Roderick

That wouldn't work; it would just move the character, leaving the slot behind and wasting the transfer. That's why you need to have an open slot on the destination server.

Once a slot is placed on a server, it's there FOREVER. There is NO way to move it. That's why there's the big popup with red text and all caps warnings before you can place a slot.

You have 7 slots on Guardian, and always will. Customer Service can't even do anything about it.

Double? Are you crazy? With all those people in a mad rush to slot up their new level 50s, it's more like 10x Inf!

Oh, you were talking about drops? *Adjusts monocle, sips tea* Never mind then. Carry on.

I'd say that was overpowered, but that beat up Overpowered, stole its lunch money, and kicked its puppy on the way out.

Seriously, five triples? And those set bonuses? Not gonna happen. That's better than a purple set.

Maybe Z knows:

Hmm.... He doesn't, but he's going to find out. Patience, grasshopper!

Elegost hasn't been around enough to know about the Hami changes, and I was too busy struggling with my crappy phone and copy/pasting our conversation from Facebook onto the forums to remember to remind him. Here's his updated, i22 Hami-O friendly build:

Yeah, but then you won't have threads to convert into salvage to fill those slots with.

If you're not a heavy raider, it's better to just let the iXP build up at the normal rate, so you've got the stuff to slot once they do unlock.

They use Kheldians as fuel now. In the future, they use something else, because they've used up all but one of the Kheldians, and Twilight's Son just isn't worth $1,000,000/gallon.

In toggles, the procs with 100% chance and 120 sec duration (+regen, +recovery, stealth, etc) turn off when the toggle does. This is VERY important to note in toggles that count enemies near you, like Rise to the Challenge. If there's nothing near, the system treats the power as if it were off, and the proc shuts down too, until another enemmy gets near.

And a pretty good one too: He's mentioned this character a few times before. It's kinda his main. It's a little late to roll it as a brute, since I got the impression he's been playing it for years.

I don't have an Incarnate level MM yet, but that sounds amazing. I'll have to remember that one!

While I've been retired from CoH for the last few months, Roderick told me about this idea and I figured I could help Zwill out, since he's such a groovy guy (who does pvp, don't let him lie to you).
You'll probably notice that these higher end builds typically build almost identically, there are only so many ways to make a beautifully crafted katana/regen. It's unfortunate that you don't want Soul Mastery, however (Shadow Meld is a beautiful tool to add to your arsenal).

Anyway, this build is, as earlier, quite similar to Aqua's (my nemesis! rawr), it sports 25%ranged/aoe defenses, and a bit over 45% melee with 1 application of DA.
DA is slotted as an attack (As well as for +Def), and has enough recharge that it and Gambler's Cut can be cycled if you need to really rack up the defense quickly (this is useful when you've been hit by a -def debuff or two. The overstacking helps keeps up with the debuffs if you need it). Hasten isn't technically perma (5% short), as it requires two lvl 50 IOs and 82.5% recharge in sets with t4 spiritual, but it's probably close enough.
It currently sports assault, but that could be switched with Veng just as easily, depends on the person (I would rather have assault).

It can run the optimal attack chain, as Aqua's does - with or without DA mixed in wherever you want it.

Resilience has the extra resistance slotted into it to get s/l res over 30%, Integration is slotted the heaviest for regen (between it, FH, and Health), because it's base is the highest, so you get the most regen per power by slotting it the heaviest. FH is next priority because it also has your resistance to regen debuffs (Now, when this was added I was still in game, and the slotting increased the res%, Mids isn't showing this change, so I'm not sure if that's intentional or not - purely due to my being away, FH still can have those 2 slots either way).
The HOs used are lvl 52s for essentially maximum efficiency, and SJ has the slow resistance unique - an essential for every /regen. Recharge is king.

As far as incarnate powers go:
Alpha: Spiritual Core. There is nothing better than recharge and regen for you.

Lore and Judgement are up to you, but I most commonly see Radial Void for its -dam debuff. Dead is a pretty good debuff though, so it's whatever floats your boat.

Interface: Reactive Radial. The -res stacks very well with your achille's heel proc that will be up ~80% of the time (if I remember right). (You really should consider getting a -res gladiator for GD).

Destiny: Rebirth Radial. Cycle this with your IH for very long uptimes of very high regeneration rates. If you use both at the same time, you can even regen-cap yourself for a bit if you think you need it (or just for teh lulz).

Between your layers of defenses, resistances, hp cap, huge passive regen, and even your heal if attacks still get through, you will be extremely hard to kill.
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I would consider the ATO set, but since I've been gone I'm kind of stuck in the past. Depending on the set bonuses, it would probably be swapped out with the oblit 6 set in flashing steel (or lotus drop if the endurance reduction is higher than oblits). I imagine that would change things around a little, but the core of the build is essentially the same.

Note: The damage and tohit numbers are inaccurate with tactics turned on because the Gaussian proc is active. If you want to see either of those numbers accurately remove that IO from tactics, but keep tactics toggled on.

~Locked in the past, out of this world.
Elegost
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I just got another message from Elegost, asking me to add this link: http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showp...7&postcount=80

There was a discussion a while ago about top-end katana/regen builds, and this post has the three that were generally considered best. The thread has a lot of good discussions in it.

Someone (I think it was Arcanaville) did the math to find the "sweet spot", and found that 52s were generally the best return. Higher level than that, the effects of the purple patch reduced efficiency to the point where the extra XP wasn't enough to compensate. With many 50s being level shifted, I wonder if +3 is now the sweet spot?

No, ATOs aren't in Mids' yet. You could simply leave a power blank with instructions to slot the appropriate pieces in the accompanying post. And I could be mistaken, but with all Z's "I22 is coming Soon" posts, I suspect that the Friday 24th, winner announced on Monday 27th, build slotted and pwning DA on Tuesday 28th is one of those obscure Z-hints.

Interesting idea. I like it, and may try one.

EDIT: I think I'll be making a slight change though: A FF/Arch/Mace defender can get themselves to 50+ S/L/E defense while Hovering at a very reasonable speed with very minimal effort.

The devs and Zwillinger call them ATOs. That's good enough for me.

Not quite. Some powersets (All four Going Rogue sets, Time Manipulation, and the upcoming Darkness sets) are "VIP Power Sets". These sets are unlocked automatically for VIPs, and must be purchased on Premium accounts. Since you bought Going Rogue, you'll keep those four powersets, but you CAN'T buy Time Manipulation while VIP, so when you drop to Premium, you'll have to pay to unlock the set, or lose access to your Time characters until you unlock the set or resubscribe.