Let's play "Arcana's Min/Max Skillz Suck"


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Originally Posted by Arcanaville View Post
I'm at work and can't see the build until I get home, but it sounds similar to the all-out recharge build I posted up above. Does it have something like +182.5% recharge, plus Hasten? Also, I had to slot a recharge IO into CAK to make that chain work even with perma-hasten in my build, because it was just a fraction of a second too slow in recharging.
Seems to me that you were going for SK-CS-CAK, that would require CAK to come back at 1.056+1.848=2.904

I was going for SK-CS-SK-CAK, which CAK would then require 1.056+1.848+1.056=3.96


 

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Originally Posted by Cyber_naut View Post
If you're gonna team at all, I'd endorse this build or one like it. Fireball alone will give you some nice aoe and make you feel a lot more usefull on teams. Or go villain and grab some mu electric powers. While you're correct to say MA is pretty much a single target set, there's no reason not to use the great pool powers to get some juicy aoe. Looks the change will make playing sets like MA on large teams a lot more palatable.
Personally, I would rather go Body and take Energy Torrent (I think Elegost suggested this earlier). Having ET and its KD every 6+ seconds coupled with DT...


 

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Why yes I did
all the KD is groovy, and the epic set itself is more useful overall compared to fire (or mu) mastery (2 useless powers, vs potentially 0 useless powers).
I still want to do the same thing with my km/inv (repulsing energy torrent!), but I can't get away from shadow meld on that toon :/


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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze View Post
I hate to be the bringer of bad news... but Willpower sucks!!! you're better off rolling a regen
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=260718
^Professional Katana/regen build thread

 

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Originally Posted by Iggy_Kamakaze View Post
Seems to me that you were going for SK-CS-CAK, that would require CAK to come back at 1.056+1.848=2.904

I was going for SK-CS-SK-CAK, which CAK would then require 1.056+1.848+1.056=3.96
Actually, now that I redo those calculations in an actual spreadsheet, you're right: I computed the recharge required for SK-CS-CAK but somehow flipped the chain into SK-CS-SK-CAK. That actually reduces the chain to 177.5, which is significantly lower. Hmm, going to have to go back to the drawing board on that one.


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Originally Posted by Lord_Cyclones View Post
Following behind Iggy and for those longing for AoE and Hasten, here is one that uses MU Mastery to get the following with 172.5% recharge:
I kinda like this build, actually. Its not what I was originally aiming for, but I was thinking about Mu (because of the high DPA ball lightning) and just never got back to revisiting it. I think I'm going to play around with this one and see how it works, and what its options are. Using bolts as a ranged mule is also a nice feature of the build, and its also a decent ranged attack in its own right. And its not wedded to AoE or a truncated single target chain.


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