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Throw Spines has the highest slow value; 40% base, compared to 16% to the other powers. Throwing 4-6 Ice Mistrals into Throw Spines has worked very well for me.
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Stalker Savage has been on the back of my mind, but I've been trying out an off-brand Stalker-lite Sav/Nin Scrapper (in progress) and a dot-madness Sav/Stone/Enflame Brute (built out and working on incarnates, great tough fun build).
If I did a Sav Stalker...I'd have a hard time not going Stone Armor again, maybe a gargoyle buddy for the Brute mirror. I recall you liking procced Ice Blast/Ice Spear a while back? Is that still true? That might make for some odd exemplaring attack chains and hamper Assassin's Focus?
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1 hour ago, FupDup said:
Correction: It is resistible, but it does ignore purple patch (important distinction).
https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=inherent.inherent.vulnerability&at=sentinel
The ignores resistance tag is a red circle with a white exclamation mark, which we only see attached to the parts of the power that lock out the user from using the power on a target already affected by Vulnerability (no stacking allowed) and subtracting some "rage" from the user.
Dang! Thanks for correcting me. So its strength won't be reduced by higher- con foes, but higher resists will cut its effective contribution.
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I don't think anyone mentioned it's best attribute, which is that it is unresistable. The value is a little low, but it'll always do what it says it does.
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My spine/stone brute is literally a send-off of Phwibbledorf Pwent, Battlerager of the Forgotten Realms, who is notoriously stinky, and the double dot auras contribute to being so awful that folks perish of proximity.
If I wanted full stink, I might do rad/stone, with darkest night?
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15 minutes ago, Fever Dream said:
How does the damage proc in stone actually work? Tried checking it out in mids but couldn't make sense of it.
+1 for Sovera's answer, also I remember it's supposed to have a lower damage for ranged powers vs. melee powers. It's a 3 tick dot that has a 20% chance to cancel on ticks 1 and 2. They will crit on a stalker/scrapper, too.
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Man, Stone Armor has to be on the table for this. Granite-less neu-Stone is excellently sturdy and adds a damage proc and aura that are boosted by Fury. I've had the idea of a gargoyle- themed Sav/Stone that should see the light of day. Bio and Rad are great, but look at Stone if you haven't yet.
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The new Opportunity click is easy to forget, and not a game- changer. It does make a difference on a target, particularly at the +3/+4 difficulties because it is Unresistable. On a team its easy to see it work, too.
Since the Sentinel bump I've been pretty stoked to play them. No Aim+BU combo and lower target caps does hamper how much of a spawn goes bye-bye over time, but a good Sentinel is a meat grinder. Speaking from elec/ea, elec/bio, and dark/rad.
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This looks like a variation of your earth/ psi AV crusher? Iiiiiiinteresting.
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5 hours ago, Uun said:
I've got an Elec/Bio. It's insanely good. I run in Offensive Adaptation 99% of the time. If I shift it's to Defensive. I keep Ablative on auto, so only 1 button to worry about other than the T9.
I've been wanting a concept and excuse to try elec/bio/elec. The bio proc and shocked proc must be a very nice pairing. Bio outside of Tanks has felt overly squishy to me, so the drain mechanic (which I love) might be the ticket.
I also want to try to fit in fences/havoc/dmg aura from the epic, and just haven't put the mids time in to see how possible it is. How do you run yours, @Uun?
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Gotta say that Rad/Savage is one of my favorite built-up toons. The opening salvo of Leap/full stack Flurry/procced RT/procced GZ with Tanker radius and target caps is a dopamine rush that never gets old. Also a firehose of endurance, more so than any combo I've played.
Bio armor naturally fits the theme for sure, so would Rad with the right costume and coloring. Blood stacks support long- recharge clicks coming back faster, so Savage is great for both. I find that both Rad and Bio are a tich underwhelming until they are IOed. Bio loses some performance without a big group of foes and dead bodies, where I find Rad to be more stable.
Edit: plague doc masks with hooks and Savage melee would be pretty awesome lol
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Stone Armor is a good candidate, with Spines or Rad Melee, probably. You get Mud Pots, also Brimstone adds dot to click attacks and it's pretty strong, close to Bio's added damage, while being more durable overall.
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On 3/7/2024 at 11:35 AM, KingBear said:
Coincidentally, I'm also working on a Bio/BA Tanker. I just hit 50 last night and I'm trying to plan my build. Bio seems like a very slot-hungry powerset... you want all nine powers and they all want slots (except maybe Inexhaustible). As a result, I have a hard time finding slots for Pool powers that also want them.
Re: slots for Bio armor, especially for those toons that can fit FF +recharge procs, is to 3 slot Ablative and Parasitic with 3 +5'ed heal/rech IOs. If that was suggested already by others, apologies.
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Master Brawler is not only super dope because it's a toggle, but it gives you a click absorb power that gives you more absorb the less HP/more end you have. I think I got it to a 15 sec downtime and it granted about 450 hp at full health/ end on a DP/SR.
You can also get a very high run speed with Ninja/Beast/Athletic+Sprint+Quickness.
I also started a beam/SR recently, never tried beam before. Thinking elec mastery.
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Ranged Scrapper as an AT comparison is on point. Every Sentinel is mostly ranged to start, but how you engage a spawn changes once you get your ranged or pbaoe nuke.
In the case of dark/energy, Blackstar is pbaoe, so most of the time that is where you're going to start. Toss Dark Oblit for a 1-2 combo and then you can bounce out if you want. Or stay there if you can handle the heat. Or hover above them to assert dominance.
The epics usually give you a ST attack, a AoE attack option, and some control or utility options. i like what they give the AT. My Dark/Rad went /Dark for the melee attack and a 4th pbaoe. My new Beam/SR plans to go /elec for the melee attack, aoe immob, and dmg aura, so he can sit in the middle and cook with fewer runners.
So it takes some time to get some versatility outside your blasts. But the end product is really fun, IMO.
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Skip Shred, get Rending Flurry, man!
It's not terrible to lose your stacks for a time. They grant recharge and end reduction, not damage. Flurry is a great AoE that can cover a lot of area when unleashed at full Fury. When you get more global recharge Leap/Rending/Epic aoe if you have it is dandy for aoe.
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I'd say it very much matters that you're on a Stalker. Hemo and Shred are very skippable on a Stalker. Get an epic Snipe instead.
Tanker, Hemo is still a bust, but Shred has some merit. Early AoE for exemping, bigger cone, more targets, and a -res proc. My Rad/Sav tank uses it in his ST chain, and it's not the best, but it's alright. Happy to have it on a Posi.
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When I made my second account, the first character I made was an ice/bio Stalker named Fridge Mold. Ha ha, but it didn't click, and now I had a wacky global name that needed a character. I've been through a few iterations, and I think I've found one that will stick - Dark/Rad/Dark Sentinel.
I'm pretty sure I cribbed this from a Fire/Rad/Fire build posted by @Heatstroke sometime last year. I'm also pretty sure most primaries with a pbaoe/taoe nuke and a pbaoe/taoe, and an Epic pool with a pbaoe would gel with /Rad armor in the same way. So, there's a lot of flexibility here.
Sentinel Rad armor is mostly like its counterparts, trading the multi-target heal/end of Rad Therapy for the click heal/end Proton Therapy. Its native slow resistance is also superb, granting 69% between Fallout Shelter and Particle Acceleration. A Winter's Gift and a single Winter Set slow resist bonus caps your Slow resist, giving you more chances to chase recharge and resist. Being unaffected by slows increases your stability so much.
This perma-Hasten build rotates Meltdown with Rune of Protection and eventually the Melee Core Hybrid Incarnate power. Barrier's trailing 5% bonus can get you to resist cap on most things. Endurance is bleeding from every orifice, so Mystic Flight can be run concurrently with Hover/Stealth/Sprint to give you a poor-man's Combat TP, and you're invisible.
Why Dark blast? Because Mold! I'm also not as snappy at the keyboard as I used to be, and I thought the secondary effect would offer some additional mitigation. The single target chain is functional, if sluggish (Smite helps), but where the build pops is in AoE burst. Procced Ground Zero functioning as a second nuke is no secret at this point, but it's worth mentioning how fun and effective a 4 AoE alpha strike is at erasing most of a spawn. This is something you can do with high reliability 1) because you have the safety of an armor set, and 2)...your build is complete. You are IO'ed out, right? Right?
I wasn't for most of this character's leveling life, just some procs for endurance quality of life, and I wasn't sure if I was going to keep it. Rad Armor on any AT (for me) excels at endurance management, but that's about it. After a full build and the HP/End Accolades, it finally feels good to play. Just sayin', every toon gets a glow-up with IOs, but I find it's quite pronounced with Rad Armor, and I'm glad I stuck with it.
Enjoy, and feel free to suggest improvements to the build. Fridge Mold, away!- ew ick, oh gross.
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I've been having a lot of fun with an IO'ed dark/rad/dark Sentinel lately, who cycles Meltdown and Rune of Protection (no Tough or Weave).
There are primaries with snappier ST chains that would give a nuke and taoe/pbaoe to go with an Epic pool pbaoe than Dark/, but it fit my theme and it's pretty darn good. Nuke/Proc Zero/2 aoes mostly clears a spawn, which is a contrast to my /EA and /SR Sentinel aoe ability.
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3 hours ago, Hitback said:
Damn, that sounds nice, I've always wanted to make a sapper, but it didn't really work. I see they added the shock mechanic now, too, giving some payoff to that strategy.
I'll third it. I already spoke of dp/sr, but elec/ea/elec was my first built- out sentinel and it's so great. Good damage, Shocked makes partial drain useful against any target, your armor protects against any un-sapped targets, sapped targets are effectively controlled, that basic immobilize stops foes from running away or to your team's backline. /Ea performs very well as a def set with decent resists, a heal, extra health, and endurance tools. Elec blast is also very, very visible on teams, people will know you're there with Thunderous Blasts every half minute 🙂 Teaming with other Elec Blast users is also a joy.
I recall some mish I was exemplared on and some folks got pinned in that CoT prison room. I ate a purple and held the line at the room entrance, immobilizing, sapping, detoggling ghosts' Chill of the Night with Tesla Cage, allowing folks to get up and get out. It was a fine moment to be a Sentinel.
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6 hours ago, nihilii said:
Awesome thoughts about spines/stone/soul
It is a fun combo, isn't it?? I like spines, but on other ATs have dropped Impale in favor of Barb Swipe. Maybe that's an error to do so on a Stalker with controllable crits. Where are you putting the BU recharge set, Spine Burst?
I'm not a great attack chain math-er.I did include Moonbeam and Hasten, but am usually left without a good power to use when proc-hidden. Impale would solve that, just alternate between it and Moonbeam. I have no travel power, and it's ok.
Your 4-proc setup sounds amazing, and really helpful to counter the lethal damage type. I think I fit in 2 or 3 procs in most of mine.
I also find Stone Armor to be really, halt good. The Hidden state changes would make Stone Armor's vulnerability to be hit with fire dots, and dots in general, much less impaction on crit performance.
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This is super cool. I keep on coming back to and bouncing off of stalkers as I like the way they do crits, but find the bulk, aoe, and stickiness of tanks/brutes more convenient.
What would you suggest for a lazy fogey like me, in light of the upcoming buffs? I built out a spine/stone/soul (hard to make spines flow well) and tried ice/rad, en/en, en/stone in various states of completion.
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Stalkers don't get Titan Weapons. I'd say the list is fairly reasonable. Just take it with a grain of Personal Preference.
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A blood fury buffed Rending is indeed a enormous 20 or 25 foot aoe. Shred is usually an auto-pass, but the Tanker aoe and target buffs make it an actual choice to skip or grab, considering it can slot a -res proc. I think the aoe/ target cap buffs Savage Leap, too.
My perspective is a Rad/ Savage tank. What a carpetbombing goober.
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Spines/Rad for Slow
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They do. Each application of a power applies the debuff and stacks it up.
I think it's worth mentioning that according to Mids, the recharge reduction does not get enhanced, only the slow movement portion. So a target's recharge penalty is the same no matter how much effort you put into making your Spines slow more. I'll look later to see if that's true in- game.