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It isn't really cheap to Perma with Earth/Fire because the cheap IO sets with recharge are KB and Sleeps. You don't want to add KB IOs to Earthquake, as people will fly all over the place. You likely won't want Salt Crystals, as it isn't really thought well of.|
Originally Posted by Unwilling_Hero
Now before people start clamoring about me putting up a mids build, I can't. I have some issues that make it a challenge to use mids.
All I'm really looking for is which sets should I be taking a look at for a cheapy-midrange perma build. Thanks for your time/input in advance. |
Hero/Villain merits make it a bit easier to get the really expensive pieces than it used to be.
I sat down and quickly came up with the following:
4 Basilisk's Gaze in Fossilize and Volcanic Gasses (7.5% each)
5 Decimation in Flares and Fire Blast (6.25% each)
5 Crushing Impact in Incinerate (5%)
5 Positron's Blast in Fire Breath (6.25%)
5 Stupefy in Stalagmites (6.25%)
5 Obliteration in Combustion or Consume (5%)
4 Call to Arms or Expedient Reinforcement in Animate Stone (6.25%)
3 LOTG Recharge IOs: 1 in either Combat Jumping/Hover, 1 in Frozen Armor and 1 in a Defense mule set [like Concealment or Leadership] (7.5% each)
This gives 78.75% recharge. Add Hasten and you're Permadom.
Somebody might think of something else I might have missed.
I wouldn't slot flares; it isn't very good and at the level of +rech you're going for you won't really need it anyway. Just chuck the other decimation set in blaze (with maybe a dmg/range hami-o for a sixth slot.
Sleet and ice storm are other places you can put a 5-slot positron's.
You don't want to be slotting KB in earthquake, but you can get another 5% +rech by chucking a four-slot dark watcher's despair in there.
You can get 5% +rech from consume much more cheaply by putting an efficacy adapter 6-slot in there. That's more than consume really needs, but the rest of the set bonuses aren't horrible.
If you can spare enough slots to take blazing bolt, 5 slotting sting of the manticore is another 7.5%.
I wouldn't be incredibly intimidated by the cost of purples, necessarily; gravitational anchor isn't that expensive for what it gives you in terms of bonuses.
@Dysc, on virtue:
Virtue blues: Overnight (DP/MM), Kid Ridiculous (FC/rad), Panorama (Ill/time)
Virtue reds: Block Party (SS/SD), Goldcrush (earth/fire), Deadwire (claws/elec), Snowcrush (ice/kin)
i have an earth/fire/fire dom thats perma without hasten, but hes also using a lot of purps and such
if you could use mids i would post the build to at least get an idea of what i did
Now before people start clamoring about me putting up a mids build, I can't. I have some issues that make it a challenge to use mids.
All I'm really looking for is which sets should I be taking a look at for a cheapy-midrange perma build.
Thanks for your time/input in advance.