An Epic Invulnerable

I normally run Pyre epic pool for my scrappers however I am considering caltrops on my BS/SD for some 'soft' control...ie they start running away slowly while it whallop them.

Anyone use it over Pyre at all, my concerns are as follows

1. Is it worth the trade off of lower damage vs fireball
2. Do they get out of melee range too quickly
3. Will it actually improve my survivability

Finally if I were to go down this route should i slot for damage or slow?

i personally like caltrops because with high rech builds it can stack up to 3 times easy and that totals a lot of dmg over time

if you get the web nade or have another single target immob it will significantly increase your DPS on that target

caltrops is actually about the same dmg as fireball, but it deals its dmg over time and if the baddy remains in the patch the entire time it will prolly receive more dmg than from fire ball

the baddies dont usually get out of the melee range that fast because caltrops slows a lot, it also stacks slowing baddies a bit more, burn is worse than caltrops for baddies running away

i think it should help your surviveability a little because the baddies close to you will be slowly running away to focus on you and if your fighting melee heavy baddies then yes it will improve surviveability

for your last point, definitly dmg and rech, and dmg procs (dmg procs over dmg enhances), because of how dmg procs work in caltrops they are essentially like adding a 50% dmg enhance to the power which doesnt suffer dimished returns

my recommended slotting: frankenslot with dmg/rech IOs (recommend 3), posi blast proc, javelin volley proc (if you can afford), ragnarok proc (optional and funny and will provide additional mitigation with knockdown)

If Interface Reactive has a chance to trigger on each Caltrop tic as it does on each of my Fire Melee DoTs, it could be phenominal. -1 plus a -30 point kicker 75% of the time? Oh and a 25% chance for a -2.5% resist debuff stacking up to 4 times also. (That would be a Tier 4 I am describing.)

Hope someone with Caltrops and Reactive can give us the in game results.

Jak

reactive currently doesn't seem to be affecting powers like sleet and rain of fire, so I would guess caltrops suffers from the same problem. Hopefully this will get fixed soon(ish) :/

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen

And here I thought the thread name meant people were going to be talking about Invulnerability!