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Originally Posted by GrandSpleenPART2
Heya,
How do you usually slot singularity? It's more controllerish than other pets -- so do you enhance this aspect of it, or go with damage? More pointedly: 1) How do you slot sing. when you're in the 30s, pre-enhancement sets? 2) What set(s) do you slot in sing.? Thanks for any advice! GS |
- 2 Accuracy
- 3 Hold
- 1 Intangibility
Drop him into the middle of a large mob and watch as hilarity ensues.
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I'm very new to singularity! Please excuse my ignorance. What does an intangibility enhancement do for him? I didn't think he used any intangibility powers.
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Slotting intangibility enhancements in Singularity is a left-over from the days when it used to spam Dimension Shift. DS has since been removed from Singy's attack chain. You can still slot intangibility but it doesn't do anything. |
Originally Posted by GrandSpleenPART2
I'm very new to singularity! Please excuse my ignorance. What does an intangibility enhancement do for him? I didn't think he used any intangibility powers.
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Here are some slotting recommendations from an older controller guide (Still good advice IMHO):
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Singularity can do a lot of things, so there's a lot you might want to slot. The two most important abilities are Damage and Hold Duration, since Immobilization and Knockback pale in comparison to a good Hold. You may also want some recharge so you can sacrifice a Singularity as a tank more often. With such a huge accuracy bonus, Accuracy enhancements aren't particularly necessary. However, you may want just one or two in there to garauntee a hit vs enemies with a high level advantage or defense to smashing damage. There's no real "base" for this power to be slotted with, so here are a few extreme examples you can mix and match to your liking. The Tank - 3x Recharge, 3x Range The Controller - 2x Knockback, 3x Hold Duration, 1x Accuracy The Blastroller - 3x Damage, 3x Hold Duration |
My level 50 Dominators:
Madame Mindbender 50 Mind/Energy
Fly Agaric 50 Plant/Thorn
Nate Nitro 50 Fire/Psi
One note - singy does *not* have a high accuracy bonus. The power may list a 100% bonus, but that is common to many pet summoning powers, and does *not* carry over to the pet's own powers. In fact, singy is one of two pets (animate stone being the other) to actually have a tohit *penalty* - singy and stoney only have base 50% tohit, not 75%. Singy's grav distortion and crush do both have the standard 20% accuracy bonus, and his attacks don't seem to be typed at all (meaning he should ignore defense), but I'd still put in at *least* two accuracies. Acc/mez hamis could also be useful once you near 50.
@MuonNeutrino
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I did 3 Dam/Mez Hamis on my controller, but he runs Tactics (6-slotted with Gaussian's) as well, so accuracy is not a huge issue.
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Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino
One note - singy does *not* have a high accuracy bonus. The power may list a 100% bonus, but that is common to many pet summoning powers, and does *not* carry over to the pet's own powers. In fact, singy is one of two pets (animate stone being the other) to actually have a tohit *penalty* - singy and stoney only have base 50% tohit, not 75%. Singy's grav distortion and crush do both have the standard 20% accuracy bonus, and his attacks don't seem to be typed at all (meaning he should ignore defense), but I'd still put in at *least* two accuracies. Acc/mez hamis could also be useful once you near 50.
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Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?
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Originally Posted by Muon_Neutrino
One note - singy does *not* have a high accuracy bonus. The power may list a 100% bonus, but that is common to many pet summoning powers, and does *not* carry over to the pet's own powers. In fact, singy is one of two pets (animate stone being the other) to actually have a tohit *penalty* - singy and stoney only have base 50% tohit, not 75%. Singy's grav distortion and crush do both have the standard 20% accuracy bonus, and his attacks don't seem to be typed at all (meaning he should ignore defense), but I'd still put in at *least* two accuracies. Acc/mez hamis could also be useful once you near 50.
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Wow I didn't know that bout Singularity's accuracy. On my 50 Grav/Rad, Singy's not slotted for accuracy. But He has tactics and Rad debuffs to back him up, so I probably never noticed. Might be a completely diffrent story on a Dom..good information thanks!
My level 50 Dominators:
Madame Mindbender 50 Mind/Energy
Fly Agaric 50 Plant/Thorn
Nate Nitro 50 Fire/Psi
Cool, thanks for all the info. How about enhancement sets? Does anyone bother with pet sets or anything?
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Doms like +recharge. Expedient Reinforcement gives you a good +6.25% with only 4 IOs slotted and you can round out Damage and Hold Duration in the remaining 2 slots.
I'm planning on using Blood Mandate for my Grav/Elec Controller (in both Voltaic Sentinel and Singularity) for the Ranged/AoE Defence bonuses, as well as decent Acc/Dam slotting from the enhancements.
I think I did the same on my Gravity Controller when I9 came out.
I was gonna make a thread about this just today. Glad to see there's already one.
A couple questions.
1 recharge intensive sets. what are they good for to increase recharge? I like the 4 slot set bonus's.
2 force feedback proc. will this increase singy's attack rate, increase mine or will it not do anything?
Im gathering that frankenslotting acc/dam/hold/immob is the way to go. Yes/No?
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My favorite combo is Faceplant/DebtCap with the TeamWipe Ancillary
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Recharge bonuses no longer affect pets. On the plus side, they can't be -recharged either. Also, you don't need the power to come up more often, because frankly the only time singie will die is if you do.|
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I was gonna make a thread about this just today. Glad to see there's already one.
A couple questions. 1 recharge intensive sets. what are they good for to increase recharge? I like the 4 slot set bonus's. |
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Did you just use "casual gamer" and "purpled-out warshade" in the same sentence?
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Actually, that isn't the type of recharge that is unaffected. The recharge time affecting a pets personal attacks is what can no longer be enhanced. Your pets, including your patron pets, summon time is still affected by global recharge time.
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Recharge bonuses no longer affect pets. On the plus side, they can't be -recharged either. Also, you don't need the power to come up more often, because frankly the only time singie will die is if you do.
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Singy takes knock, pet damage and recharge intensive pets.
Basilisks Gaze wont work.
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6 slot with Kinetic Crash. You get 4 KB protection and a 7.5% recharge bonus.
I believe the chance for +recharge used to boost the attack speed of the pet. Shouldn't now AND I think it had the (amusing but often detrimental) effect of causing the singularity to rush into melee.
All that said, if you don't need set bonuses I find my sing does very well with 3 dam/mez hamis, an accuracy, and the +resist pet bonus. Admittedly I'm speaking from a grav/ff controller standpoint but even when it's not bubbled (and also presumably out of the resist aura range) it does pretty well. Granted, the earliest you can slot that way is 47 but the hamis weren't too expensive when I got them.
And also, did not know that singularities attacks were untyped. That explains sooo much about how those consigliers(sp?) managed to hold my stalker through t9-capped defenses, and why it seems hyperaccurate at times. The times you notice it hitting most is when it's an enemy thats evading everything you throw, and you still see sings damage numbers because it's ignoring non-base defenses.
Heya,
How do you usually slot singularity? It's more controllerish than other pets -- so do you enhance this aspect of it, or go with damage?
More pointedly:
1) How do you slot sing. when you're in the 30s, pre-enhancement sets?
2) What set(s) do you slot in sing.?
Thanks for any advice!
GS
KABOOM!