I've never tried Hasten... should I start?

[mistagoat]

2 hours ago, Squeegle said:

Member since 2021 and never tried Hasten. I call shenanigans.

Thats what you think, I laced your Tactics with Hasten! Now your hooked! Muahahaha!

[Forager]

3 hours ago, Squeegle said:

Member since 2021 and never tried Hasten. I call shenanigans.

 

Who me? Lol.

 

I usually use a wide variety of powers and I don't have alt-itis... maybe that helps.

 

I do use 2 or 3 LotG. I also like to work a force feedback proc in there... so I party a little bit.

Edited yesterday at 06:14 PM by Forager

[WumpusRat]

I have hasten on a handful of characters. Generally it's never my go-to power choice, as I always want other stuff that I find more valuable.

If I'm going to pick hasten, it's because I have particular powers that I want to recharge as fast as possible, generally extremely long-recharging things, like Phantom Army, Overgrowth, or the like. 

And if I'm going for that, it means I have to tailor the build to cram as much global recharge into it as possible, which means forgoing powers that I might actually really want instead.

 

Generally my builds try to align with a particular theme, rather than going for "absolute best damage" or anything similar. I'll pick up set bonuses that conform to the theme, even if they're not the "best" choices for any given power. Same thing for cramming attacks full of procs, I generally don't do it because I've never seen the necessity of it. Likely due to the fact that I don't lean on hasten, which makes all the procs less valuable, at least to me.

[tidge]

Spring-boarding from this comment:

 

9 hours ago, WumpusRat said:

If I'm going to pick hasten, it's because I have particular powers that I want to recharge as fast as possible, generally extremely long-recharging things, like Phantom Army, Overgrowth, or the like. 

And if I'm going for that, it means I have to tailor the build to cram as much global recharge into it as possible, which means forgoing powers that I might actually really want instead.

 

Writing only for myself: when I initially realized that I could get 'perma-Hasten' from IO set bonuses (Purples, LotG, etc.) I pretty much realized I could skip Hasten altogether and just get significant Global recharge from the set bonuses. In my case, I never was doing "farming" so when the choice of attack IO sets comes down to Purples v. Winters it was pretty much a no-brainer for me(*1), I'll always use a purple set first, and then maybe use 2-pieces from Winters' (for Slow Resistance) in an off-beat attack... and sometimes if a character has hella many attacks one of those will get a Winter set after I've used ATO and Very Rares.

 

(*1) Because of typical Recover/Accuracy/Global Recharge bonuses from the Very Rare/Purples instead of Res/Def from Winters.