UberGuy

I did... I mean yeah, I added it in an edit (I was in a hurry!), but I added it before you posted this.

I was unaware that it did that in PvE. I knew it did that in PvP, which still sucked, but...

I would run that by Synapse in case there's anything new they can do about that, or on the off chance that it's just plain bugged.

But yes, whether or not it's supposed to do that, it's related to the fact that it debuffs foes. EA may be in this boat now too since it's got a toggle that debuffs recharge.

On SOs? With Tough and Weave, EA can hit about 32% L/S, 35% F/C, 38% Energy and 28% Negative, with 30% L/S resist. Slotted Energize can be a ~50% heal every 60s (not including Hasten) and gets you to around 350% Regen (with Health) for 30s each time.

Regen on SOs has got Dull Pain for 2/3 of the time for ~60% bonus HP. It's going to have 540% regen full time with slotted FH, IH and the base slot in Health. With Tough and Resilience slotted it has 32.2% L/S resist, 16% to everything else but Toxic, and 30% to that. With just Weave, it only has about 6% defense to everything.

A really (overly) simplistic way to analyze this is to look at average Regen divided by Defense mitigation and Resistance and mitigation. This is roughly the average DPS you could survive forever. What this averaged view doesn't deal with well is being hit while something is recharging, but that's hard to quantify without simulation.

Assuming 1499 HP and L/S damage, and assuming every heal is 100% utilized...

We'll start with EA and L/S damage. 50% heal every 60s is 12.5 HP/s. Energize is also 350% Regen is 21.75 HP/s half the time, 9.58 HP/s the other half, or 15.665 HP/s on average. That works out to 28.165 HP/s on average. Now 32% defense leaves you taking 36% of incoming damage on average. 30% resist leaves you takeing 70% of incoming damage. 36% of 70% is 25.2%. 28.165 HP/s / 0.252 is 111.8 HP/s.

Now Regen. 540% regen works out to 54 HP/s for the 2/3 of the time that DP is up and 34 HP/sec for the other 1/3. Reconstruction is a 50% heal every 30s, or ~25 HP/s. If I ignore the heal in Dull Pain, that's 47.3 HP/s + 25 HP/s or 72.3 HP/s. 32% L/S Resist leaves 68% of the damage, and 6% defense leaves 88% of the average damage. 68% of 88% is 59.84%. 72.3 HP/s / 0.5984 is 120.8.

So on average, ignoring Hasten, the +recharge in Entropic Aura, the heal in Dull Pain, Instant Healing, MoG and Overload, Regen comes out slightly ahead for L/S damage.

I'm going to guess that EA comes out clearly ahead energy damage, since it has great defense and resist, and Regen loses most of its resists for that. It's less clear without running numbers what happens with Fire and Cold, since Energy gets no resists to those. EA probably pulls ahead on Negative and loses badly on Toxic and Psi.

Uh, no one can help you make a Regen/anything tank. I'm not trying to be obnoxious here. Do you mean a Brute? (Listing it as Regen/*, implying Regen as a primary, is actually not possible.)

DB/Regen Scrapper (no epic)
MA/Regen/Soul Stalker

I don't do it very often, but I do have "pure" Rogues that I never intend to be heroes, and I sometimes run tip missions on them for a change of pace. I'm sure that's where I saw these.

Nope.

They changed that. It's no longer attached to the arc.

In other words, they agreed with the feedback.

Well, the good news here is that this means you probably don't want it either.

It's easy for me to ignore, as I put most of my characters in their "prime". I don't have anyone who's supposed to be younger than early 20s. On top of that, I have contrived that a number of my characters are, for various reasons, either actually ageless or that they age very slowly.

As Arilou mentions, it's important to realize that "supply" is best thought of as a rate, not a fixed number. So many of a given recipe come in per day, for example. When people demand something as fast as (or faster) than it it comes in to the market for sale, then there will often be zero for sale at any given time. That doesn't mean none are coming in, but rather that they're being bought quickly.

Now, such items are likely to be more expensive than something that has a backlog of supply for sale. There's probably more than one person trying to buy these desirable items, and that will lead to bidding contests between prospective buyers. The person with the highest bid gets the first sale.

IH has not changed since I12. You have not been able to make it perma since it was made into a click in [edit]I5[/edit].

I don't really see that as strongly relevant to the point, which seemed to be that you feel one cannot "tank" adequately with a Regen Brute. My response is to point out that this is not somehow unique to Regen.

What I don't get is the sense of excited urgency you seem to have about it. I mean, I don't struggle with getting them anyway. (Well, Purples. The only PvPOs I snag are the uniques, and I'm not convinced their price will come down much in the long term.) Why would I be excited about getting this new way, when I already get the ones I want, and the prices on the ones I use most is likely coming down?

Yeah, OK, I could (have) pay(ed) potentially a lot less for them, but ... I just can't get that excited over that when I don't struggle with it now.