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First of all, not everyone has it hardcapped at the start. Yes, you want to get it hardcapped (or close to it) by the 3rd stack. I'm cheap and lazy and only have R4/5 mods, so no I don't have +30 at all. EGO is my Primary and I'm focused heavily into that, not INT. I did some testing and only the 3rd stack is refreshed.…
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What I meant was as gaining an instance of the buff. Yes, it stacks to 3 times. But every time you attack you gain / refresh the stacks.... which is a 4th, 5th, 6th, etc application of the buff. But does it scale additively until 3 stacks (such as: +18, +20, +22) and then the fourth application applies increases scaling…
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Yes, Audacity does loop with itself. I can't remember if the applications just refresh existing stacks, or apply the new values to existing ones.... so it's between 4-6 applications to achieve maximum scaling, which is just one maintain anyway so it doesn't really matter. While sure it is a minor buff per stack, it adds…
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I've been leveling up this build, and it's been working pretty great so far. Hardened in END Spec gives good HP (+1000 with 250 END). Kickback works wonders. You'll actually gain energy when running Mini-Gun + Micro Munitions. Then when you're at full, tap spam Power Gauntlet / Tac Missiles until ~30% energy and let it…
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As for building energy, they're roughly the same. WB ticks every 0.5 seconds, the first hit builds 14% energy, and subsequent hits build 10% energy. PB builds 14% on the first hit, and 7% on subsequent hits. But the first tick has 0.5 activate time, and subsequent hits are 0.34 second intervals. So roughly the same…
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Posted my HW DPS build over on the other forums. Very different than your R.E.L.I.C. build, Kenpo. No Cleave. At all. :P Using Demolish and Arc of Ruin to stack debuffs, and then cycling Annihilate > Eruption for huge damage spikes. I tried a Cleave focused build before on another character, but it just didn't feel that…
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It is multiplicative? Still, ~90% average additive bonus from 8 stacks of Focus. Plus the energy return. Using Mental Discipline and Ego Reverb, you'd be better off going Primary EGO, dumping INT for CON and grabbing the Insight spec in EGO (for cost discount). Scale up that sole energy return, cuz you're gonna need it.…
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I second the Ego Weaponry -> BCR/RR for this build. Siphoning Strikes only gains bonus from your crit severity, not your bonus healing. It also takes away the ability of EW dealing critical damage, which basically cuts its DPS potential in half when you're using it. Definitely fix your DEX Specializations. Honestly, you…
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It seems to be ~10 for Concentration and Enrage, and ~9.5 for FotT. May be some other factors in play though. You can find this out easily by multiplying the scaling stat by 0.1, then subtracting the number in the tooltip from what your calc gives you.
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I wouldn't dilute your build with too many attacks. You only really need one or two single target and one or two AoE attacks. One for sustained damage, one for burst damage. Anything else should either add a buff or a debuff, or be a Click power, else it becomes a redundant power that's just wasting a power slot. RC / RE…
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Here's something quick that I threw together. PowerHouse (Link to this build) Name: Archetype: Freeform Super Stats: Level 6: Dexterity (Primary) Level 10: Constitution (Secondary) Level 15: Intelligence (Secondary) Talents: Level 1: Level 6: Level 9: Level 12: Level 15: Level 18: Level 21: Powers: Level 1: Strafe…
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I'd take both Haymaker and Demolish. Nullifying Punch (the Trauma debuff) is great on Haymaker, and Below the Belt is great on Demolish. Demolish actually gives two separate debuffs, one for All damage (default) and Below the Belt gives one for Crushing damage. This will boost all of your other damage, and thus threat,…
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Take INT instead of EGO, and grab MSA. INT increases the duration of March of the Dead, in addition to everything else it does. I'd go with Guardian instead of Avenger, and take The Best Defense. That gives an even better damage increase at 40 than Relentless Assault 3/3 (and you took 1/3). For your final 2 powers I'd take…
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My build that's similar to this one is running DEX, CON / INT with Concentration... just hit 40 and haven't bothered getting Heroic gear yet, so only 280 DEX and 170 INT. 350 DEX would push FotT to the same value that INT is now giving me with Concentration. A easily attainable number. I thought I was using REC (old build,…
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Hmm. That's hard to say without parsing it. While you will get some higher crit chance and severity from Primary DEX, FotT gives much less of a bonus to Ranged damage. Even with the DR on damage bonuses, that may be enough to throw it in EGO / Concentration's favor. Lower base damage means lower crit damage. *shrugs*…
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Some other things that came to mind... Miniturization Drive would be a good addition. Debuffs your targets damage. You really don't need Implosion Engine, since you already have Micro Munitions and Shoulder Launcher for AoE. Getting hit for less is always awesome, especially for a Regen Tank. I still think you should keep…
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Overdrive won't work with Tactical Missiles, but it will work with Micro Munitions and Shoulder Launcher. Just something to keep in mind. You may find MSA to be more effective, since Overdrive has to stack to 3x to compete with it. I would definitely take IDF somewhere in the build. Helps a lot on Regen builds. A Block…
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Mental Endurance sucks, put those points into Insight 3/3 and Force of Will 2/2. Avenger tree is... meh. The Best Defense gives you more Offense than Relentless Assault at level 40, especially with Force of Will. Anguish is the only other good thing in the tree, but Find the Mark 2/3 in Guardian is equally good. Plus…
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It gives you 5% more Crit Chance and 10% more Crit Severity after it Locks On. That is a very good bonus for bosses. Sure it's not that useful on trash mobs who die in 3 seconds, but they're not much of a challenge anyway. That (base value) 5% difference between Elec Form R3 and TC R3 is negligible because of diminishing…
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Pre-On Alert, Melee had a huge advantage over Ranged. Now they're on even ground. The old Avenger role reduced: bonus hp by 50%, healing, CC strength and resistance by 20%. The only thing that was reduced in Brawler role was Ranged damage. Neither role got any energy from Blocking too, and energy decayed faster. Now they…
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As it is right now, most Melee abilities deal more damage than Ranged anyway. The Melee oriented Slotted Passives (Way of the Warrior, Unstoppable, Id Mastery) all have at least +17% base bonus damage over Ranged oriented Slotted Passives. So damage isn't an issue. The only case you can make that your Melee toon is getting…
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Personally, I don't like Primary INT on most DPS characters. DEX (or EGO) has better Specializations, namely for the Crit Severity. Primary INT is good on some gimmicky builds that need Revitalize to knock out cooldowns, but this really isn't one of those builds. Frost Breath is the next best thing to Avalanche and…
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I took Unstoppable because the "flaming shoulders" visual effect of Way of the Warrior was not at all in theme with my character. Damage-wise you lose out on some Bleed damage, but with Reaper's Embrace they don't tick that long anyway. The damage mitigation, taken at face value, are not comparable. However, once you…
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Since Hurricane and Force Geyser deal Crushing damage, you're going to want to take Stormbringer instead of Ice Form to maximize their damage. Stormbringer is actually pretty awesome for Gravitar because of the bonus Crushing resist that it gives. DEX might be a better Primary SS than EGO. I took EGO in my build because I…
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You don't need STR. At all. Sure Swole is nice, as is Aggression and Brutality, but those two you can get elsewhere *cough* DEX / EGO *cough*, and you have SS CON... which will give you more health than you'll ever get from Swole. Overpower only gives you Melee crit chance, so that's a waste since Void Shift is the only…
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If you slot Dodge/Avoid gear, take Energy Shield (Laser Knight) and build some tanky Specs (Constitution, Protector, Sentry) you can build up a high amount of mitigation. Nowhere near as much if you had taken Defiance/Invuln, but still good enough for most content. My personal preference for Tanks is Invuln with an…
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Single Blade is actually very powerful, when built right. :P Dual Blade has a better AoE in Sword Cyclone, but Single Blade has higher single target damage with Bleeds and then rupturing with Reaper's Embrace. You build looks solid. You have Reaper's Caress and Reaper's Embrace. You have WotW and FotT. You have your BCR/RR…
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I'd definitely go with Healing Primary Offense, and a Vigilante's Rejuvenating Belt. Greater Health or Freedom Primary Defense. Don't really need anything else. Utility can be whatever, as the build doesn't particularly need much CDR or Cost Discount. Pretty much the same as what you want to slot for. I'm tempted to grab a…
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Selfless Ally is the only good thing in PRE Spec, but even then it's only good if you're actually taking damage... which would mean lots of AoE or you have a bad tank. Dominion is wasted because you have no Holds. Grandeur is a filler point, and not a very good one at that. You're not an Offenseive Support, so you…
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Yeah, the build is a Support... it's just built tanky so that you can a) basically ignore any aggro you pull and b) have more fuel for Iniquity. It's by no means a tank build, or hybrid. If you choose to take Protector spec, Exhausting Strikes is an excellent debuff. Especially if your Ebon Sigils die (and stacks well with…
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I highly recommend taking a look at Man.of.Light's "Light" build. It's an AoRP "super healer". I have my own variant of the build in my sig, but he explains what it's all about. You're on the right track though. I definitely prefer Radiance over Eldritch bolts. It may not look as good, but you don't have to target an enemy…
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Just a couple things: IMO, Fire Snake would be better than Defile, unless it doesn't fit your theme. Same cost as a Defile tap, longer duration, and a larger debuff. It's also AoE. I agree completely on the usefulness of ADs for a Tank. Sure it's great to have, but honestly... I have never really needed to use one on any…
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It really depends. FF characters hit diminishing returns on bonus damage (SS bonus + Offense + Slotted Passive + Form + Active Offense + STR/EGO bonus, etc). The actual bonus that you get would vary depending on other factors. Should you be running a Defensive Passive and IDF, your SS bonus, STR/EGO bonus, and Offense stat…
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With PSS INT you lose out on a huge chunk of Crit Severity that PSS DEX/EGO give. Detect Vulnerability is a very nice specialization, but not worth losing 20+% Crit Severity for. Everything else in the tree is a waste or inferior. With PSS EGO you can take Expose Weakness, which increases the damage your next non-crit…
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Here's a Darkness Tank build that I've been working on that could fit your concept of "gothic power girl", even though it isn't Might/Supernatural. Idea is to use Hybrid role with Bulwark. This boosts healing without SS PRE (still get some through talents), causing Lifedrain to generate a lot of threat even though it…
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You can take a look at the Munitions build/guide link in my sig. It's basically two separate builds, with parallel powers that can be swapped around as you see fit, depending on theme and personal preference. An alternative passive + Super Stat set up that I didn't mention there is taking Quarry, with Primary DEX, CON /…
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Heh, looks like that was over a year before I started playing. Why in the hell they would ever make that to begin with is beyond me.
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Aspect of the Bestial has two visual fx: The charge up animation when first toggling it on (similar to how Form of the Tempest has a toggle fx), and the fx for gaining a stack of Enrage, which is the same if you were using the Enrage form instead of AotB. Neither have a lizard skin effect. Now... it might have that fx at…
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I personally never really liked the Specialist and other Melee/Ranged hybrid builds. Mixing Ranged and Melee instead of focusing on one or the other just didn't make sense to me. Every power is completely reduntant. You have a "spam" melee and a "spam" ranged. Then you have AoE melee and AoE ranged. Just... bleh. My…
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Well, you're taking Aspect of the Bestial which grants Enrage, but you don't have STR as a SS. Enrage doesn't do you any good if you don't scale it up. Ranking up any Form powers is a waste of points too. Since you're using Regeneration, I'm assuming you're trying to be tanky. Dump END for STR. You have nothing that scales…
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I plugged in the numbers for my expected stats on my EGO/INT/CON Archery build using Ego Surge and it's still giving Exploit Opening a higher value. First time around I was plugging in my EGO/INT/DEX Munitions build. About the same 3% difference. Just messing around with it plugging in all kinds of numbers, and Sixth Sense…
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Since you have Vindicator there, you should add the bonuses from Sentry, Warden, and Guardian. Twist Fate, Slaughter, Find the Mark. Those each give up to 9% more crit chance. I just added what bonus those would give me into the spot for the Vindicator bonus when I was running the calculations. Exploit Opening seems to…
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TBH, Focused Shot is "bleh". It's basically a watered down Sniper Rifle. It deals 20% less damage than Sniper and doesn't stun. I'd replace it with something else. Ice Sheath is my favorite second Active Offense to take. It gives a bonus to Crit Severity, which is nice when rotated with Ego Surge. You don't have a Block…
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Heh, yeah... a few of my builds probably could use some explaining. I'll post my top "original" builds over on the other forums. A few in my sig (and others) are based heavily on some that are already in the Directory (my Sorc/Celes Healer is basically Man.of.Light's "Light" build) and probably shouldn't be included.
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I have quite a few unique builds (including but not limited to those in my sig, which you're welcome to take right from there) that I can offer the Directory. Should I post them all here, or make a compilation thread over on the other forums? Unfortunately due to my altaholism and ADHD character deletion I only have two…
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MSA relies on INT, which you don't have. You also don't have many low cooldown powers (like melee character's Lunges) to keep it going. Hunter's Instinct relies on EGO, which you will have plenty of. Like I said, LnL is good, Ego Surge is better. If you're not a min/maxer, take whatever you want. Ice Sheathe is good too…
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If you can fit it, two Active Defenses is always a good idea. Generally, Masterful Dodge > Resurgence > Unbreakable > Field Surge. Lock N' Load is an Active Offense, not an Energy Unlock (that's Molecular Self-Assembly). MSA is good, but if you're stacking EGO and crit chance, Hunter's Instinct isn't a bad choice either.…
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Seeing how I end up practically soloing Smash Alerts sometimes (people leave cuz too many tanks and support, or they're all <lvl 10), I'd say it's very good in Alerts. Only thing the build is weak against is Knocks. With the stupidly high EGO you should almost never be Held. BCR/RR + Stim Pack keep you up very well. The…
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He's pulling it off with spamming TK Maelstrom and Ego Storm... against Alert trash. Would love to see how well this does against Legendaries, Cosmics, and 5-man Elite content. IMO, most CC is "meh". And the vast majority of the time you don't need it in CO. Good CC:* Stun * Maintained Paralyze * Root * Snare Confuse is…
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Add Nailed to the Ground to Void Shift on the build I posted, shift some points in Protector around to pick up Unrelenting, and it's good for PvP. The main things you want in a PvP build are Nailed to the Ground to lock out other player's travel powers, and Crippling Challenge and Challenging Strikes for the damage debuff.…