rsclark

I'd enjoy pouring hot coffee into my lap 6 - maybe even 8 - times in one night over running LAM once.

They created content that requires repetition until you want to vomit. Repeating 3 things a dozen times is no better than doing one thing 30 times.

In particular, they just did a wipe on beta this morning.

I was deciding on the secondary to take on my new defender on the beta server. I got briefly excited that I would be able to slot achiles's heel on multiple attacks from Rad. Then I realized that would just be ghetto sonic and picked that instead. -Def is useful for including your vet attacks in your attack chain and after that becomes unnecessary, it's less useful.

For a defender Leadership is amazing. I don't have a 50 without at least one leadership toggle, and around half have all three. They are useless on speed runs, but if your group intends to actually kill things occasionally, I don't know of many powers that would be more useful.

Tactics is kind of weak for the same reason -def is, but is still handy if there are pets around. Plus you don't have to hit first to make yourself more able to hit. It's at the bottom of the list.

Maneuvers is strong on a defender and mediocre on anyone else. It also might become useless if there are enough other sources of def.

Assault is good on anyone and unless you have a kin around remains useful.

You're playing one of the slowest solo AT (due to debt accumulation) and it takes more and more XP as you raise in level. But still, even with that, what you describe doesn't sound particularly slow in MMO terms.

You also slotted out physical perfection before health and stamina. Health and stamina have larger base bonuses, so give higher bonuses when slotted. Just because a power comes later in a build and requires a higher level doesn't mean that it's better. In particular, that is a power to take only when you have gotten what you can out of health and stamina and still need more.

So, I'm hoping to finish leveling my elec/rad/psi this weekend, and I'm looking at World of Confusion. For the pros, it's another aura when I already have 2, so it fits playstyle. For the con, the mag is pathetic and I'm going to put the purple proc in Synaptic overload, there's not much I can do to make it better.

Is there a good reason to take it, or is it just wasted end?

You don't think it's ambiguous, well, I just have this to say...

Mutation is nothing but a Natural that hasn't reproduced enough yet.

First off, on Heroside, always run to the bank as quickly as possible ignoring anything on the streets. That buys some time. But other than that, it's all about kill speed. If you can't finish off the initial door guards fast, then you need to be able to survive both groups at once as you whittle them down.

Get a team or lower the difficulty, because there's really no trick. If you die after engaging the robber or the henchmen with the main robber, then you will probably fail.