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Taking no grativic emanation on a human only shade is trolling yourself. You need the mez. I would take that over Unchain. Also not slotting your nuke is also trolling yourself. The Damage you are missing out on is huge. You are overslotting all your shields when you should just be relying on Eclipse.

Its a great stat to chase on resist based toons because they don't have DDR and so any defense you do have will be stripped pretty easily. This is why I no longer bother building for set bonuses or just blind defaulting to scorpion shield on squishies. PBs live and die by Light Form, so being able to have that perma without any worry for -rech debuffs stopping that is just nice to have. It is also great for putting damage procs in because typically you are 2-slotting the Winter sets with acc/dam and either dam/end or acc/dam/end and then running a +dam alpha to cover the slotting deficiencies. Leaves 4 spaces for procs. And yes, brawl/kick/boxing are never to be used in any rotations, they are just there to get to Cross punch which is great because it can add in FoTG -res, arma purple and FFB procs into a ST rotation that otherwise wouldn't have it. Generally I will aim for 60-75% on a melee toon, if I can get more because I have space for it I will go all the way. If you dont already leverage FFB procs, you should try them. Some builds can really be supercharged using them (storm summoning is a prime candidate)

Yeah it might happen 2.5 times a minute, but its mag 2. So its not going to confuse anything above a minion which die pretty quickly anyway. Enjoy your warshade. I find human only quite a painful experience, good luck with it 😅

I guess that is because achilles' heel is a proc and the other is baked into the power?

Pretty sure Cupid's is a Mag 2 stun just single slotted, so really you either slot the set or 1 slot if you have something else to stack with it

Fixed it for you 😂

When Psionics are resisted, they are resisted quite heavily. Arachnos and Carnies are pretty strong to psionics generally, BP husks are resistant but the masks and totems aren't. Rularuu are resistant, as are rikti drones and mentalists. Seers too. Basically if it doesn't have a brain canonically or it uses Psionics, expect to not do much psionic damage back to it 😛 I did start out with more protection on the sent, but my hp just never really moved. Any lucky shot that got through you can cover the costs with master brawler absorb. I left my sent in the middle of that lvl54 pack for a good 10 mins with brawler on auto and I was still there when I came back. So really anything beyond the softcap and the absorb clicky is superfluous. You will also get really solid resists if you do get hit because you have scaling resists that increase as your hp does too. For the really sticky situations where they get 2 lucky hits on you, you have Elude to boost your defense if it somehow gets debuffed or green insps to get back to full. You cannot add in the same level of damage that you get by not cramming procs into the build. Char and Cremate are huge damage boosts, I wouldn't want to play any sentinel without the epic attacks slotted for procs, sentinel damage is just too anaemic otherwise. Your mileage may vary though of course.

I personally would strip more of the slotting for survival to add to the damage side of things. I have a psi/SR sent that has 45% def to all and no resistances other than the scaling from Dodge and Reactive Defenses and can sit for a really long time in the middle of a L54 mob surviving purely on Master Brawler when getting low. With that in mind this is how I would slot a Fire/Sr/Fire Blaze/Blazing Blast slotting is interchangeable and the empty slot in char would be for Decimation chance for build up proc. Sentinel (Fire Blast - Super Reflexes)2.mbd

Hard agree on those points! Especially when taking the slot effective HO route will set you back at least 250M a pop. Simply easier to ignore dark mastery and pick up sleet or melt armour (with an Achilles proc)

What about this then? This is what I was basing my previous message on.

Tar patch requires a tohit roll btw for the -res portion

Both orbiting death and inky aspect have the same tick rate according to CoD, so I would imagine they work in the same way. It isn't so relevant for inky aspect though since it only stuns minions (by itself) and they get vaporised after double mire usually.

What power are you looking to bring back that much?

I would probably run something slightly different, but attached for your reference. Corruptor (Ice Blast - Storm Summoning).mbd

Post your build?

The information on procs is out there on the forums and on the discord. It's just spread around quite a bit unfortunately.

One assumes you have misunderstood here, so will outline below. Peace

Not sure why you're so pressed. Sentinel damage is pretty mediocre at the best of times and DP among blast sets is one of the lowest performers. Troo spoke tooth. Don't be hating the tooth.

You get 3 kb protection from 3 slotting glad armours in your epic

Drafted this recently based on how I slot my DP defender. Blaster (Dual Pistols - Martial Combat).mbd

If you are going to fly full time, even during combat, you could drop combat jumping for evasive manoeuvres and just use the same slotting for hover that you have in combat jumping. swap a fly speed IO into swift. Drop the run speed IO in stamina and swap with a straight Performance shifter end mod. I don't use fly, I am not sure how much you actually gain from slotting hover for flight speed, so will bow to your expertise on this one 🙂

I simply have not got aim and obscure sustenance toggled in mids, if you click them they will toggle on and be "active" in that highlighted fashion in mids. Obscure sustenance is a weird power in that mids only shows you the effect of the first boost you receive, which also happens to be the biggest. I didn't want you to open it and see the regen and recovery numbers and think 'wow thats amazing' when the reality is slightly below that which you would see in mids. it has a 20s CD in my build, so that means you can pretty much keep the 2nd middle tier recovery buff permanent, so you should sit around 4.1 end/sec recovery which is reasonable.

Teleport pool is completely swappable, its playstyle preference. You couldn't have both fold space and SJ unless you sacrificed something else in the build and it would not really work at that point. So if you wanted SJ, I would just simply remove teleport pool entirely. So for example you could drop cTP, TP and FS and pick up Super Jump, Soul Transfer and Grant Invis. So you'd losing fold space but picking up a rez/absorb shield in Soul Transfer and the final LotG proc. Could also keep Combat TP instead of the Grant Invis, its quite flexible. Also don't worry too much about the HOs, Enzyme end/tohit/def debuff are only 4-5M a pop, so very affordable.

This is what I run on my dark/dark sent to great success. As long as you keep hitting Obscure Sustenance on cooldown its manageable. You are leaning on -tohit from Cloak of Fear and Darkest Night (boosted slightly by Musculature Radial in your Alpha slot in incarnates) for a total of -25.5% tohit I run the teleport pool because combat tp is fun to port to things running away from you and you get Fold Space then to pull all mobs to you. All the attacks are maximised for damage output, which is why there are damage procs across the entire build, accuracy is taken care of by the LoTG and Sentinel's Ward sets. All your survival comes from good level of resists, but mostly the -tohit that you pump out. Shout if you have any questions 🙂 Sentinel (Dark Blast - Dark Armor).mbd