Umbral

Yeah, CAK wouldn't be recharging fast enough, which is why I recommended Eagle's Claw.

Honestly, I see this as a good thing however. One of the the advantages of a low proc chance effect is that you can increase the potency of the effect (i.e. duration and magnitude/debuff size) without having a huge effect upon balance because it's a grab bag. How would you feel if Thunder Kick's chance to stun was pulled down from 10% to 5% but the magnitude was increased to 4, so that it could actually stun a boss. It makes it much more crit-like (because you can actually stun a boss if you get lucky) and doesn't really pull it out of balance because it's not reliable, much less common to get it.

If the entire set was redone so that every attack has 2-3 low chance but high powered secondary effects, I think it would be awesome. Rather than trying to get a series of procs, such as with Energy Melee's stuns, you would be trying for one of any of a number of higher power procs that don't stack. It's the same thing that happens with Scrapper crits: they're not common, not really expected, but they hit like a truck. If the MA attacks each had a grab bag of secondary effects that followed the same mentality, you'd have something interesting and varied. You'd also then be allowed to bring in such esoteric effects as -rech, -dam, -regen, among others, without allowing the set to become reliant on them. If there are 2-3 5% chance effects of high potency per attack, you'd notice them when they happened ("I stunned that boss! Nice.") while simultaneously remaining roughly balanced (it would take roughly 7 attacks if they each had 2 procs before you'd have roughly a 50% chance to have seen a proc; if the magnitude were roughly equal to the stacked effects of 7 attacks from a single debuff type style power set, you'd have a rough sense of balance). It would be more variable, but it would add some flair to the set ("Why is the boss dealing so little damage?" "That was me. Thunder Kick proc'd the -dam debuff" "Who just confused the boss?" "That was me again. Thunder Kick.").

Posting at 1 am should be no excuse! I'm regularly known for posting at much worse hours than that.

The massive /facepalm that is your comments is just disgusting, no matter the context.

That's a known problem with Mids. Taking Physical Perfection isn't triggering the choice as a tier 2 option so it doesn't unlock Energy Torrent. Just power through Mids' (as it allows) and just pick Energy Torrent after you pick the 2 previous Body Mastery powers.

Well, let's see, Storm has an activation time of 1.056 seconds, Crane and CAK have an activation time of 1.848 seconds, and DA has an activation time of 1.716 seconds. Going right off the bat, no, you can get a seamless attack string. A straight cycle of the attacks (Storm>Crane>CAK>DT) would be possible except that DT needs to recharge in 4.752 seconds. Interposing Storm Kick into the straight cycle would be able to round it out except that the recharge requirement for it makes it a bit hard to interpose it nicely.

You may want to think about getting rid of CAK in exchange for Eagles Claw, which would actually be able to generate a constant attack string. Assuming you give it the same +rech as CAK (136.6% +rech), Eagles Claw would recharge in 5.07 seconds with an activation time of 2.772 seconds. You'd then be able to run a seamless attack string of Storm>Eagles>Storm>Dragon's>Crane.

First off, don't take Revive. It's pretty much worthless because it's just an awaken on a 5 minute cooldown. It's not even a viable combat rez because there's no period of invincibility.

Secondly, you may want to think about taking Body Mastery rather than Weapon Mastery when you respec. Focused Acc is an excellent set mule for Gaussian's and Physical Perfection can actually allow you to get rid of the Fitness pool.

If you're not running an IO build, don't bother getting the +def powers. You can't get enough +def without sets to really make it worthwhile. I generally don't recommend getting defense type benefits unless you're going to have at least 15-20% +def, even with IOs. CJ + Weave isn't really going to do much of anything for your survivability (the reason being that Regen operates in small periods of increased spike survivability; small amounts of defense do almost nothing except decrease damage over incredibly long periods of time).

Something else to think about is that you may want to think about opting out of using both Attack Vitals and Sweep. You're definitely going to want BF and pulling another 6 attacks from your primary is going to be incredibly restrictive. You may want to consider getting rid of Sweep. I realize that it's a decent increase to your survivability and has more targets hit than Attack Vitals, but, thanks to the animation times and recharges on Typhoon's Edge and One Thousand Cuts, it's pretty +rech intensive to get to BF>Sweep (170% +rech in 1k Cuts). BF>Attack Vitals isn't nearly as hard to get to (the most recharge intensive power is BF, requiring 128% +rech) and is still pretty good at AoE.

If you take every Regen power except Revive, Boxing/Kick and Tough, Hurdle/Swift, Health, and Stamina, Hasten, CJ and SJ/SS, you'd still have 9 powers to pick from. If you still want to take all 7 of the DB attacks, you could then take FA and PhysPer with Body Mastery. If you don't, you could go with either Body Mastery (FA, PP, and Energy Torrent for some AoE and mitigation) or Blaze Mastery (RoF/Char, Melt Armor, and Fire Ball for AoE) depending on your preference and still have 2 power selections left over (maybe for Typhoon's Edge for some additional AoE, Revive if you feel like you're going to be dying a lot, whichever of SS/SJ you didn't take before to make zone PvP easier, etc.).

I actually think this is a substantially better idea than the globally increased crit chance (especially since it would work even better with the suggestion of turning Focus Chi into a par-clone of Power Build Up), though, the only problem I can think of is that it would work strangely with IOs and enhancements. Say Crane Kick is given a 10% chance for a mag 4 Confuse that lasts 5 seconds. Should it be allowed to accept confuse duration enhancements or confusion IO sets even though it's not really a primary (or even secondary; with proc chance and duration that low, it's more likely to be considered tertiary) effect of the power? Now how would it work if there were multiple low chance procs as well? Unlike the other attack sets, enhancing the secondary effect of the power would only enhance a portion of the total secondary effect.

Honestly, it's not really much of a problem since almost no one actually enhances the secondary effects of attack powers anyway. Just something to think about, especially where the IO sets (and the ability to slot procs) is concerned.

Well, considering how survivable you'll probably be without ever touching SoW, you'll probably be completely fine without it. Both Resurgence and SoW are rather optional on any build, imo.

Do you mean mad crazy or mad angry? I'm one of those constantly and the other only frequently. I'll let you guess which

Storm>Crane>Storm>CAK

225% +rech in Storm Kick. Storm Kick is the best DPA attack in the set, so the entire point is to devote as much time as possible to it within reason. Storm>Crane>Storm>Fire Blast is actually better, but it requires a godawful amount of +rech.

Cuz, you know, everyone has 314% +rech in Storm Kick. Not to mention that, when you actually calculate the DoT ticks correctly (Mids' doesn't because it assume that the DoTs will all have a chance to proc rather than requiring all previous ticks to have landed), CAK (61.1) is better DPA than Fire Blast (59.7).

I'm not entirely sure about whether the attribmods are set to do that, but the Intangibility enhancements are actually described as "Increases the duration of an Intangibility Power". I'm pretty confident that it enhances duration rather than magnitude (if only from a logical standpoint), but, not having tested it extensively and operating only off of notoriously unreliable descriptions and names, I'm not entirely sure.

Back when they first introduced FA, before I had fully HO'd out Umbral Fist (and thereby end up dating myself...), I remember grabbing it specifically because it allowed me to completely ignore acc slotting. It was wonderful. Of course, this was back pre-ED and pre-diff settings, so I was running 6 slotted QR and Stam, and IH was a toggle, and the hardest thing to fight was a +1 AV that couldn't kill me.

Now, from memory, I remember FA originally being a 20% +tohit buff with a 1.5 end/sec cost. Assuming that you were using a 2.5 end/sec attack string (about normal for leveling), the +tohit is way more than a single acc enh, and you'd be paying 2.64 end/sec. So, assuming my memory isn't failing me, you would be gaining a lot of chance to hit while only paying .14 end/sec more, which is close enough to not be noticed (especially when you factor in the whole QR + Stam thing).

Personally, I'd request Castle just do something to balance out FA. It doesn't follow the "three times worse" rule (not that it actually applies for almost any other ATs APPs because the APP shields are friggin' gold). It's, depending on how heavily you weigh the 20% +acc, 6-8 times worse than the native version.

Was it really that recently that it was reduced? Wow....

Still, it's still too expensive for what it does imo. Acting as if an unenhanceable 20% +acc makes up for having just over a quarter of the +tohit is absurd.

Also, keep in mind that the listed animation times are actually inappropriate to use for DPS/DPA calculations. You need to account for the server ticks (re: everything happens in .132 second intervals) and the change of state from animating to ready to animate (re: 1 more server tick than normal). The fully accounted (generally referred to as Arcanatime) cast times are actually 1.056 and 1.848 seconds, respectively. The formula for the calculation is ((roundUp(baseRech/.132)+1)*.132).

Holy crap! FA got its endurance costs reduced? I vanish for 2 weeks and suddenly awesome stuff I've been asking for the longest time happens? Maybe I should vanish for another 2 weeks and see if Castle finally sees fit to give */Regen some debuff resistances.

[edit: nevermind... just checked it; FA is still at .78 end/sec base cost...]

You might want to think over this. Panacea actually has a good deal less +rech enhancement than 5 piece Doctored Wounds. Leaving out the Heal/End enhancement, Doctored Wounds would have 23.8% more +rech. Leaving out the End/Rech, it would still have 14.3% more +rech. Personally, I don't think a global increase of 2.5% is enough to make up for the fact that you're losing ~15-25% +rech for your heals. I would only switch Doctored Wounds for Panacea on a power that I know doesn't need much in the way of +rech (such as Dull Pain, when you've managed a 15 second overlap already).

Technically, it's only double damage if you don't have any +dam at all. For most situations, it's would be more accurate to consider it a 33-50% increase to damage for 10 seconds.

It does, assuming that you're capable of netting 400% +rech through some obscene mechanism. Even with the Force Feedback proc (100%), max slotting (95%), Quickness (20%), and Hasten (70%), you'd need to net 115% +rech from IOs in order to reach the cap. Even with LotGs and purple sets, that's a pretty unlikely proposition.

First off, you're still ignoring the fact that you can't chain the any attack one after the other. It's not possible because powers don't begin recharging until they're done animating.

Secondly, Thunder Kick has a base DPA of 54.7 and an animation time of 1.056 seconds. CAK has a base DPA of 61.1 and an animation time of 1.848 seconds. Ignoring the fact that it would have to recharge and assuming you slot Thunder Kick with 1 more non-purp proc (71.8 damage, 20% proc chance) than you would have put into CAK and both powers with 95% +dam, the two powers would be roughly the same (Thunder Kick would take ~15% more time to deal ~15% more damage). Of course, this is still a horrible idea because you're talking about allowing the lowest DPA power in the attack string take up even more time.

In order to increase your DPS, you're best served by decreasing the time you use sub-optimal DPA powers. Using up 2 proc'd up Thunder Kicks rather than a single normally slotted up CAK is taking up an additional quarter of a second than could be used to use your best DPA attack (Storm Kick) which is going to be a not insignificant drain (~5% lower DPS), not to mention that fact that you'd be losing a bit on the set bonus front.

Too bad 4 seconds still isn't fast enough to run the Crane>Storm attack string you were suggesting earlier. In order to run that attack string, it would need to recharge in under 1.056 seconds, which is .944 seconds faster than the recharge cap of the power.

It depends on what you consider "duration" to be. For Phase Shift, it could either be the period that you're allowed to have the toggle active or the period that each tick of the toggle actually lasts (toggles are actually a series of identical powers that activate automatically at reasonably rapid intervals with short durations). Enhancing the duration in the sense that you allow each tick to last longer (which is rather redundant considering that no toggles stack with themselves, very few powers actually benefit from this) is easily possible. Enhancing the duration in the sense that the period in which you're allowed to keep a time limited toggles active is not.

IIRC, the actually given reason why the intangible powers can't be made into toggles is because of how intangibility works: it's impossible to target an intangible target (unless you're similarly intangible, which is a comparatively recent addition). As soon as you turned the toggle on, the target would go intangible, rendering itself untargetable, which would turn the toggle off at the very next tick.

There is one very important thing to remember with */regen concerning heavy +hp set bonus slotting: when DP is up, it's not going to be working for you.

Assuming you've got the +hp accolades (20% +hp) and DP is slotted for 95% heal, you'll have 2396 hp when DP is active, which is just a few points shy of the Scrapper hp cap of 2409.5. A 3 piece Mako's Bite or Touch of Death set bonus will be enough to get you there.

Now, concerning Dull Pain's up time, with 95% +rech (and nothing else), it has a potential uptime ratio of ~65% (120/(184.7+.924)). Even assuming you delay its use until you can fully use the heal (which I recommend, though I'd still suggest it be the first click power you plan on using, with the possible exception of MoG), it's likely you'd still have an uptime of at least 50% with it. With more recharge (which you should want lots of because you're playing */regen), the uptime will continually increase, likely to the point where you've got a 15-20 second overlap between potential activations, allowing you to delay use and still have 100% uptime on the +hp. Because of this, any +hp you get aside from that first, likely +hp set bonus, is going to be wasted at least 50% of the time, much more if you get decent amounts of +rech.

My personal recommendation is to go for +rech and then +def. */Regen is so click intensive that you'd be selling yourself short if you weren't.

The promoted slotting mentality I mention is that of putting the +regen uniques into toggle/passive powers that are going to have substantial (re: ~90%) heal enhancement. For me, this is pretty much only Integration. For others, FH works just as well.

If you're going to put a +regen IO into a power, make sure you're also putting in a substantial amount of +heal into it as well. The powers that generally get this attention are FH, Health (though not for a */regen because it's just a public, low value version of FH), Integration, and PhysPerf.

I doubt you actually need FA on at all times thanks to the -def in the BS attacks and higher base accuracy though I'm curious why you're having endurance problems in the first place. Do you have both of the +end accolades yet? Are your attack powers (and FA) slotted for decent end redux?

I'm really wishing my hard drive hadn't died 2 weeks ago, otherwise I'd post you a build to show you what I'd do. This'll teach me not to backup everything.