Desmodos

On scrappers and brutes I damage auras immediately and differ all slots to them before all other powers. I actually get frustrated when I play scrappers that don't have a damage aura. I turn to minions thinking "Shouldn't you be dead?", then I remember "damn, no damage aura..."

Is this a new character or one you've already leveled up?

You may want to read DesertScorpion's Dark Dojo Guide. Yes it's old, but most the information he gives there remains current.

The order in which you selected your powers seems inadvisable as a leveling build. Powers like Obsidian Shield and Dark Regeneration should really be selected as soon as they are available. If your friend has been away from the game 2 years, it's not likely he can select Super Jump at level 10.

Several of your attacks seem slotted soley as set bonus mules. These should all be slotted for damage. Crane Kick is one of your most damaging attacks, but you've barely slotted it's damage. Crippling Axe kick has no damage slotting at all.

This build seems to rely very heavily on recharge, but the recharge is coming from Force Feedback: +recharge PROCs. This isn't very reliable and really won't make up for the lost damage output. Even if you got extremely lucky with these PROCs going off, you'd never sustain any attack chains as the builds recover is too low.

While you can run CoF and OG together, it's not typically recommended. OG is the favored choice with Martial Arts as you can stack stuns.

You should not skip Death Shroud. It's a very efficient attack and in many scenarios will be the highest damaging attack in the build.

I feel my critique is coming off rather harsh, but IMHO there are a lot of problems with this build. I'd recommend reading the DesertScorpion guide I linked above since it's an MA/DA build. You may also find the Dark Armor sections of my guide useful, but it's a DM/DA guide and a tad bit long.

Werner, this is more your area, but isn't his recharge kind of low for AV fighting?

Sadly, I'm mildly annoyed as I write this post because I seem to have misplaced my BS/DA build, among others.

You've sacrificed AoE capability in order to achieve greater defense values. Not necessarily a bad choice, but certainly not a route I would want to take.

I'm trying to reconcile what you've done with Dark Regeneration with the level of defense your working with. I've had this debate with Werner prior. Basically you're siding with "I have enough defense to not rely on Dark Regeneration as often." I've considered doing something similar as an alternate build, but I never really liked as a primary build. The big draw back being the resulting builds have zero exemplar capability.

I'm somewhat impressed with how endurance friendly this build seems, but the 4th slot in Stamina really is overkill. You'd get better returns for that slot in health or Physical Perfection, same logic as ClawsandEffect was speaking to.

This is the part where I'm being a stick in the mud I still think you're short changing yourself with Death Shroud's damage not being fully enhanced. This where the build kind of falls apart for me. Yes Death Shroud can be effective against single targets, but it shines against multiple targets. The ToE Proc in Dark Regeneration also works best against multiple targets. With the amount of defense your packing, CoF really contributes little against single targets.

EDIT: Sorry, I missed the fact you had maxed out your 3.13% defense bonus. I removed the last line of my post because of this.

EDIT 2: Minor suggestion. IMHO damage procs in an aura are a waste due to the 10 second rule, (unless this changed recently?). Switching that PROC in Death Shroud to the Eradication: Damage would increase your Death Shroud damage without altering any of the other stats on your build.

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and of course...

Basically, I want a new forum banner. I've made two; the first one got me in trouble (don't ask) and the 2nd one is what I'm currently using. Both took me absurd amounts of time to do...because I don't know what I'm doing. So I'm turning to the artisticly talented folks.

I'm making this an 'open art request' because I don't actually know what I want. A scrolling montage of various pieces from my budding collection or a completely original piece could would work. This type of indecision usually leads me to select more than one.

So any artists free and/or interested?

As always, all negotiations need to be in PMs and/or e-mail.

Anyone who has Paulo Barrios on deviantArt watch may have already seen a version of this. His original version had Desmodas in a very green costume. While I thought it looked really good, I felt it really wasn't a Desmodas color. At my request, he adjusted the colors for this darker version.

The perspective of this piece seems to throw people, myself included. I flipped around a few times but ultimately I really liked it.

I usually have something on Auto, usually brawl. A bit of carry over from playing a brute. I tend to mash buttons rather quickly, so the auto rarely actually goes off, as I tend to forget about it. As my characters gain more and more recharge, I tend to forget powers I should be using vs the big hitters. An auto attack helps me break that mentality.

What the hell happened here?

I miss the good ol' days when devs posted information...

Hbd DC.