Alpha for a DB/WP


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I'm struggling trying to figure out what alpha to choose for my DB/WP scrapper.

She has a fine "bargain" build, soft-capped to s/l, 40% global recharge, sufficient for chaining the Attack Vitals and Sweep combos. Good enough.

Going down the list, Cardiac doesn't seem to get me much. Endurance is a non-issue, I've got Physical Perfection in addition to Quick Recovery + Stamina and the Miracle and Numina uniques. The Resistance increases don't wow me. s/l goes from 50 to 56, everything else 8.8 to 9.6.

Musculature seems interesting. Core would give a real increase to damage, which is this toon's "job". Radial offers some various benefits I wouldn't chase after, but I'll take (-Def, -ToHit, EnMod)

Nerve Core? Nah, Focused Accuracy + Blinding Feint(s) and 56% global acc have me satisfied for accuracy. Nerve Radial is interesting because it ups e/n def from 37 to 40 and f/c from 32 to 35. Psi from 23 to 26. This is worthy of consideration.

Spiritual - With a seemless attach chain of 2 combos and a wp secondary that basically gets NO benefit from recharge, this seems like an unlikely choice. Except... Spiritual Radial really buffs regen nicely. With 1 foe in range of RTTC, regen goes from 58 hp/sec and max hp = 2208 to 67 hp/sec and max hp = 2250. The to-hit and jump buffs are gravy. And hey, I won't turn down more recharge.

That leaves 3 enticing choices:
Musculature Radial Paragon
Nerve Radial Paragon
Spiritual Radial Paragon

And the winner is... Nerve? I almost want to use a random # generator to choose.

Does anyone want to pitch an alpha that they like for their DB/WP?


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The standard defensive answer is Spiritual.
The standard offensive answer is Musculature.
If you can't decide between thost two, do both.

I see no advantage to Cardiac or Nerve on a well built WP.


 

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Well, Spiritual has the benefit of giving some added +RCH when faced against -RCH. Also the +Heal helps regen and +HP.

Masculation gives more damage.

I'd stick between those two and decide which you want. I went Spiritual on my DB/WP and don't regret it.

Untill Judgement power, which gets benefit out of Masculation but not Spiritual!


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the lore pet also benefites from Musc if that makes any difference


 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Linea_Alba View Post
I see no advantage to Cardiac or Nerve on a well built WP.
Its an edge case, and the OP is not an edge case, but Cardiac for my Brute means near perma double rage stacking + darkest night and maneuvers as well as an extra 5% SM/L resistance - which I was able to combine with barrier for a total of 10% SM/L resistance improvement over my previous build.