Suggestions: Water Blast / Bio Armor / Dark Mastery

[WuTang]

This is for my son... I made a Battle Axe/Bio Brute and his theme is a tree where I utilized all the bio armor pieces to add to the look rather than minimizing their effects and he carries around the lumberjack axe. The look is good, when he's in Villian Stance 2 he looks like a tree. Any ways, through that my boy came up with a fantastic theme, a "swamp thing," so to speak, WB/Bio. And then working with him on his theme we came up with the idea of using the tentacles from dark mastery and coloring them like vines. He's my boy so he wants theme plus practicality. 

 

Working on the build, Water Blast looks awesome. None of the powers look skippable...and also none of the powers in Bio look unworthy, which doesn't leave much room for other things. Can anyone help steer me in a good direction, please?

 

Water blast is a nice full range set, so I figured keeping him at range was a good idea, BUT I'm absolutely open to any suggestions. In my laymen view Dehydrate looks like the most skippable. Right now, I've kept it because it's a self-heal, but I don't know how good it is and only because I can't seem to get Bio's regen very high. We are keeping him "grounded" for theme, but right now we've taken Super Speed for the travel power which isn't very thematic either.... I was also thinking Teleport and use the goop effect and leave it up to my boy if he wants to keep the toon grounded of not.

 

If anyone has a Water Blast or a Bio build they'd be willing to share, it'd be much appreciated.

 

As always, thanks to y'all in advance!

 

-WT

 

Edit: Actually, just reread Rebuild DNA, is that not in the calculation in MIDs?

Edit #2: Whirlpool, that's not worth procs, right? Cause location AOEs act like pets, right?

Edited January 2 by WuTang

[Uun]

It's definitely a tight combination. You don't need the heal from Dehydrate, but it has slightly better DPA than either of the T1 attacks. Given that, I would probably skip Aqua Bolt. There's nothing skippable in Bio, but several of the powers don't require many slots. Athletic Regulation and Genomic Evolution don't require more than the base slot, and Inexhaustible doesn't require more than 2 heal IOs.

 

Rebuild DNA is a heal, not a +regen power. The +regen powers are Inexhaustible, Ablative Carapace and Parasitic Leech.

 

Whirlpool summons a pseudo pet, so typically not a good candidate for procs. Note, I haven't tried it so don't know if it's an outlier.