Using Spectral Interface to help with runners

[KaizenSoze]

Night Widows have a runner issue, at least solo. I have put immobilize procs into into one or two powers to help, but it's not enough.

 

Has anyone tried using Spectral? My initial tests were promising, but I will have to play test for awhile to verify.

 

Also, that negative energy dot is very helpful against robots.

[FlammeFatale]

I hesitated to answer, because I am using Spectral, but not on a Night Widow. I am using it on my Beast/Dark MM, so this is a bit off-topic.

But since you got little or no answers, I am answering anyway.

 

Beast/Dark loves immobs: runners are a loss of DPS for beasts, and dark prefers tightly grouped mobs (darkest night + many cones). So I tried Spectral and kept it.

I get very few runners. It procs really often, but perhaps it is because of the many attacks from the beasts, and my many AoEs. Not sure a Night Widow can proc as often, you should test on a dummy.

 

I recently respecced. I kept Spectral but added the fears from the presence pool. They stack with Fearsome Stare and are even more efficient at immobilizing mobs than pure immobilizes.

Fears are another solution then. Placates too.

 

I am just brainstorming here.

 

[Glacier Peak]

Correct my math if I'm off, but a 20% chance for a 4.3 second (for Widows) Mag 2 immob that collectively stacks up to 4 stacks?

[biostem]

The PPPs have immobilizes, IIRC, so that's an option as well...