Spines/DA: The Dust Bunny's AoE Guide
By
Captain_Amazing_NA,
Posted on: 2004-10-07 04:36 in Player Guides
Check my Spines Guide (second post of the scrapper gudies and Faqs thread), it has my build at the end. Check any thread in the Scrapper forum regarding Dark Armour, slotting for Spines DA is no different than any other DA.
I haven't changed anything for I5, mostly just because I am lazy, and IMHO DA needs less changes due to I5 than any other powerset. Spines is exactly the same.
DA Changes in brief.
Only important changes to DA IMHO are to Cloak of Darkness and Cloak of Fear.
CoD becomes not a great return for slots in I5. The power is still not bad but a Def Enh gets you 0.65% additional Def, so not a high priority for slots.
CoF has been nerfed a couple of times. As of I5 it only Cowers minions, it hits a level+0 mob 50% of the time and the To Hit debuff was reduced (from 25% to 10%). IMHO it is line ball as to whether it is worth the End cost to run and requires 3 Acc and a Fear Enh to give a 90% Cower vs level+1 mobs, leaving you with two slots to Enh the To Hit debuff or cut the sizeable End cost. If you are not prepared to 6 slot it or if you run Op Gloom, which will stun all the minions anyway, then don't take it.
Changes which are interesting but wouldn't affect your choice of powers or slotting.
All toggles can be run simultaneously.
Dark Embrace gives Toxic resist.
CoD gives Immobilise resist and increased Perception vs Stealth powers.
Ob Shield protects from Fear.
Murk Cloud protects from End Drain, this is actually quite nice.
Soul Transfer got a couple of improvements, but not enough to change anyones mind who was or wasn't going to take a Self Rez power.
I've just about got an I5 compliant DA overview ready to go, might be up sometime today.
regards, Screwloose.
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Man I like this build thanks Romance I am doin the Hasten I just like to kill stuff fast I just got my guy to lvl 10 he works great 
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Also I'm swinging between Impale and Ripper as the better Single Target attack. I think the knockdown, the cone and the ability to hit 4 mobs at once edges out the range on Impale. Especially now that we have the ability to hit runners and ranged attacks in the EPPs.
(I really should check this more often but it's such a rare build that people don't post much )
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what is EPPs?
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what is EPPs?
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Epic Power Pools, got changed to Anciliary Power Pools after people complained that the powers in them weren't Epic enough.
regards, Screwloose.
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So has anyone assembled a spines/DA build for issue 7? Granted I've parked mine due to end issues but looking to bring out of retirement for some aoe love....
Not really.
Spines hasn't changed hardly at all so any Spines guide will give you decent ideas on Spines. I'm currently polishing an I7 Spines overview, but I've not changed much from my I1 version.
The Gamemasters I7 DM DA guide will give you some decent up to date info on DA. I was going to redo my DA overview but I wouldn't be saying much different to what the Gammaster says.
And Red Tomaxs site will give you some good I7 numbers on powers.
regards, Screwloose.
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Can any of you guys post your I5 build. I'm still confused as to how to build one and how/when to slot it.