Draggynn

Hey Shadow,

some more information about exactly what your goal is can be very helpful when trying to provide feedback on builds. I gather that your aim is low cost: are you planning on soloing or teaming? A little bit about what your play style is will also be helpful. Are you looking for help doing something in particular with set bonuses or do you just want us to check and make sure we don't see anything truly foolish in the current build?

The more information that you can give us, the better the responses you get back will be.

My main comment on the build would be that except in the new Tin Mage and and Apex TFs your two chance for recharge slow procs are pretty much wasted. Snow Storm and Freezing Rain alone will floor the recharge on just about everything. Unless you plan on running the Tin Mage and Apex TFs with high frequency (or regularly run your misisons and TFs at +4) I would suggest choosing more beneficial procs. The Achilles heel proc is excellent in Freezing Rain can be a wonderful choice.

You only have one slot in Thunderstrike, which makes me wonder if you actually plan on using it. If not why not pick up something that requires no slots like vengeance, Thunder Clap, or maybe Power Sink (because it's useful, it really could benefit from slots) to help with endurance issues.

How are you endurance wise? If you have troubles you might be able to eliminate some of them with a cardiac alpha slot, but you might want to consider saving up merits for a Numina or a Miracle +recovery IO as well.

There are some thoughts to get you started.

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Alright here are some thoughts:
In this build you have gone for a little everything. The best way to accomplish something really powerful with IOs is to focus on one particular attribute, recharge or defense in general are the two that folks aim for. I thought you were planning on going for a high defense build? Or did you decide for something more affordable and functional for the moment? It looks like maybe you decided to go for Hit Points?

Looking at this build there are a couple things that jump out at me:

Steamy Mist: You are well over the ED cap with Steamy Mist and since it won't detoggle recharge in it is mostly wasted. If you like the set bonuses you have I would replace the res/rech with the pure endurance. I would also consider perhaps removing the Titanium Coatings to get some knockback protection in Steamy Mist, or if you decide to go the defense route you were original thinking, enhance the defense aspect more.

Freezing Rain: As was mentioned before the Achille's Heel Proc goes great here, you can afford to scale back a little on the defense debuff

Hurricane: Although it sounds nice, except in PvP, unless you have some serious additional end drain to pair it with, recovery debuff is next to useless. If you don't have a way to drain their endurance to begin with it will do nothing, and most enemy attacks only require a fraction of endurance. Instead slot the fourth dark watcher for the recharge bonus

Tornado: The Sovereign Right will do absolutely nothing for you since you have no pets capable of taking damage. Also sovereign right's set bonuses are next to useless for you. I assure you that you won't notice a 3% mez resistance. Again the accuracy is wasted. Go with blood mandate for the defense, or just frankenslot to optimize damage, recharge, endurance, stun duration, def debuff as desired.

PBU: I'm still skeptical of the use of the chance for build up, but if you find it useful and making a difference, keep it.

Hope some of that is helpful.

I will just reiterate how much fun it was to watch you draw. Thanks for doing the live stream, and let us know when the next one is!

Howdy folks,

I know that about a year ago the Absolute Amazement stopped functioning except in PvP. Is this still the case, or has the proc since been remedied?

If so, does anyone know the numbers of the debuff? Thanks.

You have at least one major problem with this build. None of the IOs you have slotted in Vengeance are global IOs, they are all procs. Therefore you won't get the benefit from them unless you use Vengeance (and then only for 120 seconds). And if you're soloing AVs, that will be never. Those procs really do need to go in Health.

Also I find when soloing AVs that endurancs is the largest issue. To maximize endurance with 3 slots in stamina you should have the Performance Shifter: +end, Performance Shifter: end, and one End Mod IO. With 4 slots you should have 4 Performance Shifters.

When I get home I'll throw it in Mids and see if there's anything else that jumps out at me.

Hmm...that uploaded larger than intended....I'll claim that it is to make things easier for the artist...yeah...that's it. I think it's awesome your doing this Deebs, and hope he inspires you. I give you Draggynn.

I stand corrected, this weekend appears to have been fine to get badges. Just got a villain team the full set of Signature Hero Badges on Virtue without even any attempted interference from PvPers in the zone who were content to run their duels under the statue.

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Boss HP can be find here
In terms of resistance, bosses don't have a specific resistance (except in the case of to-hit debuffs) and depends on which boss you are fighting. However when fighting above your level your effects will be subjected to the purple patch(click).

That means that you are 65% effective against +3 and 48% effective against +4s which you might think about as a resistance. I can also give you the details of to-hit scaling for enemies if you're interested.

And because I appear to have that data in my guide so it was easy to find:
Bosses have an accuracy modifier of 1.3 and resist to-hit debuffs by 20%.
Accuracy Modifiers based on level are here and for +3 is an additional modifier of 1.3 and for +4 is an additional modifier of 1.4.

Last weekend I was able to but two teams together via public channels that would have been able to take down all of the Heroes before the PvPers showed up except that Sister Psyche refused to spawn after ~8 rounds of heroes. I suspect with reactivation weekend this weekend RV may be more crowded than usual so this may not be the best weekend to try for it.

The bigger problem isn't the PvPers hunting badgers, we were still able to power through the constant deaths they inflicted anyway. The problem is when they decide to capture the pillboxes unspawning the AVs. When that happens, there really isn't much the badgers can do.