Xhieron

I want to say thank you to AA and everyone else who has contributed to this information. Coming back from a long hiatus, and this resource has made all the difference in easing up the tensions for inf when feeding the bottomless appetites of my alts for funds. Setting and pushing toward this goal has tickled the architect part of my brain, and especially in the last few weeks it's been nice to have something fun to work on. One thing I want to mention for anybody else starting in or returning (since I didn't think very hard about the math until I'd been working on builds for a few days): Most of these builds are tight enough to be very exacting. You need whatever it takes to hit the thresholds (90Res/45Def/~35Regen), and nothing less--and that means you have very little room to move slots around or make power/Enh choices. There are obviously plenty of options, but it's not a green field of customization. I've made the mistake of thinking I could skimp on the expensive sets, but it turns out that last couple points of regen are the difference between surviving 10 minutes and having to show up every three and heal. You wouldn't think 42% Def vs 45% would be a lot--but it's just enough to matter. You may be wondering, like I did, whether you really need that Frozen Blast set, for example: You do. That's not to say there aren't budget options--just that this is a part of the game where the difference between being capped and not capped is the difference between the build doing what it's supposed to do and not.