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Looking to rebuild my BS/SD

Deus_Otiosus

By Deus_Otiosus,
Posted on: 2010-12-03 07:04 in Scrappers

 

Posted

As the title says, I'm trying to rebuild my BS/SD but having trouble wrapping my head around things since I haven't really messed with it in so long.

I have an old Mids build that I could post that reflects the current slotting and IOs, but it has been largely obsoleted. I took advantage of stacking BotZ in order to skip the fighting pool at the time, so now ranged mobs just eat my scrapper for a sharp snack.

Essentially, I'm looking for advice and/or any builds I could look at to get an idea of how a softcapped build looks in today's CoH.

 

Posted

There are plenty of soft-capped Shield Defense builds on the forums. I don't have a BS build, but I could share my DM/SD build with you. However, I would need to know what kind of budget you may have, and any other goals for the build, like running the highest attack chain.

 

Posted

Since the Mids update was released yesterday, I figured I'd update to it and fiddle around with my existing build a bit. I'm sure what I came up with can be improved with some slots moved around, but here's the data chunk:


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Here is the build I've been using for comparison. It was awesome in a can until BotZ was fixed. It still gets the job done on teams, just not so much solo.


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You don't need more than 45% defense. If done correctly, Shield Defense can hit 95% defense debuff resistance. Anything past 45% defense has no effect in most situations. In the other situations, to-hit buffs are generally so large that you won't notice a 25% difference in defense.

Those Ribosomes in Active Defense are not doing you any good. Put Membranes or Enzymes in there. I prefer 3 Membranes so you can get the recharge down to 60 seconds for the double-stacking required to hit 95% DDR.

Use Enzymes in your defensive toggles instead of Membranes so you get endurance reduction. Enzymes are expensive, and you may only need one per toggle. Also, slot 5 LOTG global recharge bonuses. You can put them in Deflection and Battle Agility, and drop Stealth.

Epic pools are nice to have. Adding an extra AoE, or more endurance recovery helps.

 

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Here's your proposed build with some different slotting.

You still have a decent cushion above softcap, as well as Active Defense being nearly perma double stacked + grant cover.

I dropped Super Jump for Physical Perfection, but if you feel you don't need the extra recovery you can always swap back.

I put Achilles' Heel procs in Whirling Sword and slice, might be nice to open with BU then either of those and then Shield Charge.


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Here's a separate version that sacrifices a bit of recovery & regen to squeeze in 15% more recharge.

It also dips just under AoE softcap a bit.


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