If you're not soloing AVs and such you could prob'ly be just fine w/o it.
All depending...
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Well, considering how survivable you'll probably be without ever touching SoW, you'll probably be completely fine without it. Both Resurgence and SoW are rather optional on any build, imo.
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Originally Posted by Vitality
I have to plans for an expensively IO'd WP...and I'm wondering how needed SoW is for PvE.
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I think it's nice to have extra survivability when you want it. However, it's not so great as to be unskippable. There may be better powers to take.
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It's not needed, but it is rather nice to have the extra resists when you are taking more damage than you can regen.
So what is it you are taking over SoW?
I took SoW on my WP toons as a lvl 49 power to serve strictly as a Steadfast Res/Def mule
As other posters have said, WP's quite survivable without SoW. When I was making my first WP toon (a DW/WP scrapper) I played around with SoW a little on the test server. I thought it was nice, but it didn't strike me as an "ohmigod, this is an AWESOME gotta-have power!" As I told a friend the other day while discussing his WP brute, "I don't normally take a power that I can use an inspiration for." It seems to me that SoW is like having a large orange inspie along that recharges, and I don't normally find myself using that many defensive inspirations to begin with. I'd rather have Tough on all the time --17.9%* resist S/L -- vs. 29.8%* resist all 40% of the time.
*Just the way I've got it slotted/might slot the other; your mileage may vary.
After going a little nuts with my own "spare-no-expense, but purple-less" IO slotting, I've found that my toon can successfully tank some spawns that would make some actual tanks cringe. 
Since then, I've pretty much copied the toon as a WP/DB tank (down to the same IO's) and love it, gotten a kat/WP and BS/WP scrapper to 50, and am currently at level 43 with a claws/WP -- I haven't revisited SoW and really haven't got any plans to. I'm sure it fits well with some people's playstyles and tactics, but I'm doing just fine without it, thanks very much!
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SoW is actually the most player friendly tier 9 defensive power in the game. It might not turn you into a demigod for a couple of minutes like Elude or Unstoppable but you won't suffer from their post effects either. You won't have to hit all the insps in your tray like there's no tomorrow if you suffer from it's crash during the battle, just pop a couple of blues and you're ready to move on.
So is SoW actually needed? Absolutely no.
Is it a nice power to have. Yes it is.
Edited to add - Personally, I don't have it on my level 43 BS/WP Scrapper and I'm doing just fine. He is semi-IOd already and is capable of soloing +2x6 spawns and can take down a pylon. I'd love to fit it in my build somwhere, but there's just no space for it.
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Both of my level 50 /WP toons (DM/WP and Fire/WP) could not fit in SoW and they have never missed it. It's quite optional.
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Skip SoW, you won't miss it. Especially if you're going for an expensive build, like you said.
I had SoW on my (first) DB/WP and on my BS/WP and there was not a single occasion that I remember, where SoW actually helped my toons on their way to L50. Whenever I ran into a situation where I needed the support of a tier 9 god mode power, SoW simply wasn't good enough to make a difference and let me survive.
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Skip SoW, you won't miss it. Especially if you're going for an expensive build, like you said. I had SoW on my (first) DB/WP and on my BS/WP and there was not a single occasion that I remember, where SoW actually helped my toons on their way to L50. Whenever I ran into a situation where I needed the support of a tier 9 god mode power, SoW simply wasn't good enough to make a difference and let me survive. |
But if the mobs start pounding hard enough, I find clicking it helps stem the tide and can stop you from reaching that sliver of life in the last place.
Mind you, one of my favorite things to do in CoH is run the ITF...and even with IOs they (Cims) can eat up a WP scrapper, if given enough of them.
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I keep SoW for one reason. It allows me to survive GW's uberhold. But that's just me, I'm a weird guy who solos GW when I'm bored.
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I have to plans for an expensively IO'd WP...and I'm wondering how needed SoW is for PvE.
Has any /WP gone without it?