Tsuko

EM is awesome on armor who dont need active defence, Granite, invul, shield, SR and so on. It works really well on Rad but for team content : i have a Rad / EM one with 80+ psi resist : she's the perfect team meatshield but is far far less tanky than shield or even invul. During my testing for this only AT run, i first try on Invul and to be honnest it was a blast : my shield EM can solo Romu but she can die a any moment ; i forgot once my invul / em tanker only AT in front of romu nictus lvl 54 with NO auto power... i came back 1 hour later, she was still alive.

i m ok but i still prefer EM on stalker for dps : Assassin and energy focus works so good together, as it is for STJ. But it's on tanker that i feel EM the best.

yeah it seems that Shield is not really tough too 😄

thank you 🙂

Another step into the powercreep of Homecoming ! 😄 Solo MOITF Maximum Hardcore : No inspirations, Player debuffed, Enemy Buffed and... Just for you all, ONLY AT POWERS : 2h50 and 25 seconds COME AND GET ME ! Tanker Shield / Energy Mélée. Musculature T4 Ion jugement T4 Degen T4 Banished T4 Assaut core T4 / mélée resistance T4 Ageless radial T4 / Rebirth regen T4 Yeah that's a ton of incarnates but being now in the Cosmic Council help me a looottt : cause on top of being adorables human beings, we clear so many itrials and endgame content compare to what i had on Reunion, it's night and day. Having an amazing SG changes the whole game experience, even for a f....g Diva as me 😄 So 🙂 it's obviously a specific build for the task 😛 Only AT power is a good challenge to make a build work. I think this is the step where no tanker AT will have real issues. I made it to Romu nictus with my Rad / SS tanker with a only at build but without the bump in dps of Gloom / dark obli (carry by rage² and meltdown) my poor tanker was unable to kill Romu nictus because of the essence drain at 3000 hp. I tried with an Invul / EM tanker but same issue, she could stay all day long in front of romulus nictus but with a bit too low neg defence, the essence drain was too much. The 3 first missions was far easier than i could expect. I quickly notice that without tactics i was lacking just a bit of accuracy. Once this issue solved, this was a walk in the park : M1 : only free the hostages, then rush to the altar, classic. M2 : only crystals by abusing cap agro and making the ambush running (with only ninja run, that was not as easy than superspeed but just enough, used mélée T4 core here) M3 : Mélée core T4 for the generals, assaut for the AV + console : Killing the 2 av near the console, romu first. then the console. (AOO makes things so easy here, even debuff, EM is really top tier in ST damage) Till i arrive in M4. My "patch" to solve the accuracy was barely enough to cover basic traitors, so Romu Nictus himself... i think i spent more than 50 freaking minutes just to kill him and his balls of hell. The Nictus were quite easy, by saturating agro, @Werner style, i solo kill the balls with ease (well i had to swap my ageless radial T4 for rebirth regen T4) Auto hit, then healer then sumoner, classic. I had "park" Imperius not far of Romu Nictus and i planned to take him to help me, once the nictus down. But 1) Romu sword spin destroyed imperius and my banished lore 2) if wanted to use 10 targets to push my dps with AOO, Romu was suddenly able to hit a lot more than usual so... i had to kill him 1 vs 1, with the "Player debuffed" setting directly in my face. So i found a new way to use the new Energy focus gimmick : by using the focus on Barrage to stun Romu as much as possible when the lore was up and kitting him just enough to force him to move and not using his sword spin, allowing the banished to destroy him, regen debuffed and stunned by the focus Barrage (under Assaut Core) . God i love the Energy rework 🙂

Stop hit on Gogo dancers in Pocket D and stay Focus !

Power Crash is a leveling power on Brutes, Tankers and scrappers. Any aoe as Fireball, Ball Lightning or Dark Obliteration will be a better choice, Maths wise. It's still a viable power. The only AT where PC is an Absolute Must Have is on Stalker.

Yep Attack sets and Active mitigation changes all. I can keep Cimérorans on their asses or stun by cycling every 3/4 seconds [Foot stomp] and [Hand clap] (with 6 slots : FF recharge, Sudden -KB and 4 Stun purple IO). With 4 to 5 ff recharge procing constantly, i'm perma hasten with almost no global recharge in the build. it's always more soft control, more heal/absorb and more full proc'ed Dark Obliteration, Ground Zero, Rad Therapy and Gloom.

Do the same with an attack set with a lot more soft control and you will be fine. My last Rad / ss build even have a 6 sloted hand clap on top of foot stomp 😄 Well, the 5 Proc recharge "might" help too 😛 The best way to beat DDR ? no defence at all 😄

If you only keep SS powers, it become very long 🙂

Still sad it removes the attack fx 😕 but yeah, still the best option atm i think, thank again for sharing this 🙂

Yeah, but all is about taste, i love my SD EM Tanker, my Rad SS, my Rad EM but i dont even want to try SD SS, i dont feel the AT, and i must certainly be wrong. As for some armor, I love so much my SR stalker but i dont even understand how @Bill Z Bubba do with his SR claw tanker Oo Same for SD MA, i tried the @Werner build and ... not for me 🙂

SS is broken OP, if and ONLY if you dont use SS 😛 The attacks of the set has been balanced to keep the dps at medium good level with Rage... But you use Aux and Epic / patron attack with, it become crazy. Gloom and Dark Obliteration become a snipe and a Targeted mini nova, Cross Punch has the same dpA than Haymaker but on a cone, and so on. Shield Charge on a SD SS tanker with Musc T4, caped AOO, 2 stack of rage : Same parameters, Gloom :

I fear that the stam management of rage / hasten crashes on SD.SS tanker make the AT not so worth

Congrats to both of you 🙂

Gloom is one of the top DPA of tanker and brutes, now you have a very particular build.

There are several of techniques to solo Romu nictus, none are easy and requires training to do and/or particular builds : ALL ask a thing based on how high is your standing power (AKA what your toon is able to facetank) and being able to solo kill Romu and / or the nictus. This is one of the reason i play a SR stalker with Rebirth, Rune of protection and mélée core. [Spoiler : all of this is far far of the ideal Roleplay "scenarios", read at your own risk] [and dont do this in "normal" PuG team : i know some "very open minded hardcore old school all cleaning Roleplay #moblifematter" fanboyz who kick for those pulls.]

i have playtest EM SR stalker by soloing itf in +4x8 🙂 Romulus nictus is just another boss with more hp 😛

For my Fire / NIN Blaster, i dont use Sting cause i dont want to be forced in mélée, i use a heavy proc'ed Golden Dragonfly as a debuff / burst tool as Inferno. I took Char and Shoking powder as Double heavy proc'ed hold to have a ranged rotation with Blaze / Blazing Bolt / Fireball, on top of being able to hold any boss with a fast double hold.

I tend to use a priority rotation due to the Energy focus, random Assassin Focus mechanic and random Build UP procs. I have an EM / SR stalker with a build based on standing power : to be able to solo and staying at mélée range almost in all situation. My goal is to use ET (slow and fast) as much as possible, mainly during Build up windows. Slow ET / TF / EP / Fast ET / AS and priority to Crit AS 🙂 Ho and yes, i dont use BS cause no crit AS is a perfect placeholder and i want to keep a 2 slot Placate to have a burst / CC ability.

My choice goes to EM / SR over Bio or EA for more standing power (swaping Assaut / ageless Core and Rebirth / Mélée core based on content with Rune Of Protection) ease of slotting Damage proc and giving more value to the 20% recharge buff of SR to aim for "3 ET per Build up windows" rotations. After more than 40 hours of plyatesting each phase of beta on several Energy Mélée, i had better times on pylon with EM than my old STJ. But i'm far from being the best STJ stalker and i have hours / days / months of Energy mélée gameplay on (and VS) stalker, Brutes and Tanker from before and after the Snap.

Yeah, i finally moved from Reunion.

i enjoy mine so much, it's just... amazing 🙂

We all know how Dwarves are when they have a party... One night, too much beer, A cute defender and boom another son, Blaster 😄