Santorican

Originally Posted by protector_knight

I got my dual build SO's slotted for now, and she is already alot stronger than my first build (dmg per end use). She gonna be wicked once I create that IO build

Originally Posted by Ravenbane

After playing around with her build, I realize that, since Invuln will require I take the Fitness pool, I'd have to drop some other powers with her that I really don't want to give up (for flavor/concept purposes). I've decided on MA/Regen, but with enough boosts from set bonuses and Tough that she'll have 23.6% S/L Defense -thank you Kinetic Combat!- (as well as a not insignificant amount of melee defense) and 23.5-23.7% S/L/Toxic Resist, which makes me quite happy.

Thanks, folks!

Originally Posted by Nethergoat

Why must you price gouge the poor Casual Player Bill, you evil, evil man?

=(

Originally Posted by Umbral

First off, this guy is an idiot. Getting more damage recovery when you're already packing boatloads of damage recovery won't do you as much as allowing your already substantial damage recovery to act upon a smaller pool of incoming damage. The comparative benefit of 5 more hp/sec when you're already recovering 100 hp/sec is paltry compared to the benefit you'd get from simply taking a what defense bonuses you can get and reducing your incoming damage by 20%.

Think of it this way: you've got 100 hp/sec damage recovery. You are given the option to either decrease your incoming damage by 10% (10% resistance or 5% defense) or increase your hp/sec by 10. The hp/sec option would allow you to survive 110 (100 + 10) hp/sec of incoming damage. The damage reduction option would allow you to survive 111.1 (100/.9) hp/sec of damage. The damage reduction option is actually better.

Now, the most important thing to realize from this is that, thanks to the IO set bonuses you've got available, it is a lot easier to get substantial damage reduction capabilities (in the form of +def set bonuses) than it is to get substantial damage recovery capabilities.

The first set bonuses you should aim for are +rech set bonuses. Once you've gotten as much of those as possible, you should get positional +def set bonuses, with more melee than ranged and more ranged than AoE. You can rather easily get ~20-30% defense to all three positions, which will amount to a 40-60% reduction in incoming damage which will do boatloads more than increasing your 60 hp/sec passive regen rate to 70 hp/sec.

Originally Posted by DocDominion

Okay, a very skillful and powerful scrapper I was playing with yesterday said that resistance as far as Spines/Regen is a joke, and defense shouldn't even be looked at as much as just sheer Regeneration.
He explained that the cap for a Scrapper's defense is 75%, whereas a tank's is 90% or something, and that since my resistance to smashing/lethal ATM is only 20%, I'm still taking 80% of all the damage dished out to me.

But that's a bunch of wordiness, so I'll change the subject. Since we last spoke, I completed the Mako's Bite set and got the nice little chunk of resistance that goes with it.
I've also made about 8-9 million influence since then, I know this isn't much but to me it's a fortune. I'm trying to get the complete Numina's set as well, which would be sexy for regen.
My question is, what's a good set to slot out ripper/throw spines/quills/spine burst with? Currently my Mako's is in Lunge, which I don't use much as I tend to go for more AoE oriented attacks.

Another question is what's a good heal set to have in my passive regen abilities, since I started to slot out my ONE Numina enhancement into resilience. (Tell me if that's stupid.)

Thanks a bunch for your help so far, guys! Fire away!

Originally Posted by Vitality

I figured you had to give up way to much to get your regen that high...thats why I wanted to see the build.

I thought it was the actual build you were playing with.

Originally Posted by Vitality

900%?

Please show me that build.

Originally Posted by SkillyHizoh

Good call on Impale....focusing to much on sets for that. I wanted to keep the rech on SpineBurst so I could get it off twice with buildup (the activation/cast time + rech time lets it work with Hasten going).

I was trying to avoid the ToD/Gaussians b/c two or three out of those sets are well over 15 million each, which blows my imaginary "100 Mil. Influ" budget. Looks like I'll really need the ToD on Lunge to keep the Melee Def up.

Originally Posted by Rieze

All of his attacks are non positional. Might as well grab some purples and make use of the invasion accolade.