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Best for Farming Borea Missions

all_hell

By all_hell,
Posted on: 2010-06-28 08:48 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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What AT and power set combinations would be "best" for farming Borea missions in the Rikti War Zone?

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What AT and power set combinations would be "best" for farming Borea missions in the Rikti War Zone?
Lots of viable options here. I find that Electrical Armor is tailor-made for trivializing Rikti. Willpower works great too. I've not tried it, but Invulnerability might be OK, and I'm sure Shield Defense is a powerhouse. Add primary to taste, bake for 50 levels, and voila! You'll probably want something with decent AoE like Fire Melee or Super Strength, or, on a brute, Claws works quite well (it's my favourite, Spin is great!). Don't be tricked into using Electrical Melee; the Rikti resist it just about as well as Electrical Armor resists them. You will kill them with Electrical Melee, but it will be slow.

 

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As Emberly said, definitely Elec Armor. Capped energy res + psy res is good times for Rikti bashing.

For primary, I'd say SS. Great AoE, +tohit for the drones, good ST damage and mitigation to help out /Elec being on the squishy side.

Edit: make sure you take Tough, Chief Soldiers hurt.

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Lots of viable options here. I find that Electrical Armor is tailor-made for trivializing Rikti.
Truth. My Dark/Elec/Mu Brute is one of the few characters I haven't gotten totally bored with post-50, since I can always go to RWZ and solo some x8 Rikti missions. On top of the energy resistance, they seem a bit more vulnerable to end drain than most other groups (high end cost attacks, I guess?) For the attacks chipping away at my resists, I have Siphon Life and Energize. The lack of AoEs doesn't even really hurt that much, since saturated Soul Drain (frankenslotted for decent damage) plus Ball Lightning and Lightning Field mows through the minions pretty quickly, and the primary has plenty of ST damage for the bosses. It's not Shield Charge or Fire/Kin quick, but very little is.

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iirc Rikti primarily do lethal and energy damage.

Also I think they resist energy damage pretty well.

The wiki has the info on what the deal.
There's a spreadsheet somewhere on what all the mobs resist. But I don't know the link

 

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The Rikti resistances to Energy is limited to some Lts and bosses. I farm Borea with an elec/elec and I think the energy resist is the same as smash and/or lethal for those mobs. If I were to make a Brute just for Borea, I'd go Fire/Elec.

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My DM/SD Scrapper runs these missions all the time with relative ease, even at +3/x8.

 

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Checking the res sheet, the average res to energy is 16%.
Most of the resistant mobs are confined to bosses and higher with a few Lts having some too.

It appears they have a some melee and ranged def among them but not very much aoe def to go around.

 

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What AT and power set combinations would be "best" for farming Borea missions in the Rikti War Zone?
I use a Shield/Elec tanker, with soft-cap defense and 62.5% global recharge. I would have gone scrapper, but I like to use the toon for tanking as well. If you're just gonna farm, go scrapper. I've found that the energy resist on Rikti isn't too much to worry about. With a high-enough recharge, Shield Charge/Lightning Rod combos can clear out large cave rooms at a decent pace on a +0/x8 setting. And that was on a Tanker.

edit: If you're going shield, watch out for some of those Mentalist. Their unpositioned attacks can sneak up on you.

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