Can anyone improve on this build? (DB / Ninjitsu)

[Story Archer]

On 12/7/2024 at 5:01 PM, Troyusrex said:

You are totally missing out then. Kuji-in Retsu is an amazing power that lets you fight pretty much anything. Yes, the crash is a problem, but you have 3 minutes to defeat whatever you are up against, and that's a huge amount of time. I also one-slot it, but I think if you start using it you'll find it's a very nice power. 

 

It's not that it's not a nice power by any means, but the build already has Rune of Protection and then there are accolade powers like Eye of the Magus and Incarnate abilities, all of which can be used effectively as 'oh crap' buttons, and all without a crash. I just never need it.

[tidge]

On 1/20/2025 at 12:39 PM, Story Archer said:

 

It's not that it's not a nice power by any means, but the build already has Rune of Protection and then there are accolade powers like Eye of the Magus and Incarnate abilities, all of which can be used effectively as 'oh crap' buttons, and all without a crash. I just never need it.

 

I can't really disagree with the above take re: the Ninjitsu T9 Kuj-In Retsu. It is one of the better armor T9s IMO, but it still occupies a similar sort of space in my own head(*1) as those older variants... by the time I *can* take this power, and fit it into a build, the build is likely to be in a really good place for 95% of the content I'm going to play.  Even so, it fills a niche that I'd be considering something like Unleash Potential so I lean towards "no skip" on this one.

 

On my own DB/Ninitsu Scrapper, I only took two power picks outside of my primary/secondary up to level 30 (Combat Teleport, and a Travel power) and Kuj-In Restu wasn't the level 30 pick, or the level 32 pick (Maneuvers), or the level 35 pick (an Epic pool pick)... so I didn't even add it to the build until level 38. With a really finely tuned set of attacks (which I suppose would allow me to skip at least one primary attack) I could have it earlier. I ended up using it as a mule for the Winter's Gift Slow Resist piece, so it isn't as if I'm even trying to have it available ASAP.

 

(*1) The T9 armor picks are IMO generally inferior to just using inspirations... for most of the sets I think *I* would rather just have a self-rez as the T9, as those powers generally require a deep investment in a power set and I'm probably more likely to want a self-rez than an emergency clicky. Mileage varies.