A Stone Melee/ Energy Aura build.

[Sovera]

Built this and it looks nice enough to post in case someone might be interested. It's not a max damage build as it goes towards being tanky and lazy. Like me (just the lazy part).

 

ST rotation is Heavy Stone Mallet (fish for the 50% crit proc), Seismic Smash, Stone Fist, Stone Mallet, Stone Fist, repeat. It might make more sense to start with Seismic Smash, then Heavy Mallet as that would feed the crit chance proc to Stone Fistx2 and Stone Mallet as Seismic Smash already hits the hardest and those two skills are the weakest so having an increased crit chance might make them feel more useful to press. I lean towards making the weaker skills more interesting to press but a fat Seismic Smash crit will feel more satisfying.

 

For AoE it will be Heavy Mallet (fish for the 50%), Seismic Smash, Tremor, repeat. Tremor gives Tanker level wide AoE but in return hits like a wet noodle (slightly above Stone Fist. But it does great CC with KD and can take a FF proc which in turn makes it a 3.5 second recharge when the FF proc is up. Without it it'll have a small gap as both combined take 3.6 and the FFless recharge is 4.6.

 

Scrapper (Stone Melee - Energy Armor).mbd

 

 

Not a leveling build but one can be whipped up if needed.

[SomeGuy]

I just want to say that SM is a pretty chonky set and a lot of fun. I really don't think it gets enough love, but I am a little biased since I think the set is good fun. I did set the animations to be only punches and not mallets.

 

I definitely had a hard time deciding between Rad Armor or Energy Aura and ended up landing on Rad Armor for theme.

 

This is how I have the attacks slotted for SM/RA:

 

I'm more ST focused, hence why I put the ATO2 in SS, but putting it in HM wanting to fish for the PPM for AOE follow up is good logic. I dig it.

 

SM hits hard. It's definitely top-tier.