Speaking from experience with near perma-DP build I can tell you that depending on DP as your main source of mitigation is going to be hard with some other source of mitigation for those times when you will not have at least 4 enemies to feed off of.
Also you don't need to go so all out on purples to achieve what you are aiming for. On my Psi/Mental, the only purple set I took was the Coercive Persuasion set for the recharge and defense, but otherwise you can achieve good recharge using oranges. I don't remember the exact numbers on my Blaster, but once I get home I can post them to give you some ideas of what to aim for.
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I normally use mid-range IOs on my builds since I have so many alts I never play my 50s enough to get purples, but I'm considering going all out for once. My first love is Blasters, so I was thinking about going for an ultra-high recharge Fire / Mental for maximum single target and AoE damage plus almost perma-Drain Psyche for survival. Since I've never actually made a high end build I'd really like some advice... my initial idea was something like this:
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Level 50 Mutation Blaster
Primary Power Set: Fire Blast
Secondary Power Set: Mental Manipulation
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Medicine
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Cold Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Flares
- (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
- (3) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (3) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
- (5) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
- (5) Decimation - Chance of Build Up
- (7) Apocalypse - Chance of Damage(Negative)
Level 1: Subdual- (A) Accuracy IO
Level 2: Fire Blast- (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
- (7) Decimation - Damage/Endurance
- (9) Decimation - Damage/Recharge
- (9) Decimation - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (11) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (11) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 4: Fire Ball- (A) Ragnarok - Damage
- (13) Ragnarok - Damage/Recharge
- (13) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (15) Ragnarok - Accuracy/Recharge
- (15) Ragnarok - Damage/Endurance
- (17) Ragnarok - Chance for Knockdown
Level 6: Hasten- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (17) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 8: Fire Breath- (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
- (19) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
- (21) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (21) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range
- (23) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 10: Hurdle- (A) Jumping IO
Level 12: Aim- (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (23) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
Level 14: Health- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (25) Miracle - +Recovery
Level 16: Concentration- (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (39) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
Level 18: Blaze- (A) Apocalypse - Damage
- (25) Apocalypse - Damage/Recharge
- (27) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (27) Apocalypse - Accuracy/Recharge
- (29) Apocalypse - Damage/Endurance
- (29) Ruin - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Stamina- (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
- (31) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (31) Endurance Modification IO
- (31) Endurance Modification IO
Level 22: Drain Psyche- (A) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (46) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (46) Accuracy IO
Level 24: Super Speed- (A) Run Speed IO
Level 26: Aid Other- (A) Healing IO
Level 28: World of Confusion- (A) Coercive Persuasion - Confused
- (34) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Recharge
- (34) Coercive Persuasion - Accuracy/Confused/Recharge
- (34) Coercive Persuasion - Accuracy/Recharge
- (36) Coercive Persuasion - Confused/Endurance
- (43) Coercive Persuasion - Contagious Confusion
Level 30: Aid Self- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (36) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal
Level 32: Inferno- (A) Obliteration - Damage
- (37) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (48) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (50) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 35: Combat Jumping- (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
Level 38: Psychic Shockwave- (A) Armageddon - Damage
- (39) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge
- (40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (40) Armageddon - Accuracy/Recharge
- (40) Armageddon - Damage/Endurance
- (42) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
Level 41: Flash Freeze- (A) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep
- (42) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Recharge
- (42) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Sleep/Recharge
- (43) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Recharge
- (43) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Endurance
Level 44: Frozen Armor- (A) Red Fortune - Endurance
- (45) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (45) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
- (45) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (46) Red Fortune - Defense
Level 47: Hoarfrost- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (48) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (48) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (50) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (50) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
Level 49: Hibernate- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
------------Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest- (A) Empty
Level 1: DefianceWould I be better off dropping some recharge and getting some defense, or will Drain Psyche's regen be enough? Or even switching to LotGs for the recharge? (I originally had a couple in the build but dropped them because of slot limitations and the fact that 15% more recharge did basically nothing for me at that point.) I'm also not sure I'd need the uniques in Health with Drain Psyche on a 3.4 second downtime, but I figure with a build this expensive there's no reason not to get them... they'd help a lot while waiting to collect the purples.
Cascade, level 50 Blaster (NRG/NRG since before it was cool)
Mechmeister, level 50 Bots / Traps MM
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