Range enhancements do not affect radius of AoE attacks, with the exception of cone attacks. You can't even slot range enhancements in PBAOE attacks, so the Alpha boost would not affect them.
Cardiac won't help you DO damage, but since you're running two damage toggles, most likely, Cardiac will be able to keep you running longer.
The range effect on melee attacks is unenhancable except for a few cones. In these cases, not even the HamiO with +range will do anything, unfortunately, though the "real" numbers in game may say they do.
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ic I may have to see now if its worth putting musculature in for the massive damage boost to just destroy mobs and eat blue skittles instead. Take ageless combined with conserve power should pretty much take care of the blue bar, but if I am a farmer I guess I should be running with pyre ancillary instead of body right?
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I have a t2 Ageless that I run in conjuction with a (recently improved) t3 Musculature in my sp/da/blaze. By comparison to my T3 Cardiac, I actually miss the extra resistance more than the endredux. That is to say, I feel Ageless has been doing a better job on my particular build than Cardiac at endo management.|
Originally Posted by Prophetsrage
ic I may have to see now if its worth putting musculature in for the massive damage boost to just destroy mobs and eat blue skittles instead. Take ageless combined with conserve power should pretty much take care of the blue bar, but if I am a farmer I guess I should be running with pyre ancillary instead of body right?
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YMMV.
I'm building two configuration sets for alpha and destiny:
Cardiac/Barrier for times when I need godmode style defenses, and Musc/Ageless for when I want more offense. The latter will probably be my default mode, unless I find I am just too squishy otherwise. So far, not so much the case.
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Musculature is not a "massive damage boost". It effectively adds to your damage bonus, just like enhancements and all other damage bonuses.|
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I may have to see now if its worth putting musculature in for the massive damage boos...
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Let's say your attack does 100 base damage. You enhance it by 95%, so now it does 195 damage. With the Musculature tier 4, you gain approximately 35% more enhancement value from it due to Enhancement Diversification's diminishing returns. So, your attack would then do 230 damage. That is just under an 18% increase in damage.
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Just curious, thinking on the other thread going on (Katana/Regen thread)...|
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I have a t2 Ageless that I run in conjuction with a (recently improved) t3 Musculature in my sp/da/blaze. By comparison to my T3 Cardiac, I actually miss the extra resistance more than the endredux. That is to say, I feel Ageless has been doing a better job on my particular build than Cardiac at endo management.
YMMV. I'm building two configuration sets for alpha and destiny: Cardiac/Barrier for times when I need godmode style defenses, and Musc/Ageless for when I want more offense. The latter will probably be my default mode, unless I find I am just too squishy otherwise. So far, not so much the case. |
But have you thought about Cardiac/Rebirth for the massive +Regen to go along with the Resists?
Then you can rely less on the Self-Heal.
Just a thought.
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In the other thread, my Katana/Dark benefitted more from Barrier. I'd think that would be even more true of Spines/Dark, which wouldn't have as much defense, so would benefit more than I do from the defensive portion of Barrier. Use Barrier to prevent damage and Dark Regeneration to heal it. That's my guess for the best approach here, at least for survivability.
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Yeah, since Dark Regeneration can heal anything short of death itself.
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Use Barrier to prevent damage and Dark Regeneration to heal it.
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so many options, I have the heal on auto so its no big deal. Can ageless be made perma or at least near perma?
If you are having any sort of endurance issues, get Cardiac. That will help you more by letting you attack more and boost your DPS which may outweigh the extra damage per attack from Musculature.
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Just curious, thinking on the other thread going on (Katana/Regen thread)...
But have you thought about Cardiac/Rebirth for the massive +Regen to go along with the Resists? Then you can rely less on the Self-Heal. Just a thought. |
Pretty sure that I'm going kin/regen, which is different territory, so probably won't be nearly as uber, should be super fun though.I think Werner and Sailboat nailed it. Once you learn the timing on Dark Regen, it's nothing short of amazing. As in, if you can manage to survive those few seconds: Nova Fist to Full Health Bar Amazing.
Granted it's conditional upon having fodder and hitting, but most of the time I don't have any reliability problems with it. He's not an AV soloer or anything, and protracted 1:1 fights are (imo) the only place where DR falls short.
In game, he runs around 40% to s/l and low 30s to e/ne, don't have numbers off the top of my head. If there were a way to run Ageless and keep the extra 5-7% resistance I get from Cardiac (Core), that would be awesome.
Musc isn't a really big boost, per attack, but on a combo with fast hitting AoEs (Quills, Death Shroud, Thow Spines, Spine Burst, Fireball) and lots of DoT clicks (even before interface) the overall increase in damage output seemed fairly noticable.
This is what I'm using as a build target if anyone is curious:
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so many options, I have the heal on auto so its no big deal. Can ageless be made perma or at least near perma?
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I'm not a farmer and I use /blaze. Not everyone likes sp/da/blaze builds though, and body is the other usual choice. I used my extra build slots to blay around with Soul and Dark, but neither really seemed to bring as much "Man this is a rousing good time" as Blaze does.
As I've stated in other threads, I'm going Cardiac/Barrier on every resistance based melee character.
I started out with Cardiac for Dark/Armor for obvious ease of endurance management, which frees me up to pursue other bonuses. I was very surprised by how much of a difference the resistance enhancement improved my survivability. It's actually to the point that purple skittles are no longer the best option for every scenario, sturdys (orange skittles) are often the better choice.
I tried the Musculature as well, but was rather underwhelmed with the impact it had on damage out put. Not to say Musculature's aren't bad, they just don't contribute as much to my game play. I still use Musculature in come situations, Hamidon Raids in particular, since the damage is unresistable anyways.
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The one thing that keeps me using Muscular is that Judgement powers make use of the damage enhancement.
OK the question is on my spines/fire toon would cardiac do at least comparable damage to the musclulature alpha because of the range increase and possibly capping my aoe's when they otherwise may not be extending far enough to? I am sure that it would probably not come close to the 45% percent one but is it close or even comparable to the other one? The bottom line is I am very end heavy so I am certain I have to stick with cardiac I was just wondering what I'm loosing out on.