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Elite Build Guide to 100% Dodge Hero
monsterdaddy
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Since the dodge nerf, I've found just one old-school stand-and-fight build that can maintain a 100% Dodge rate all the time. I never liked using Evasive Maneuvers because you lose so much DPS plus Elusive Monk tends to wear off which leaves you vulnerable. And I dislike Fluidity for forcing me to block.
I'm calling this an elite build because it does require some expensive equipment. At a minimum, you will need a Legion Breastplate of Elusiveness with 2 Gambler's Luck (Rank 8 or 9) and 6 Dexterity mods plus 1-3 purple level 40 Dexterity secondaries.
Your PSS will be CON with 3/3 in Deflection and one SSS will be DEX of course.
Required Powers:
Thundering Kicks Rank 3 (+18% Dodge)
Lightning Reflexes Rank 3 (+40% Dodge)
Parry with Elusive Monk (+8.1% Dodge with 545 Dex)
Masterful Dodge
Recommended Powers:
Form of the Tempest
Bountiful Chi Resurgence with Resurgent Reiki
Dragon attack (Rush gives a huge amount of energy due to ultra high Dex)
The build I have has 2 Rank 9 Gambler's Luck and requires 545 Dexterity to be certain of 100% Dodge rate. (At 541, tooltip shows 100% dodge but due to rounding it could be only 99.95%) Avoidance is at 84.2% which really means I don't need much damage resistance.
For each Gambler's Luck rank below 9 you will need 17 more Dex to make for the loss of 5 dodge rating (maybe less if Parry will add more Dodge with the extra Dex.) Now achieving all that Dexterity isn't easy unless you have 3 purple level 40 Dexterity secondaries which unfortunately have become very rare.
Now if you find your build to be just a little short of 100% you could try Swinging with Flippin. I don't like this power much for combat and some targets will disable your travel powers. But if all else fails this will work for you.
I find this to be a real fun build. I never block in Fire and Ice and only on hold/yellow bubbles in Gravitar. And I'm going to take down Mega-Destroid Terminator sometime (if you think he's easy, you're thinking of the wrong Mega-D.) When I get locked in an Ice Spire or get knocked away, I pop Masterful Dodge to keep me alive until I can activate Elusive Monk again.
Now I left a lot of powers and specs up in the air because from here there's a lot of variety. I like DPS so I went with Vindicator/Brawler with Dragon's Claws and Viper Fangs so I have 2 combos to proc Setup. You could be even harder to kill with Vindicator/Warden or Protector/Sentinel. You just have to be melee and make a full combo Thundering Kicks every 10-12 seconds.
And gear-wise, full Legion or 2 Justice are good choices. You really won't need any added crit rating, I got almost 37% on pure Dex alone. Another nice thing with CON PSS and using STR as SSS is you get about 200% knock resistance (Resilient 2/2, Elusive Monk 33%, STR, Tank role 25%.)
So if you want to make a fun but challenging build, give it a shot! :biggrin:
I'm calling this an elite build because it does require some expensive equipment. At a minimum, you will need a Legion Breastplate of Elusiveness with 2 Gambler's Luck (Rank 8 or 9) and 6 Dexterity mods plus 1-3 purple level 40 Dexterity secondaries.
Your PSS will be CON with 3/3 in Deflection and one SSS will be DEX of course.
Required Powers:
Thundering Kicks Rank 3 (+18% Dodge)
Lightning Reflexes Rank 3 (+40% Dodge)
Parry with Elusive Monk (+8.1% Dodge with 545 Dex)
Masterful Dodge
Recommended Powers:
Form of the Tempest
Bountiful Chi Resurgence with Resurgent Reiki
Dragon attack (Rush gives a huge amount of energy due to ultra high Dex)
The build I have has 2 Rank 9 Gambler's Luck and requires 545 Dexterity to be certain of 100% Dodge rate. (At 541, tooltip shows 100% dodge but due to rounding it could be only 99.95%) Avoidance is at 84.2% which really means I don't need much damage resistance.
For each Gambler's Luck rank below 9 you will need 17 more Dex to make for the loss of 5 dodge rating (maybe less if Parry will add more Dodge with the extra Dex.) Now achieving all that Dexterity isn't easy unless you have 3 purple level 40 Dexterity secondaries which unfortunately have become very rare.
Now if you find your build to be just a little short of 100% you could try Swinging with Flippin. I don't like this power much for combat and some targets will disable your travel powers. But if all else fails this will work for you.
I find this to be a real fun build. I never block in Fire and Ice and only on hold/yellow bubbles in Gravitar. And I'm going to take down Mega-Destroid Terminator sometime (if you think he's easy, you're thinking of the wrong Mega-D.) When I get locked in an Ice Spire or get knocked away, I pop Masterful Dodge to keep me alive until I can activate Elusive Monk again.
Now I left a lot of powers and specs up in the air because from here there's a lot of variety. I like DPS so I went with Vindicator/Brawler with Dragon's Claws and Viper Fangs so I have 2 combos to proc Setup. You could be even harder to kill with Vindicator/Warden or Protector/Sentinel. You just have to be melee and make a full combo Thundering Kicks every 10-12 seconds.
And gear-wise, full Legion or 2 Justice are good choices. You really won't need any added crit rating, I got almost 37% on pure Dex alone. Another nice thing with CON PSS and using STR as SSS is you get about 200% knock resistance (Resilient 2/2, Elusive Monk 33%, STR, Tank role 25%.)
So if you want to make a fun but challenging build, give it a shot! :biggrin:
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Name: Will-O-Wisp
Archetype: Freeform
Super Stats:
Level 6: Constitution (Primary)
Level 10: Dexterity (Secondary)
Level 15: Strength (Secondary)
Talents:
Level 1: The Master
Level 6: Agile
Level 9: Acrobat
Level 12: Martial Focus
Level 15: Finesse
Level 18: Accurate
Level 21: Covert Ops Training
Powers:
Level 1: Hawk's Talons
Level 1: Viper's Fangs (Rank 2, Crippling Challenge)
Level 6: Lightning Reflexes (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 8: Masterful Dodge
Level 11: Bountiful Chi Resurgence (Resurgent Reiki)
Level 14: Form of the Tempest
Level 17: Thundering Kicks (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 20: Dragon's Claws (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 23: Lock N Load (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 26: Seraphim
Level 29: Ascension (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 32: Void Shift (Emerging Nightmares)
Level 35: Illumination (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 38: Parry (The Elusive Monk)
Travel Powers:
Level 6: Lightspeed
Level 35: Electro Flight
Specializations:
Constitution: Tough (3/3)
Constitution: Resilient (2/2)
Constitution: Deflection (3/3)
Constitution: Adrenaline Rush (2/2)
Vindicator: Merciless (3/3)
Vindicator: Initiative (2/2)
Vindicator: Focused Strikes (3/3)
Vindicator: Offensive Expertise (2/2)
Brawler: No Escape (1/3)
Brawler: Penetrating Strikes (2/2)
Brawler: Ruthless (2/2)
Brawler: Finishing Blow (3/3)
Brawler: Setup (2/2)
Mastery: Constitution Mastery (1/1)
I plan on using Justice Healing and Speed. With the extra Dex I can afford to use 2 Vigilante's and get an extra 88 CON plus 338 x 2 HP. Hopefully Cryptic will fix the Tough bug giving only half the HP.
I was wondering, did you also try this with dex primary, and if so, how much did that cause dodge chance to drop?
And another nice part about this, a lot of this setup is also possible with "the master" AT.
A 100% Dodge AT, that would be fun to see!
Problem is there's really no damage - Would you be able to build upon this, like what other powersets you took for it? I just ended up going all martial arts.
EDIT
LOL did not notice that 2nd post. Haha, thanks man.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTd4ZhM83yU
I don't see any build there.
And the goal here was to not use EM.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=erQ0hNgi9Ms
'Challenging' and '100% dodge' are phrases that don't mix to me
There's also no AoE in that build
I can relate to wanting to avoid using EM for a melee tank, though. Its a good build.. just some weird power choices here and there.
Yup, the Master AT is by far the best mitigation AT avail, if you build it right. Too bad its dps/threat is low for a tank. If I had to take any AT to try to tank F&I w/, it'd be that one.
- Be safe and have fun, champs - for science!
For AoE I just decided a Neuroelectric Pulse Gen would suffice. Not many good options for MA anyways.
Some of the power choices in there might not really make sense until you take into account legacy devices.
One thing that makes me curious is how you're going to take MDTs on with it. I'm guessing Str needs to change to Pre or Rec, FoTT to Compassion, Brawler to Sentinel, Viper's Fangs to Gas Pellets?
Also, when you came up short using Primary Dex, was it with a Legion's of Growth with 2x Growth Ammy and Crashing Wave Kick?
On Dex PSS I never took it that far since making up 80 or so dodge rating required 500 more Dex which is impossible.
Crashing Wave Kick seems to take the gear or Dex req down by a lot though. Conservatively I think a consistent 5% is easy enough to maintain, but 8% isn't farfetched either.
Flat 1% per stack from my testing, they might have changed it with the Dodge pass
Wow, if they did change it to a flat 1% that is awesome. CWK would have great synergy in a Sentinel build to proc the Mastery. Could probably trade off a huge amount of Dex for Con.
It was funny to see with DEX PSS and 3 Vigilantes and Sentinel mod to hit over 700 DEX. Can't hit 100% dodge with LR though, about 2% short but that's easily bridged with CWK.
The reason I have both Dragon's Claws and Dragon's Wrath is because for all instances except the Fire and Ice Rampage, the claws are superior. In F&I, Dragon's Wrath's 50% penetration works like a charm on them. So 20Gs and 2 visits to the PH every 12 days seems like a small price to pay.
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Name: Will-O-Wisp
Archetype: Freeform
Super Stats:
Level 6: Constitution (Primary)
Level 10: Dexterity (Secondary)
Level 15: Strength (Secondary)
Talents:
Level 1: The Master
Level 6: Agile
Level 9: Acrobat
Level 12: Martial Focus
Level 15: Finesse
Level 18: Accurate
Level 21: Covert Ops Training
Powers:
Level 1: Hawk's Talons
Level 1: Viper's Fangs (Rank 2, Crippling Challenge)
Level 6: Lightning Reflexes (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 8: Form of the Tempest
Level 11: Bountiful Chi Resurgence (Resurgent Reiki)
Level 14: Void Shift (Emerging Nightmares)
Level 17: Lock N Load (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 20: Masterful Dodge
Level 23: Parry (The Elusive Monk)
Level 26: Thundering Kicks (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 29: Ascension (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 32: Seraphim
Level 35: Illumination (Rank 2, Rank 3)
Level 38: Dragon's Claws(Rank 2, Rank 3) OR
Level 38: Dragon's Wrath(Rank 2, Rank 3)
Travel Powers:
Level 6: Lightspeed
Level 35: Electro Flight
Specializations:
Constitution: Tough (3/3)
Constitution: Resilient (2/2)
Constitution: Deflection (3/3)
Constitution: Adrenaline Rush (2/2)
Vindicator: Merciless (3/3)
Vindicator: Initiative (2/2)
Vindicator: Focused Strikes (3/3)
Vindicator: Offensive Expertise (2/2)
Brawler: No Escape (1/3)
Brawler: Penetrating Strikes (2/2)
Brawler: Ruthless (2/2)
Brawler: Finishing Blow (3/3)
Brawler: Setup (2/2)
Mastery: Constitution Mastery (1/1)
Thanks for Tanking for us, and thanks for sharing this build. Very interesting.
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