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please note - the levels on the IOs aren't right, and I don't have time to fiddle. Build advice very much desired. My next step is to Mids a 'non
purple' build and work towards it.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.4006

http://www.cohplanner.com/

Mag Flashlight - Current: Level 50 Technology Tanker

Primary Power Set: Ice Armor

Secondary Power Set: Ice Melee

Power Pool: Fitness

Power Pool: Leaping

Power Pool: Medicine

Power Pool: Fighting

Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery

Hero Profile:

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Level 1: Frozen Armor

(A) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

(3) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 53

(3) Serendipity - Defense/Endurance: Level 40

(5) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 53

(5) Luck of the Gambler - Defense: Level 53

(7) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge: Level 53

Level 1: Frozen Fists

(A) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50

(7) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge: Level 50

(9) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

(9) Damage Increase IO: Level 50

(11) Damage Increase IO: Level 50

(11) Damage Increase IO: Level 50

Level 2: Chilling Embrace

(A) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Slow: Level 53

(13) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Endurance: Level 53

(13) Tempered Readiness - Damage/Slow: Level 53

(15) Tempered Readiness - Range/Slow: Level 53

(15) Tempered Readiness - Accuracy/Damage/Slow: Level 53

(17) Tempered Readiness - Endurance/Recharge/Slow: Level 53

Level 4: Frost

(A) Mocking Beratement - Recharge: Level 50

(17) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Range: Level 50

(19) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

(19) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge: Level 53

(21) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range: Level 53

Level 6: Wet Ice

(A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 8: Hoarfrost

(A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance: Level 53

(21) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

(23) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge: Level 53

(23) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

(25) Doctored Wounds - Recharge: Level 53

(25) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

Level 10: Swift

(A) Run Speed IO: Level 50

Level 12: Combat Jumping

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 53

(27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense: Level 53

(27) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge: Level 53

(29) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

(29) Jumping IO: Level 50

(31) Gift of the Ancients - Run Speed +7.5%: Level 40

Level 14: Super Jump

(A) Jumping IO: Level 50

(31) Jumping IO: Level 50

Level 16: Health

(A) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration: Level 30

(31) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery: Level 53

(33) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 53

(33) Miracle - Heal/Endurance: Level 40

(33) Miracle - Heal: Level 40

Level 18: Icicles

(A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance: Level 53

(34) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage: Level 53

Level 20: Ice Patch

(A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

(34) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

(34) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 22: Glacial Armor

(A) Gift of the Ancients - Endurance/Recharge: Level 40

(36) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance/Recharge: Level 40

(36) Defense Buff IO: Level 50

(36) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 53

(37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense: Level 53

(37) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 53

Level 24: Aid Other

(A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 53

(37) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge: Level 53

Level 26: Stamina

(A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy: Level 50

(39) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod: Level 50

(39) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50

(40) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge: Level 50

(40) Efficacy Adaptor - Accuracy/Recharge: Level 50

Level 28: Aid Self

(A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal: Level 53

(39) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge: Level 53

Level 30: Energy Absorption

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 53

(40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 53

(42) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge: Level 53

(42) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

(42) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge: Level 50

Level 32: Hibernate

(A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

(43) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 35: Taunt

(A) Range IO: Level 50

Level 38: Boxing

(A) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

(43) Damage Increase IO: Level 50

Level 41: Tough

(A) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance: Level 53

(43) Aegis - Resistance: Level 53

(45) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance: Level 53

(45) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge: Level 53

(45) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

(46) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge: Level 53

Level 44: Weave

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed: Level 53

(46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance: Level 53

(46) Serendipity - Endurance: Level 40

(48) Serendipity - Defense: Level 40

(48) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

(48) Endurance Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 47: Conserve Power

(A) Recharge Reduction IO: Level 50

Level 49: Focused Accuracy

(A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up: Level 50

(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance: Level 50

(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance: Level 50

(50) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance: Level 50

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Level 1: Brawl

(A) Empty

Level 1: Sprint

(A) Empty

Level 2: Rest

(A) Empty

Level 1: Gauntlet

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"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

...I've got one question, looking at this.

I understand not giving it any slots....but am I the only one that puts SOs in Brawl, Rest, and Sprint just to HAVE something there? :lol:
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"Oh, silver blade, forged in the depths of the beyond. Heed my summons and purge those who stand in my way. Lay
waste."

No, you're not.
-- Bob
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Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.

Personally, I tend to put level 25-30 common IOs into Brawl, Rest, and Sprint...and then just leave it at that.

What interests me about the build, though, is the complete lack of accuracy slotting. I realise you have Focused Accuracy as your final power pic, but it seems rather risky to me to rely on that - especially if you happen to exemp down. Also, I can't imagine relying on it as your only source of +tohit or acc.

I mean, okay, taunt doesn't need any accuracy slotting in PvE, sure, and offhand I don't think Chilling Embrace needs it much either...but even so... I dunno. Granted, Mag doesn't exactly do much damage to speak of, but he does have a lot of utility (and mostly aggro-holding) powers...that DO require a tohit/accuracy check, and those powers don't have acc slotting either. Icicles, Frost, hell, even Frozen Fists for the gauntlet.

And this works with only Focused Accuracy backin' 'em up? It's not a whiff-fest?

No, that's a genuine question. Does it work? Clearly it does, I mean, Mag's a good tank, but...how well does it work, and how does it feel on your end? Particularly, again, on the off chance that you do exemplar? This is clearly a deliberate design choice on your part, to forgo the accuracy slotting... how well does that work? I'm really curious because it's a choice I'd never even consider, myself.
-- Acyl

I am le tired. I'll see if there's anything I can figure out for you after I have a nap and finish up classes.
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The Master said: "It is all in vain! I have never yet seen a man who can perceive his own faults and bring the charge home against himself."

>Analects: Book V, Chaper XXVI

the only time I need FA is when I'm trying to whack some sneaky underhanded bastard, like, say, Cyberman 8...

I did some work on a Non Purple 'better build' via Mids last night, that would have netted me approx 18% acc bonus, but given that it was well past
midnight, I wouldn't be surprised to load up that build and just find 'LOL' spelled out in level one training enhancements 8 /

Edit to clarify: When FA is off, I do whiff more than I could with +acc IOs. However, FA is on 99% of the time, and even without it, it's not bad. Original
text follows

But, to better answer your initial question.. I whiff more than I could, yes. However, I don't do it often enough to bother me, or to appear to impair me.
FA is on 99% of the time.
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies