Who to IO?
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Posted on: 2009-09-08 07:08 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
I'd say the Spines/Fire would benefit the most (adding defense to that build would greatly increase its survivability), however I think that you should IO the single character that you find you play the most.
IO the one you enjoy the most already, and you'll find that with the boost in performance you'll like them even more.
I believe you should IO all three characters, unless you play one of them significantly more than the others.
The influence costs tend to be a lot higher than the performance difference. That is to say, a 200m build will be stronger than a 20m build, but not ten times stronger ; so I'd rather have three good builds than one great build, if I had no favorite between the three characters and divided my playtime equally between them.
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Pretty much this. I'd also take a look at the market to get a good idea of what you can afford, then put together test builds for all three characters along those lines to see how you like them. Certain characters tend to get a lot more bang for their buck from IO'ing. Getting a character an extra 10% defense matters a lot more when they're already sitting at 35%.
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
I believe you should IO all three characters, unless you play one of them significantly more than the others.
The influence costs tend to be a lot higher than the performance difference. That is to say, a 200m build will be stronger than a 20m build, but not ten times stronger ; so I'd rather have three good builds than one great build, if I had no favorite between the three characters and divided my playtime equally between them. |
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Focus on the Spine/Fire Scrapper. Once IO'd he'll be a money making machine and will be able to fund the other 2
Don't forget the accolades also, especially the +hp
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Assuming you like all 3 equally, I would suggest either Defender or Scrapper. Storm/Dark sounds like pretty heavy endurance combo if you want to run Hurrican/Steamy all the time and then Snow Storm. Set bonuses will be great to offset that endurance cost.|
Originally Posted by North_Woods
I have yet to completely IO a character and I think its about time I invest my influence into something rather than just let it sit stagnant in my characters wallets. The problem is I can't decide who is going to benefit most from a good IO build.
I always team, never solo, and I like to run just about anything, from farms, to regular missions, to tfs. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can accomplish on a few different characters with a good IO set? Which build is going to bring the most to the table after IOs? The builds I was considering investing in were storm/dark/power defender fire/elec/elec blaster spines/fire scrapper |
Spines/Fire is a very strong farming build. If you do boss farms a lot, Spines/Fire is definitely a great choice.
I am even a big fan of Blaster in pve so I am not going to comment on this.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
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I really think that's the way to go, but on the flip side you can make one great build, play it a lot, and twink up the others with it. Also, it will be less confusing learning the process just doing one toon.
| I'd rather have three good builds than one great build, if I had no favorite between the three characters and divided my playtime equally between them. |
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So read through all of your great advice and I decided to IO my fire/spines scrapper and then use him to fund my other characters. I've put about 145mil into him already and its looking good! I can't wait to finish him up and see how much more durable he is with IOs rather than SOs.
The bad news is, I think I just reached a new level of addiction on this game. Before I was all about leveling up and playing different builds. I never really got into the market, but I think its my new found obsession.
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Originally Posted by North_Woods
So read through all of your great advice and I decided to IO my fire/spines scrapper and then use him to fund my other characters. I've put about 145mil into him already and its looking good! I can't wait to finish him up and see how much more durable he is with IOs rather than SOs.
The bad news is, I think I just reached a new level of addiction on this game. Before I was all about leveling up and playing different builds. I never really got into the market, but I think its my new found obsession. |
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Yup, it happens. |
Originally Posted by North_Woods
So read through all of your great advice and I decided to IO my fire/spines scrapper and then use him to fund my other characters. I've put about 145mil into him already and its looking good! I can't wait to finish him up and see how much more durable he is with IOs rather than SOs.
The bad news is, I think I just reached a new level of addiction on this game. Before I was all about leveling up and playing different builds. I never really got into the market, but I think its my new found obsession. |
I recently decided to IO out my BS/DA scrapper and he has since become my favorite character to play after being in semi-retirement for a while.
Let me tell ya, a DA scrapper that is softcapped to all 3 positions is one of the hardest things in the game to kill under most normal circumstances. Defense debuffs are a killer, but if they are not being applied to him, most everything he does is a cakewalk. On the rare occasion when something DOES get through I have at least 30% resistance to back it up. And if the random number generator decides it doesn't like me and I take a lot of damage, I have the best self heal in the game to fall back on.
The best part is I did it relatively cheaply too. Spent maybe 250-300 mil on him total.
You'll have fun with your Spines/Fire. I have one myself at level 40 and he's a blast to play with just generic IOs and SOs. I can only imagine how awesome he will get if I invest some influence into him.
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Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately. |
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Now you got me curious. How did you manage to softcap all positions on BS/DA? I can only manage Melee at softcap with the other 2 positions being relatively high
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Originally Posted by ClawsandEffect
Yup, it happens.
I recently decided to IO out my BS/DA scrapper and he has since become my favorite character to play after being in semi-retirement for a while. Let me tell ya, a DA scrapper that is softcapped to all 3 positions is one of the hardest things in the game to kill under most normal circumstances. Defense debuffs are a killer, but if they are not being applied to him, most everything he does is a cakewalk. On the rare occasion when something DOES get through I have at least 30% resistance to back it up. And if the random number generator decides it doesn't like me and I take a lot of damage, I have the best self heal in the game to fall back on. The best part is I did it relatively cheaply too. Spent maybe 250-300 mil on him total. You'll have fun with your Spines/Fire. I have one myself at level 40 and he's a blast to play with just generic IOs and SOs. I can only imagine how awesome he will get if I invest some influence into him. |
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Originally Posted by ShadowNate
Now you got me curious. How did you manage to softcap all positions on BS/DA? I can only manage Melee at softcap with the other 2 positions being relatively high
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I have yet to completely IO a character and I think its about time I invest my influence into something rather than just let it sit stagnant in my characters wallets. The problem is I can't decide who is going to benefit most from a good IO build.
I always team, never solo, and I like to run just about anything, from farms, to regular missions, to tfs. Does anyone have any suggestions on what I can accomplish on a few different characters with a good IO set? Which build is going to bring the most to the table after IOs?
The builds I was considering investing in were
storm/dark/power defender
fire/elec/elec blaster
spines/fire scrapper