Willpower?

I've never rolled a willpower before and decide it was time so I went claws/willpower anyway. What types of bonuses to people shoot for I was wondering? Willpower seems like a mix of everything.

Should i go for regen or more HP maybe, not to sure maybe some def? What seems to be the consesus when building willpower toons and what set bonuses to shoot for and in what order?

Thanks to anyone with any answers.

With claws, you probably won't need Stamina. Though I would stilll take Health if you can fit it in. And Physical Perfection, unless you have a compelling reason to go with a different epic pool.

Thanks everyone some great advice here! Deffinalty gives me some ideas.

I'm with the turbo-charged scrapper vets here. +Def is more likely to do more to increase your time-to-defeat than +HP will.

Just 20% defense is a 40% reduction in average incoming DPS. To realize that same (average) benefit on time-to-defeat you'd need total extra HP equal to 66.7% of your base.

And that's just for 20% defense, which is a somewhat conservative target.

Now, random stuff is random. How it's going to work out is a function of what you're fighting and how likely your defense is to make foes miss. Low-ish values of defense "feel" like they're doing more when you're fighting something where the incoming damage isn't real spikey, like standing in a big pile of minions and LTs. That sort of situation creates lots of smaller attacks. On the other hand, if you run up to an AV, odds are still good it's going to hit you several times in a row and ruin your day. But more HP probably isn't going to make the AV's attacks feel that much better either.

Ideally, you pump up both HP and Defense.

UberGuy, thanks for the update. I actually found that right after I posted this, so I wished I had done a bit more browsing before posting my question, but I appreciate the help!

Personally, since I (A) Don't have a huge budget and (B) Love to team and solo (on the same characters), I am thinking I'll try to hit the high 20s to low 30s on my exotic types and mid 30s to low 40s on S / L on my DB/WP scrapper that I'm currently leveling. Granted, he's only 18 at the moment, but it'll be my first real attempt at doing some major IOs on a character!

Through my leveling and light farming on other characters, I think I have a budget of about 200 million or so to begin with, so I should be able to get a few sets built with the startup cash!

One final question, if you don't mind - Do you feel that Hasten is necessary to a DB / WP scrapper? Once I can actually finish my combos, it looks like I'll have plenty of recharge from slotting attacks and global bonuses to seamlessly chain BF > Attack Vitals combo or BF > Sweep combo.

Thanks again!

Based on my own DB/Regen (who obviously does want Hasten for the /Regen side of things), I'd say no, you don't have to have it. It depends on the combo chains you're looking for and how much global + slotting recharge you have in the attacks in question of course, but I find I can basically sustain my chain of BF + Attack Vitals with Touch of Death in my attacks and 55% global recharge.

The only time I like Hasten being there for DB is when I miss or get my chain out of order (usually because I want to use Sweeping Strike to hit a cluster of foes right away) or when I want to cycle rapidly between Sweeping Strike and Typhoon's Edge, usually when I'm surrounded and want to clear foes rapidly.

My Claws/WP has a lot of hit points 2230ish. When I rolled a WP tank I focused more on defense and regen and ended up with a good amount of hit points anyways. This build is over a year old and besides some of the unique procs it was very cheap. It gives you an idea of one method to go with, if I were to start over i'd focus less on plus hit points and more on sets that offer acc/regen/def and try for some that also grant HP.

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Unlike most sets that have levels of importance, Willpower has 3 things that are of roughly equal importance. Max HP, regen, and typed defense.

You should not focus on any one to the detriment of the other two.

Honestly, I wouldn't worry too much about damage resistance. Just slotting your powers should get you a decent amount. There aren't too many resistance bonuses to be found in IO sets, and the ones that are found are usually in sets that otherwise suck.

I do however strongly suggest slotting and using Tough. Smash/lethal defense is the lowest one you have (unless you dump a bunch of set bonuses into it), so having good resistance to it definitely helps.

With the +HP accolades and an endless supply of cash, it's easy enough to get around 40 defense to s/l/f/c/e/n while having 2200+ HP and 750% regen.

Desmodos,

Thank you for the build. I found the willpower selections particualrly helpful.

-Arboris