Invuln/Battle Axe- back to HC after a year!

[Onlyasandwich]

Hello again, Tankers! It's been over a year since I last played or reviewed builds, and the reworked BA, as well as readjusted Invuln have caught my eye.

 

I'd love your perspective on missed opportunities in my first pass.

 

Goals:

• Keep my slow resist as is.
• Primary focus on broad resists across the board.
• Secondary focus on squeezing in valuable procs for relevant attacks, with FFback support.
• Not too concerned about softcapping defense at the expense of the above. I'm okay relying on invincibility saturation or team buffs when needed, or just the strength of layered defenses.
• For S/L resist, I'm wanting to keep tough toggled off unless needed to protect from resist debuffs. Basing my slotting on this assumption.
   

Power choice considerations:

• I love combat teleport on all my melees, but am open to swapping it for the right benefit.
• I'm picking unstoppable both as a mule and to see how useful it ends up being in hard mode content or heavy resist debuffing scenarios. Open to swap this as well, however.
• Gash seems like a great attack! I'd love to work it in well slotted if possible. However, I think relying on chop and my higher level heavy hitters with this level of recharge should be fine.
• A proper travel power would be nice, but not necessary. CT would be an easy trade if I feel like it.
• Epics? New BA looks fairly end heavy, so Energy Mastery seemed a simple slot-efficient direction, and the special resistances provided by FA are pretty valuable at times. I previously had CP as well, but pulled it in favor of taunt, which is nice quality of life and a handy extra set bonus. Do you have thoughts on a more effective epic for this context?

 

I'm fine relying on the MoT proc for regular resists as well. My current slotting accounts for single stack at all times, though of course it can have 2-3 stack uptime. FFback is toggled off in all powers for totals, so proper proc damage review will require toggling back on where relevant.

 

Build:

 

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Visual:

 

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Edited July 2, 2023 by Onlyasandwich