Just got my DB/Bio to 50 and now I have no idea what to do for an endgame build.

[SterlingAG2]

Hi. Like I said I just got my dual blade/bio brute to 50 and I am not sure what to do with him for endgame. I made the toon as just sort of a joke. He was kind of a lampoon off of Usagi Yojimbo I named Usagi Himbo. But I ended up liking the playstyle so much I took him to 50. But now that I am here with him I am not sure what to do now. Are /bio brutes ok for tanking? Should I stick to DPS? Also, if anyone has a suggested build or a link to one I would really appreciate it.

[Project]

Got a lvl 24 dark/bio and just following here. Know I havnt got all powers yet, but it seems pretty weak so far 😞

[Parabola]

I can give you some general bio advice but dual blades is not a set I'm all that familiar with. Bio lives and dies by the three clickie heal/absorb/regeneration powers. You want to build a basic level of mitigation, e/n/f/c defence soft cap and as close to 90% s/l res as you can get (factoring in the offensive mode debuff), but after that go all in on recharge. Actually brutes are good candidates for looking at running the defensive mode when necessary as fury overpowers the damage debuff so if you're struggling that's always an option.

 

Look for opportunities to slot ff+rech, particularly in aoes. You really want to get parasitic aura up well over half the time and push that uptime as hard as possible. Many other tier 9's are used as a last resort, bio's should be used on cooldown. It goes without saying it needs to be fully slotted for recharge and healing. I like 5 doctored wounds in it when I can spare the slots (all but the heal/end iirc), three boosted heal/rech when I can't.

 

On brutes and scrappers I don't proc bomb DNA siphon but slot it mainly as a heal. As it provides regen as well as an outright heal it straddles the line between reactive and proactive use. Whichever way you use it I find it a good candidate for hybrid slotting - three eradications for the defence and some heal pieces on top for example.

 

The other thing bio loves is any soft control your attack set can provide. Even minor disruptions to the flow of incoming damage can make a huge difference when you are regenerating at the kind of rates bio can achieve, and of course it's all precious seconds for the next clickie to recharge in.

[Meknomancer]

10 hours ago, SterlingAG2 said:

Hi. Like I said I just got my dual blade/bio brute to 50 and I am not sure what to do with him for endgame. I made the toon as just sort of a joke. He was kind of a lampoon off of Usagi Yojimbo I named Usagi Himbo. But I ended up liking the playstyle so much I took him to 50. But now that I am here with him I am not sure what to do now. Are /bio brutes ok for tanking? Should I stick to DPS? Also, if anyone has a suggested build or a link to one I would really appreciate it.

 

I love bio brutes but i'm not a huge fan of db on anything but scrappers. I don't slot my broots to tank, usually skip taunt on it anyway. Hard to hit s/l resists on /bio broots when slotting for slow res and damage and procs so i don't usually bother and just get 80+ where i can and go with the philosophy of 'kill them before they kill me' .

 

DB/Bio, its a tough one, you have to make hard choices. Do you want the def and res numbers? Do you want slow resistance? Do you want procs? You need recharge in vast amounts for the primary (to get a decent attack chain) and the secondary for your clickies (ablative/dna/parasitic) I skip parasitic, can't always fit it in and by the time i get to it all the slots are allocated elsewhere.

 

If i were you i'd go all out dps and recharge and slow resistance, don't bother aiming for 45% f/c/e/ne def, if you go that route it'll look like the build below, horrible. 

 

DB does have a couple powers you can toss force feedback +recharge in but the problem is they are the 2 powers i'd be skipping , vengeful and 1000 cuts. I threw something together but i'm looking at it and i already don't think it'll work:

 

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Edited March 15 by Meknomancer

[SterlingAG2]

Thanks for the feedback

 

[Meknomancer]

On 3/16/2024 at 1:07 PM, SterlingAG2 said:

Thanks for the feedback

 

 

Just as an example i play a psi/bio, made 0 effort (well almost 0) to slot for defence or resists and it plays just fine:

 

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Don't give up theres a 1000 ways to slot, you can toss in whatever til you come up with something you like. 90% s/l resists (til you hit offensive adaptation) 45 e/nef/c defence. Just find your own playstyle and make whatever works for you. You could minimax or just pick the powers you like and slot whatever you want in. Bio armour is very forgiving.

 

 

 

DB BIO - Brute (Dual Blades - Bio Armor).mbd

 

Edited March 19 by Meknomancer
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[Ukase]

This is just my opinion - but if you played that character to 50 - why change anything? 
Sure, incarnate/end game stuff is a bit more challenging - but you also have 1-2 more teams of folks to buff you up so you're far better off than you were when you were doing standard play prior to 50+. 

Unless there's something you definitively know is wrong, why sweat it? 

Now - if you want to get your character ready for advanced mode TFs...that's an entirely different matter (although...the right team comp around you, might not matter too much) 
For each advanced mode tf, there's a little something different that you might want to change for each of the different hard modes. So, suggestions for one would not necessarily align with the others. 

If you were having fun getting to 50, just keep having fun with it.