Durien

or leadership which is 10% damage, it's really even better than 10% since you make everyone else do more damage too.

I generally look at it like this A. what would I slot anyways, and B. what would I have to slot elsewhere to get this particular bonus. For defense powers the answer to A, is about 4 slots, even if they were non set IO, i'd want some defense and MAYBE some end, depending on the build. The answer to B is a LOT, in the case of defense powers the reward is 12.5% global recharge(a pretty hefty number), in this case for the mere price of 2 slots more than I would normally go. Plus the small added bonus of 2% global damage increase.

unfortunately I'm still working my way up, so I wont know for quite a while how this build actually functions, but I don't foresee this being a problem. Even ignoring the endurance light secondary, with all the toggles on I gain significantly more endurance than I lose(more than 2 endurance per second gained after toggles, and that's with only one endurance mod in stamina), plus ice armor has EA going off every 25ish seconds.

I could agree with this if I was scrimping and scrounging for smashing/lethal defense, but it is in a pretty good abundance through my other powers. If I switched to 4 kinetic combat and 1 random dam/acc, I save one slot from that power, and I can take out 1 slot from EA or frozen aura. so I gain two slots, lose 3% global damage(almost guaranteed 3 slots or more to get back), and get a weaker non procing greater ice sword. The value of that trade is pretty questionable to me. I could use that to make the build more flexible though, say drop ice sword and add the kinetic combat into greater ice sword, save one slot and open up a power slot.

I agree for every stat except accuracy, you can always use more damage, you can usually use more recharge and endurance discount, but there's a certain point where accuracy doesn't really matter anymore. I never attempted to get global accuracy anywhere in this build, but its got 18% global accuracy buff, and if that makes a power accurate enough to hit most of the time it's good enough for me. With just the kinetic combats in there it is as accurate as if you put one level 50 accuracy IO(and had no other bonuses). That's as much as some people recommend in powers anyways. I personally prefer 2 accuracies, but the build has 5 slots open, so if I really wanted more accuracy/damage there's room for it.


Out of curiosity which GotA bonuses do you like more, run speed is only useful for situational builds(i'd say useless for this one), fire resists isn't really enough to help, 1.8% max end?, mes resist?, psy resist? None of those seem particularly helpful. On the othe rhand fortune has damage buff and 5% recharge(boht useful), and give better bonuses since it's a highe rlevel set. Luck of the gambler I can see, but it's very expensive, and the bonuses IMO are different not better. I'd much rather spend 5 slots and get the 5% recharge than spend 4 slots and get the worthless bonus's of GotA, or spend 4 slots(and a billion infamy) and get the regen/health/acc of LOTG. That one really does come down to personal preference(although I still don't understand GotA)

Anyway, no hard feelings, discussion breeds better builds!