Twinkle

Did two more pylons, now with T3 Musculature(Partial Core Revamp), T3 Degenerative (Partial Core Conversion) and Hybrid T1 (Assault Genome). I've respecced since the last time too though the basics are the same: still Melee Fortunata Widow, still FU-Lunge-Jab-Swipe, using Aim when its up and Shatter Armor at very crudely estimated 20 second intervals, but my endurance is totally solid now. I also feel like I'm getting hit less as neither of these tests required me to heal myself or use a shame-green insp or anything, but i was softcapped before too so I have no idea why that's the case. Oh I nearly forgot but my Spider's Bite proc is Superior now, if that makes much difference. First result: 4:33, didn't click the hybrid Second Result: 4:39, did click hybrid(twice technically, got it goin just before the end) Tier 1 Hybrids nothing to get too excited about huh? Still no idea if Shatter Armor is really worth it or not but it feels worth it when I'm soloing to soften up bosses. It's really nice vs robots. There's some kind of weird interaction with Follow Up and redraw on the mace too cause if I mash the key real hard for a mace hit during Follow Up sometimes I'll skip the mace draw. Same for skipping claw redraw after the mace attack, if I use followup after it. No idea why and I can't seem to make it consistent but it makes the whole thing feel way better when it works. I have aim with Gaussians and no recharge so I assume its worth bopping for damage but it feels really slow and bad. I think it's probably technically worth using Wail for ST as well? I didn't though. Overall pretty amazed at how much better it went with no real change besides the incarnates. Next step will be to waste all of my money on making a ranged Fortunata spec/respec Night Widow cause iI miss Slash and then quit cause I don't have enough AOE without Psychic Wail make a better build with ATOs/Purples. The only damage gain I'd get from a different build would be any purple procs I manage to fit in though cause my recharge is pretty much maxed out.

Fortunata Widow, using the melee attacks, time of about 7m 40s. T2 Musc, T1 Degenerative, no other incarnates, just a cheap (almost) perma hasten build with 1 proc in each attack. Rotation was Aim+Shatter Armor and then Followup-Lunge-Strike-Swipe, reapplying shatter armor haphazardly or after each aim usually meaning I did lose some uptime with it, though I did try to use it after Followup-Lunge so as to maximize the usage of the better attacks. Lost additional time to having to aid self like 4 or 5 times due to eating a hit and messing about with hasten/mind link AND I had to use a blue insp to stay afloat even with tough turned off. I'm honestly not sure if I'm happy or sad about the performance lol it was the first pylon I've ever attacked. I feel pretty powerful in general play so I was actually fairly surprised it was as slow as it was. I'll definitely be interested to see how it goes with more incarnates. I'd also like to try Night Widow, I've heard Slash isn't actually that great of a DPS gain but it certainly FEELS like less not having it lol Edit: I forgot to mention I had the supergroup base +recovery and +Recharge buffs as I basically always do the whole time I play any character. Second Edit: Did another run, this time with my Illusion/Traps Controller, 205% Global Recharge, Ice pool, level 49 so no incarnates yet, Time was 4m 13s. Ran a priority list for power usage, I kept the army up of course and then built acid mortars first, applied poison trap for -regen second, resummoned phantasm third, got decent uptime on him by keeping him flanking the pylon, and lastly filled with a damage rotation consisting of Ice Storm>Spectral Wounds>Ice Blast>Blind. I got hit by the pylon and knocked two or three times but it was a pretty clean kill besides that. I'm honestly shocked the gap was that big compared with my Widow, especially since I'm not even 50, though I did expect this character to do fairly well considering AV slaying is like her life's calling.

Like every hour of every day. Seemingly no matter what I make I end up feeling bad/weak/useless in some situation and it makes me wanna swap. I'd really like to have a main character I try to push through most of the story content with for completion but I just can't find it. 89 Characters and counting.