Bio/Rad notes/feedback etc.

[Thrax]

Here is a first pass.  I've ran bio on scrap for a long time.  Never tanked it though.  How's this look?   

 

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Rad Thrax - Tanker (Bio Armor - Radiation Melee).mbd

[Unclemarty]

This looks really good!

some suggestions without changing power picks:

• you might want to try too squeeze in some more slow resist. Bio has quite a bit of active mitigation with click powers, so -rech debuffs can be bad news. Consider 2 slotting avalanche somewhere (probably in place of obliteration in dna siphon).
• If you are having any end issues sat all, you could add the theft of essence proc in parasitic aura, it should give you a bunch of endurance when its activated when lots of enemies are around.
• Celerity +stealth can be added in sprint. This is a personal preference but I like the option of stealthing objectives if needed. If you wanted full invisibility to stack with celerity you could swap combat jumping for stealth.
• I recommend replacing unbreakable guard with reactive defenses since you are building for typed defenses not positional.
• One more slot in weave would let you 4 slot shield wall for an easy 4.5 E/N resist
• Try to slot kismet unique. the tooltip says +accuracy but its actually +tohit which is pretty good.

I think bio has the end management tools to support a proc based build if you wanted a more radical change. I believe testing has shown proc builds tend to do more damage on tankers than traditional builds, but I know some people don't like losing the set bonuses in their attacks.

[PLVRIZR]

6 hours ago, Unclemarty said:

This looks really good!

some suggestions without changing power picks:

• you might want to try too squeeze in some more slow resist. Bio has quite a bit of active mitigation with click powers, so -rech debuffs can be bad news. Consider 2 slotting avalanche somewhere (probably in place of obliteration in dna siphon).
• If you are having any end issues sat all, you could add the theft of essence proc in parasitic aura, it should give you a bunch of endurance when its activated when lots of enemies are around.
• Celerity +stealth can be added in sprint. This is a personal preference but I like the option of stealthing objectives if needed. If you wanted full invisibility to stack with celerity you could swap combat jumping for stealth.
• I recommend replacing unbreakable guard with reactive defenses since you are building for typed defenses not positional.
• One more slot in weave would let you 4 slot shield wall for an easy 4.5 E/N resist
• Try to slot kismet unique. the tooltip says +accuracy but its actually +tohit which is pretty good.

I think bio has the end management tools to support a proc based build if you wanted a more radical change. I believe testing has shown proc builds tend to do more damage on tankers than traditional builds, but I know some people don't like losing the set bonuses in their attacks.

This is great.  Outstanding tips!

[Thrax]

I’ll definitely check it out when back after trip. I was going more set bonus for survivability rather than proc damage. I did a proc tank  once and didn’t find it fun. He’s only 33 at the moment.