I'm planning for my Terra Volta respec at 24 - I want to make good use of this respec with a cheap (ish) frankenslot build that I can ride all the way to 50 and then leave it pretty much as-is or respec again for Cardiac or Spirit at that time.
Here's what I'm working with:
In combat, he's a gargoyle with frickin laser beams! That means Hover and X-Ray Beam are non-negotiable. If you don't understand the pure joy that is flying above a pack of Hellions and staring them to death as they feebly hop around, you and I come from different planets. Hover doesn't necessarily mean Fly has to be my travel power.
On which note, I rather enjoy the way that Super Speed interacts with Shadow Fall for great stealth aaaand a really psychedelic light show. I'm not married to SS, but if there's room in the build for two travel pools, I like Super Speed and Hasten is rarely a bad thing.
There are two main groups of players I team with. One of them is almost all Blasters and Scrappers, the other is almost all Defenders. For team A, I need to protect their squishy hides as much as possible - Howling Twilight currently gets a lot of action and Electron Haze is actually appreciated because team A needs all the protection they can get. For team B, I need to be able to contribute meaningfully to the damage and I'm rather looking forward to Aim. These two groups are a large part of my choice of APP - Power Build Up gives me the option to pump out fat heals and mezzes for Team A, and later in the day pump out steaming hot DPS for Team B. Of other pools, I liked Soul about as much as Power but it'd be more work to acquire than I'm interested in.
I don't like Darkest Night. I recognize that it's a good power, so I will end up taking it, but first I'm grabbing all the things I like first.
I assume that IF I alpha slot this character, I'll be able to drop Conserve Power easily, but until then, I'm showing some really steep endurance usage (not the least of which is two powers with a crash). I'd like to drop it if possible, as Leadership stuff is always good and Air Superiority has saved my bacon a couple times on the "not srs bizness" build I've played with.
This is a Terra Volta respec! I'm not terribly concerned about the order of my 1-22 powers, but nothing's stopping you from yelling at me if they're exceptionally stupid for some reason. Unlikely to exemplar much, and even then I can always pull out the aforementioned silly build.
X-Ray is my bread and butter nuke. If used at all, Neutrino is just to help the next hit land or keep me low on the aggro list.
Trying to keep it somewhat cheap. No purples, and going light on the oranges. I'm not so cheap as to use basic IOs/SOs as my target build - I recognize that Performance Shifter will help a lot with my high endurance costs, and can be gotten with a few merits or patient marketeering, but I'm not going to assume LotGs unless I end up wanting to go Alpha, Incarnate etc.
This is my first attempt at a frankenslot build so no laughing unless you tell me why you're laughing! I only like wallowing in shame and sorrow when I'm also learning something useful. I may have more set bonuses than I need but I don't think I pushed ED too far anywhere.
I grabbed everything I wanted on all of my powers, and left a few enhancement slots available to put wherever experts recommend.
Level 50 Magic Defender Primary Power Set: Dark Miasma Secondary Power Set: Radiation Blast Power Pool: Speed Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Leadership Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery
Hero Profile: Level 1: Twilight Grasp Level 1: Neutrino Bolt Level 2: Tar Patch Level 4: Irradiate Level 6: Howling Twilight Level 8: Shadow Fall Level 10: Hasten Level 12: Fearsome Stare -- (A)(15)(29)(34)(34) Level 14: Super Speed -- (A) Level 16: Electron Haze -- (A)(17)(31)(36) Level 18: Petrifying Gaze -- (A)(19)(33) Level 20: Aim -- (A)(21)(21) Level 22: Hover -- (A) Level 24: X-Ray Beam Level 26: Maneuvers Level 28: Cosmic Burst Level 30: Darkest Night Level 32: Dark Servant Level 35: Tactics Level 38: Atomic Blast Level 41: Power Build Up Level 44: Force of Nature Level 47: Total Focus Level 49: Conserve Power
[/sblock]
Code:
| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build |
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
|MxDz;1343;678;1356;HEX;|
|78DA6593DB4E13511486F74C5B6B0B2DB4B5404BE909284871A0D17B13441323350|
|DE0295E34433B2D13B1AD6D894842E25B7865044C8CC6C4881A4DBCD668BCF208E1|
|CA27F0F004D6D57F6D4A934ED27E33FF5AEBDF6BD6DE935E9BED16E2EE69A1B8CFA|
|CE8B55A76D62818A5BC51B5A5F5A29913762144E040CBCEAC160ADAAC5EBD914D9B|
|7AEDA61E6945E6F552D1C86BF37ADED4EB66B9949D21B7BAE77C69D9A81AA5BA767|
|0E3CC94CB2BDA42C530F25DB83DB7621697EB3DB89F3374F2AA2D9B1517C79A21B3|
|54F49EAD98392D53BE4D0BA5C9D6A8DE19A0BE46E9B7A00A79356CA2DF22444AA86|
|9A589231718AFD4268EBE64F891F2E5B04A115B0255F781458A2832A23C85837307|
|F846110B47AC963A929DAB40EF3AE05D03FA6AC0654AB771BAB025215D21C90EF38|
|66A77C2B4FB1F3D8D893EABD2449CA6EDE01AD5C135DD0C37E32A3974C91EBAF6E1|
|E0FE0984F680D80FC62E304C7E2ED9832B0687EFE4D0C392A5E70DB7BF03843730A|
|1E1D778BA460F1ED98AA70837EF12102D00BB94E09309BE4D941E7BC4E05E1DB4B8|
|9FDF56F8C390BE52BC5F6E56FF36A4019EFEC02610E44D08BE8751E81DE021A3001|
|B29019E5798A7B747F141E937B80129CC7E51768FB26D8C6D27D7917289AA8664E7|
|437C3A865F30DE02D7E93F226D237C60467C0CCE1B790E8C71F1F120DC7DD4665CE|
|E6E7C1B9189278CC7C0BECA47B6693BCA0728C16725C1E728710B18AB323EA3EA23|
|2D3C2E376CFC012FB8C578C8EEBCD633DAE8A47CAB64122F3AC91B21F1898C34B9B|
|CC6C39A321099CA3372406A89A1031FA86A5A7E0FD36C946284ACAD6F488845425C|
|4CB44B0DBAC4748792EA504E7628A73A94B976E504D6BFD89478DE8D8CB5F5D50A4|
|51EBFDED6E7DAF8E5A4B03C8A0A57FF69974620FD6E97C621FD3D9454250AC92A71|
|0F53FF0F3B30D7C7|
|-------------------------------------------------------------------|
I might need more personal defense for the amount of AoE I'm able to put out. If it's just one boss and a handful of minions/LTs trying to kill me, though, I can keep the boss stunned, and do a wide number of interesting and impolite things to the rest of em. Multiple bosses, I'd have to hope FoN was available I guess or pop whatever pills are in my tray.
I tried to determine what my uptime is for having either Conserve Power or Force of Nature up (if I were to rotate them). I was figuring out what my actual Hasten uptime was, and then multiplying things to get the other two powers' uptime, and then I accidentally hit MC instead of MR and said screw it. With Rest for between-fight end recovery and FoN/CP for mid-fight endurance issues, I feel like I should be fine.
I'm planning for my Terra Volta respec at 24 - I want to make good use of this respec with a cheap (ish) frankenslot build that I can ride all the way to 50 and then leave it pretty much as-is or respec again for Cardiac or Spirit at that time.
Here's what I'm working with:
- In combat, he's a gargoyle with frickin laser beams! That means Hover and X-Ray Beam are non-negotiable. If you don't understand the pure joy that is flying above a pack of Hellions and staring them to death as they feebly hop around, you and I come from different planets. Hover doesn't necessarily mean Fly has to be my travel power.
- On which note, I rather enjoy the way that Super Speed interacts with Shadow Fall for great stealth aaaand a really psychedelic light show. I'm not married to SS, but if there's room in the build for two travel pools, I like Super Speed and Hasten is rarely a bad thing.
- There are two main groups of players I team with. One of them is almost all Blasters and Scrappers, the other is almost all Defenders. For team A, I need to protect their squishy hides as much as possible - Howling Twilight currently gets a lot of action and Electron Haze is actually appreciated because team A needs all the protection they can get. For team B, I need to be able to contribute meaningfully to the damage and I'm rather looking forward to Aim. These two groups are a large part of my choice of APP - Power Build Up gives me the option to pump out fat heals and mezzes for Team A, and later in the day pump out steaming hot DPS for Team B. Of other pools, I liked Soul about as much as Power but it'd be more work to acquire than I'm interested in.
- I don't like Darkest Night. I recognize that it's a good power, so I will end up taking it, but first I'm grabbing all the things I like first.
- I assume that IF I alpha slot this character, I'll be able to drop Conserve Power easily, but until then, I'm showing some really steep endurance usage (not the least of which is two powers with a crash). I'd like to drop it if possible, as Leadership stuff is always good and Air Superiority has saved my bacon a couple times on the "not srs bizness" build I've played with.
- This is a Terra Volta respec! I'm not terribly concerned about the order of my 1-22 powers, but nothing's stopping you from yelling at me if they're exceptionally stupid for some reason. Unlikely to exemplar much, and even then I can always pull out the aforementioned silly build.
- X-Ray is my bread and butter nuke. If used at all, Neutrino is just to help the next hit land or keep me low on the aggro list.
- Trying to keep it somewhat cheap. No purples, and going light on the oranges. I'm not so cheap as to use basic IOs/SOs as my target build - I recognize that Performance Shifter will help a lot with my high endurance costs, and can be gotten with a few merits or patient marketeering, but I'm not going to assume LotGs unless I end up wanting to go Alpha, Incarnate etc.
- This is my first attempt at a frankenslot build so no laughing unless you tell me why you're laughing! I only like wallowing in shame and sorrow when I'm also learning something useful. I may have more set bonuses than I need but I don't think I pushed ED too far anywhere.
- I grabbed everything I wanted on all of my powers, and left a few enhancement slots available to put wherever experts recommend.
Anyway, here's the build.[sblock]Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.92
http://www.cohplanner.com/
Click this DataLink to open the build!
Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Dark Miasma
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Blast
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Twilight Grasp
Level 1: Neutrino Bolt
Level 2: Tar Patch
Level 4: Irradiate
Level 6: Howling Twilight
Level 8: Shadow Fall
Level 10: Hasten
Level 12: Fearsome Stare -- (A)(15)(29)(34)(34)
Level 14: Super Speed -- (A)
Level 16: Electron Haze -- (A)(17)(31)(36)
Level 18: Petrifying Gaze -- (A)(19)(33)
Level 20: Aim -- (A)(21)(21)
Level 22: Hover -- (A)
Level 24: X-Ray Beam
Level 26: Maneuvers
Level 28: Cosmic Burst
Level 30: Darkest Night
Level 32: Dark Servant
Level 35: Tactics
Level 38: Atomic Blast
Level 41: Power Build Up
Level 44: Force of Nature
Level 47: Total Focus
Level 49: Conserve Power
[/sblock]
I might need more personal defense for the amount of AoE I'm able to put out. If it's just one boss and a handful of minions/LTs trying to kill me, though, I can keep the boss stunned, and do a wide number of interesting and impolite things to the rest of em. Multiple bosses, I'd have to hope FoN was available I guess or pop whatever pills are in my tray.
I tried to determine what my uptime is for having either Conserve Power or Force of Nature up (if I were to rotate them). I was figuring out what my actual Hasten uptime was, and then multiplying things to get the other two powers' uptime, and then I accidentally hit MC instead of MR and said screw it. With Rest for between-fight end recovery and FoN/CP for mid-fight endurance issues, I feel like I should be fine.