Man_Of_War

Originally Posted by Umbral

If you're going to start dropping purple sets, Hecatomb goes into Storm Kick, not Eagles Claw. In order to get the SK>Crane>SK>CAK attack string (i.e. the best ST attack string you can get), you need SK recharging in 1.848 seconds. You've got it recharging in 2.03 seconds with Hasten up. Switching Hecatomb to Storm Kick would pull that down to 1.75 sec recharge.

Also, you may not realize it, but half of Stealth's +def is suppressed in combat so you're actually getting less defense than in the original build. The power looks like it has pretty numbers but, in reality, Combat Jumping is just as good for defense, improves rather than injures your mobility, and costs a good deal less. Maneuvers would honestly be a better option.

Also, adding in purple and PvP sets doesn't really ensure that you're necessarily getting better numbers. If you threw in some BotZ sets and didn't mule as much, you could manage pretty much identical performance to that build for a fraction of the cost (because those Panacea sets cost an arm and a leg).

Originally Posted by SpiderTeo_OC

Okay, I've checked out your build, and compared it to my own MA/Regen build. Now in terms of global recharge, yours blows mine away. That means you can get your clicks up faster and pretty much guarantees a strong offensive attack chain. Even your combined +Acc bonuses will allow you to have a better chance of hitting higher level mobs (at least +3, +4 more) than my build does.

However, your passive +regen is about the same as mine (give or take a few points). Yours only starts to come out ahead when Instant Healing is up, since you decided to slot up the healing enhancement. Still, you only get about 10-15 more hp/sec than mine. It's not that much of a difference in the long run, where that small window is not going to make too much difference in survivability.

Now going back to your high global recharge, in order to make use of that, you will still need to have the endurance to support attacks and clicks going that fast. Your +recovery is a little less than mine, but with a higher END usage. I only have the occasional END problem when it comes to really long drawn out battles (like RWZ Challenge, Pylon soloing, AV hunting, etc), but I can turn off a toggle here or there or hit MoG to boost up my +rec. I don't know if even MoG can sustain the high recharge you got there for extended periods of time. You don't have Stamina or Physical Perfect, so you are probably going to feel it.

Also, there's no shame in using Hasten in order to get higher global recharge. If you got it, then make use of it. Otherwise, you are going to put too much effort for diminished returns.

The biggest difference in our builds (in addition to costs) is Defense. I got just barely enough global recharge to allow for perma-Dull Pain, and to get close to the SK->CK->SK->CAK attack chain. Then I stacked as much defense as I could get. There was no way of soft-capping on a MA/Regen without some major sacrifices, so I stuck with melee Defense, which would get a decent S/L Def to it as well. I got my melee Defense up to +30%, with +16-17% Ranged and +13% AoE. That Defense works wonders now that I have it. I can solo a Pylon (though at a damn long time) and still get through a RWZ Challenge, albeit at a low success rate. Your defense is decent enough for most of the PvE content, but you will need considerable more defense to be consistent against AVs.

As for PvP, I've done a little bit of it with my PvE build, and I did fine for the most part. I'm no ringer by any means, but having a very high global recharge means you can get your big attacks faster as well as your clicks, which will annoy and frustrate the hell out of your opponent unless they got slows and -recharge to annoy and frustrate the hell out of you with. The +Acc in your proposed build would be useful to keep your To-Hit near, if not at the cap. I also would recommend getting Cobra Strike for PvP as well. Using that with Eagle's Claw will stun and again annoy your opponents. I use it as a bit of control when working in teams, or in free for alls when I need to hamstring one guy so I can then get to the other guys first.

Originally Posted by Gaderath

I don't have a lot of time to look at the build closely, but I will point out, if you've been gone since CoV release, with no game time in a CoX with Markets, and just got back to the game... there's no way you'll be able to afford that build without a lot of help. Many of those purple IOs go for hundreds of millions of influence, the PvP IOs go for billions. Some of them go regularly for more than the inf cap. And you have many expensive unique or global enhancements on top of that.

Oh. And look up Enhancement Diversification. Just glancing on it, I can tell several of your powers are well over the ED cap, and could be switched up a bit with procs or same-set-different-parts for more end/rech/acc.