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First of all, any top ends shields toon is gonna be costly, certainly more costly than a softcapped SR.|
Originally Posted by Larac
So I've done the DM/SR thing soloing AV's pylon's etc.
I'm going to be making a shields toon for similar. My question is, should I make fire or dark mele again (I also have a DM/DA and a DM/INV). With fire is it possible to build a real top DPS solo toon with a tight attack chain and keep a few of the showie aoe and big sword powers? or do you have to sacrific those to get the top end raw DPS. If you can't how cheaply can you do a softcap team aoe build which wont be too clunky? Then I can put all the toys in a second tight soloing build. |
Secondly, you can have both single target and aoe target glory with a fire. Mine obliterates groups with shield charge, FSC and fireball. I also have a DM/SD, and the fire kills large groups much more quickly. Granted, my DM was before fireball came out, but FSC is really the big followup to SC. My single target damage consists of the scorch/cremate/scorch/incinerate deal, which doesn't require a ton of recharge and you can have it pretty early. With AAO juiced up, I can drop a pylon in 4-5 min.
The one thing you will miss from DM is the heal attack. But that's easily negated by using greens, and it's pretty rare that an fully io'd up build with decent regen will even need those. The best dmg mitigation is killing everything you're fighting with 3 (at most) attacks, lol.
But that brings up your intentions of AV soloing (assuming no insps?). I haven't tried this toon on av's solo yet (just got done doing around 60 on my kat/wp, so kinda burned out on them...), but I'm pretty sure you'll miss the heal from DM a lot more often in these situations (again assuming no insp usage). To build an av soloer, you might need to fit in aid self or physical perfection and sacrifice some of your aoe ability. Then again, I'm confident you could take down quite a few without doing that.
Thanks for the reply.
I'm not afraid of splashing the inf. The DM/SR is perma-hasten with 4x5 purples, 5 lotg globals etc etc.
I'm not a 100% stickler to the no insps rule when soloing AVs, if I getting close 15mins into a fight and get taken down to flashing red I'll pop a few greens. Time is precious.
I made a fire/wp when fire fist got ported only played to 21 but found fire a bit clunky compaired to DM. In much the same way as I found BS/DA after playing a DM/DA to 50. But I guess any attack chain will feel a bit lumpy when you used to running smite, sl, smite,mng.
Oh well I might play a fire/sd for a while and leave the dm/sd sat @25 until next dblxp.
Any one care to chip in with a few team play & 50 TF build suggestions. Not quite money no object (can't afford the pvp IOs) but quite a high budget.
If you search around the forums you'll find a lot of fire/shield builds.
Virtue: @Santorican
Dark/Shield Build Thread
So I've done the DM/SR thing soloing AV's pylon's etc.
I'm going to be making a shields toon for similar. My question is, should I make fire or dark mele again (I also have a DM/DA and a DM/INV).
With fire is it possible to build a real top DPS solo toon with a tight attack chain and keep a few of the showie aoe and big sword powers? or do you have to sacrific those to get the top end raw DPS.
If you can't how cheaply can you do a softcap team aoe build which wont be too clunky? Then I can put all the toys in a second tight soloing build.