Thoughts on my Elec/SD build

[MunkiLord]

I'm not so sure it's the best choice either. When I took it endurance was an issue so it made sense at that time. At this point, I rarely use it at all and may eventually look into one of the others. I like your idea of the heal. Outside of Incarnate content, I don't actually see myself using Destiny very much at all going forward.

[Papaschtroumpf]

Did a lvl54 ITF yesterday with a somewhat weak team and that really helped me see the strengths (and limits) of this combo, at least with my build. I basically tanked all the time, and mostly soloed the Dwarf and Nova surge at the end of the first mission when the rest of the team wiped. I would not have been able to do it without the incarnates, but between Melee and Barrier I was able to survive and clear the spawn.

A similar situation happened at the control computer when the team wiped and I survive continuing to chip at the computer (feels like going after a steel beam with a nail file though).

We failed to complete though. The team didn't have enough DPS for Romulus+Nictuses and this is where my build fell short, eventually Barrier wears off, the AV gets through my defenses, and while I was doing fine with orange inspirations, I ran out them before the team had chipped off 25% of the AV.

Everybody left the map so I decided to clear the roofs solo, which was fine if I started in a corner and did then one at a time with the occasional second group aggroing at the same time. I did faceplant went I jumped in the middle of the roof, ran in circles to aggro everything and states fighting. Eventually the continuous pressure overwhelmed my defense and Regen and I faceplanted after clearing only 2/3 of the roof in a continuous fight.

 

My build has capped positional defense (I looked at the in-game stats during the final AV fight and it showed 60% positional defense although I was too busy to look at the brakdown between my build and external sources from the team)

To survive those extreme situations I need more resist, and orange inspirations do help. I should start stocking the medium and large ones and going to the P2Win vendor to turn off purple drops. Incarnate born Regen helps a lot, but I need to see if I can get more resist through build changes (I have ATOs but not purples) and proper incarnate choices.