In reality, you're missing the truly fun part of this. Venom Grenade debuffs toxic resistance by 40%, Poisonous Ray is a pretty hard hitting attack that is entirely toxic damage. It's a pretty nifty combo, especially early on. For even more fun, in the late game, throwing Venom Grenade out with a shot of Shatter Armor on top of it makes for a permanently stackable double dose of -20% res to all. Enjoy!
As Pharold said, the real combo between them is the extra toxic debuff. Stacking -def and -res isn't all that useful to most people once they can slot for accuracy. Especially on a bane when you have access to two forms of tactics, and an auto +acc power. Not saying I'd get all three of those, but they add consistant chance to hit on everything, not just the guy you hit with PR last.
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But having the 2 debuffs increases overall DPS. Accuracy will do that, but it's not going to be significant on a VEAT w/ autos and TT.
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Originally Posted by Pyro_Master_NA
As Pharold said, the real combo between them is the extra toxic debuff. Stacking -def and -res isn't all that useful to most people once they can slot for accuracy. Especially on a bane when you have access to two forms of tactics, and an auto +acc power. Not saying I'd get all three of those, but they add consistant chance to hit on everything, not just the guy you hit with PR last.
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My first Bane build took Venom and Poisonous Ray but in the end, I took out Poisonous Ray because it is just taking too long. If you use Venom Grenade, it will cause weapon draw when you use Poisonous Ray and PR is a DoT so the whole combo takes more than 5s to complete. I find that too long for my taste.
Ideally, Poisonous Ray is good if you have other Soldiers using Venom first.
I find that if I want dps, I only use melee attacks.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
Hey folks, working on my first Soldier here and I thought of something...
Having both Venom Grenade AND Poisonous Ray as a Bane. Picking VG from the Huntsman "path," and PR from the Bane path. My thought was combining -Res and -Def would be pretty nasty.
The redraw wouldn't really bother me, seeing as I would open with VG for large groups, and switch to the Bane powers with the Mace.
How nasty would this little combonation be? My theory is "if you're going to kill it, be really mean about it." VG + PR seems to fit the bill.
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