FM/SD, deciding between mu build and blaze build

Ocasta · 08-21-2010 09:50 PM

I've been messing with different builds trying to come up with a FM/SD one I like. I've looked at the 8 builds Fury Flechette posted (which were very helpful), but I didn't want to give up GFS (I like the GFS animation and I prefer the fire sword attacks, but the scorch/incin/scorch/cremate rotation doesn't have any). I don't have to recharge to use a 3 attack rotation with GFS, so I figured I'd try some builds that include GFS and use Incin > GFS > Cremate > Fire Sword as attack chain.

Quick note, don't mind the levels at which I took powers in the builds, I always just click all the powers I want in a build without looking at the levels.

I have a build that is pretty similar to the moderate build Fury Flechette posted, dropping the travel power because of ninja run and grabbing GFS. I used the same guidelines as he did, soft capped defenses, as much recovery and regen as possible, and recharge after that. The recharge on GFS is a hair too low for the chain without hasten up. I suppose a slot could be taken from health for a recharge in GFS if this gets too annoying.

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Then I was looking at Mu as an alternative. Since Mu's aoe is only 1 power deep, a travel power would be possible again. Mu also does slightly more damage, although you do lose out on melt armor (I'm not sure if most people even use it since the value is so low). If mids is right, mu bolts does more damage then fire sword, with the same recharge and slightly lower animation time (these can crit like normal right?). Since it also has the advantage of being a ranged attack and fire has no redraw anyway I figured the chain Incin > GFS > Cremate > Mu Bolts would be good. Conceptually the fire APP makes more sense, but mu does seem like it'd be a pretty good choice. Since I had 2 spare slots and the stupefy set is very nice I took the slots from true grit's numina's to get the stupefy ranged defense instead and pick up some extra recovery/hp/recharge.

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Any thoughts on these builds or the choice between the two?

Whisky_Jack · 08-23-2010 07:03 AM

Great post, I'm trying to decide the same thing for my ElM/SD scrapper. He's currently got the Blaze mastery but I'm concidering going rogue and grabbing the Mu set instead. I'd love to hear some feedback here as well.

Vysires · 08-23-2010 10:26 PM

I just wanted to make a comment. On my defense based builds, I often don't bother to cap AoE defense. If I get some that is fine, but I don't spend slots on it. So I generally end up with about 36-38% def vs AoE. That is fine with me. There just isn't that much really dangerous AoE in the game. So I'm not willing to burn slots for that.

With that in mind, Fury's builds are great guidlines, but I generally don't stick too close because he spends a lot of slotting to get AoE capped that I think is a waste. This free's up some power choices and slots a bit. It's something to keep in mind for your builds. If you want capped def to all 3 positions, that is fine. But allowing AoE to drop down a bit works as well. My ELM/SD scrapped isn't capped vs AoE and he does just great.

As far as Blaze vs Mu, It's thematic to me. I like to take the hold in the EPP because just 4 slots gets 7.5% recharge from basilisks gaze, and it also gives 1.25% def to ranged. It's pretty nice for 4 slots. So the difference for Mu vs Blaze is power order. Getting the AoE earlier is nice, but not sure it's worth having to go villain to get Mu and back or however that works.