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What I said was that later on it would not be a bad idea. I didn't post a build. And, if I had, the build wouldn't be that expensive. |
Originally Posted by Carnifax
I am a bit puzzled as to how in one post you can say "I didn't mention an expensive IO build at all" and in your initial post and here you bring up IOing to give yourself soft-capped defenses. To me the two statements don't gel, but like I said I'm rubbish at Set IO builds for the most part.
It'll be effective, probably far more effective than my Fault reliant SOer since you won't be wasting DPS on Fault and you won't be stunning things & missing out on their Fury building attacks. But it will be fairly expensive to achieve won't it? |
As far as how expensive, it depends on how you go about it. By ticket farming, you make a lot of money, and then roll recipes. If you fill out your build off of the rolls, and save the money to finish it off, it really isn't that expensive. If you are patient and bid lower, you can get recipes and IOs a lot cheaper than the "gotta have it now" price.
It gets expensive when you throw in purples (which I very rarely put in any build I make), or throw in very rare recipes(which I rarely put in as they are hard to get).
My DA tank, whose build is very similar to my SM/WP build, cost well under a billion. That is taking into account reslotting, and pricey build mistakes. A billion may sound like a lot, but if you concentrate on one toon, that isn't that bad. If you don't like farming it will take a bit longer, but still shouldnt be that bad.
Dark Armor is like that kid you knew in school that didn't know when to shut up, and no matter how bad he got beaten down, he got right back up again and kept on talking.
My SM/WP doesn't have fault, and to be honest, I don't miss it. I made that toon for one purpose, to beat the hell out of things. If it doesn't make the red bar go in a downwards direction, it doesn't belong in my attack chain. Now, currently my toon is sitting about halfway IO'd, when it was full SO'd, I liked fault, and with tremor it was very nice. Now that I am well over the 25% def mark, I can live without it. The closer to softcap I get, the less I miss it. I traded it for Dark Oblit, which mitigates by making them less likely to hit me, and makes the red bar go down. A good upgrade in my eyes.
Seriously, my point is, there are different ways to go about things, when someone suggests something off the norm, why does everyone have to come out and act like they are an idiot. If it is something that kills the effectiveness of the toon, I could understand it.
It'll be effective, probably far more effective than my Fault reliant SOer since you won't be wasting DPS on Fault and you won't be stunning things & missing out on their Fury building attacks. But it will be fairly expensive to achieve won't it?