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All builds are personal and your build is fine. Some thoughts: A few of your attacks are not slotted fully. I would suggest additional slotting for Single Shot, Toxic Web Grenade, and Charged Shot. These powers are lower damage, but they also work well in attack chains especially if you get mezzed. You can use all of these powers while mezzed, so can still be defeating enemies. You can be defeated easily while mezzed, so the ability to fight back can be critical. One thing to consider is that your true defense is not soft-capped. It is soft-capped when you are out of combat, but when you enter combat your Field Operative defense will drop from 5.95% to 2.97%, so you lose almost 3% while in combat. Hasten: I would 2 slot it with +5 IOs to get the recharge down Penetrating Ray: I like the full Thunderstike set as opposed to the 2 sets of 3. You get 5 set bonuses as opposed to 4, but you have to decide if the regeneration is more important to you than the speed and accuracy. The ranged defense will be the same with either slotting. Blasters have lower HPs, so regeneration is not as important to me. Your accuracy is pretty good, so this a YMMWV.

I hate to be that guy that touts his own build, but here is my build:

All this time I just thought DP was weak. Never thought it was a bug. Hope it gets fixed soon as almost all my Blasters are DP. As a matter of fact, I have so many DP characters my wife is getting suspicious... My non-DP blasters are Archery/TA and Beam/Devices (strong).

My Beam/Devices is completely ranged. He is my first ever Hover blaster (although he doesn't have to Hover). I took everything in the primary except Cutting Beam and Piercing Beam. In Devices I took: Toxic Web Grenade Targeting Drone Smoke Grenade Field Operative Trip Mine - I don't use this when Hovering Perfectly viable to play at range.

Using the temp flight packs make capes look weird. It would be nice to get a temp flight belt that could be used, so the capes would look better.

Oldskool already answered, but thought I would throw in some comments. Judgment - For DP I usually take Void since it is a PBAoE and synergizes well with HoB. I jump into a crowd and HoB and then Void and it's a wrap. Interface - I usually take Degenerative. Destiny - I would go Barrier for DP/MC, since MC it has a good recovery power. I usually aim for soft-cap S/L and Range, so I do not get mezzed often. When I do I always have at least 4 Escape inspirations on me and I also usually take Pistols and Dual Pistols for DP, so I can still attack while Mezzed. I use Barrier to push my defenses to incarnate levels when needed. You also have the option for Inner Will with MC, so may not need Clarion. If you are going all out on +4/8 then maybe Clarion is the better pick, but I don't usually try that on Blasters. Hybrid - I usually go Assault. Lore - I usually go with whatever fits my character concept. Banished are supposed to be top tier, but they are to big for me, so I usually go Tsoo or something else.

Yes, I had the PVP / PVE tag toggled to PVP, so the numbers are much different.

I think more people would take Hasten with these changes. I know I would...

I thought testing of these procs showed that having multiples was not optimal. Has this changed?

I have a character who is a rapper and occasionally he's got to say some stuff. I want to press a key (let's say z) and have him say the bad guy's name and then other stuff in local. Can anyone show me how to do that?

I like this idea, but not sure I like replacing Focus Chi. I would suggest that taking Focus Chi opens up these toggles.

I have been doing 4/8 DA missions with my Savage/SR stalker. I've never really done 4/8 before, but I was trying to T4 my incarnates, so I decided to try it to speed up the vet levels and was shocked how easy it was. I will occasionally take some hits where I have to do a strategic withdrawal before finishing a mob and I have been defeated a couple of times, but overall I do fine. The DA missions are all Banished Pantheon, so not sure how I would fare against other mobs.

Revisiting this thread, sorry for bumping my own thread, but thought I would provide some additional information. My numbers were skewed earlier because I had the PVP tab selected. Here are the updated numbers and build. Instead of providing commentary in this thread I am going to provide cost information, so people can get an idea of how much a build like this costs. I just revamped the build and bought IOs yesterday, so this info is pretty recent. Comments / Goals: Soft-cap Range and S/L without having to use Power Boost Have Fly as a travel power (due to concept) Have a Stealth IO and SS for 65' PVE stealth Try to get enough recharge to use Power Boost often The updated Build Build Cost

Thanks for the tips. I wasn't aware the Hetacomb proc wouldn't proc as much, so I will definitely test that out. Your other suggestions are good as well and I will make those adjustments. I was building for recovery, so I tend to use the Miracle proc. I usually try to get both Numina and Miracle in Health where I can, but just couldn't fit it in on this build. I think I am going to do a second build and remove Hasten and add Inner Will as an Auto. I'll also try and get BoS back in the build, but I want to maintain my soft-cap Ranged and S/L. I'll try some +4/8 DA mission with my current build to check my baseline performance first and then do the second build and see how it stacks up.

That is a serious tease! Any hints?

All true, but I guess the point is that if you wanted the high end gear in SWTOR you had to seriously grind for it. Here if you want the high end gear you have to do what I would consider minor grinding, but I would argue the grind is much less and there are many more options here than in SWTOR. You can do most of the content here on SOs that drop from playing the game or the base IO recipes that drop as well. The term grind is going to be subjective to everyone. IMO the grind here is very limited and you can easily get rewards from just playing the game in whatever manner you choose. Some options are more efficient than others, but all of them will allow you to fully kit out a character.

We have that here though, right? I played SWTOR while CoH was MIA. That was a grind and could take hours daily to be able to upgrade a piece of gear once per week. Here I can play for an hour and feel confident that at the end that hour I have made progress towards my goal. If my goal is a purple IO I can get one in about an hour by running a double Hami, a TinPlex, use the AH, or even some missions / flashbacks / TFs. There is very little grind here. I do the same thing where at level 22 I slot level 25 IOs and use them until I can replace them. I will use converters to make some money and buy some attuned IOs during the leveling process, so that by the time I hit 50 I really only need to focus on the expensive IOs (Purples, PVP, and Winter).

The 4 day weekend is over and I did not (or did I) make my goal. My character has a little over 1200 merits, but I also played other characters and did multiple Hami raids, so if I transfer those merits to my stalker I will have easily made it. Now that I have the merits the question is do I pull the trigger. My character build is complete and I have a little over $100M influence, so I don't really need the merits for IOs or to make influence on the market. I'm just having a hard time buying 15 badges for 1500 merits. I have a few days to think it over, so will hold off for now.

Thanks for all the responses on Spring Attack. I decided to go Weaken Resolve and Laser Beam Eyes instead of Super Jump and Spring Attack as Spring Attack is apparently still bugged. Very fun build and extremely survivable. I have been doing some Ephram Sha missions at +4/8 to get some XP to boost veteran levels to level incarnates and no issues at all. SR is just awesome and the AoE damage is very nice. The endurance issues have mainly gone away due to heavy slotting in Body Mastery and Stamina and when I really need a boost I can pop Ageless. Thanks Frosticus for creating this guide. I doubt I would have ever tried Savage without you championing it. Final Savage / SR Build:

Nice build, not sure about the 3 slotting of ES and slotting SF for damage. I would probably rearrange the slotting on those two. Nice thoughts on Burnout, haven't used it, but 2 HoBs could be wicked. I made some adjustments for my play style. Looking forward to leveling it...

Thank you! I was wondering why the resists were so high and I couldn't figure it out.

Very impressive Magic! This is a really cool tool you are developing for the community and while I haven't used it yet but I am definitely keeping an eye on this thread.

I've been working on a Savage / SR stalker, so I feel your pain on the End issues. I went Body Mastery and took Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection. I have Panacea, Miracle, 3 Performance Shifters + End, and Numina. It resolved a lot of my End issues, but I was still sucking wind in long fights. Going Ageless for the Destiny slot finally solved my End issues.

Great suggestions, thank you both! I had forgotten you could convert Emps to Merits, so will check that out.

My latest stalker (Savage / SR) recently hit 50. I ended up in Oroborous and looked at the conversion vendor to see what was there and saw that I could get the annual badges for 100 merits each. I knew you could get these badges in May, but had forgotten about it since I usually only go for the 4 passives. Anyway, I have a 4 day weekend, so I decided to give myself a challenge to get 1500 merits to buy these badges for years 1 through 15. My plan is to: Run the SSA arcs for 20 merits each Run Smoke and Mirrors a twice per day for 12 merits each time Try to hit the Hami raids for 80 merits per day (although I have never done it on a melee, so that should be interesting) Figure out what the WST is and run that Any other suggestions? BTW, I hate throwing away merits on badges, but I figured this one time I will do it just for the experience of doing this type of challenge.