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Left to my Own Devices - Solo MoITF, 54/8, no Insp, no Amplifiers, enemies buffed, players debuffed

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Lex Talion

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If you're here to learn about the next FOTM you came to the wrong place. I just play what the concept demands, build to the best of my knowledge and see what I can pull off with it. Also none of my builds are specialized for a challenge. Individual enhancements may get swapped for technical reasons (read: '*!$%!# fleeing AVs), but that's it. Motivation to run this came from THIS THREAD and the fact that I can finally see my toon when playing. Thanks for that, HC.

 

Type:  Stealth Fighter / Saboteur

Build:  Rad Blast/Devices    (Yes, it's a terrible combo, I know. The toon was an experimental build that failed completely and got rebuilt to at least normal functionality. Unfortunately the only synergy between RadBlast and Devices is the ability to stack stuns, which is mostly useless in an ITF, due to the Cimerorans' battle cries. And still I had fun.)

 

Solo MoITF, 54/8, no Insp, no Amplifiers, enemies buffed, players debuffed

 

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  On 11/25/2020 at 8:21 PM, Lex Talion said:

If you're here to learn about the next FOTM you came to the wrong place. I just play what the concept demands, build to the best of my knowledge and see what I can pull off with it. Also none of my builds are specialized for a challenge. Individual enhancements may get swapped for technical reasons (read: '*!$%!# fleeing AVs), but that's it. Motivation to run this came from THIS THREAD and the fact that I can finally see my toon when playing. Thanks for that, HC.

 

Type:  Stealth Fighter / Saboteur

Build:  Rad Blast/Devices    (Yes, it's a terrible combo, I know. The toon was an experimental build that failed completely and got rebuilt to at least normal functionality. Unfortunately the only synergy between RadBlast and Devices is the ability to stack stuns, which is mostly useless in an ITF, due to the Cimerorans' battle cries. And still I had fun.)

 

Solo MoITF, 54/8, no Insp, no Amplifiers, enemies buffed, players debuffed

 

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WTF...

 

BlasteR..

 

No wAy Oo

 

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I cannot imagine the level of annoyance of having to chase rom and req all over the map at level 54.   Nicely done!

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Lex Talion

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  On 11/25/2020 at 10:12 PM, Shred Monkey said:

I cannot imagine the level of annoyance of having to chase rom and req all over the map at level 54.   Nicely done!

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I didn't have to, because I have an alternate ST chain built around spamming Toxic Web Grenade. Not exactly increasing my DPS normally, but against AVs it does

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  On 11/25/2020 at 10:16 PM, Lex Talion said:

I didn't have to, because I have an alternate ST chain built around spamming Toxic Web Grenade. Not exactly increasing my DPS normally, but against AVs it does

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wait... so that also means you can keep anything from closing to melee, including flyers.... obvious as it seems, that's a hugely powerful tool.

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Lex Talion

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  On 11/26/2020 at 12:27 AM, Shred Monkey said:

wait... so that also means you can keep anything from closing to melee, including flyers.... obvious as it seems, that's a hugely powerful tool.

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That sounds like you've never seen a single target immobilize, or do I misunderstand this? (Almost) Every Blaster secondary has that as mandatory pick, you even have a /Devices blaster in your sig.

Was my wording odd? (foreign language and all that)

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  On 11/25/2020 at 8:21 PM, Lex Talion said:

If you're here to learn about the next FOTM you came to the wrong place. I just play what the concept demands, build to the best of my knowledge and see what I can pull off with it. Also none of my builds are specialized for a challenge. Individual enhancements may get swapped for technical reasons (read: '*!$%!# fleeing AVs), but that's it. Motivation to run this came from THIS THREAD and the fact that I can finally see my toon when playing. Thanks for that, HC.

 

Type:  Stealth Fighter / Saboteur

Build:  Rad Blast/Devices    (Yes, it's a terrible combo, I know. The toon was an experimental build that failed completely and got rebuilt to at least normal functionality. Unfortunately the only synergy between RadBlast and Devices is the ability to stack stuns, which is mostly useless in an ITF, due to the Cimerorans' battle cries. And still I had fun.)

 

Solo MoITF, 54/8, no Insp, no Amplifiers, enemies buffed, players debuffed

 

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The Blaster God's?!?!?

This is seriously insanely impressive. . .

I am not usually a Blaster person but . . . well. . .

Yeah. . .

I am not going to even contemplate this!
AWESOME JOB!

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1) That's amazing. Well done. Especially with a combo most people (including me) would say "No chance!"

 

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  On 11/26/2020 at 7:53 AM, Lex Talion said:

That sounds like you've never seen a single target immobilize, or do I misunderstand this? (Almost) Every Blaster secondary has that as mandatory pick, you even have a /Devices blaster in your sig.

Was my wording odd? (foreign language and all that)

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Well, web grenade used to do 0 damage.  I can't say I really thought about it much after the change. 

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Respect, especially for doing it with that combo. Actually, Devices isn't really bad for it, but Rad isn't especially good. And combining two sets that aren't especially good against AVs with all of the TF settings is really impressive.

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Lex Talion

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  On 11/27/2020 at 2:43 PM, Coyote said:

Respect, especially for doing it with that combo. Actually, Devices isn't really bad for it, but Rad isn't especially good. And combining two sets that aren't especially good against AVs with all of the TF settings is really impressive.

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While non of the sets are power houses RadBlast's -Def and /Devices' Targeting Drone did at least help with the Players debuffed part, since that includes a 0.5 modifier to Accuracy which is disastrous to regular builds, that usually are calculated to hit regular +3s, but not self-/buffed ones, like Cimerorans or Rikti. My builds all assume a base chance of 33% instead of 48% and still I often had to tag enemies with Neutrino Bolt before I was back to a 95% ToHit chance.

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@Lex Talionis that 33% vs 39% owing to the presence of Kismet +6% being assumed in the build or a different reason?  (Like being roughly what's left of the defense debuff after Purple Patch scaling etc.)

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  On 11/28/2020 at 3:02 PM, Doomguide2005 said:

@Lex Talionis that 33% vs 39% owing to the presence of Kismet +6% being assumed in the build or a different reason?  (Like being roughly what's left of the defense debuff after Purple Patch scaling etc.)

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Base tohit chance against +3s is 48%, and Cimerorans, Phalanx Fighting and Shout of Command, which provides not only mez protection, but DDR and up to 15% +Def to all typed damage but psi. Looking at the Attack Mechanics shows that those 15% +Def directly oppose the base tohit chance, so I just assume 48% - 15% = 33% as my base tohit right away and go from there in Mids.

 

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For comparison: the (stacking! goddamnit..) Protection Shields, buffed by Rikti Guardians

 

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So I'm rebuilding my Rad/Dev, swapping out RB, GD and maybe NB for a little more defense. I found this build and the build Carnifax posted 2 years later.
They are both very helpful, and pretty similar, but I can't decipher you're slotting, and how many of which sets you have. I've been trying to compare them, and figure out which parts of which build will work for me so I can plan slots/sets

I tried reverse engineering sets and slots from the bonuses listed in the 1st pic you have up, but with the failure of the way CoH lists bonuses I'm mostly just spending way too much time on it and getting annoyed.

Do you have a screenshot of your slotting for this? Or any info on the slotting/sets?
Thank you in advance

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Meknomancer

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  On 1/12/2025 at 5:10 AM, GenericHero719 said:

So I'm rebuilding my Rad/Dev, swapping out RB, GD and maybe NB for a little more defense. I found this build and the build Carnifax posted 2 years later.
They are both very helpful, and pretty similar, but I can't decipher you're slotting, and how many of which sets you have. I've been trying to compare them, and figure out which parts of which build will work for me so I can plan slots/sets

I tried reverse engineering sets and slots from the bonuses listed in the 1st pic you have up, but with the failure of the way CoH lists bonuses I'm mostly just spending way too much time on it and getting annoyed.

Do you have a screenshot of your slotting for this? Or any info on the slotting/sets?
Thank you in advance

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Your going to have to take into account sorcerys rune of protection not working the way it did initially either way. The tiniest change to a power or 1 slot in the wrong/different place can completely alter a build. If i were you i'd just be building it to suit the way you like to play rather than attempting to figure out someone else's slotting. Or post what you have and ask for some help. Create a new topic. A combo like this is so rare i haven't seen a single other player running it in 5 years.

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