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Can a melee crab work?

EricHough

By EricHough,
Posted on: 2010-05-17 13:51 in Soldiers of Arachnos

 

Posted

or should I say work well?

I've already got a Soldier with both builds IOed out (one as a Huntsman and the other as a Bane). So I'm just curious if I can make a melee based crab. I've rolled a new one and I'm thinking of a build like this:

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That's a really cheapo IO build which basically gives 40%+ M/S/L defense, 45% R def and 50% S/L res and 40%+ res to the rest.

I'm not sure about the epic pool picks and the annoyance and performance degradation due to redraw. I'm tempted to drop Web Envelope and Shatter Armor and incorporate WAWG and Bayonet which has better DPS but again I'm not sure how bad the redraw would be; anyone tried it in a crab context?

 

Posted

If you want to avoid redraw you could go with one of the other patron pools - while shatter armor is a really nice melee attack, you can get a lot out of leviathan mastery - school of sharks can replace web envelope and bile spray is an insanely good attack for a soldier as it is toxic damage and benefits from venom grenades full 40% resistance debuff to toxic.

Here is a similiar build I am working towards on my crab - its not all melee, I have a mix of both mostly to get more AE damage and to capitalize on the energy based attacks so I don't do all lethal.

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This one looks expensive but most of the real expense is in sets that I slotted for recharge bonuses and the unique's that I slotted in health for the +recover. If you drop those its a pretty cheap build with a nice mix of ranged, melee and plenty of AE damage.

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