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On brutes the mezz auras interfere with fury generation. You have to address the endurance issues in /DA quickly as any pauses to recover drain what fury you've built up from attacking.

Leviathan for brutes is full of cones, which puts you out of position for the auras and pbaoe heal that make up a great deal of /DA's mitigation.


On stalkers the auras have to be turned off initially or they attract attention while you're trying to get off an assassin's strike. Build Up + Assassin's Blades + Ablating Strike is the sweep combo, giving you an opening PBAoE knockdown right from level 8. While everything is getting up you can toggle on one of the mezz auras in safety.

Stalkers are designed around burst damage from a standing start, so taking time out for your endurance bar to recover isn't a problem.

Leviathan for stalkers comes with Hibernate; the tier 9 panic button that /DA is missing.

Elec/Stone - Lightning Rod is a very effective and eye catching way to move a granite between spawns. The -rech penalties in Granite take quite a bit of slotting around to get it up often enough though.

Elec/EA - Elec's AoEs help make up for the lack of a taunt aura and the heal in Energy Drain is rather good if you can use it in the middle of a large mob, which is where Elec/ likes to be.

Elec/Dark - slot a Theft of Essence proc in Dark Regeneration and you can Lightning Rod -> Dark Regen into a spawn from redlining health and less than 20% end and come out with both bars full and the mob only just getting off the floor. Elec/ is a bit less endurance intensive than some sets, which helps with /DA's toggle heavy nature. Elec/'s lacking single target damage and long animations combined with /Dark's mez auras could cause fury problems though.

Elec/SD - AAO helps make up for the lacking single target damage... when you're surrounded. Twin teleports sounds good, but then both of your highest damage AoEs are hit by the pet damage cap and your tier 9 from your primary is doing less damage than the tier 8 in your secondary... might as well roll this one as a scrapper and get the higher base damage modifier and better version of LR.

Elec/SR - Quickness gets the recharge of Lightning Rod down.

Elec/Elec - Lightning Reflexes... see above. At one point the AoE knockdowns helped a lot; giving you time for aid self to go off; with the addition of Energize it's largely unnecessary now.

Elec/Fire - Lightning Rod into a spawn to knock them down, drop a burn patch and immediately Thunderstrike, the knockdown will come just as everything has stood up again, keeping them burning for a bit longer.. Fiery Embrace + Build Up + Lightning Rod would be nice, but the low damage cap on LR eliminates that possibility.

It isn't tough.

It is impossible.

Here is a build with pretty much every +resistance set bonus I could find crammed into it with no regard for whether the character is playable; it still falls short by a ridiculous margin.

Carrying on for the sake of completeness: -

A Numina's Convalescence proc in Physical Perfection will have its regen enhanced by heal slotting and recovery enhanced by end mod slotting.

Panacea's proc in PvE is completely unaffected by slotting since it has a 'chance for set value' heal/end. Go into PvP and the heal portion is replaced by a regen boost like the rest of the heal uniques and is enhanced by heal slotting.

Pretty much, yes.

Indeed. Not sure if that is WAI, but that's definately how it is working and has been for quite some time.

If planning a build using that in mids though, note that mids is using the pre-ED capping values for the procs, and in game they use the normal capped enhancement.

It should probably be noted that the regen/recov values of the health uniques are enhanced by the slotting of the powers you slot them in. So while on a brute you've got no options for enhancing the recovery, the regen can be almost doubled.

Nothing will happen, pets are immune to recharge buffs/debuffs now.

Possible power ideas for Electric Manipulation... (Being manipulating combat with electricity; as opposed to electricity manipulation, which is manipulating electricity and already shows up under the blaster secondaries. Probably too subtle, needs a better name.)

Main theme seen in elec powers is +/-end. As already being an issue with most of the -end powers in the game, the npcs don't have decently scaled end costs so it's all or nothing. This leaves us with alpha dispersal as a mechanism. Hit a spawn with enough -end to drain a boss (when slotted) and apply a random duration -recovery so they can start attacking again over the next 5-10 seconds.

At the moment in team endurance management we have AoE +endurance in transference, AoE +recovery in accelerate metabolism and heat loss; and single target +recovery in speedboost, adrenalin boost and painbringer. A single target +end power for spot 'healing' blue bars would fill a gap. Synaptic Transfer maybe, 5 second base recharge, +30 (enhancable) endurance to target while applying a 20 second stacking -50% recovery to the caster.

Single target ally buff, long recharge (1 minute), +40% (enhancable) resistance to all for 2 minutes +50% recharge. Would love this to turn the target into a gremlin, but that might be technically problematic and having your character completely replaced by a lilac/mauve electric man is even worse than having it covered by pink/orange fire. Only just though. The elec response to fortitude.

A ranged single target sleep with a -recovery side effect so you can stack it with the earlier -end drain to keep one target out of end for longer.

Giving us a more limited version of the blue mito bouncing end drain/fear bolt might also work.

A PBAoE -recharge aura with chance for sleep would help with longer battles but might not synergise well with the end drain, there's not that much point in depriving targets of the endurance to use powers that aren't recharged or of powers to use with endurance they haven't got.

While there is no reason to expect such a power from the other sets, thematically an elec buff/debuff set ought to have an ally rez; it's one of the few methods that sort of works after all. Could be something along the lines of calling a lightning bolt down to strike the corpse, raising it on partial health, full end and dealing aoe damage+knockdown.

Oh I'm not saying that they'd ever do it, and personally I'd rather they didn't even consider it. Having these sorts of differences between sets is what makes it interesting.
If you want a set with build up then as far as I'm concerned you should pick one that's got it already, there's hardly a shortage of them.

It is worth noting however that they do know how to make 2 powers mutually exclusive; so it's not that "they can't do it" but that it's just not a desirable step to take. Do this and you also have to start offering build up to claws/, db/ and even /devices blasters.

I'd expect it would be handled as some sort of mutually exclusive power pick the same as build up/follow up on widows.

You've got 45% ranged defence, 33% AoE defence and I'm struggling to think of any attacks outside dominator's psi assault that are melee typed. While there is a total of 3 or 4 psi attacks that don't have a positional component; what exactly is the 23% psi defence expecting to work on that's of more benefit than boosting the AoE?

Ok... Assuming Shield Wall is referring to the PVP defense IO set since I can't think of anything else in the game with that name.

"It" would therefore presumably be the 3% resistance unique.

Only it states in the description that it's unique, so only 1 can be slotted on a character.

So it can't stack since it can't be put into a situation where it might try.

Or was that not your question?

With the new difficulty settings you can go for anything from spawning +4 bosses to take advantage of single target dps; through to -1 level, no bosses, and spawned for 8 to let an AoE heavy build tear through the massed weaklings.

Soloing is what you make of it. You don't have to pick something to fit the game any more, pick something that looks fun and adjust the game to fit.

The equivalent redside location is Cap Au Diable, with the main transit ferry, black market, unversity, vault building, sg portal, midnight club and vanguard rwz entrance all in walking distance of each other.

If you like a bit more peace and quiet while crafting, St. Martial has the black market and abandoned lab building connected by a short walkway.

Elec Assault
Pros : Good burst damage (partly due to Build Up). Voltaic Sentinal attacks while you're mezzed.
Cons : 2 AoEs, one a weak cone, one PBAoE knockback. Voltaic Sentinal seems to need resummoning every time it would be useful, won't focus on the target you want to die and won't go away if it's drawing unwanted aggro.

Energy Assault
Pros : Good single target. Improved control through Power Boost. Some reliable stun/knockback attacks.
Cons : Lacking AoE (only one AoE attack). Inconsistant knockback on most ranged attacks.

Psi Assault
Pros : Drain Psyche. Good AoE. Drain Psyche. Decent single target. Drain Psyche.
Cons : PSW isn't what is used to be, you need more than two powers from the set now. Robots resist psi damage to ridiculous extents.