My BS/Regen on Virtue typically out-tanks the tanks when it comes to locking down anything that's throwing around with smashing/lethal courtesy of having built a tight attack sequence around Parry. Yeah, Parry relies on to-hit, but Focused Accuracy, Build-up and an IO'd up 1.8? accuracy bonus rarely see my hit chance dropping below 95% against anything ever. And once a few hits are landed on something, BS' -Def on all the attacks I've kept on her make pretty certain that they'll just keep coming.
Got her built to a 147.25% global recharge spec (with near-perma'd hasten going) with a passive 21.5% melee defense going, which...isn't perfect in either camp, though I had to strike a balance somewhere, and the config I've got going now means that Hasten's just about perma-on, DP -is- perma-on and I hardly ever have to pop MoG or even IH.
Frankly, it's panic-time when I have to hit either of those. I'll go entire days of running around without hitting them, but they're there to save my bacon when I need 'em, and judicious use of MoG makes soloing a the AV's that can be solo'd with lethal damage pretty much a cinch.
Ranged damage is her weakest link, and she can't dish out enough DPS to take down various AV's that simply have too much lethal resist, but I'm swimmingly happy with her.
I've recently been futzing with a secondary AoE build in which I took Whirling Sword and Blaze mastery for Fireball and Melt Armor. It's generic-IO'd out and tweaked to simulate a crapton of global recharge with two recharge IO's on pretty much everything that needs it, and I gotta say...if I set IO'd that BS/Regen/Blaze build out to get some passive Def going, it'd be sick and sad and I'd give any /SD a run for their money on speedrunning a farm map and is already a hilarious bit of fun to run around in 8-man teams with. When people are saying "Jeez, leave some for us would you?", you know you've got something done right, right? XD
My advice to anyone wanting to play /Regen though, since this is a fairly open thread and I may dispense with unsolicited advice here, would be this; This set is not a carebear set.
A lot of people handwave BS/Regen as 'easy mode' because it's pretty easy to solo +0/x1 missions without having to rest much between mobs, you can (in theory) skip the Fitness tree entirely with it and you even get a nifty, fast-recharging self heal. You can be 'ok' without having to be very smart in your build or ever having to slot a single set IO doing that, and you can have the most hairbrained organic slot distributions around and, so long as you've got Reconstruction and Integration, probably make out at least ok in your basic mission run.
Just don't call my BS/Regen 'easy mode'. >
It's been one of the most subtly challenging builds I've ever played, and I routinely thump around with a Mind/Kin troller or a Psi/Mind blaster or a Rad/Kin corr or a Fire/Invuln brute or, more recently, a Kin/DP defender.
Heck, to me, 'easy mode' is fricken Kinetics. But, I digress and shall wander off into the sunset!
Cheers, and may BS/Regen rock on ever more!
I stopped playing my claw/regen a year ago at lvl 36 cause he was too clickey. Yesterday as an experiment I used his second build and threw in as much defense as I could (with so's) and tried him out. I got 12% defense on everything and found him a joy to play. Even a little def on a /regen goes a long way.
I know /Shield scrappers are the rage and I have one at 50 too...but I truly forgot how great the BS/Regen powerset is.
I had changed my 50 BS/Regen build to a PVP a while back and forgot about its use for PVE. I did a second build a few days ago for PVE and have not been able to stop playing it. I have been on teams lately where the tanks (may be function of tank skill) have hit the deck and it is me holding the aggro and dealing substantial damage to the AV/EB.
In any event, I just wanted to share an opinion about the great BS/REGEN powersets. I am finding it hard to go back to my tankers that I normally play because of it.
Anyone else love this powerset combo too?