute has to be taken into account or set that doesn't help in certain situations at first look won't ever help.

I've got 3 of these Poisons so my perspective is not too one sided but to fully understand the set is going to take time. From that I think if you buff it after the new changes, it has to be carefully done. Like with Sonic Resonance you can't quite give Defenders or Corrupters exactly what might be needed because you overpower Controllers. Before considering changes all ATs have to be taken into account.

With each AT there is a design concept. This set is built around a design intent. We either play to it or we don't. Play completely wrong and yes it needs the most buffs, find the right playstyle and build to help perform in it, still there might be issues in places, take into account PvP and maybe needs a slight buff thats complicated to nail. I was troubled by the set initially, the trouble I had with it is what's being fixed. Now for me the sense of urgency when it comes to fixes is elsewhere.

What might be an idea is try to replicate accurately a problem from ingame into peoples minds. People can come together to solve them or duplicate the situation ingame to see how shocking it is. By solving we might see the play intent, by being shocked we might see where a problem lies and maybe come up with multiple ways to fix it.

Teams steam rolling content might make any set feel useless, except those buffing away with shields perhaps but even with one debuff thrown in you're part of the equation. I've had it with TA, but I knew the team was faster as result of what little I did. With only so much fight duration everyone has to fit their cast times in that small timespan, so we as a team were all doing equally as little. Ofc any excessive cast times would have to be fixed but what is excessive compared to everyother set and would it in a pvp environment be OP if lowered?

Look at Invulns weaknesses, SR should either be somewhere as weak to some way stronger. SR is stronger in the fact it responds so well to positional attacks and its position is of less importance. Attack chains that can be done in melee will always be stronger than attack chains that can be done at ranged. I'd choose based on the secondary if I could go either way with the primary. If you're doing something like KM then the time to go SR maybe now.

I look at the slotting and things stand out, compare the slotting on group invis and combat jump to your ally shields, its like putting toilet paper in the laundry basket and clothes down the toilet.

I'm about to come out with something I am a bit vague with because I looked into it in 2005.

Consider a complete build with no end slots in it. As your attack chaining away your toggles are running and the cost of the entire build and this could be the same for any AT is about 5 eps. Your toggles add up to about 1.5 eps, so your attacks are about 3.5 eps.

Now consider your attacks, if you have no damage slots in your attacks then you hit them once and do x damage, you then hit them again and do the same x damage, each costing y endurance, rather than hit them twice we double the damage we deal so that we do 2x damage for y endurance, this saves us y endurance.

Now going back to the second paragraph you can see that the attack chains take up the most eps and the third paragraph is about doing more damage per end through more damage slotting. If you only added more end slotting you increase the dam per end still but still you'll have to use the attack again, so thats two cast times and a longer fight duration.

All in all, economise your attacks before toggles, then see to the toggles.

Use brawl, use aggro from multiple targets to keep up fury then use aoes, aoes which you should now be thinking of putting damage slots in. Cone attacks on more than 2 targets will save endurance, aoe attacks on more than 4 targets will save endurance.

So now when I look at your build I'd be thinking too much end in toggles, not enough damage and end slots spread throughout all attacks.

The thing with what you've done Finduilas has knocked his DPS down. I don't know how important things are but when I look at someones build I kind of try to guess. He could take the gladiator out of his build or the one I changed for him and still be softcapped.

I measured the level of tohit debuffs mobs can do to a dark/dark who might not even have soul drain yet or slotted it well.

Fighting +2 CoTx0 lvl 5-54, Tohit bonus down to 5% In a 8 man team my tohit bonus could be so far in the minus figures its time to pack up and go home, -75%ish.

Fighting +2 Tsoox0 lvls 15-40 Tohit bonus down to 26.5% with Hurricane, Chill of the Night and Hurricane dont run together, Hurricane is worse than Chill, good thing is that Tsoo sorcerors stupidly TP about making the -tohit too momentary to care about. So not a problem.

Fighting +2 full team size Banished Pantheon lvl20-29, Storm Shaman, Hurricane again 26.5%, Death Shaman, whilst ranged fluctated down between 56 and 65, the Deaths might need to be melee'd if possible really to prevent constant debuffs. Stacking Storm Shaman with a Death Shaman is gonna be harsh, in a 8 man team am likely to get a Death, Storm and Avalanche giving mixed debuffs and my tohit bonus could be like 6% when I need to heal up.

Fighting Cabal, +2 full team size lvls 25-34 Tohit bonus down to 26.5% with Hurricane, can complete miss with Soul Drain and Dark Regen when its like this, then XD.

These might be alot easier exemping down than leveling up. Team support will alleviate obviously but for the 15-30s I do not know what other faction presents such a degree of a problem for other types of tankers. I have limited make ups.

Quite literally if I made changes to Regen it would look alot like like Willpower..

I'll have a pop though later for something more recogniseable to a fan of Regen.

Yeah ya pretty close to it as is, the first build I did took 4 mins at 5:40 am this morning, the second build is what it should of been with a slot moved and a couple of enhancements corrected so that two aoes are frankensteined alike.

I've been told Nem pets do most damage and would prolly go Musculature with that.