I would avoid the Medicine pool, get Dark regen, it is the best self heal in the game. It's only drawback is it's large endurance cost. Slot it with 1xACC, 3xend red and 2 recharge reds. If you don't run out of end you can fill your hitpoints to top every 15 seconds.
With Tough ( 3 SOs ) you can get to about 52% resist to S/L from about 35%, which means 25% less damage. Weave gives 5% defence ( 3 SOs ) and is a pointless power to get unless you already have Cloak of Darkness as they are almost identical. However Cloak of Darkness gives +perception and stealth as well as the immob protection and defence and I think it is cheaper too.
For extra defence consider oppressive gloom or cloak of Fear. Both are better defensively than Tough, cloak of Fear provides a 9% to hit debuff and a fear effect on minions which gets temporarily broken when the minion is attacked. My suggested slotting is 2xACC, 3xEnd, 1xToHitDebuff or Fear. It does cost quite a bit of endruance though.
Oppressive gloom does the same but with disorient, but sucks some hitpoints per minion stunned. It isn't broken with power use, so it possibly more appropriate with your primary and with death shroud running.
Also it is worth getting Divine Avalanche from your primary, if provides more defence ( at the expence of damage ) than any other power you can get.
What level are you?
@Unthing ... Mostly on Union.
Thanks for reply.
Im level 32, i have an image of my build at http://www.simonroberts.net/critical.gif.
Not sure whether to drop death shroud and get gamblers cut too.?
Thanks for your time mate.
Simon
doh, i meant flashing steel, not gamblers cut..
and the link should have a "." at the end...deary me.
www.simonroberts.net/critical.gif
Thanks
Hi all, am ponderign and pondering..
Have a katana scrapper with DA. i have the fitness pool which seems essential, plus the leaping pool for acrobatics and immob protection...not sure what to go for for the 3rd pool. options are:
1: Medicine, to get aid self, but i could just get dark regeneration from the DA powerset. Dark regen has proved useful before.
2. Fighting, and go for tough, weave, not sure how good that is.
I have dark embrace, death shroud, murky cloud and obsidian cloud for defence.
What would you recommend?
Thanks,
Simon