YoumuKonpaku

I have this problem on my DA/WM. When I get my first warning, I shut off all 3 taunt auras. Second warning, I stop attacking and back out a short distance away and out of range of teammates. Most of the time, I still get sequestered.

On the other hand, when another tank is on their second sequester, I can snap it off them near instantly most of the time.

I've actually been on quite a few teams where nobody had tactics. Not even support characters. But yeah, it doesn't confer the protection to to-hit debuffs. That was a big draw for me.

Phew, okay! That took a fair bit, especially taking a second pass through Finduilas' build. Let me explain what I meant when I referred to the human element and actual play, though.

Generally, when we look at numbers, attack chains, DPE, etc. we are looking at an offensive focused character. One who is constantly firing off attacks back-to-back, whether it be on a pylon, AV/GMs who last a fair chunk of time, or blowing over spawns with AOEs. We also tend to look at these in a vacuum, ignoring outside factors and the human element. We all play a little differently, after all.

When I build this I recognized that, even with nearly 2e/s to the positive, I run the potential of emptying my blue bar. Hence the building for recovery, the multiple procs for END, and Conserve Power. From a purely numeric standpoint, those saying that END may be a problem are absolutely correct, and I am not disagreeing from a numeric standpoint. Where I am disagreeing is in actual play.

Let's look at the total e/s. Right now it's 1.94 e/s with everything running. If I shut off FA, it's 2.3 e/s. FA is a hefty chunk of endurance, but I may not need it all of the time. It's not something I leave on in every circumstance, because not every circumstance calls for it. This is part of the human element. If don't need it, I'm not going to use it, right?

Next let's look at my 'attack chain'. At my level of recharge, I do not have a seamless attack chain. The best I can do before hitting a gap is bash-shatter-bash-pulverize. These currently take 17.56 endurance to fire off all four. In arcanatime, these take 7.39 seconds to animate. Let's round down for sake of ease. If I'm making back 1.94 e/s, I've gained 13.58 endurance in that period of time. If I'm gaining 2.3 e/s, I've recovered 16.1. However, I also have a gap of time. After the pulverize I have a 0.624s gap until the next bash. After that Bash, I have 2.47 seconds until Pulverize is up again (prior gap+bash animation), or 1 second until Shatter returns (6.51 cooldown, minus 2 bash animations, pulverize animation and gap). This is, of course, discounting lag. These gaps in time allow further recovery.

The last element of this is real world play and a continuation of the human factor. What AM I doing currently in the game? Am I fighting a regular spawn? If this is the case, I may not be standing there whacking things over and over. I may be hopping about, tagging things with my taunt auras, ST attacks, and taunting. These are periods of time when I am not attacking full bore, thus allowing extra recovery. How about if I'm fighting an AV whose fight drags on? This is where Conserve Power may come into play. My course of action in this case is to let my blue bar dwindle to about 20% and then fire off CP. The massive reduction allows it to fill itself with ease. However, with the gaps in my chain, the drop off in endurance is slow enough that it gives numerous opportunities for the procs in PP/Stamina to kick in. What about Inspirations? Granted, you may not have them at all times. I carry a column of blues for emergencies, such as having my recovery floored when Conserve is down.

This is a team-oriented character with a design philosophy that has a bit of a bent towards solo-oriented characters. What I mean by that is he has the tools and capabilities to be entirely self-sustained, save for the damage. He does not rely on other's buffs, but if they are present they may allow him to change his game plan. What if I have two people present with tactics? What if I've got someone present with recovery buffs? What if I have none of these? These are the real world factors I took into consideration when I decided to run all of these toggles and build around cardiac.

In short, my point is that you're absolutely right from a numbers standpoint. I appreciate the numbers, and I appreciate the advice from that aspect of things. But given the nature of this character, one needs to also consider the implications of real world play. Raw numbers are more important when we point at a pylon and say 'go, hit this for 5 minutes'. Realistic play is more important when we consider a regular mission or trial. Time between spawns, time you can't fire off powers, and so on.

edit: I somehow forgot Clobber, because I wrote this right after I woke up! Go me! The primary point stands, though. I also forgot in my early morning numbers that recharges start upon animation completion, which skews numbers further. I will redo them when I have some free time.

I would appreciate seeing your suggestions! As for where the build stands on live, here:

Current numbers:

DEF: 45% S/L/E/N
RES: 67% S/L, 45% F/C, 31% E, 61% N, 75% Psi, 29% Tox
2122 HP
1.52 e/s net End Rec with all toggles. 1.9 w/o Focused Acc.

So far I've got everything slotted except: Four LotG 7.5s, four LotG DEF, 2 Erad Quads, Miracle Unique. Yeah, tall order, heh. Also another Erad Damage IO, but I am going to respec to fit that in once I finish the rest.

e2: Got my Cardiac T3 33% END/20% RES.

Missing Atlas Medallion too, need to plow Moonfire for those defeats.

RE: END issues, they really aren't that bad in actual play. Shutting off Focused Acc when not needed (facing +0 to +2s, having teammates running multiple tactics, etc.) helps a lot. Also, I'm not sitting there firing off attack chains back to back, except on an AV/EB. I spend a lot of time gathering targets with ST and my taunt auras, as stated prior. It is one of those things that looks bad on paper, but in practice it differs.

The basic design philosophy for this character was to operate at peak regardless of any missing buffs on a team. Missing tactics from others? No problem, focused acc. No team def buffs? No biggie, SLEN is capped, and so on in that vein.

e: Just slotted Numina unique.

Well, I spend a fair amount of time hopping about tagging things with the taunt auras/single attacks and draw them to me, if they're spread out to begin with (or the peacebringer got to them!). Though CoF and OG are a little counter-intuitive in getting them clustered, to be honest. Then, once I've got them in some semblance of a group I use crowd control and whirling mace.

In either case, getting both would benefit me! I21 can't come fast enough.

The percentage you are looking at is the total value of the enhancements placed in there. The percentage I am looking at is the end result after the enhancements in the power, the global accuracy, and focused acc (with the proc removed as it skews numbers).

First point: Yes, that is exactly what I do. There's no need to run it if I don't need to use it at the moment.

Second: Ah, good catch! That is something I had not considered. It is about a minute difference in reuse time, but as things stand now I am having long lulls between needing to fire it off. However, what do you think about me putting a straight Damage Erad in it for the extra 2.25% hp? Don't gain the recharge, but it puts the damage enhancement to 87%.

e: I could also still go ahead with the prior plan to slot the erad proc in Death Shroud once they get the bonus slots working, gaining about 85 HP more in total and getting the best of both worlds for boosting damage.

Random side note: I am thinking of also doing a DA/MA w/ positionals and seeing about DA/Ice. I love DA.

I wanted to come in and say this is a FANTASTIC idea and thanks for it! I've got a SLEN capped DA/WM right now I'm IOing, but maybe I'll try DA/MA and positional cap it as an alternative in the future. Hell, even right now she'd be over cap on M/R with MA, and about 7% under on AOE. Which is easily fixed, and it might be cheaper than what I'm doing now.

Oh, if only I could see the new sets in Mids now.

I can pretty much agree with this, though I'd also add Ice to that. I'm rather fond of */Ice/Psi on defenders as I have three holds to throw out.

On the other end of the spectrum, I will never take Rad. Ever. You couldn't pay me to play Rad on a Defender. Blaster, maybe, Defender, never.

Seeing as he has all of the IO sets at their max level, I was going off of the idea that this was built for level 50 focused play. Even then, you'll be fine surviving on just DP unless you exemplar below 15. One target with DP not slotted for any END mod brings you to over 4 end/s. He'll still have a good chunk of his recharge left, too.

I just don't see a purpose in slotting up Stam/Health on /psi/. You have DP. Use it and enjoy infinite endurance.

The rule is one -KB IO or three. Not two. Two covers the same as one, which is the majority of the game. You need the third to stop the rest.

I haven't taken this power since we got the -KB IOs added to the game. You can use IOs and still be a casual player. I'm not sure where this line of thinking comes from, nor why so much of the player base is scared of the invention system.

Status resistance from set bonuses reduces the time that effects last, it doesn't offer protection. Protection prevents them from actually affecting you.

Yes, the hold will drop (or just suppress) some of your toggles. That's why we build for defense, or as Rad you apply a very large -to-hit debuff that will help with stopping them from landing in the first place. I've had multiple Rad characters and never felt it was an issue. If I'm fighting an AV, where the debuffs matter the most, I'm not likely to get hit by a mez standing in the back. If fighting standard spawns, well, these days they melt so fast at high levels that it isn't an issue. At lower levels it could be a concern, and perhaps valuable then, but it isn't a power I'd ever want in my arsenal at 50.

Slightly OT: I might get flogged for this, but in the current metagame at 50 I could see dropping RI. It's not that useful on AVs (-5% def and -5% to-hit, roughly, after purple patch if slotted to max) and spawns die in a few seconds.

edit: also, clarion.

Resistance will resist damage debuffs, but only to the type(s) the resistance covers.

-DMG is resisted by damage resistance from what I understand.

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1. Destiny, I get to unslot stamina and health on every character that I use ageless on, and drop +recovery powers.
2. Alpha, shift everywhere, enough said.
3. Interface because I tend to play AOE heavy characters.
4. Judgment, most handy on the few ST characters I play.
5. Lore. Eh, I think it'll tear apart bosses on my son/son, but it ranks as 'okay' for me.

With that said, I appreciate all of them and they're pretty close in importance for me.

Temp powers are currently bugged and flickering in and out of usability during trials. When doing the towers in Lambda, my NR/Raptor pack go gray and back to normal repeatedly. When I'm back on the ground or inside, they're fine.