ITF Hard Mode recommendations

[thunder_crane]

6 hours ago, brasilgringo said:

 

All I can see is that if you +5 the End mod IOs (2 non proc ones) you'll match the End recovery in the screen shot.  Maybe he had an outside buff like Mystic Fortune or the self-mutating one on giving him +2 def and the extra cold def?

 

What makes me sad about the build is you lose out on Proc'd RT and you lose out on cross punch spam like you said.  I guess that's the trade for survivability.

 

Not only that, but the current incarnate setup has you missing assault hybrid and musculature alpha in order to get the current defenses/resistances. 

 

The kicker is it's still not nearly there for resists/defenses even then. Not sure what is going on in mids to get the original screenshot the way it is, but I suppose if you're soloing or even doing 4star in a group, both of these are sensible sacrifices for a tank to make. I guess you're still doing plenty of damage? No idea. 

[R jobbus]

On 9/3/2022 at 9:15 AM, siran said:

I'm going to prefix this with 'I've not tried hard mode yet'. I do get it is hard mode, especially after reading this thread

 

My question: will dark armor work. I have found in normal content that Dark Armor is superb. I can cap the defences (normal content), cap most resists (even energy with the P2W Kinetic armor if I really need to, which I hardly ever do), the best heal in the game (total heal every 10 seconds or so) and level 4 stuns AOE all the time (paired with super str, stone or electric melee)

 

 On normal +4x8 ITF these guys usually don't loose any hps, and if they do the total heal every 10 seconds or so helps a lot. Of course they don't have any DDR which a lot of this thread has been about... but I find after a handclap and an oppressive gloom most things aren't hitting me any (on normal difficulty) . Clearly EBs and AVs are not in the 'most things'.... but that heal helps a lot.

 

Edit: oh and soul transfer is great for standing up quickly if you do fall over.  (as the previous post said about Rise of the Phoneix) But I've only used it once or so every 50 veteran levels... I suspect I will use it more now...

 

Is the hard mode such that 'it's all about the DDR?' at the highest level of difficulties?

 

 

 

 do you have an example build for dark armor for normal content you were using? just curious, I'd like to tinker with it