Petless Bane

[Ananke]

I'm trying to polish off the following build and could use some second opinions. I know venom grenade is a bit of a wonky choice, but it has better -tox than shatter armor, plus it's an AOE with a shorter cooldown.

 

The goal of the build is to be decently versatile for doing stuff like AE farming and DA street-cleaning, so some tankiness is needed.

 

Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.962

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Level 50 Natural Arachnos Soldier

Primary Power Set: Bane Spider Soldier

Secondary Power Set: Bane Spider Training

Power Pool: Leaping

Power Pool: Leadership

Power Pool: Speed

Power Pool: Fighting

Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery

 

Villain Profile:

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Level 1: Bash

(A) Superior Spider's Bite - RechargeTime/Global Toxic

(3) Superior Spider's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime

(3) Superior Spider's Bite - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime

(5) Superior Spider's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime

(5) Superior Spider's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime

(7) Superior Spider's Bite - Accuracy/Damage

 

 

Level 1: Bane Spider Armor Upgrade

(A) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)

(7) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%

(9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance

(9) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance/Endurance

(11) Unbreakable Guard - Endurance/RechargeTime

(11) Unbreakable Guard - RechargeTime/Resistance

 

 

Level 2: Wolf Spider Armor

(A) Unbreakable Guard - Resistance

(13) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance

(13) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection

(27) Aegis - Resistance

(31) Unbreakable Guard - +Max HP

 

 

Level 4: Super Jump

(A) Unbounded Leap - Jumping

 

 

Level 6: Build Up

(A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up

 

 

Level 8: Maneuvers

(A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance

(17) Red Fortune - Endurance

(19) Red Fortune - Defense

(19) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge

(21) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge

(21) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge

 

 

Level 10: Combat Training: Defensive

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

 

 

Level 12: Tactical Training: Maneuvers

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

(23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance

(23) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge

(25) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge

(25) Luck of the Gambler - Defense

 

 

Level 14: Hasten

(A) Recharge Reduction IO

(27) Recharge Reduction IO

 

 

Level 16: Boxing

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 18: Tough

(A) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Endurance

(29) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Recharge

(29) Impervious Skin - Endurance/Recharge

(31) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge

(31) Impervious Skin - Status Resistance

 

 

Level 20: Weave

(A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

(33) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)

(33) Luck of the Gambler - Defense

 

 

Level 22: Tactical Training: Assault

(A) Endurance Reduction IO

 

 

Level 24: Venom Grenade

(A) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown

(33) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance

(34) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge

(34) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(34) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge

(36) Ragnarok - Damage

 

 

Level 26: Shatter

(A) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative)

(36) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance

(36) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Recharge

(37) Hecatomb - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(37) Hecatomb - Damage/Recharge

(37) Hecatomb - Damage

 

 

Level 28: Cloaking Device

(A) Karma - Knockback Protection

(39) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

(39) Shield Wall - Defense

(39) Shield Wall - Defense/Endurance

(40) Shield Wall - Defense/Recharge

(50) Shield Wall - Endurance/Recharge

 

 

Level 30: Surveillance

(A) Analyze Weakness - Chance for +ToHit

 

 

Level 32: Mental Training

(A) Run Speed IO

 

 

Level 35: Placate

(A) Recharge Reduction IO

 

 

Level 38: Crowd Control

(A) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage

(40) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance

(40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge

(42) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(42) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge

(42) Armageddon - Damage

 

 

Level 41: Mace Blast

(A) Superior Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge

(43) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime

(43) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage

(43) Superior Winter's Bite - Damage/RechargeTime

(46) Superior Winter's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

 

 

Level 44: Poisonous Ray

(A) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Recharge/Chance for -Dmg and Terrorize

(45) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge

(46) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

(46) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(45) Superior Dominion of Arachnos - Damage/Recharge

 

 

Level 47: Disruptor Blast

(A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)

(48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range

(48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance

(50) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge

(50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage

 

 

Level 49: Assault

(A) Endurance Reduction IO

 

 

Level 1: Brawl

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Prestige Power Dash

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Prestige Power Slide

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Prestige Power Quick

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Prestige Power Rush

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Prestige Power Surge

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 1: Conditioning

Level 1: Sprint

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 2: Rest

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 4: Ninja Run

Level 2: Swift

(A) Empty

 

 

Level 2: Health

(A) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb

(15) Panacea - +Hit Points/Endurance

(45) Numina's Convalesence - +Regeneration/+Recovery

 

 

Level 2: Hurdle

(A) Jumping IO

 

 

Level 2: Stamina

(A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End

(15) Performance Shifter - EndMod

(17) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod

 

 

Level 50: Musculature Radial Boost

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[Auroxis]

Here's my Bane build, also Petless

[Ananke]

Yeah! Just saw that. Definitely saved it. That's a lotta haste though (isn't permahasten only 90% for us, since we have a baseline 20% from meantal training?). And is cardiac necessary for farming, over musculature?

[Auroxis]

The build is just about perma hasten, and along with capped res, cardiac gives us endurance stability so we can use rebirth for extra tanking we want for the toughest s/l farms.

[Ananke]

The build is just about perma hasten, and along with capped res, cardiac gives us endurance stability so we can use rebirth for extra tanking we want for the toughest s/l farms.

 

I've found that boosting everything with /end on it has helped a lot with my previous endurance issues, not sure if you've finished doing that on your build or not.

 

Definitely gonna have to tweak the slotting on my build, that's for sure...

 

EDIT: nvm, found what was messing up the stats, it was the force feedback proc

[Redlynne]

I'm left wondering why you wouldn't want to use Pets as cannon fodder to soak an opening alpha for you so as to let you slip in and knock the block off a primary target for you to take down.

[Ananke]

I'm left wondering why you wouldn't want to use Pets as cannon fodder to soak an opening alpha for you so as to let you slip in and knock the block off a primary target for you to take down.

 

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand but I'll try to explain as best I can. Pets drag you out of stealth and the non-MM ones aren't controllable, so once you spawn them in they tend to spend the rest of the instance pulling you out of stealth while you're trying to position to crowd control as many mobs at a time as possible.

[Myrmidon]

On 7/15/2019 at 6:02 AM, Ananke said:

 

Sorry, I'm not sure I understand but I'll try to explain as best I can. Pets drag you out of stealth and the non-MM ones aren't controllable, so once you spawn them in they tend to spend the rest of the instance pulling you out of stealth while you're trying to position to crowd control as many mobs at a time as possible.

Exactly. They are much better for a Soldier/Crab option than a Bane.

[Justisaur]

I'm seeing my pets die quite quickly usually, and am considering dropping them too, there's some situations they're useful, but I'm not sure they're as useful as a different power pick I'm having trouble fitting in like haste, vengeance, or frag grenade, especially since when I need them most is when they die immediately.  I haven't really noticed the problem with stealth mentioned, but that might be because they died. 

 

If you just want an alpha taker, take one of the free P2W shield/buff pets and cast it, they die immediately, but will take the alpha if you were stealthed, and you'll remain stealthed since they don't attack.  They also refresh almost immediately so you'll have it every spawn.