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the only drawback of pairing it with kin is that tricannon will rarely benefit from fulcrum shift. to the thread in general, smoke can is a pretty unique power with a lot going on under the hood. I personally feel it is set defining if you lean into leveraging it.

It might initially seem counterintuitive, but don't actually lead with Assassin Strike. Open with your highest damage normal single target attack or your epic aoe (depending on content). Use assassin strike in fast mode, ideally with 2-3 stacks of focus depending on team size and availability of other good attacks. Slow AS is pretty rarely used these days.

I may have misunderstood the thread. I thought OP was looking to do this challenge style: no insp/amps/temps/lore kinda deal. If they are ok with the above then play whatever, temp summons and lores can probably do it with you being afk.

AVs are what they are. -regen hardly matters against them if you are a high damage build (all pet heavy builds can be). 500 pylon dps will generally kill a 54 AV in 3ish mins. At which point being able to survive the more dangerous ones is more valuable ime. I'd be surprised if Demons and mercs outdamage bots against GMs though. 600% -regen ends up being 90-100% regen (lower lvl GMs have less debuff res) and they regen ~350hp/sec at the top end. GMs spam aoes now, often with buttloads of knockback. Standing close to them (ie demons) can be an issue. At any rate, just what I'd do as a MM. I do have an ill/Marine troller that exceeds 1k pylon dps with no -regen present. It can blow thru some, but not all GMs as their aoe spam will kill off phantasm and my spider and then it starts to stall out as you get stuck in a resummon/buff loop and tank dps.

If i were making a mm to do this (ill troller being my first pick) it would be bots/Marine. The personal attacks of bots provides ample -regen, more is not required. Marine is probably the best secondary available.

too focused on survival imo. Much better to be offensively focused with this combo. Just toggle on darkest night for any encounter/AV that looks tough because you can blow through everything else with ease. Tanker (Bio Armor - Savage Melee).mbd

Stalker, but fast ET never gets old ET Baby

Ya icesword circle hits quite hard and rolls procs decently. Trip mine on the other hand does not. Chilling embrace is actually fantastic and has good synergy with powerup, it will noticably slow enemies. While it is mixed damage, cold is rarely resisted and it makes a difference. Arsenals main draw is targetting drone and how it allows you to bypass most acc slotting for more procs throughout the build. If you plan to leverage that then it is worth looking at it more closely.

It is 1st or 2nd arrow i fire every single encounter. 1pc performance shifter +end makes it a free cast.

I Aim for 50% slow res, it makes a difference in QoL. 1 20% slow res in a travel power 2x acc/dam, dam/end winter sets (melee/pbaoe/ranged aoe) =50% More is welcome, but 50% puts you one common team buff away from immunity.

Can't shoot or move: Earth If you are ok with them moving slowly and occasionally shooting (just not at you): Arsenal If you are ok with them shooting lots, but rarely at you: Plant Those are my 3 favorite dom primaries

Eagles claw (w/cs) > ball lightning> dragons tail. Turns martial arts into an aoe powerhouse. Edit: in response to how critical strikes proc works.

If you aren't married to a scrapper then I much prefer psi melee on stalkers. Other than janky animations it is a perfectly serviceable set for Stalkers, but less than stellar on other ATs.

Dunno what you are trying to do with the build but in general you either can handle spawns or you can't, none of those options are going to consistently get you thru a mission unless you go very slowly. Now if you are just getting stuck on EBs or similar, then powerboosted unleash is pretty good if you are avoiding insp.

Honestly, the easiest way is to use flashfreeze cause sleep is autohit against normal mobs and it is a nice big aoe. Not a terrible attack either if you proc it out (damage is not autohit). If you are fighting easy stuff then iceslick is usually sufficient. Cold snap is ok, but the fear cone is much smaller than the slow cone and it is much harder to aim a cone while leaping into the middle of a spawn than it is the aoe of flash/iceslick. You are probably gonna eat some damage no matter what you do if you are in first cause AA only pulses every 2 sec and someone is going to break the sleep/fear in that time.

Fwiw you probably want to focus on one or two things to consistently use seismic forces on. You won't be able to empower everything. I ended up deciding to primarily burn the stacks on aim as it knocks a chunk off of the base recharge of meteor* Also do yourself a favor and get a knockback to knockdown converter in meteor asap. The knock on it is ridiculous and will scatter everything out of your marine debuffs. *think this mechanic is bugged and doesn't take as much recharge time off as it should.

I have a marine/seismic/soul that I find quite enjoyable. I did it for the pure power fantasy of tsunamis and meteors- an extinction event. So in before someone says "it's not as good as fire " ok... To address your points: Seismic waves will noticeably knock down enemies that get close, but once marine gets tidepool and whitecap you'll barely notice seismic waves, so don't worry about consuming them. Rock shards enhanced is a good attack, regular rock shards is ok in the low levels. The base rech is so low on the attack you probably won't use procs. Your final build probably won't have it at all because Marine pulls you into the centre of the spawn. High global rech is always good, but not at the cost of more efficient slotting. Plus whitecap and upthrust both trigger ffb proc a lot. It's super easy to hit ~perma Hasten onyhisbuild. I went soul cause soulstorm looks so cool and makes sense for the character. Soul drain is still pretty good too. Meteor is contentious. Cast it before doing other stuff. Cast it before putting down tidepool even, but definitely before upthrust and whitecap. You can land meteor, upthrust and whitecap at the same time which is fun.

Generally it is either or between Quicksand and stone Cages. They conflict with one another. If sand had a faster cast time I'd pick it over Cages, but sand is a very good power while leveling.

Pretty hard to pick anything other than /earth on most builds. Dramatically boosts st damage and you are already in melee for heart of darkness so it is an easy fit. Fissure stacks wonderfully with your aoe stun and is decent aoe damage. Earth's embrace for capped hp on top of /dark affinity is basically unkillable. Honorable mentions go to: Psi for mez protection, and ultra procable nado Scorp for poison ray, another pet, good energy def, and a nice taoe, plus focused acc to empower proc slotting across your build.

OP to cut thru the noise, permadom is well worth going for. I've done a lot of dominators and put up lots of videos for them because they are my favorite AT. My base recommendation at 50 (this can more or less apply universally to all the ATs) -85% global rech (more is ok, but not at the cost of other things) -Hasten -At least 50% slow/rech resistance -Proc out a few attacks like your epic aoe and a couple single target ones. It really makes a big difference. -Don't chase things that your build is bad at. Ie defense unless you have something with built in defense/tohit debuffs. It's not worth the investment from 0.

Procd whitecap, 5 damage proc flashbang, and damage slotted sleep nade makes spawns disappear. Tricannon isn't far below fire imps if you contain the target. Procd cryo, seismic + hurl will be satisfactory st later on.

Please take Hasten. You are giving up huge slotting opportunities if you don't. Use base empowerment and spend the money on the +rech amplifier while leveling. You don't necessarily "need" permadom while leveling but being able to chain it twice in a row will be a big improvement over letting it drop every time and you can get that at a very low level.

Axe looks like the easiest port to me. AS for swoop Placate for taunt

Earth and dark for personal damage Mace for personal+ pet damage and overall utility. Not exactly the same needs but i went mace on my ill/Marine. Disruptor blast hits much harder than fissure and you shouldn't need to cycle your aoe attack twice against the same spawn solo or teamed. Focused acc allows more proc opportunities. Poison ray passes seismic/midnight grasp very quickly if you have multiple damage sources, although not nearly as satisfying to use. Scorp shield is much better than rock armor and looks like waves

For def based t9s in the case of /ea that only matters if you are a masochist trying to never use inspirations to get through the crash. Otherwise you just hit a single blue and energy drain in the case of /nin (scrap/sent) they have a 0 end cost blue bar refill on a short timer, that set sails through the retsu crash like it is designed to handle it. Only /sr has issues easily handling the crash before 50, but it also gains the least from using it relative to the others. That said, 160% positional def on a tank is entirely, unnecessarily, enjoyable. everyone is free to petition for the type of gameplay they want, but imo /ea and /nin really underperform outside of their t9. So t9 changes would have to be accompanied by a major revamp of the entire set for me to get behind it.