Dark Armor/Savage Melee Tank Build

[Rodaxe]

Hi all,

 

I have been mucking around with a build for a DA/SM and I have never ran either set. I was able to come up with the below and I am thinking about slotting the new Cupid set into death shroud because the set seems benifical for res based tanks and high end consumption of DA. Any tips or advice would be appreciated as I am still fairly new to building things out.

 

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Edited February 21 by Rodaxe

[Warshades]

4 hours ago, Rodaxe said:

Hi all,

 

I have been mucking around with a build for a DA/SM and I have never ran either set. I was able to come up with the below and I am thinking about slotting the new Cupid set into death shroud because the set seems benifical for res based tanks and high end consumption of DA. Any tips or advice would be appreciated as I am still fairly new to building things out.

 

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When importing, I'm getting a ss/wp brute build. Did you export the correct data chunk?

[Rodaxe]

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sorry not sure what happened there

 

Edited February 21 by Rodaxe

[Warshades]

One of the biggest things to fix is that you have no KB protection, ideally I would aim for at least mag 12 kb protection at bare minimum. This is relatively easy to fix without changing much. You also have a sudden acceleration KB to KD proc in Vicious Slash. Vicious Slash has a base kb mag of 0.67 so enemies won't actually be knocked back unless they are severely below your character level. Changed this to a full set of Touch of Death due to changing 4 piece Unbreakable Guard in Obsidian Shield to 3 piece Gladiator Armor (kb protection set bonus).

 

Dark Regeneration slotting could be improved. The Triumphant Insult stun proc is quite useless, even more so if you don't take Oppressive Gloom to be able to stack the stun magnitude. Your accuracy is high enough without Focused Accuracy to where you could consider taking Conserve Power instead to help with endurance.

 

Added Unbreakable Guard +max HP unique to Tough in place of the res/rech one. Death Shroud doesn't need a full scirocco set if you're not getting to 45% AoE/psi def (you also have plenty of psi resist anyway). Taunt (for tanks/brutes) does not need accuracy in PvE, it's in the power description. It only accepts accuracy because an accuracy check is done if used in PvP situations. Taunt is on a short enough recharge that I also usually 1 slot it with PZ chance for psi damage, but left it in your build with 1rech IO, you can change if you'd like or keep it as is. Gaussian BU pro would be better in Blood Thirst imo. Moved Shield Wall unique to Weave in place of the def/rech, saves a slot. Removed 1 SMoT dam/rech from Maiming Slash, you were over the resist cap to s/l and rech enhancement reduces proc chances. Steadfast unique in Dark Embrace provides higher resist enhancement compared to having it in Tough due to the base resist values of Dark Embrace compared to Tough.

 

If you can afford it, 2x Ectosome Exposure HOs in Fold Space would be the ideal slotting as it buffs both acc and recharge, but they are extremely expensive. Left the build as is with 1acc and 1rech IOs.

 

This build hits 15 mag KB protection and 80% recharge debuff resist (can be helpful if facing enemies that reduce recharge when you're relying on Dark Regen as a heal). There are 2 additional slots to spend that I haven't found a good spot for, though you could consider 3 slotting Stamina with Synapse's Shock to get 10% more recharge debuff resist. I'd also look into changing which attacks are slotted with which sets. I'd probably place Armageddon into either Savage Leap or Rending Flurry as an example, someone that's more familiar with Savage Melee can perhaps offer the better pick here.

 

Tanker (Dark Armor - Savage Melee).mbd

[Rodaxe]

2 hours ago, Warshades said:

One of the biggest things to fix is that you have no KB protection, ideally I would aim for at least mag 12 kb protection at bare minimum. This is relatively easy to fix without changing much. You also have a sudden acceleration KB to KD proc in Vicious Slash. Vicious Slash has a base kb mag of 0.67 so enemies won't actually be knocked back unless they are severely below your character level. Changed this to a full set of Touch of Death due to changing 4 piece Unbreakable Guard in Obsidian Shield to 3 piece Gladiator Armor (kb protection set bonus).

 

Dark Regeneration slotting could be improved. The Triumphant Insult stun proc is quite useless, even more so if you don't take Oppressive Gloom to be able to stack the stun magnitude. Your accuracy is high enough without Focused Accuracy to where you could consider taking Conserve Power instead to help with endurance.

 

Added Unbreakable Guard +max HP unique to Tough in place of the res/rech one. Death Shroud doesn't need a full scirocco set if you're not getting to 45% AoE/psi def (you also have plenty of psi resist anyway). Taunt (for tanks/brutes) does not need accuracy in PvE, it's in the power description. It only accepts accuracy because an accuracy check is done if used in PvP situations. Taunt is on a short enough recharge that I also usually 1 slot it with PZ chance for psi damage, but left it in your build with 1rech IO, you can change if you'd like or keep it as is. Gaussian BU pro would be better in Blood Thirst imo. Moved Shield Wall unique to Weave in place of the def/rech, saves a slot. Removed 1 SMoT dam/rech from Maiming Slash, you were over the resist cap to s/l and rech enhancement reduces proc chances. Steadfast unique in Dark Embrace provides higher resist enhancement compared to having it in Tough due to the base resist values of Dark Embrace compared to Tough.

 

If you can afford it, 2x Ectosome Exposure HOs in Fold Space would be the ideal slotting as it buffs both acc and recharge, but they are extremely expensive. Left the build as is with 1acc and 1rech IOs.

 

This build hits 15 mag KB protection and 80% recharge debuff resist (can be helpful if facing enemies that reduce recharge when you're relying on Dark Regen as a heal). There are 2 additional slots to spend that I haven't found a good spot for, though you could consider 3 slotting Stamina with Synapse's Shock to get 10% more recharge debuff resist. I'd also look into changing which attacks are slotted with which sets. I'd probably place Armageddon into either Savage Leap or Rending Flurry as an example, someone that's more familiar with Savage Melee can perhaps offer the better pick here.

 

Tanker (Dark Armor - Savage Melee).mbd 42.94 kB · 1 download

Awesome thanks for the tips much appreciated! Still learning how best to slot things. Never got the hang of it in live and left when AE was introduced so still getting the handle of it. In desthshroud would the new cupid set be viable?

 

[Warshades]

15 minutes ago, Rodaxe said:

Awesome thanks for the tips much appreciated! Still learning how best to slot things. Never got the hang of it in live and left when AE was introduced so still getting the handle of it. In desthshroud would the new cupid set be viable?

 

It's not worth it on that build imo. Tank resist caps are at 90%, anything above that doesn't count or help. The build is already sitting at 89.9% s/l resist and mids does not factor in the resistance that you get from the Superior Might of the Tanker proc (6.7%) which can also stack (usually up 2 times is max though you can briefly get 3 stacks on rare occasions).

 

You could actually aim for only reaching 83.3% resist and rely on the SMoT proc to get you to the 90% cap. Procs also don't work well in damage auras as they only check for proc activation every 10 seconds iirc and have low chance of activating. Cupid set is decent, but I wouldn't use it in this case. It doesn't provide enough value to replace any of the other attacks sets. 

[Rodaxe]

Appreciate all the help @Warshades. Trying to find my "main" tank, currently have a SR/Staff and a Rad/MA and now working on this. Another one I was thinking of was Invul/Katana and Bio/Axe.