Water Blast/Marine build help?

[redcnz]

I'm at a complete loss as to how to slot some of these powers. They're doing great with just SOs (only in my 20s), so I decided to try some procs to see if yall think it would beef up the powers some.

 

I wasn't sure what powers were skippable, since Water got a buff lately, so I just took em all.

Corruptor (Water Blast - Marine Affinity).mbd

[Glacier Peak]

1 minute ago, redcnz said:

I wasn't sure what powers were skippable, since Water got a buff lately, so I just took em all.

Nothing wrong with trying out powers. You can always respec out of them later. I found two powers in Water Blast not being needed based on my build focus and I took every Marine Affinity power. 

[Wimbochismo]

Couple of minor changes you can make to optimize this a bit.

• Tide Pool is best used before other powers and it doesn't alert enemies. By adding procs it will alert them. You could drop it down to 1 slot to save some slots. To that end, you're missing the Shield Wall and Reactive Defenses +resistance uniques and could add them to a defense power.
• As Shifting Tides is a toggle, it shouldn't be activating procs very often. You could switch the Rag set to Shifting Tides and the procs to Steam Spray for a dmg increase.
• Numina's +regen/rec should be in a toggle like Health to get the full benefit, not Soothing Wave.
• Decimation Chance for Buildup almost never goes off and should be switched out of Hydro Blast. Decimation also doesn't push the enhanced dmg into the red. You could drop a slot out of Maneuver's and add it to Hydro, replacing Decimation with the new Cupid's Crush set. This will push the dmg into the red and provide superior recharge bonuses.
• Positron's Blast 5 set has better set bonuses for Water Burst than Bombardment.
• Be aware that you're slightly off perma Hasten and Power of the Depths is at 75s recharge out of 60s duration. The +maxend is actually helping your endmod a large bit and the ~15s+ it is down might see your end dropping with how many attacks you have with limited endred.
• If you find yourself needing endurance you can drop an Unbreakable Guard out of Toroidal Bubble for a flat 50+5 endmod.

[redcnz]

1 hour ago, Wimbochismo said:

Couple of minor changes you can make to optimize this a bit.

• Tide Pool is best used before other powers and it doesn't alert enemies. By adding procs it will alert them. You could drop it down to 1 slot to save some slots. To that end, you're missing the Shield Wall and Reactive Defenses +resistance uniques and could add them to a defense power.
• As Shifting Tides is a toggle, it shouldn't be activating procs very often. You could switch the Rag set to Shifting Tides and the procs to Steam Spray for a dmg increase.
• Numina's +regen/rec should be in a toggle like Health to get the full benefit, not Soothing Wave.
• Decimation Chance for Buildup almost never goes off and should be switched out of Hydro Blast. Decimation also doesn't push the enhanced dmg into the red. You could drop a slot out of Maneuver's and add it to Hydro, replacing Decimation with the new Cupid's Crush set. This will push the dmg into the red and provide superior recharge bonuses.
• Positron's Blast 5 set has better set bonuses for Water Burst than Bombardment.
• Be aware that you're slightly off perma Hasten and Power of the Depths is at 75s recharge out of 60s duration. The +maxend is actually helping your endmod a large bit and the ~15s+ it is down might see your end dropping with how many attacks you have with limited endred.
• If you find yourself needing endurance you can drop an Unbreakable Guard out of Toroidal Bubble for a flat 50+5 endmod.

 

Thanks for taking the time to look at this. I removed slots from Tide Pool and other powers and got Perma-Hasten, moved Numina's to Health, changed Hydro Blast, and a few other corrections. I'm almost 30 so still plenty of time to test the waters some more. I like Toroidal Bubble being beefy on the resists for teaming, help out those brutes and such but I do run into some end issues. I'll play with it some as i level.

Corruptor (Water Blast - Marine Affinity).mbd