SM/Bio help

[Khan668]

It seems not many people like SM, I love it. I understand it might not be the best in the game but still would like to play it. I can't seem to find any good builds out there. Can anyone post a good SM/Bio build and possibly tell me why there doesn't seem to be much love for SM? And possibly what it is good at if anything? Thanks

[Rockfall]

Stone is heavy on the mitigation, but probably needs some numbers tuned upwards in terms of damage and downward in terms of animations. I loved it paired with ElA on live as it gave ElA that mitigation it was lacking (before energize healed you). I was notably less squishy than a SS/ElA a friend had, although I did less damage than he did. Not a huge amount and it wasn't a huge deal, unless we were looking at purples or deep purples.

 

With bio it might let you otherwise run in offensive when you'd normally have to drop back to efficient or defensive. I don't know if that'd make up the damage gap. It'd help, at least.

 

You can skip hurl and taunt. I don't know if you can skip one of the early single target powers. If you can it'll be respeccing out of it late once you have set IOs and recharge well in hand. You want fault (if for nothing else to cast it on an oversized AV like Bat'Zul and be able to fill the room with the graphics (its HUGE!!!!) and make awful, "oops sorry my fault" dad-jokes) and seismic and tremor.

[Khan668]

Whoops. Sorry I meant Savage Melee, not stone. Thanks for the reply though!