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I'd love to take Omega as a single slot investment utility power, but I just can't find the room for it. It wouldn't be a main focus on my build but would be fun to have. I've toyed with the idea of dropping boxing/tough to make room for it and 1 other pick (vengeance with a 5th LotG recharge?) but I know that's just crazy talk... right?

I know Tough is great to have but it's just a boring power and I hate having to waste a power pick on Boxing to get there. Boxing is the only power in my build I do not use and I HATE that sense of inefficiency it gives me. Im pretty survivable without tough, but I just know its a bad idea to drop it.

I want to say that PvP IOs are in their own category for conversions. I was playing with it on beta a week ago but dont remember for sure now.

Don't you find dual tactics pretty wasteful? Have you monitored your hit rolls w/out it to see if you notice a difference? I can see running it with pets since they're lower level and may need it, but don't really see the need aside from that... And PvP if you're in to that. Since crabs are tight builds, just curious to hear why you decided on picking up power pool Tactics.

You know, I did my testing on i22 beta and I'm pretty sure I confirmed on Live also (maybe I didn't though). Could be a buff coming in i22. Will have to verify later.

Edit: Just verified, Live has the Pylon buff at -150 but Beta has the -1000... buff incoming?

Having a hard time agreeing with you on this... but it's nice to see you're so passionate about it!

Agreed. Poor Blasters.

I feel the same about BU, personally but I can see both sides of the argument.

Also, I'm a big fan of the pet. On my crab I run Spiderlings Reinforcements,Blaster for 6 spiders. Also I have the Arachnos lore for Tarantula boss and bane LT. Like you, I keep Backup Radio stocked and also Lord Recluse signature summon (with his own bane he spawns). It's really a sight to behold having 11 Arachnos Pets all buffed with dual leadership going to town on their poor victims.

Pets end up adding a nice chunk of damage especially when slotting for damage and running dual assault.

To answer the OP, if you're concerned with soloing go Crab. They're much more resilient and have the AoEs to deal with x8 content.

All good points, and honestly, all were considered when I was tweaking this build before I took a break last year.

I wanted to build to be able to exemp very effectively which is why I slotted a lot of IOs at minimum level, but at this point Ive realized that even without the sets I will still do well on lowbie teams and am better off slotting for full effect with 50+5s for end game. Grabbing the new SoA SATOs also helped reinforce my choice of ditching the exemp slotting since their bonuses act like purple IOs.

I dont want to touch Fortifications slotting because 4 slots gets me a max end increase. Since end is my biggest enemy I would feel much more comfortable having that max end as high as I can since every bonus and inherent works off of it.

I really wanted to slot the Gaussians set but Im walking a fine line on perma-hasten/pets now that Ive switched Hasten from 3 to 2 slots. I was only a second or two off from perma but that just wasnt good enough for me. Also, Im not a huge fan of the build up proc as it has just never worked out for me, personally. Its just too unreliable.

The last thing I did before taking a break was finish getting enough Amerits to get the PvP 3% def IO and had nowhere to toss it without respecing so I just replace my -KB IO in the crab armor. I knew I would eventually fix that and now I have by getting rid of a slot in Hasten. I know Hover mitigates KB to an extent, but the flipping animation bothered me greatly.

The Kismet IO, as mentioned, is incorrectly described as it actually gives you a +6 to-hit and not accuracy. +6 to-hit is a pretty decent buff (which is why the lev10 crafted IO sells for 100M) and it was slotted with exemping in mind. Once again though, with all my purple sets and so on, I feel okay with ditching it for a Def/End in maneuvers. Added def and lowered end is good in my book.

Also, with +5 boosting I was able to comfortably get rid of the 4th slot in Stamina with the End/Rech and move that over to try out something else Ive wanted to try for a while.

Im very happy with this new revision... will post it in just a bit.

Curious about this as well. I slotted the Superior SoA proc (5 ppm) in to Heavy Burst (12 sec, 10 targets)... per the math, each target should only have a 10% chance of being affected, but this doesn't seem close to what I'm actually seeing in game. I'm seeing big chunks of mobs getting hit with fear, much more than 10%.

Thank you!