Underfyre

Virtually all of the "extreme" powers you're looking for have been ported over to all of the other ATs at this point.

If you're brave enough, you can go through the formulas on my spreadsheet and see all this kind of stuff.

I haven't really played for a spell. What does that means?

Updated to reflect Issue 28, Page 1 data. Can this be pinned please?

This is as helpful as reading the ability description in game.

I mean, I have a link to my dps spreadsheet in my signature.

No.

I spent a ton of time on those write ups.

Sentinels are now at 1.1 modifier. Blasters are at 1.125. Base numbers are going to be close.

If you're going to use my build at least credit me.

I had all the runs recorded. It was my mistake. I scrubbed a run that was clearly going wrong then didn't wait for it to fully regen before starting the next.

Run Type: Pylon Archetype: SentinelPrimary Powerset: Sonic AttacksSecondary Powerset: Bio ArmorTime in seconds: 38.05 secondsHybrid: Assault CoreNumber of Runs: About 5? Needed several things to go right.Version: Issue 27 Page 7 Open Beta Used: Ageless Core Epiphany, Geas, Offense Amplifier, Defense Amplifier, Survival Amplifier, Envenomed Daggers. Build is wholly unsustainable. pylon sonic.mbd

Yeah, I posted it on the bug forums.

Regular version gives 7.5 opportunity, boosted gives 10.

Sorry. Seismic is also out of the running because it can't easily get FotG. My b.

So if anyone is curious @Ston's pointers are basically going to get you max damage. Enflame is an aura that, kind of like Shocking Field, is doing damage while you and your pet do whatever. A pet is also doing damage while you do whatever. The Mace pet in particular has the Achilles' Heel proc available, so there's 20% more damage for its duration. Enflame can also proc Annihilation, which is another 12.5%. In his video you'll see him use Inferno to potentially proc Fury of the Gladiator for another 20%. If the stars align, you will be doing a lot of damage very quickly. At some point, -res kind of gives you less bang for your buck, so you just need more raw damage. You can snag some through various set bonuses. It may or may not also come from Assault Core, it has a 65% chance per attack to go off. In our 1 minute time span it should essentially always be up, bar the ramp up period. More attack will come from Bio Armor. Fire Armor also gives damage, but not as much as Bio and I don't think the nerfed version of Burn will be enough to offset that. So once we're past those variables, we come down to the Primary sets you use. We don't have to consider damage type since the resists are a flat 20%. So anything is technically viable. I'm currently fiddling with what we'll call a heavily modified version of my spreadsheet that has to throw out averages and assume a lot of "up-time" for buffs and debuffs to give numbers even remotely close to Ston's 48s run there. It looks like your rotation is going to have you using Pulverize and Envenomed Daggers basically every other attack, so you're largely just using one of your attacks out of your primary. Pulverize gets a lot of procs and Daggers has a very high DPA on its own and is affected by global damage and recharge bonuses. That's before and after using Aim. So assuming very high recharge because we're using just horribly broken builds that are focused to this one task, it's on a very short recharge. Geas alone is giving you 100%, then another 70% from Ageless, and 70% more from Hasten. You have a lot of recharge for 1 minute, and you only need 45s worth. So like I said, 1 single attack from your primary, and your Tier 9, obviously. Because it gets you access to Fury of the Gladiator. But only for certain sets. Now we can throw out Archery, AR, BR, Ice, Seismic, Storm and Water because their T9 is a targeted AoE. You may be saying also Electric, but it has the additional pet, so it might have a chance. Also, these sets might be able to pair with Fire Armor because Burn can also get you FotG, I haven't checked. What I have checked is just having FotG anyway. Here's who doesn't hold up assuming Fire is the baseline with the dirtiest math available, using their highest DPA attack. Archery, AR, BR, Dark, DP, Energy, Psi, Rad, Storm, Water. So we're left with Electric, Fire, Ice, Seismic and Sonic. This is also assuming Ice and Electric have found a way to get access to the FotG proc. Technically Electric can use Short Circuit, but that's massive drop in damage output from the start with it's 2.5s activation time. So that might not work out. Ice has absolutely no way to reach it without switching to Fire Armor and using Burn. Doing that drops it out of the running. So Fire, Seismic, Sonic are left. Blaze is massive DPA, Gravestone is apparently enough to keep up (and you can cycle in Stalagmite when it goes off), and the same goes for Screech. Do with this information what you like. Maybe the quick, dirty math is wrong.

City of Data is showing its damage scalar as 0.095 instead of .11. Not sure if intentional or not since the scale for all the other ATs kind of just applies their highest scalar, not just the ranged or just the melee scale. Even then it'd still be .11.

Good news, I found a bug in enflame. It still has a .95 damage scale. I mean, it could be intentional, but I feel like the damage should be closer to the blaster/scrapper version since our multiplier is 1.1 now.

Global recharge doesn't affect proc rates, just enhanced recharge. You can only have 5 of each set bonus though (ie. 5 LotG, 5 10% recharge, 8.75%, 7.5%, 6.25%, 5%).

This is wrong. The only instance that Core is better than Radial is when used with Storm Blast because that set doesn't benefit from procs, just raw damage. Even then it's only a marginal difference.

Read the version history and you might just find some builds.

These days Energy is more towards the bottom than the middle, but these are relative terms against other Sentinel sets and have very little effect on typical gameplay. If you're having fun, then keep going. A fun character is more important than an optimized character.

No, as far as cheap builds go, that will suit you pretty well, as long as you intend to hoverblast. You're only capped on Ranged defense. It's definitely missing frills that will make your life easier. It's missing Hasten, which Regen desperately wants. The Voltaic Sentinel is missing, and he does a good chunk of damage. There are plenty of places to put some LotG recharges. Making room for these things would require scrapping the build and starting from scratch. I'd worry about that when you have the funds to make your final build.

Sounds like you know exactly what you want. Show us your build.

I mean... you can. But it requires buying the Power Analyzer skill from the START vendor. And even then I think that would only cover stat debuffs.