Destiny buffs for Scrappers

I'd seen the guide, but missed the recharge on Destiny. Found it now. So 2 minutes, so it's always up or available, but usually at a lowish number.

But you're saying the resistance from my Cardiac alpha will buff Barrier? So +20%? If so, that would put my Katana/Dark's weighted (by how common the damage type is) average damage resistance at 64% with the tier 4, up from 53%. That should be about a 30% improvement in survivability from resisance alone, at least on paper. Unfotunately, that weighting is the game as a whole, not the apparently energy-heavy trials. Energy is my worst damage resistance. Also, I'm not sure if I'll be better or worse off than it looks on paper. Spike damage during the later stages of Barrier isn't much reduced. So in a solo fight with an AV, say, my actual survivability will probably correspond to the +6% resistance level. But in cases where I NEED spikes of survivability, which may be fairly frequently, Barrier will provide. And for fights with an incoming damage curve that matches Barrier's buff curve (RWZ challenge, perhaps, though that isn't technically possible any more since there are no more +4s), you'd probably get a somewhat better than "on paper" survivability boost. Hmmm, I'll also be capped or one small orange from the cap for a lot of damage types a lot of the time. It's all very interesting.

On the surface, I don't see how Ageless would compete with that for my build, much as I'd love some debuff resistance and some more recharge.

And I got lucky tonight - three successful BAFs resulting in one rare and one very rare. Now if only I hadn't clicked on the wrong very rare in the heat of the moment! Still, I don't know what I'll be doing for Judgment or Lore yet. Maybe it'll work out.

I got the top tier barrier on my ss/wp brute, and its a great power. First of all, the top tier one is perma, and at minimum gives you a 5% def boost. But its really great, especially in the new content that likes to laugh at defense, by giving you a short, but huge, defensive boost to help you absorb a nasty alpha.

My fire/sd scrapper is going to be lusting after that heal, plus regen one, which should up his survivability big time.

When I first read these powers, it seemed like they would only affect teamates. Then when I first tried barrier and saw that it also affected self, I got a lot more interested, lol.

I just tested in game.

Alpha Cardiac Core Paragon does not buff the resistance portion of Barrier Core Epiphany.

I'm not sure if this is WAI or not, so I reported it as a bug.



Then I tested out Void Radial Final Judgement against L54 Hero Class Statesman in the AE.

-32.50% Damage.

From what I've read, nothing is supposed to affect Destiny, including Alpha. Spiritual works on Rebirth, but that is considered a bug.

With a +1 level shift, a 54 AV would be a +3, so the purple patch puts your powers at 65% effectiveness. That would indeed reduce a 50% debuff to 32.5%.

Really? Is Rebirth being buffed by Spiritual a bug? I'm enjoying hitting the entire League with a 1,000+ point Heal.

I kind of overlooked the back end of Rebirth, in favor of the huge up front heal or the other destiny powers.

But 200% Regen is actually more Regen than an ED capped Fast Healing.

Yeah that looks good for my SR and would actually put my bs/inv to 600% regen....

With the t4 destiny I'm at 49 hp/sec - that plus the 42 hp/sec from siphon life gets me up into the 90 hp/sec range. Layered defenses are awesome - my Werner Rectangle (tm) is huge!

Yep void. Pyro would be good for the dps, 40 targets is awsome on ion, but on my main dm/sr: void, and rebirth core for the hp boost. Best way to cover my bases, I think.