Rhysem

And what's your attack chain? You probably have some low-value picks in it. Flip mids over into the "damage per animation" setting not "damage per attack" and start comparing your powers. When you've got a full attack chain, that's really your limiting factor, not DPS. (which includes recharge time, on mids, IIRC?)

Now tell me: is it better to use all the powers you have listed, or a subset of them like I listed below?

If you *always* have those folks around, fine. I still disagree especially as a scrapper who can end up away from the pack chasing and killing a boss, but if you and your pals accept that limitation its fine.

That number looks a lot less "I WIN!"-button-awesome when you realize that properly enhanced attacks (which yours aren't) are already doing ~207% to 269% damage depending how saturated your AAO is. So you're adding maybe 15-20% more damage (adding 44.5 to those numbers) than you're doing without those bonuses. Less if we also add in Assault. Even less if your buddies also have assault.

As a point: for Hack, you've enhanced base damage to only 85% boosted, not 96-97% in the yellow/red zone where it should be. There's ~6% damage you're missing out on. Some of your other attacks do have better damage enhancement. Others not so much.

Looking at your build, I can only guess that your attack chain is some cycle of Parry->HS->Whirling->Dis->Parry->Hack->Fire Blast*? Maybe with another parry in there. The big three there (HS, Dis, Hack) are pure gold, ~80 damage per second of animation (unenhanced). Fire blast is probably running ~60 dpsa. Parry is ~40 dpsa. Whirling is a miserable 38 dpsa against a single target. Average all that out and you're going to get a measly 64 dpsa, especially with Werner's note they unbaked in the redraw animations, so fire blast is causing redraw too.

Edit: Note: I computed the above without hasten. Given how rare it'll be up with only a single recharge IO and not substantial recharge in your build, I stand by the above chain. With hasten you could drop some chaff for two minutes... then have it back for the next three.

Let's say you boost your recharge (global and slotted in powers) some and instead run Parry->HS->Parry->Hack->Dis, which isn't too hard to get to -- you're pretty much there with HS and Parry fully enhanced for recharge (full set of oblit will do it) and while hasten is up (it has downtime in your build, but we'll get to that). Now you're at 71 dpsa. That's 10% better than the previous chain -- and multiplicative with the earlier-missing 6% and with all other damage bonuses (assaults and build-up included).

So that's now doing on-par with how good all the +dmg bonuses you're chasing so far get you. And even slotting out like I'm talking above you'll still pick up a few +dmg bonuses sitting around elsewhere.

Of course I did assume perma-hasten. You won't get there on a BS/SD without sacrificing other things, but then again all I'm using hasten here for is a big recharge boost. Get it through the incarnate slot, get it through set bonuses, or just slot up recharge in the power. HS needs more than you can slot it in, but Parry doesn't.

You could even *gasp* drop hasten. Crazy-talk, I know. Might still want it for shield charge though! Speaking of shield charge, that little recharge in your best AoE attack makes sad pandas sadder. A full set of obliteration is called for. At the worst, a 5-set minus the proc.

*: warning: mids values for fire blast on DPAnimS are wrong -- I think doubled what they should be due to the scrapper critical chance.

There is no reason you can't do nearly full enhancement for defense and resist and still have your attacks well slotted.

Note that boosted health is another form of mitigation, just like resistance. If I remember looking at your build in mids you were ~1700 HP. True Grit is giving you ~133 of those HP. That's enhanceable though, and if you did that's 1833 HP instead of 1700. So it now takes ~7% more damage to kill you. Your psycho-resistance slotting is not netting you anywhere near 7% more resist to S/L, much less any of the other available damage types.

Also if you're that concerned about endurance and resistance, you should pick up the end redux alpha slot which also boosts resistance as a secondary effect.

Alternately, slot them like you plan to play at 50 and you can underslot the power with everything-but-dmg (or the other pure one for the control sets). You get the recharge bonus and ED-capped damage(/hold/...) and recharge and whatever proc the set has.

Then take the lone "pure" purple and slot it in something else that takes it. I love putting it in damage auras, slotting in another generic damage IO, then enhancing up the secondary effects of the aura.

You do, after all, have two (or three) builds. You can always make a second build with heavy slotting on your pre-say-30 powers and just generic IO (or frankenslot) those with 30s. Then if you're doing a lowbie TF, flip to that build and go with it.

This. I recently went to a sideways-T configuration of dual-24" displays. If the mouse is in the CoH window it gets easily lost in all the bloom effects of powers going off. It wasn't so bad until they let people do power customization. Now I've got ten different shades of stuff going off and can't find the cursor anymore.

If the mouse isn't in the CoH window, well... that's worse for other reasons.

The popmenu suggestion is a great one. I need to setup my custom main popmenu again anyway so maybe I'll actually take the time to set that up this weekend.

I've done the raid thing in some other games enough to learn I didn't really enjoy it. I fail to see how not having seen a rehash of the same mechanics suggests that I shouldn't be able to say: Bleh.

I'd rather have seen the CoH devs do something new and interesting.

The only possibly redeeming aspect is being able to massively-underman them and then treat them like standard (or slightly enlarged) TFs. Unless they serve up a 24-to-start one, which since their max is 48 in a league and half-max seems to be that special point... yeah. Signs point to bleh.

Subtle bugs in the aggro mechanics code? There is no such thing as the Wi-flag!

I'm inclined to dismiss "oh my EMP got aggro from..." because there aren't a lot of reports of it. Then again there were relatively few people with a true Wi (or the converse, the Anti-Wi where aggro never goes to you if there's another player around) flag, because it required some special circumstances (hashing badly). But there being few reports and "no obvious bug" in the code didn't mean there wasn't a problem.

The real question, which was true for the Wi flag and would be likely true here is can people reporting problems reproduce it?

Hmm. Sure, but are you also doing a 'good job' on your slotting overall (for however you or I would define that term)? You'll probably also buy recipes and craft them -- an assumption I'm not making about the OP's willingness to engage in. (I find generally in my circle of friends the folks who'll craft their own will also play the market and have no problem funding a more expensive build. YMMV.)

Just sayin. 2 bil is a very safe, yet reasonably achievable amount of inf for anyone to do a build on.

To be honest, it'd actually be of more use to non-marketeers than the other way around. Marketeers see the market regularly enough that even with imperfect memory like mine we can make a killing. It doesn't improve my data as much as it improves a casual player's data.

I just want it so we can argue (with data!) about what the market is doing on the forums.