Fix my BS/Shield Build....

[dtaxtman86]

I have been toying around with this for 30 min, and I am getting frustrated. Wanting near perma hasten while maintaining my Defense caps, whilst making sure i dont sacrifice too much res or endurance and maintaining decent damage sets in abilities. Can someone rework and resend, or post their version of the build? Much appreciated.

 

 

Black Nite - Scrapper (Broad Sword - Shield Defense).mbd

Edited October 5, 2024 by dtaxtman86

[Uun]

It's tough to enhance everything you want to on a /Shield build. Something has to give. I think what you've sacrificed is +HP. You're not showing the accolades in your build (which provide +20% HP), but you also skip the Unbreakable Guard +7.5% HP piece and didn't enhance the +HP in True Grit or OWTS. It's very easy to hit the scrapper HP cap with OWTS active.

• Deflection isn't just a defense shield, it also provides S/L resist. Add some resist enhancements.
• In True Grit, convert 2-3 slots to healing. This enhances the HP buff.
• In addition to mez protection, Active Defense also provides defense debuff resistance (DDR). Since the DDR stacks, add a 2nd recharge IO.
• The base defense in Phalanx Fighting can't be enhanced (only the defense from nearby allies). Drop the LOTG def piece.
• In Tough,. replace the Gladiator's Armor set with Unbreakable Guard res, res/end and +HP. I wouldn't bother with the psi resist IO.
• +5 the recharge IOs in Hasten.

[dtaxtman86]

5 hours ago, Uun said:

It's tough to enhance everything you want to on a /Shield build. Something has to give. I think what you've sacrificed is +HP. You're not showing the accolades in your build (which provide +20% HP), but you also skip the Unbreakable Guard +7.5% HP piece and didn't enhance the +HP in True Grit or OWTS. It's very easy to hit the scrapper HP cap with OWTS active.

• Deflection isn't just a defense shield, it also provides S/L resist. Add some resist enhancements.
• In True Grit, convert 2-3 slots to healing. This enhances the HP buff.
• In addition to mez protection, Active Defense also provides defense debuff resistance (DDR). Since the DDR stacks, add a 2nd recharge IO.
• The base defense in Phalanx Fighting can't be enhanced (only the defense from nearby allies). Drop the LOTG def piece.
• In Tough,. replace the Gladiator's Armor set with Unbreakable Guard res, res/end and +HP. I wouldn't bother with the psi resist IO.
• +5 the recharge IOs in Hasten.

This look a little better? I took 1 away from battle agility and put into build up for the hp, then slotted grit with numina to get ranged to cap, and put a regen proc into health instead. took out the phalanx slots as well as adding that recharge to active defense.

Black Nite - Scrapper (Broad Sword - Shield Defense).mbd

Edited October 5, 2024 by dtaxtman86

[Without_Pause]

You don't need the KB protection in SS. You could 2-slot Celerity or simply put that extra slot elsewhere. 

[Nemu]

Why do you need perma hasten?