How best to deal with end drain?

I was on a KM/Regen in the past few days. The only thing that was really killing me was end drain from, say, Mu or some of the Freaks.

Is there anyway to deal with it?

Thanks!

I cant think of anything besides building defense into a build so that attacks miss more often. Regen really doesnt have any -end resistance tools that I can think of.

Blue inspirations

Roll a Dark Armor Scrapper.....

Hire a Force Fielder.

When I'm playing a character whose powersets offer no protection against endurance drain, I do one of the following:

(1) Use stealth to sneak up on the endurance drainer and take him out before he can attack me;

(2) Use a mitigating power (either one of your permanent powers or a temp) to neutralize the endurance drainer so I can take him out safely (for example, stunning him with beanbag);

(3) Use Teleport Foe to beam the endurance drainer into a death zone to take him out of commission. (i.e. into a mine field laid by a character with Trip Mines)

The main point is to take stock of your assets (primaries, secondaries, APPs, and temps) and adjust your tactics to take out your priority target before he can make your character miserable.

Aside from carrying blues and/or IO'ing for defense, you could try slotting a Performance Shifter: Chance for +Endurance in both Stamina and Quick Recovery. So that even if your recovery is redlined, there's still a chance to get some end back from your procs. It's not 100% reliable, but it's better than nothing.

My basic solution is always to deal with the problematic mob first, and of course a mob that's problematic for one character may be cake for another. In the case of end drain I take out that mob first, if I'm on a squishy and there's a mezzer in the group I take out that mob first and so forth.

There's ways to handle problem mobs, you just need to think about your advantages on a given character and play accordingly. In some cases that solution will be your inspiration tray, in others it may be taking out the problem NOW before they start getting the better of you.

As an example, Carnies are a problem for a lot of characters thanks to their mez and death-drain. Some characters I make sure to kill them from range to avoid that drain, for others I rely on high energy/positional defenses to avoid it. My BS/Shield scrapper for example actually gathers them up into large groups for my AOE's and Shield Charge since very few of the drains end up hitting.

Play to your strengths and always focus on your problem mobs first.

Base empowerment buffs (recovery/endurance protection) and crafting a Recovery Serum should solve almost all of your problems.

Others mentioned it, but I'll repeat it. The single best way to deal with end drain (or other problem mobs) is to take them out fast. If you can't take out all the problem mobs in your opening attack, prioritize them. Psi damage should be high on your priorities to drop NOW too usually.

Mu are a huge pain in the freaking bum. Not just cause of their end drain, but they seem to have higher then normal accuracy or to-hit too. They can reliably hit Madam Enigma through defense for some reason. Plus they are immune to some crowd control options such as knockback/down. Plus every attack nukes your end recovery by half. And this can stack for cascading recovery failure. Enough mu hitting you can bring your recovery down to 0 or lower I'd imagine.

Malta Sappers are even worse. They not only end drain for huge amounts, but their melee sap is also a hold. Lethal for anyone who gets detoggled, even tanks. Carnies as was mentioned are dangerous due to the on death aoe drain.

It's one reason why I seriously dislike fighting Arachnos in the 40's on anything but a mastermind. And one of two reasons I hate malta arcs. The other reason is the fact that all malta arcs include KoA missions. Talk about caltrop hell.

Try fighting them on a crab spider. The psi damage ignores your resistances entirely, and is very likely to hit (only 14.5% psi def after all), The mu are probably going to ignore your 30%ish ranged defense by spamming cones and aoe, thus nuking your end bar and recovery. Night widows love their smoke grenades too, very annoying.And then there's the bane spiders. Gods the bane spiders.... About the only arachnos type in the 40's that isn't a pita are the non-psi spiders and the crabs. But of course both love their cones too. Best hope is to alpha them with a omega maneuver and venom grenade, then hope it actually hits most of them. Course it always seems to miss the mu. I'm bringing my crab spider hero side just to get away from the constant missions against arachnos.

Part of why arachnos in the 40's is such a pain for crab spiders is... fully half the enemies for them in the 40's are a 'kill it NOW' type for various reasons. Either cause they ignore a crab spider's resistance, ignore the defense, hit like a freaking space shuttle crashing into your head, or are just tough as nails. At least, that's been my experience. They were easy to fight up until I got to the 40's for some reason.

I imagine an invuln tanker or scrapper would have a lot of trouble with them due to all the end drain, recovery debuffing, and psi damage. Never tried personally. With Super Reflexes they are merely annoying, not hard. Same with regen. But for my crab spider they are a huge pain.

end reduce enhancements on all your powers, stack one onto them at first..

then double..

then triple..

till you can't lose any end

Which does nothing about the OP's problem. The OP's problem isn't "My powers cost too much endurance". It's "Enemies are end draining me to the point I can't do anything". Two completely different problems all together.

From the OP, I can't tell if we're talking Stalker or Scrapper. (KM/Regen could be either).

If Stalker, it's pretty easy - AS the end drainer.

If Scrapper, I'd invest in a Stealth IO and try to eventually make myself fully invisible (i.e. Super Speed or Stealth from Concealment). No, you won't get a Stalker's mega crit, but you will avoid the potshots mobs take as you get into melee range. I don't know KM very well, but I understand some attacks have a good chance to stun, open up with that and maybe you'll get lucky. You can eventually take a hold from an epic pool. It wasn't clear from the OP what level we're talking about, but with Freaks I'm going to assume 20-40ish (yes I know Freaks show up after 40). So for me, when I'm playing my DM/SD scrap fighting Malta, I've got a bind to find the Sapper, I'm fully invisible and I queue Char to fire as soon as the Sapper is in range. If I hit he can die in the Soul Drain + Shield Charge combo like everybody else, if I miss the hold I take him out quickly then go about my business.