Procs for Radiation Blast

[pearbear]

Given Sentinel's base damage is considerably higher than Defenders, they already Vulnerability for Res debuffing, and they don't have Build Up  -  what is the consensus on slotting the following procs and which attacks they should go into if any at all?

1. Touch of Lady Grey: Chance for Negative Damage
2. Shield Breaker: Change for Lethal Damage
3. Achilles' Heel: Chance for Res Debuff
4. Decimation: Chance of Build Up

 

[Uun]

I slot the Touch of Lady Grey and Shield Breaker procs in X-Ray Beam and Irradiate. I also slot the Achilles' Heel and Scirocco's Dervish procs in Irradiate. The Decimation proc is utter garbage. It's 1 PPM and has almost no chance to go off in an attack. I slot the Gaussian's proc in Aim, which will almost always go off if you don't slot any recharge.

[Meknomancer]

For me it depends on the secondary and what defence/resist numbers i aim for. On the rad/rad all the procs get loaded into the single target attacks and i use the pbaoes for set bonuses (ranged+ranged aoe sets are pretty crap, pbaoe +melee sets are pretty awesome) I don't bother with shield breaker i prefer the glad chance for toxic in ranged and the armageddon/eradication in pbaoe. I don't use the decimation and only threw in a single achilles in the tier 3 single target.

[drbuzzard]

I have a radiation blast sentinel from the pre buff days slotted with loads of procs. I think I have a lady gray and other stuff in pretty much every attack (other stuff -always damage proc-determined by type of attack, ranged, ranged AOE, PBAOE). I think I managed to have 2-3 per attack. I don't really consider it necessary anymore, and if I wanted to go back and respec I'd be changing set bonuses to support my defenses and recharge some more. 

[CaptainLupis]

On 12/17/2022 at 12:35 PM, Uun said:

I slot the Touch of Lady Grey and Shield Breaker procs in X-Ray Beam and Irradiate. I also slot the Achilles' Heel and Scirocco's Dervish procs in Irradiate. The Decimation proc is utter garbage. It's 1 PPM and has almost no chance to go off in an attack. I slot the Gaussian's proc in Aim, which will almost always go off if you don't slot any recharge.

With regards the gaussian proc in aim, you can actually slot quite a lot of recharge (around 70%) in the power before you start to impact the proc chance.

[aethereal]

20 minutes ago, CaptainLupis said:

With regards the gaussian proc in aim, you can actually slot quite a lot of recharge (around 70%) in the power before you start to impact the proc chance.

And you probably should slot for recharge.  Sentinels need to work to get their damage up.

[Alfric]

Found this guild recently, I think it covers alot from above.

 

rad-ea_-_Sentinel_Radiation_Blast.mxd

[Alfric]

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rad-ea: Level 50 Magic Sentinel
Primary Power Set: Radiation Blast
Secondary Power Set: Energy Aura
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Psionic Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Neutrino Bolt

• Hamidon Origin:Nucleolus Exposure
  

Level 1: Kinetic Shield

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
• (46) Shield Wall - Defense
• (48) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
• (48) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
• (48) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
• (50) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage
  

Level 2: Irradiate

• Hamidon Origin:Nucleolus Exposure
• (3) Eradication - Chance for Energy Damage
• (3) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
• (45) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
• (46) Touch of Lady Grey - Chance for Negative Damage
• (46) Shield Breaker - Chance for Lethal Damage
  

Level 4: Kinetic Dampening

• (A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)
• (5) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
• (5) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (45) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (45) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
• (50) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
  

Level 6: Power Shield

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
• (7) Shield Wall - Defense
• (7) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
• (40) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
• (43) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
  

Level 8: Cosmic Burst

• (A) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
• (9) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime
• (9) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (11) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (37) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
• (40) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge
  

Level 10: Aim

• (A) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff
• (11) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff/Recharge
  

Level 12: Energize

• (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal
• (13) Preventive Medicine - Endurance/RechargeTime
• (13) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime
• (37) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance
  

Level 14: Electron Haze

• Hamidon Origin:Nucleolus Exposure
• (15) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
• (15) Javelin Volley - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
• (17) Bombardment - Chance for Fire Damage
• (17) Touch of Lady Grey - Chance for Negative Damage
• (37) Overwhelming Force - Damage/Chance for Knockdown/Knockback to Knockdown
  

Level 16: Entropy Shield

• (A) Endurance Reduction IO
  

Level 18: Proton Stream

• (A) Apocalypse - Damage
• (19) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
• (19) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
• (36) Apocalypse - Recharge/Accuracy
• (36) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
• (36) Superior Sentinel's Ward - RechargeTime/Chance for +Absorb
  

Level 20: Power Armor

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (21) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (21) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
• (23) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance/RechargeTime
• (23) Preventive Medicine - Heal
• (25) Preventive Medicine - Heal/Endurance
  

Level 22: Super Speed

• (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%)
• (50) Winter's Gift - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range
  

Level 24: Hasten

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (25) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 26: Neutron Bomb

• (A) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage
• (27) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Damage/RechargeTime
• (27) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
• (29) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (29) Superior Opportunity Strikes - RechargeTime/Chance for Opportunity
• (34) Superior Opportunity Strikes - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  

Level 28: Boxing

• (A) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  

Level 30: Tough

• (A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance
• (31) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance
• (31) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance
• (31) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP
  

Level 32: Atomic Blast

• (A) Armageddon - Damage
• (33) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
• (33) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
• (33) Armageddon - Recharge/Accuracy
• (34) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
• (34) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
  

Level 35: Power Drain

• (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
  

Level 38: Weave

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
• (39) Shield Wall - Defense
• (39) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance
• (39) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge
• (40) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)
  

Level 41: Mind Probe

• (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage
• (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance
• (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
• (42) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
• (43) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
• (43) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold
  

Level 44: Maneuvers

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

Level 47: Combat Jumping

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

Level 49: Burnout

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 1: Opportunity 

Level 1: Brawl

[Gulbasaur]

On 12/17/2022 at 12:35 PM, Uun said:

I slot the Gaussian's proc in Aim, which will almost always go off if you don't slot any recharge.

More "did you know?" that anything else, but if you put the Gaussian's proc in Assault Tactics from the Leadership power pool, it has a chance to trigger for every ally in its radius (but you still get the effect) - meaning on a team of 8 players with some pets out, you can get something like 25% Build Up uptime. Basically, your Build Up uptime scales by the number of friendlies on your team.

Putting it in Aim is a completely sensible thing to do, but if you're someone like me who forgets to use Aim or Build Up, it's a good passive boost in Assault Tactics.

 

Edited December 28, 2022 by Gulbasaur
I can never remember the name of anything ever

[aethereal]

Tactics, not assault.

[Uun]

4 hours ago, Gulbasaur said:

More "did you know?" that anything else, but if you put the Gaussian's proc in Assault from the Leadership power pool, it has a chance to trigger for every ally in its radius (but you still get the effect) - meaning on a team of 8 players with some pets out, you can get something like 25% Build Up uptime. Basically, your Build Up uptime scales by the number of friendlies on your team.

Putting it in Aim is a completely sensible thing to do, but if you're someone like me who forgets to use Aim or Build Up, it's a good passive boost in Assault.

As stated above, you can slot Gaussian's in Tactics, not Assault. I've done this on some builds (and 6-slotting Gaussian's gives 2.5% defense to M/R/A), but I don't have Tactics on my Rad blast sentinel. I like slotting the BU proc in Aim on blast sets with T9 nukes, as the combined 130% damage buff is usually enough for the nuke to take out everything except bosses.