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Tonio

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Disclaimer: this is only the 2nd build I've ever attempted to make by myself, from scratch, so I'm sure there are tons of glaring holes I'm missing,  hence the request for criticism and help. 😄

 

It's supposed to be a "money is no object" build, so feel free to suggest changes that would make it humongously more expensive to attain.

 

I'm not focusing much on global recharge (LotG, Hasten, etc.) assuming that as a kin, my recharge will be high often enough, but please feel free to correct me if that assumption is wrong.

 

I had initially picked Maneuvers, Tactics, and Assault for better team buffing, but switched to Tough and Weave for more survivability (I'd rather buff the party than myself, but I do want to be able to do so, so I need to survive... plus I like to solo often, so I can't always rely on teammates for my survival anyway).  If there's a way to make it work, I'd rather take the Leadership pool powers, instead.

 

I don't have much experience with Dark Blast, so I'm not sure I'm picking powers there properly.  No experience with Kinetics, either, so ditto.

 

Thanks in advance!

 

 

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I thought this was going to be a build designed around the new Experimentation Pool. I was excited for the dart.

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Tonio

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  On 2/29/2020 at 2:38 AM, Bopper said:

I thought this was going to be a build designed around the new Experimentation Pool. I was excited for the dart.

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Egads, just noticed the typo... sorry to disappoint!!!

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  On 2/28/2020 at 9:22 PM, Tonio said:

Disclaimer: this is only the 2nd build I've ever attempted to make by myself, from scratch, so I'm sure there are tons of glaring holes I'm missing,  hence the request for criticism and help. 😄

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Ok, so in general on a defender you want to focus on getting to the softcap to make yourself very survivable (everyone really). What this means is that you should shoot for either 45% s/l/e def or 45% ranged def (if you plan on never going into melee or 45% melee and ranged def (if you plan to be in melee range). Then you try to fit in as much recharge and damage as possible. Finally, you try to get as much resist as you can, normally focusing on s/l res more than the others because it is the most common type. Now luckily defenders get very high defense, resist, and buff/debuff modifiers making these things easier to attain. Also, in general to make all of these things possible to get, you take maneuvers, weave, combat jumping or rune of protection, and hasten.

 

In your build you have taken all of the dark blast attacks, but many of them aren't useful or you'll have enough recharge to use only 3 ST attacks in a chain. In my opinion dark pit is only useful if you can stack it with another stun because it is only mag two meaning its not going to stun bosses and everything else will die too quickly to matter (you are kinetics afterall). Don't take assault as a kin, fulcrum shift alone is enough to cap you. Also, you have 6-slotted many attacks when only slotting them with 3 or 5 is enough to get the bonuses you want. You also really want tactics as it allows you to get mor base damage on your snipe. Power build up is only useful for using it with Blackstar to completely floor everything's tohit, which....yeah that's pretty protective for your team, even an AV is gonna feel that -tohit sting, but then you should take temp invul for more res. You don't need life drain slotted as a heal because you have transfusion. I also really love repel with an FF proc and a kb to kd IO in it, as it gives you some mitigation and a lot of recharge when you are in the middle of a group. Finally, it isn't really necessary to slot transference, no one needs or can use +200 endurance.

 

So, with all this in mind, how about something like one of these?

 

This one tries to keep ranged/melee softcap, power boost, and rune of protection. The results are kinda mediocre in my opinion. I ended up not taking life drain because your other attacks are better and you have an excellent heal in transfusion to use when you need it. The build is .8% from softcap to melee, but I think with your dark powers giving -tohit you will be just fine.
 

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This one drops rune of protection for more recharge and combat jumping. So you will lose status protection for 90 seconds but be softcapped and have more recharge.


 

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And finally this one takes scorpion shield to have s/l/e softcapped defense with rune of protection and chases recharge as much as possible. This one is probably the most fun in my opinion.


 

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Tonio

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Sorry I sorta dropped out of the conversation... RL has been brutal lately!

 

I like the last build, except for Mace Mastery, which really doesn't fit the character concept at all.  I don't think I've ever seen those powers in use, so if the visual effects are "generic" enough, and don't involve using a highly technological device to produce tech-style effects, I could make it work.  Web Cocoon and the pet (Summon Disruptor), are they expected to be used, or just there as set mules?

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  On 3/13/2020 at 6:34 PM, Tonio said:

Sorry I sorta dropped out of the conversation... RL has been brutal lately!

 

I like the last build, except for Mace Mastery, which really doesn't fit the character concept at all.  I don't think I've ever seen those powers in use, so if the visual effects are "generic" enough, and don't involve using a highly technological device to produce tech-style effects, I could make it work.  Web Cocoon and the pet (Summon Disruptor), are they expected to be used, or just there as set mules?

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They are only set mules. You really only use scorpion shield and those effects are minimal to non-existent.

Tonio

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  On 3/13/2020 at 7:44 PM, Darkir said:

They are only set mules. You really only use scorpion shield and those effects are minimal to non-existent.

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Ooh, nice, then.  I'll give that one a try, then... thanks!!!

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