I thank you for the work you've put into this. My new tanker, the Frontline Sentry, will be using this as a rough guide.
hey there, thanks for the guide it was quite informative. I have a quick question regarding your leveling IO builds.
After level 17 and until level 27 when you get level 30 sets, how do you slot? Do you suggest slotting as if you were preparing for the level 27 build? And then at 27 replace all of those spots with level 30's?
If so would that not be expensive?
Or am I totally unclear ((which is possible)) as to the process.
Does my question make sense?
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You can... It depends really on the influence you have available and how obsessive you are about updating your IOs. Truthfully, "frankenslotting" until the 30's will get you a long wayl My personal preference is to update IOs every 5-10 levels or so, depending on cost and availability. But, as I said, that's personal preference. |
Originally Posted by babyscid
hey there, thanks for the guide it was quite informative. I have a quick question regarding your leveling IO builds.
After level 17 and until level 27 when you get level 30 sets, how do you slot? Do you suggest slotting as if you were preparing for the level 27 build? And then at 27 replace all of those spots with level 30's? If so would that not be expensive? Or am I totally unclear ((which is possible)) as to the process. Does my question make sense? |
I just wanted to say that I really like the choice of sample builds in this guide.
I have a shield/WM tank (not specifically made following this guide, but turned out fairly close), and I just want to put in a good word for buildup. While it is true that this can be a tight build and buildup isn't absolutely essential, I think it is definitely worth the pick.
One thing in support of buildup that isn't as obvious is the fact that, if you do what I did and slot all your AoEs with the uber-cheap positional defense-granting multistrike, you won't really have very much recharge in them. I can still keep a decent rotation of AoEs going, but it's nowhere near seamless, and shield charge in particular could easily come back 20 seconds faster if I max slotted it. I personally consider that a extremely worthy tradeoff for the great defensive bonuses and value, but it's a drawback nonetheless.
Having buildup boosts your initial round of AoEs. This is, of course, nothing new, but I think it's especially welcome here since it helps compensate for their slower recharges compared to a more offensively-oriented slotting. Convienently enough, one slotted for recharge it syncs up with shield charge almost perfectly, so it also requires no slotting. Given such an offensively-oriented primary I really would rather capitalize on it to the greatest extent that I can without compromizing durability, and having buildup allows me to have my cake and at least partially eat it too.
After taking all of my primary, 7/9 from the secondary (less buildup and pulverize), stamina, weave, and combat jumping, I've got 1 power left. Given the amazing usefulness of ninja run, I honestly can't think of a better thing to spend that on than buildup, and with stamina coming for free in i19 I wouldn't imagine skipping it.
On an unrelated note, if you're planning to actually run tough+weave I would strongly suggest saving up your merits for the recovery uniques and/or a performance shifter proc. With multistrike your AoEs are pretty dang endurance efficient, but even with all three procs I can still run low at times, especially if I have to make heavy use of my ST attacks.
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Thank You so much for this great guide. This will help me a lot in making my Ex-Hellion character conception Manhole Shield/Baseball Bat.
In this days a very few feel good about sharing their character builds with others. You make a difference and that is a good thing to be thankful with.