Better/More Fun/AV-killer
By
Achilles6,
Posted on: 2009-11-22 14:55 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Illusion/Rad Controller.
Virtue and Freedom
Hi, my name is Northman, and I am an Altoholic. No wait, I'm Lost Nova, no wait, Arc Havoc, no, Dragon Moon, no, Lord Fury......
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Back when I was offering space in my sig to the first blaster to beat the RWZ challenge, someone said something like "I don't care if I have to disguise myself as Rikti poop to beat them, if I win it counts" and I said something like "Sounds fair to me. "|
Originally Posted by Amy_Amp
With temps I do believe.
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(To my surprise it was a fire/fire/force and not a something/dev who won. I was totally expecting Giant Pile Of Tripmines to save the day. )
Back then I don't think we saw the ranged-soft-capped blasters we do today, but it's still an impressive acheivement- the RWZ one or the ITF one. Mez is not your friend, we'll just say.
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A Blaster has soloed Giant Monsters |
Originally Posted by Fulmens
Heck, a BLASTER soloed Lord Nemesis and that's a pretty impressive acheivement.
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(with no temps)
Going by your post, I'd suggest a kat/wp scrapper. It would fit your samarai theme, and it uses wp which is the secondary you mentioned.
As somebody else mentioned, it's much easier to get a scrappers defenses high enough to survive av attacks, than it is to get a tanks dps high enough to kill them. So you definitely want to go with a scrapper over a tank.
When fighting av's, it's all about defense, because avs inflict too much damage for a res and/or heal based toon to survive. You need to dodge a lot of their attacks. That's why I suggested katana, because it's easy to softcap melee/lethal with divine avalanche and maybe some additional io's so you only need one application. Then with wp, you have set defenses against other types of damage that can be softcapped with io's. Then, once you're softcapped to everything, you also have nice resists, end help powers, a crashless tier nine (which can allow you to survive ghost widows hold, my kat/wp is my only toon that can survive her death hold, lol), and incredible passive regeneration. The regeneration is huge because when you fight av's, even when softcapped, you're going to get hit and you're going to need to heal that damage up because an av fight usually takes more than a minute or two. With high regen, you don't need to use power picks on a heal, and you don't have to waste time (which cuts into dps) and end using a heal.
Kat/wp is a great combo when io'd up and softcapped, mine has soloed over 50 av's without using temps or insps. I highly reccommend it, and it seems to meet what you are looking for. But it does cost a LOT of money, so if you want to do it on the cheap, go with SR and pick up aid self. And with SR, you could go dual blades if you wanted to because it's ridiculously easy to softcap an SR and you wouldn't need katana's divine avalanche.
I think so. But that's fine as far as I'm concerned.