Help with DS Pain Build
So did I just stumble on the ULTIMATE build for DS Pain or is my build so sub par everyone thinks its not worth commenting on?
Anyway.... unabashed bump for round 2 of asking for advice
Raterro.
Dang Raterro, that is one FINE build ya got there... I would point out a few weak points but frankly this build is so uber I can't think of one thing I would change out.
Keep up the good work in creating awesome builds!
Perhaps someone else may have a comment or two but I doubt it since the forums are pretty much dead.
Ratero
HOw can you pass up world of pain and anguish cry?? Those a 2 of the staple powers of PD. Otherwise its a cool build,,,bit pricey though.
devil dingo,
My character is currently level 39 and so far I've had no need of those two powers. I started to take them in my first build but there was simply to much I wanted and not enough room. I knew I wanted to max out my defense so I opted to go for Combat Jumping, Tough and Weave. By doing that I have defense always up and I am not having to wait to cycle a power. So I had to make a choice between something up all the time or Word of Pain with a recycle of 240s and Anguishing Cry with a recycle of 120s before time reductions. Honestly, after swapping over to the current build I find my survivability has increased quite nicely.
You mentioned that those two powers are staples of a Pain user and that may be. I've never done a /Pain build before hence asking for advice in my build creation process. Perhaps once my build is complete and I feel that it needs to be changed and requires either Word of Pain or Anguishing Cry I may look long and hard at what I can strip out of what I currently have. Of all the powers in the current build I think I may be able to strip out one of my attacks, Assult and perhaps Painbringer. However, I may change my mind on Painbringer since I have not used it as yet and the description sounds very good. I'll know more once I get it slotted up and play around with it a bit.
You mentioned the cost of the build. I have no issues with a cost of a build if it is what I want to make. I have so many other MM's made and more of the DS types I want to work up that I will simply leave my DS/Pain at the Broker and funnel him money until his build is complete then work on another build to completion.
Thank you for your comments and if you have any advice on running a DS/Pain I would love to hear it as it pertains to my build.
Raterro
I've been working on my DS/Pain build for awhile now and already burned 2 respecs doing so. The build I currently have is not complete and does not many IO's as yet but I'll be able to flesh it out when I get closer to 50. The build I'm currently working on uses Super Jump and also powers from the Fighting Pool to help with defense. I think I'm currently level 36 and I'm running 5 toggles: Combat Jumping, Maneuvers, Tough, Weave, Suppress Pain. The powers chosen in my build I would like to keep as is but I am open to suggestions about alternatives. The IO's in my final build may not be optimum and I would like to hear from people as to what I should do if I missed something.
Please feel free to comment and let me know your feelings. As far as Infamy goes I have a bit over 2.5B infamy to work with and can farm more if need be to create the builds I want.
Here is my current IO build: