Crashburn

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Poison Dart vs Swipe; I started with Dart for all the reasons you mentioned, a ranged attack for pulling and runners is always good, but as I got more of my melee powers I found that the recharge time was putting a gap in my chain that got frustrating so at 24 I went to swipe.

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They both have the exact same recharge time.

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yes I meant Cast time not recharge, very slight difference but enough to make my attack chain stop a sec. With Spin thrown into the equation it probably won't matter but it just seemed to work better for me.

Thanks so much for writing this.
I normally read through guides sections before I make any toon to avoid having to re spec too many times as I find what style of play I like for any given AT, but of course with VEATs there were no guides so I had to lvl my Crab on the fly and had to re spec 3 times before my Hover Crab of Death satisfied me. When I decided to make a widow I went back hoping for a decent guide and while there were a few pointers here and there there was no real guide.

I have only reached lvl 38 so far and aside from the lvl 24 re spec I am still experimenting, mostly with when to take powers as I , like you, have gone the melee route. I have furthur decided to refine the build to single target melee so I have put off Spin so far although I will probably re spec to get it a bit earlier. It was really the choice between Elude and Spin at 38 and my single target plan fits better with Elude.

Couple of comments.

Poison Dart vs Swipe; I started with Dart for all the reasons you mentioned, a ranged attack for pulling and runners is always good, but as I got more of my melee powers I found that the recharge time was putting a gap in my chain that got frustrating so at 24 I went to swipe. Like you I usually put 2 ACC in all attacks but with the CT: Offensive running two slots it was no problem running just one and using a recharge in that slot.

Placate; I wasn't going to take this, but since my SG runs Lib Farms on a pretty regular basis to either lvl alts past the painful 20s or mostly just for inf and drops, I passed the point where I planned on using my Vet re spec so I decided to try it out for a couple of lvls to see if it was worthwhile before I used my re spec. I am loving it. Mind link active, BuildUp>Slash>Lung>strike>Swipe>Swi pe>Placate repeat chain, boss dead. And yes two swipes is not a misprint, that's why I took swipe over Dart. I find I can get two swipes in just before Slash is up again even without Hasten, which by the way I am probably going to drop in favor of Combat Jumping.

Thanks again for the guide and am looking forward to the rest of it.