How useful is Conserve Power to Inv/SS with Rage?
Conserve Power can come in handy when End is getting low, it's almost like a Rest power that lets you keep fighting. I'll sometimes use it in a long, drawn-out battle, or against End-sapping enemies (especially Dark Ring Mistresses.) I'll also use it just before Unstoppable crashes, so Dull Pain is cheaper to use.
With an IO-ed out build, I don't use it as often, and if I could take Laser Eye Beams without taking Conserve Power I would. But I think I would still miss it from time to time, especially with all the electric attacks in MA missions.
Also- I had the Performance Shifter proc in Stamina for a while and honestly, I didn't really notice it. But as they say- your mileage may vary.
I have an Inv/SS soft-cap build mostly matured. I am trying to get the typed defenses as close to the soft cap as I can without giving up too much offense and mobility (I already have a Stone Tanker, thanks!)
Slots are screamingly tight, as you might imagine. I've managed to cram 40-75% end reduction into the attacks, and will be further reducing the end cost of Jab a little with final slots, from 41% to 57% endred on my most-frequent attack, and could give up a proc to get even more endred on this power.
I have not been planning on slotting the Performance Shifter proc, so far. I do already have a Numina unique slotted.
I am still feeling the bite of endurance -- probably because the Rage crash knocks off 25 every 2 minutes. In long fights I can eat blues to some degree, but still, I've been struggling somewhat when spamming powers thik and fast.
I had been planning to put my last slot at 50 into 2-slotting Char, and throw in a pair of Basilisk's Gaze IOs for the 2.5% En/Neg defense bonus. But I am starting to wonder if I should grab Conserve Power and 2-slot it with recharges. I will have mediocre global recharge (30-45% I think) and no Hasten.
How helpful would that be? I've never had Conserve Power on any character so i have no sense of the relative uptime and how much it helps overall. My sense of things is that when it's running, one recovers a full end bar to spend back down while waiting for CP to recharge. In that way, it might be pretty helpful.
Alternatively I could throw that last slot into Stamina and slto 4 Perfrmance Shifters including the proc, then 1-slot CP.
Thoughts?
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