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  1. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
    I don’t have an /FA scrapper, but the generic formula for s/l defense is :

    Weave
    CJ (which /FA needs anyway)
    5 Kinetic Combats
    Steadfast unique

    Slot out Weave and you get to 32% s/l def, which by itself will substantially decrease your incoming damage. Furthermore, it’s one purple insp away from traditional soft-cap for s/l.

    Someone with more practical experience with /FA on a scrap may have more in-depth suggestions, but that’s my cookbook for building s/l defense.

    It's been my experience that building up s/l def on a resist or regen based character creates something quite sturdy.
    I would just add Reactive Armor to that list. You need to slot your armor powers anyway, might as well get some nice defense out of it.
  2. Auroxis

    /Pain vs. /Thermal

    POST-ACTION

    Isn't Anguishing Cry from Pain the only -res debuff in the game labeled as Psionic damage? Shouldn't that be very effective against certain AV's?
  3. Auroxis
    I think FF got the better boost, due to how ridiculously long the FF animations are compared with Thermal.
  4. Auroxis
    I would personally like Trial players to have the ability of sending tells to team leaders, but I can't see how it could be done without enabling RMT spammers.
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    I would just revamp the Trial system:

    1. Three character slots per server.
    2. No level limit.
    3. No time limit.
    4. Can't gain merits.
    5. Can't enter AE missions.
    6. Can't slot IO's or incarnate powers.
    7. Can't join incarnate trials.
    8. Can only send tells/mail to SG mates or to someone that sent you a tell recently.
  6. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by DarkSideLeague View Post
    Out of everyone else who has cast Clarion on me, I'm the only one who has cast Radial on my Blaster. Everyone else has viewed perma-mez protection as more valuable.
    I have it on my Empath and I love it, the extra power in Fortitude and the heals is nice indeed. My PBU'd and Clarion'd Fortitude gives +60% defense.
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    Clarion can also give +special, and you can stack it with PBU/PB for crazy numbers(though they don't multiply each other).
  8. Auroxis

    Info on Issue 20.5

    POST-ACTION

    Rainbow auras!
  9. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Chaos Creator View Post
    I really enjoyed my Km/Fire scrapper until she hit 32. Then the power I'd been waiting for just looks so ridiculously over the top that I can't stand her anymore.
    Funny, that's just about when I stopped playing my KM/Fire and switched to a DB/Fire.
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    And what will you do with such invincibility?
  11. Auroxis
    My favored way of getting a lot out of Lightning Field with just a few slots is to slot it with 3 Scirocco's. Acc/Dam, Dam/End, and Acc/Dam/End. This gets you respectable damage, enough accuracy and endurance reduction, a bit of regen, and respectable amounts of negative damage resistance which Elec Armor can certainly put to good use.
  12. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Linea_Alba View Post
    I tested the T3 Versions

    Warworks 160 st dps - Pure damage, hybrid melee/ranged
    IDF 126 st dps - Stuns? hybrid melee/ranged
    Clockwork 126 st dps - All ranged
    Seers 74 st dps - Control, Ranged but one of them likes to pretend it's melee.
    How did the Warworks -regen work into this?
  13. Auroxis
    My Cold/Sonic defender is also collecting dust. Active debuffing just isn't my thing.
  14. Auroxis

    Dual Blades/Fire

    POST-ACTION

    How the heck did the build I posted end up looking like that?...

    I guess this is what happens when you just post a build instead of guiding someone through the slotting.
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    Dual Blades/Fire

    POST-ACTION

    Quote:
    Originally Posted by PleaseRecycle View Post
    Melt armor is crap, it isn't worth redrawing your swords to use it on anything lower than an AV, but it's a good set mule if you really want it.
    It also gives you access to Fire Ball. I've been thinking of switching to Leviathan since Water Spout gives more single target DPS than Melt Armor, and there are no extra redraw issues since it shares the same recharge timer as Fiery Embrace.

    The downside is that's not a very thematic addition to a Fiery Aura character(being Water and all), and I lose Fire Ball.
  16. Auroxis
    Yep, playing with my lowbies has become much more appealing after burning out on incarnate trials.
  17. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
    These calculations presume some very specific values for everything, though. They presume you will always be damage capped regardless of archetype or circumstance, which is not a good assumption even in the strongest steamroller teams. They presume a very high resistance debuff value *per debuffer* of -60% resistance. No one has a -60% resistance debuff: it requires stacking two -30% debuffs to get that high, and I don't think anything can stack that much debuff in less than about 4.5 seconds of total execution time.
    Sonic Resonance can stack -res very quickly, mainly due to Disruption Field.
  18. Auroxis
    As for the whole "ideal team" thing, unless you're teaming with a regular group of people that concept goes out the window. Would you rather wait 30 minutes for the "best team" so you can complete the TF in 30 minutes, or get a good team in 10 minutes that can complete the TF in 40 minutes?
  19. Auroxis

    SS/Elec - Critique

    POST-ACTION

    Here's the affordable SS/Elec build I've been showing people for a while now:

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    And this is what I currently have slotted:

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  20. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MrLiberty View Post
    I just happened to do it on my tank which would always be running -20% res from brusing and brought along some Rad Defender and corrupter friends. I pretty much established his DPS (With his current build, reactive, Brusing, etc) to be around 305 DPS (Doing more than a few pylon runs on him) So that seemed pretty static to me. Then I started to add additional -res points by having friends sit there with Envenerating Field up. So technically the pylon would be going from -30% to -52.5% on the first run and from -30% to -60% on the second. Regardless it would seem adding another 22.5% or another 75% -resistance to the target you get close to half a percent DPS increase, per point of resistance debuff.

    Reactive and Brusing were figured into the solo DPS run. Again this wasn't so much theory crafting as going out with real builds, providing real numbers to get some sort of idea where things would be at for -res' impact on DPS and what a damage capped scrapper could expect.
    Do keep in mind that a lot of people have reactive nowadays, so that damage contribution to the team isn't really "yours" once other people can stack it to the cap on the AV. Also, if that 305 number includes current resistance debuffs like bruising and reactive, you can't multiply it by other resistance debuffs. You have to separate the base DPS from the resistance debuffs beforehand.
  21. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by MrLiberty View Post
    I'll toss up some Data of my own here.

    Fire/SS tank - 307 DPS solo against a pylon.

    -22.5% Res - 343 DPS, 10% Increase. For every point of -res, .44% DPS increase

    -30% Res - 381 DPS , 19% Increase. For every point of -res, .63% DPS increase

    -52.5% Res - 416 DPS , 26% Increase For every point of -Res .50% DPS increase

    -75% Res - 514 DPS , 40% Increase. For every point of -Res .53% DPS Increase

    Average DPS increase per point of -resistance = 0.525%
    Are you taking the already existing -res from Bruising into consideration? And where does Reactive place into all of this?
  22. Auroxis

    Dual Blades/Fire

    POST-ACTION

    I closed the build immediately after seeing a full defense debuff set slotted into Ablating Strike, that's just a bad way to treat your best attack. I've been working on a DPS monster DB/FA build, feel free to toy around with it to suit your tastes/wallet:

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    Highlights: Top chain(BF-AS-SS-AS) with a minimal gap+endurance stable when used with Ageless Destiny, S/L/N/E softcap with a single purple, lots of -resistance from procs and Melt Armor, fast recharging Fiery Embrace.

    Honestly with that much defense you won't need to use Healing Flames that often anyway, so the redraw issues won't be that major.
  23. Auroxis
    Some small things I would change about that build C&E posted:

    1. Accuracy slotting in Blinding Feint. As far as I know you need to hit with Blinding Feint to get the +ToHit effect(though I could be wrong), and without the extra ToHit you'll be missing quite often against +3's.

    2. You can lose the Rectified Reticles in Focused Accuracy and BF, and put 1 slot from each in Boxing for another set of Kinetic Combat. The fourth slot for Boxing would come from RttC since you're at the ED cap with Spiritual.

    3. I would replace the set in LBE with Devastation for extra regen and HP, and then remove a slot from 1K Cuts and put it into Taunt, for the F/C defense from Mocking Beratement.
  24. Auroxis
    Elec Armor wins hands down in terms of endurance. DA is the most endurance heavy Tanker set, though it is the only one other than Elec with immunity to Endurance Drains. Fiery Aura has an endurance management and a Drain Protection power in Consume, but it won't be up that often and it doesn't offer you full protection.


    As for survivability, Fiery Aura offers the least protection(though it'll make you kill stuff faster) while Elec and DA are pretty closely matched. DA probably edges out Elec with its great self heal.
  25. Auroxis
    Quote:
    Originally Posted by Microcosm View Post
    Looks fine for general stuff. Defense looks good and is probably the best way to build.

    One thing, on electric armor, conserve power/physical perfection/ three-slotted stamina is a bit of a waste. You can keep yourself above water with energize, powersink, and single slotted stamina pretty easily. If you intend to incarnate, I recommend Musculature Radial Alpha, because it makes your Power Sink more powerful, able to sap about 90% in one shot against anything but an EB/AV.

    One other thing, power surge can be really helpful at times (like when facing toxic damage); I wouldn't get rid of it.

    Oh, and you are over the cap for 5% recharge bonuses from sets.
    I think Conserve Power is actually pretty good for DB/ELA. You won't have to use Energize and Power Sink constantly which means less redraw/combo interruption, and also means you get to keep those two powers for mitigation purposes when needed.