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Gale and Storm blast are enough

This is where /Ninjitsu attacks with -res procs stacked up covers the gap. I have no problem soloing Malta Titans. The real challenge is Minotaurs and Cyclops. Which I like to go solo hunting around Cimeroa.

So I like theory crafting weird ideas, so this is my challenge to the Kheldian crowd. What if you had to build something as close as possible to a Peacebringer or Warshade, but those weren't available, how would you approximate human form and what AT? My thoughts are that Energy Melee and Blast are the closest to Peacebringer powers. Photon Seekers and Seeker Drones are functionally similar. So for human form Peacebringer mimic, I would likely make an Energy/Traps corruptor or Defender, I guess? I feel like Dark is as close as we get to a Warshade, but maybe a Defender or Corruptor there? I know stats-wise it wouldn't come close, but having played 30+ levels on a PB, and taking a WS all the way to Incarnates, my brain has these sort of goofy ideas.

Pacing is everything. Given the bubbles last 4 minutes. And once the bigger bubble is up and rolling...it should be fine. I'll build the pain dom character to also be able to team without their pocket bubble machine. It's a good case for rebirth 🤣

So I just rolled two Defenders - the first is a Pain/dark, and the second is a Force Field/Psi The idea being that even while Personal Force Field is up, you can still hit that character with Share Pain. The damage boost from Share pain is significant. I think I'm going to build the pocket defender (ff/psi) specifically for def first, and gear the other one towards Def and Damage. I think this will make for fun leveling. Anyone else try this before, or something similar?

Just got my Pistols/Ninja/Mace, Shell Shadow, to 50. Has anyone done this combo? And if so, what's the best Incarnate slotting? I then decided I liked his Rularuu hammer enough to do a Mace/Ninja scrapper. Anyone have a DP/Nin/Mace build? I just want to compare.

Uhhh what? Please elaborate! 😁

Since toxic does -dmg to the target and cryo does slows, it's all situational. You can do your attack chains and swap ammo as you go. Think about it this way... as a DP you can do kb/kd with a couple of attacks, then -dmg, then slows, then extra DoT. This is more noticable solo than on a team of course. And steamrolling teams won't care about your fancy style, unless you're helping to mitigate a hard target. And yeah what they said above about the hold is right. My Pistols/dark corr, I love tarpatch & cryo for the stack of it. The debuff toggles match well with toxic, etc. I tend to slow a whole mob, and try to debuff the hardest target. Again solo this feels like it maybe has more impact than it actually does. If Arctic air was a power you could have with a pistols build, I think cryo would be a waste then. And then on sentinels, cryo has a boosted range, and lots of Sents stack range bonuses through AT slotting anyway because it's easy to do.

As someone who mains an Archery/Ninja/Ninja, you're leaving proc options on the table if you're complaining about the lethal damage. The nuke is not bad, especially if it has the 20% stealth damage boost from Ninjitsu. I can't stress enough that Ninjitsu is solid and gives you lots of options as a toolkit. I'm working on a DP/Ninja/Mace now. I'm taking the melee, the Coordinated Accuracy toggle, and the hold. Oddly I'm skipping bulletrain and suppressive fire (the devs basically ruined it for Sents anyway).

Really a lot of fun so far... at 23. "What the Flock" on Excelsior

I need to dust off that pistols/traps corr, but he's not on my usual shard. It's still a fun character even if things aren't always awesome.

I noticed on my dual blades stalker that Placate is part of the combo system, so that's interesting.

Mossbauer - my lvl 50 grav/time controller, rarely gets any gameplay now. Mostly because I consider it an 'easy mode' character. He could use a respec, and I prolly have stripped some IO's off of him for other characters. I have been looking at my two main accounts and going through each play type roster (melee, ranged, control, etc) and tried to sacrifice the lesser to their betters.

I miss teleporting into cracks in the map architecture and being in places that confounded other players.

Just yesterday I was running duo with my Archery/Ninja/Ninja and a Ss/Energy brute. We ran at +3 and did the Wildflower arc from Crimson. The two of us competently chewed through Malta at +3/8 at a pretty good clip. The Brute was quite impressed. I keep looking at the build and where to shore it up, but I can't find anything I'd change. Ok, I swapped an acc/DMG/rech IO for a toxic proc. Beyond that it's hard to improve on. - 50/42/42 positional defenses with just Ninjitsu + Maneuvers, with Barrier and Kujin Retsu for godmode level def. - 65% range boost - 75% DMG boost - capped run speed with only Infiltration. - 50% to hit boost before Aim - 5 AOEs counting Incarnates/4 ST attacks. - Decimation proc letting me have twice as many build-up instances. - 2 fire DMG procs - 2 toxic procs - hybrid assault double strike proc - pyronic Judgement with the prolonged "I am on fire" effect - robot drones, doing dmg and adding another bubble. so yeah I bet DP nin-nin is great too. Try the archery version!

Adding that to the list of "stupid dumb tricks for Sentinels" to try.

I'd also be interested in more places in zones where clicking on a door just gave you a random instance of a map. No mission arc needed. But only sometimes. One day it's just a Mexican restaurant, the next visit? Tsoo are there in droves (because obviously they want to corner the ethnic restaurant biz)

You flatter me, but the term is masochist. I like that arc and that mission.

why do many mobs stand around in groups, when it would be more interesting if most enemy mobs were patrols?

Before I let this thread rest in piece, has anyone built a purpled out EM/SR? Not having access to mids prevents me from experimenting there. I could hit brainstorm and try some different things though.

I tend to use it whenever it's up, more than I use it situationally. and yeah I think it's best on a whole spawn.

I guess I should look at swapping Mako's for Apocalypse, maybe. depends on how much it knocks off my Def numbers to do so.

That's a fair point on Shadow Meld vs Elude. However I 'feel' like Melt Armor is very good to soften up stuff several levels higher than me. Maybe it's my imagination?

So I've got this guy to level 50. I took whirling hands and skipped the other aoe/cone, I took Elude, and I took Char and Melt Armor. I have 48% positional to melee/ranged/aoe. I have like a 30% damage bonus, as well as musculature alpha I'm working up. Of course I took BS,TF, and ET. Clearly it's a good character. It hits fairly hard, and the defenses are pretty good. But I'm wondering are there any further tweaks or tricks people could recommend? I do no have mids, as I'm on a Mac. Thanks in advance!