First Rad/Rad defender - please rip to bits!!


blue_rush

 

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Choking Cloud, Tactics, and your debuffs? I hope you have many kinetic friends to keep your end rec boosted by speed boost.


 

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He does have powersink and AM

That combination has never done me wrong (though I do have hasten too)


"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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Which would be better as an epic. Electric or dark?

Dark gives me another toggle which is a pbaoe disorient and dark consumption, and elec gives me power sink. Not much difference between the endurance with either one though.


 

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Choking Cloud, Tactics, and your debuffs? I hope you have many kinetic friends to keep your end rec boosted by speed boost.

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I run CC, Assault, Tactics, 2 debuff toggles, Combat Jumping, Acrobatics, and Epic Armour without considerable problems. All are slotted with end reducers of course.


 

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Which would be better as an epic. Electric or dark?

Dark gives me another toggle which is a pbaoe disorient and dark consumption, and elec gives me power sink. Not much difference between the endurance with either one though.

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My only comment is avoid Thunderstike in electric epic. It has a tendency to cause a fountain of enemies - all swishing out of debuff zone and then looking at you in an irate manner!


 

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See I'd recomend Thunderstrike for the times when the boss is left and the rest are gone. Helps stacking stuns with Cosmic Burst, gives fairly nice damage and can be slotted with Sirroccos Dervish and thus a good general boost


"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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Choking Cloud, Tactics, and your debuffs? I hope you have many kinetic friends to keep your end rec boosted by speed boost.

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I run CC, Assault, Tactics, 2 debuff toggles, Combat Jumping, Acrobatics, and Epic Armour without considerable problems. All are slotted with end reducers of course.

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My Rad/Rad is still level 27, so I trust your word man! But at the point I am now I find endurance is always an issue, even with stamina... Maybe my enhancements for end red just are not powerful enough yet, given the level.


 

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When I hit a high enough level (around 30/35 mark) I may start slotting with inventions for endurance redux. Think about that level an invention out performs a SO.


 

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At level 35 an invention is roughly equal to a +2SO, at 40 they out perform them


"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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At level 35 an invention is roughly equal to a +2SO, at 40 they out perform them

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Thanks. Havnt really used inventions yet. This will be my first one to use them and I will probably need them with this alt.


 

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For even level SOs, IOs are better even before 30. Clicky.


CoX 50s: <ill/rad> <ice/ice> <fire/kin> <grav/sonic> <ice/storm> <earth/kin> <kin/elec> <cold/psy> <thugs/dark> <fire/dark> <dark/elec> <night widow> <EM/ninj> <mind/icy>

 

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always have my planners set to +2 SOs so wasn't sure about evens


"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"

 

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Alot of slots needlessly used on Neutrino Bolt imho. Its low cost, fast recharge anyway and its damage will never be better than terrible Two Acc+Def Debuff/Two Acc+Dmg or even simply 1 Acc+Def Debuff and spam the AV/Boss with it.

Again, Irradiate is a feeble damage power so take out the damage and go 2Acc/2End Red/2Rec Red for standard SO build.

Flys fun but I always settled on Leaping so I could get Acrobatics and not spend most of my time on my backside Special IO's help of course now but you'd need to move powers around for that.

If your taking Choking Cloud then its all or nothing I find - 3 Hold + 3 End Red. Very annoying when you get this detoggled tho.

Recall Friend? Suppose its ok but takes what can seem forever to combine with Fallout/Vengeance routine.

Would take out a damage on Cosmic Burst and either shove another Acc in or a disorient.

I ran with the Leadership stuff for a while in the 30's but the detoggling drove me nuts and the end cost too high I found. Not a huge fan of them on my Rad but it does help, particulary for CC.

Don't think Ive tried the Opp Gloom with CC combo but its a nice idea - just make sure you have Cosmic Burst on those Lt'

Would shift Dark Embrace ahead of Consumption as the protections needed more than a really long +end attack. Much prefer Powersink, with Charged Armour and Electric Fence for pinning my anchors. Thunderstrike for me is loud, flashing and scatters the mob all over the place which is usually bad

Overall they look mostly ok