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What I really wanna see is what you can do w/Dark armor. Even w/capped S/L defenses, Fire has a lot of holes to cover up, and you can only go so far w/just pools & IOs.
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What you can do with Dark Armor:
- Soft Cap
- Great Resists
- Great Heal
- Sustainable Endurance (in most situations)
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Empty slot is for the PvP +resistance IO. Second Steadfast Protection unique is a PvP +defense IO.
"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
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Wow that build is nice but it has very little in recharge bonuses.
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Dark/Shield Build Thread
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Wow that build is nice but it has very little in recharge bonuses.
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Thanks. For the recharge, I figured Katana didn't need it. It would be nice to have lots of recharge for Dark Regeneration, but I thought I'd try the approach of instead not needing it as often, kind of like my Katana/Regen is a low recharge high defense build. I'll see how it works in practice, some day, maybe. I think I'm in the mid 30s.
To me, the biggest weakness is lack of defense debuff resistance. It's also a little weak against mobs with to hit buffs, as 57% melee defense isn't really enough there. Still, I've had only minor trouble handling those issues with my Katana/Regen, and they're even worse there.
(Edit: The build also reflects my bias towards single hard targets, like slotting Dark Regeneration heavily for healing (a waste in normal play). Still, I fit in Death Shroud and The Lotus Drops to do some passable AoE, and actually took a travel power. So it may be one of the more practical builds I've made, even if it isn't particularly practical overall.)
(Edit 2: Oh, and DPS is on the low side, though I haven't calculated it yet. It'll solo AVs, but it'll do it slowly. It's no Dark Melee/Shield Defense.)
"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
Videos of Other Stupid Scrapper Tricks
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Wow that build is nice but it has very little in recharge bonuses.
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The nice thing about Katana, especially if you go with double stacking DA, is that you don't really need much recharge to get a good attack string going. You can have a perfectly functional and highly effective attack string with just SOs.
It's only S/L def cap. I don't think you can do all, even the positionals, no matter how much you were willing to gimp everything else. Might be fun to try though, or maybe just S/L and ranged. My Invul tanker build can do E/N capped w/around 43% ranged (90% S/L resists make S/L def kinda unnecessary, tho it's up there), but that's w/Invul, and w/tank values to boot.
What I really wanna see is what you can do w/Dark armor. Even w/capped S/L defenses, Fire has a lot of holes to cover up, and you can only go so far w/just pools & IOs.
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