I know for sure that Dark Melee/Super Reflexes is stupid powerful for cheap. You can hit the soft cap fairly easily and Dark Melee's secondary effect(To Hit Debuff) goes well with the Defense of Super Reflexes.
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They are both amazing. I have both at level 50 and both IOd out...DM/SR is more powerful at a cheaper price.
you might want to give dark/invuln a look too. Good synergy in that mix.
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DM/SR would be less pricy.
Both are awesome and I would agree that /SR would be the cheaper route to a higher end build.
I have a DM/WP brute and a DM/SR scrapper, both 50s.
WP is probably a lot more fun to level than SR, is much tougher at lower levels, and as such is the build of choice for going back and revisiting lower level content. My purely subjective impression is that SR didn't really become fun to play until I had acquired all three of the Performance Shifter, Numina, and Miracle +recovery IOs, and they still aren't enough.
It is fairly easy to get SR to the defense cap for all three positions. Mine is capped versus melee and AoE; ranged seems to be harder.
One of the glories of DM is that you can frankenslot sets that you might not have considered, like accurate healing, immobilize, and to hit debuff. Frankenslotting is generally inconsistent with building to maximize defense, since too many of those bonuses require 5 or 6 of a set. The pursuit of defense bonuses also puts purple sets out of bounds; they seldom if ever feature it.
For Willpower, pursuing defense bonuses is an eccentric pursuit IMO. You want max HP and regeneration instead.
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For Willpower, pursuing defense bonuses is an eccentric pursuit IMO. You want max HP and regeneration instead.
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That at least used to be the case. Then high levels of typed defense became much easier to obtain. At this point defense builds seem a much better choice to me if you're going for maximum survivability. On the other hand, the way that I calculate survivability unintentionally overweights defense and underweights hit points, so it's hard to say that conclusively.
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I have both at 40/42, whats your guys opinion on each one and which do you think can perform better for a cheaper price?