Your build over all looks good. Some things I would do is try and slot the Achilles' Heel: Chance for Res Debuff into Gambler's Cut. It would help a lot against those with high Lethal resistance. One more thing I would do is drop the Def/end in combat jumping , you don't really need the hit points with dull pain, and add the Kismet: Accuracy.
One more thing I saw, In Divine Avalanche I would Replace the Dam/Rech with the Dam/End/Rech. Divine Avalanche as a fast rech so you don't need a lot of rech in it. the Dam is way in to ED as is so you won't lose much dam. So with this the End of the attack will go down which is always good. I might do the same for Soaring Dargon too but I didn't look at the attack chain to see if you need more Rech in it.
"All right, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time"- Chesty Puller US Marine Corps
I'm basing my Crushing Impact slotting on level 35s, so I may need the rech in Soaring Dragon. Bronze rolls drop quite a lot of them though, so it can be swapped out if needed.
The Kismet will probably help a lot, however, that leaves me just over the HP cap (I'm factoring in Freedom Phalanx Reserve and Portal Jockey, but not Task Force Commander, and using level 35 Doctored Wounds), so I'm not sure where to pull the slot from for the Achilles Heel....the Numina's Heal/End would have been my first choice, but that puts me under the HP cap, and I lose a bit of regen...might have to just account for level 50 Doctored Wounds, since I'm just squeaking by on the recharge front as well.
Edit: And if I end up with enough inf to swap out the Crushing Impact in Soaring Dragon for a Hecatomb, that will put me under the HP cap.
Edit Again: Hmm....pull the 6th slot out of Golden Dragonfly for the Achilles Heel, slot GD like Flashing Steel (which now that I think about it I really should use the Obliteration quad), back to the HP cap and I'd only lose 1.25 Energy/neg defense....
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Capped like that, why even take Divine Avalanche? It's damage sucks.
It's my bestest, bestest pal, but that's because my S/L is around 12, ENFC just under 40.
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Because my S/L is only around 31% with one foe, and that's before debuffs.
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Originally Posted by Postagulous
Capped like that, why even take Divine Avalanche? It's damage sucks.
It's my bestest, bestest pal, but that's because my S/L is around 12, ENFC just under 40. |
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I've been kicking around a kat/invul build for a few days now but I'm not 100% sure which direciton I need to do.
What I think I want is this....a very durable scrapper that can use provoke to 'tank' normal type missions and maybe simpleish TFs as well as do reasonable damage in teams. Budget is pretty opoen but I don't really want to invest purplesinto this toon.
To do that I need to go w/out hasten (fighting; tough; leaping; presence) or w/out CJ and go with hasten/SS. In general I really like CJ on scrappers but I'm open to hear arguments and builds w/out it.
What kinda of def should I be shooting for for s/l and exotics? Do I need DA? What will my attack chain look like w/out hasten?
I like doing builds, just trying to figure out which direction I want to go.
Presence bad. [roll a tank]
CJ good.
Hasten good. [in general, but we're talking katana here]
SS good, and put a Celerity +Stealth in it.
YOU NEED DA.
DA!
Your attack chain will look slower w/o hasten. That said, I never took it on my katana, she's fast enough as it is.
To build for S/L you'll pay though the nose. But you'll likely not cap positional, or at least melee and ranged. Getting your ENFC high is easy enough. That said, with DA you will not get hit. Certain enemy factions, like Council, become a huge joke. I carry a Good Luck in every insp slot I have to get me started before that first DA hit. And if there's a bubbler around, hoo, the bubs make katana life easy.
Seems like I'm a tad bit late coming back from a break. Anyways, Kat/Invul is always something I'm ready to help with! After playing my main (obviously Kat/Invul) for about five years, I've come to the point where I can't really bother to improve his build anymore because he does everything I wanted him to do with it and then more. Your build looks good to me, except for one thing: sustainability. My build runs out of endurance on average at Conserve Power recharge intervals, which works out to basically infinite endurance. I have to slow down on the attacks, though, if I get unlucky and get an awfully small number of PS procs happening during a long fight. Then again, if you aren't planning to solo AVs or do anything like that I think you should be well off with that build! You have solid defenses and good DPS, but I would still try to get an Achilles proc into GC, it bumps up your DPS by quite a bit.
My build is probably different in terms of what I'm thinking to do with it, but it works too :P, I can do good ST damage (I think around 175 DPS against a Pylon?) as well as decent AoE damage (as decent as it gets with Katana), but top thing is the survivability of this build. Nearly 70% S/L Resistance with 20% exotic Resistances is nothing short of good when you have 36% F/C/E/N Def with one person in melee and always soft capped Lethal Def when in combat. The more enemies you have in melee range, the closer you will get to soft capped F/C/E/N, which you will reach at 9 enemies. And usually it's not needed before. I soloed three AVs simultaneously with only one minion working as Invincibility booster, and could do it without chewing insps.
So, what can this build do?
Soloing an AV? Check.
Soloing multiple AVs at once? Check.
Soloing missions at +1/8 or +2/8? Check. Have to admit, though, that some of the more problematic enemy groups are still... Well, problematic at times.
Still space for buffs? Check. I think this is quite important so that I can keep on chewing insps or take team buffs without them being a waste.
The build is very expensive, so you might have to peel off some of the more expensive parts like purples or the PvP IO.
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Level 50 Science Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Body Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Gambler's Cut -- Hectmb-Dmg(A), Hectmb-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), Hectmb-Acc/Rchg(46), Hectmb-Dmg/EndRdx(46), Hectmb-Dam%(48), Achilles-ResDeb%(50)
Level 1: Resist Physical Damage -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), GA-3defTpProc(45)
Level 2: Flashing Steel -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(3), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(3), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(43), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(43), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(45)
Level 4: Temp Invulnerability -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(5), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(5), RctvArm-ResDam(43)
Level 6: Dull Pain -- Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(7), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(7), Dct'dW-Heal(15), Dct'dW-Rchg(15)
Level 8: Divine Avalanche -- KntkC'bat-Acc/Dmg(A), KntkC'bat-Dmg/Rchg(9), KntkC'bat-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(9), KntkC'bat-Knock%(11), LkGmblr-Rchg+(11), HO:Nucle(13)
Level 10: Hurdle -- Jump-I(A)
Level 12: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), Ksmt-ToHit+(13)
Level 14: Super Jump -- Winter-ResSlow(A)
Level 16: Unyielding -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(17), RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(17), RctvArm-ResDam(42)
Level 18: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Numna-Heal(19), Numna-Heal/EndRdx(19), RgnTis-Regen+(40), Mrcl-Rcvry+(40), Mrcl-Heal(40)
Level 20: Stamina -- P'Shift-EndMod(A), P'Shift-EndMod/Rchg(21), P'Shift-EndMod/Acc(21), P'Shift-End%(37)
Level 22: The Lotus Drops -- Erad-Acc/Rchg(A), Erad-Dmg/Rchg(23), Erad-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), Erad-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(36), Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(37), Sciroc-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(37)
Level 24: Build Up -- Rec'dRet-ToHit/Rchg(A), Rec'dRet-Pcptn(25), RechRdx-I(25)
Level 26: Soaring Dragon -- C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg(A), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx(27), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(27), C'ngImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(31), C'ngImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(31), LdyGrey-%Dam(34)
Level 28: Invincibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(29), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(29), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(31)
Level 30: Kick -- Empty(A)
Level 32: Golden Dragonfly -- Armgdn-Dmg/Rchg(A), Armgdn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), Armgdn-Acc/Rchg(33), Armgdn-Dmg/EndRdx(33), Armgdn-Dam%(34), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(34)
Level 35: Tough Hide -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(36), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(36)
Level 38: Tough -- RctvArm-ResDam/EndRdx(A), RctvArm-ResDam/Rchg(39), RctvArm-ResDam(39), RctvArm-EndRdx(39)
Level 41: Weave -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(42), HO:Cyto(42)
Level 44: Conserve Power -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(45)
Level 47: Resist Energies -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(48), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(48)
Level 49: Resist Elements -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(50), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(50)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 0: Ninja Run
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- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
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Presence =/= provoke. the mitigation from invoke panic actually helps quite a bit, it's just rare that anyone ever actually takes the track. |
Originally Posted by Postagulous
Presence bad. [roll a tank]
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If you haven't tried it, don't hate. It's actually quite enjoyable since it's active mitigation.
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
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^Professional Katana/regen build thread
Hm, I do think Presence is quite bad for Scrappers. I used to have it on my MA/Regen back when I still played him. The concept seemed awesome, stop enemies from attacking me so that I have time to regenerate. Sadly it just didn't really work as well as I imagined, and I ended up going back to Fighting for more protection.
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
I definitely agree. I did it as well on my kat/regen before I used fighting. it doesn't seem to work too well without an IO set (end cost is too high, recharge is too long, accuracy is too low, etc), but honestly, adding another click to a regen set isn't that good of an idea :P
That's the general problem with presence anyway. The only people who really use it are MMs, and they just get provoke. Very few times have I actually seen anyone go all the way to invoke panic
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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
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^Professional Katana/regen build thread
DSorrow: I'm not planning on soloing AVs with this character; maybe one or two to see if I can, but I'm not going to make a habit of it. I've managed to squeeze in the Achilles Heel at the cost of 1.25% Energy/Neg def...because I thought about my Katana/Dark, then I thought about Zeus Titans, then about my AR and DB toons, then back to the Zeus Titans....and the -res wins.
And I didn't even think about the Winter's Gift IO, I'm so used to putting BotZs in Super Jump...I'll be getting one of those, thanks for the idea.
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Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
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To be clear about my post...I've got a tricked out tank and a tricked out scrapper. Under normal circumstances I'd never have provoke on a scapper. It's just in this case it seems like I can generate some pretty though numbers with DA stacked on top of Invuln and I think it'd be fun to run abound 'tanking' with a scrapper (cause I've already done the 'regular' scrapper & tank (a few times actually) ).
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Originally Posted by Elegost
Presence =/= provoke. the mitigation from invoke panic actually helps quite a bit, it's just rare that anyone ever actually takes the track.
If you haven't tried it, don't hate. It's actually quite enjoyable since it's active mitigation. |
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No problem! |
Originally Posted by Eva Destruction
DSorrow: I'm not planning on soloing AVs with this character; maybe one or two to see if I can, but I'm not going to make a habit of it. I've managed to squeeze in the Achilles Heel at the cost of 1.25% Energy/Neg def...because I thought about my Katana/Dark, then I thought about Zeus Titans, then about my AR and DB toons, then back to the Zeus Titans....and the -res wins.
And I didn't even think about the Winter's Gift IO, I'm so used to putting BotZs in Super Jump...I'll be getting one of those, thanks for the idea. |
The Achilles' Heel is a really good investment. In a spammable attack like GC you can easily keep it up 50% of the time, which means 10% extra damage on average. For one slot. Not too bad!
- @DSorrow - alts on Union and Freedom mostly -
Currently playing as Castigation on Freedom
My Katana/Inv Guide
Anyone who doesn't take truth seriously in small matters cannot be trusted in large ones either. -Einstein
I'm looking to create a solid leveling build that will still hold up on high difficulties in the endgame; basically an all-around versatile, survivable character that kills at a decent rate. I'm using this character to run AE missions (not farms) so debuffs do come into play quite frequently.
Thoughts, suggestions, changes? I do not want to take Aid Self or skip Flashing Steel. I also don't want to rely on purples for perma Dull Pain, so I didn't use them in this build.
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Dawnrazor: Level 50 Natural Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Katana
Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Gambler's Cut
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (39) HamiO:Nucleolus Exposure
Level 1: Resist Physical Damage- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (3) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
- (3) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (50) Reactive Armor - Resistance
Level 2: Flashing Steel- (A) Eradication - Damage
- (7) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (7) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (9) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (11) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 4: Temp Invulnerability- (A) Aegis - Resistance
- (5) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
- (5) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (45) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
Level 6: Swift- (A) Run Speed IO
Level 8: Divine Avalanche- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (9) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
- (40) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
- (40) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
- (40) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (42) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 10: Combat Jumping- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (11) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (46) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
Level 12: Build Up- (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (13) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
- (13) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 14: Super Jump- (A) Jumping IO
Level 16: Unyielding- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (17) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (17) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (43) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
Level 18: Health- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (19) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
- (19) Miracle - +Recovery
- (43) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
- (43) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
- (46) Miracle - Heal
Level 20: Stamina- (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
- (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
- (23) Performance Shifter - EndMod
Level 22: The Lotus Drops- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (23) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (25) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (25) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
- (27) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
- (48) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
Level 24: Dull Pain- (A) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (27) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (33) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
Level 26: Soaring Dragon- (A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
- (33) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance
- (34) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge
- (34) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (34) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
Level 28: Invincibility- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (29) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (29) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
Level 30: Hasten- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO
- (31) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 32: Golden Dragonfly- (A) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (36) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (37) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
- (37) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
Level 35: Tough Hide- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (36) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (36) Defense Buff IO
Level 38: Boxing- (A) Accuracy IO
Level 41: Tough- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (42) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (42) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (46) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
Level 44: Weave- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (45) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (45) HamiO:Cytoskeleton Exposure
Level 47: Resist Energies- (A) Aegis - Resistance
- (48) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
- (48) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
Level 49: Resist Elements- (A) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
- (50) Aegis - Resistance
- (50) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
------------Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest- (A) Empty
Level 1: Critical HitLevel 0: Ninja Run
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Darkfire Avenger DM/SD/Body Scrapper
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