Is the Cardiac Slot the best choice?
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Airhammer,
Posted on: 2011-06-20 07:20 in Soldiers of Arachnos
I find Cardiac to be very helpful for widows, considering, as you mention, endurance is really their only concern, and they lack dedicated tools for it such as Conserve Power, Power Sink or what have you.
If you want to go for more offense, you can instead rely on Ageless and pick Musculature or Spiritual.
Personally, I like Cardiac as it allows me to get Rebirth +regen and forgo Aid Self, which eats too much animation time for my tastes.
If you have END problems then Cardiac is an easy fix.
I actually went with Spirtual to get perma-hasten, and then went with Ageless for the endbar refill / recovery from Destiny.
I think both are viable options.
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Incarnates: K'lir(Fire/Dark Corr):Hot-House Flower(Plant/Fire Dom):Kinrad X(Kin/Rad Def):Itsy-Bitsy Spider(Crab):Two Ton Tony(Mace/WP Broot):Teeny Weeny Widow(Fortunata/Widow) : Zeroth Law (Ice/Fire Tank)
Musculature Radial T4 ~= 0.10 to 0.15 eps
Cardiac Core T4 ~= 1.0 eps
Ageless +Recovery T4 ~= 2.4 eps
I went Cardiac on mine for this exact reason:
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
I find Cardiac to be very helpful for widows, considering, as you mention, endurance is really their only concern, and they lack dedicated tools for it such as Conserve Power, Power Sink or what have you.
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And also did this for basically the same reason:
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Originally Posted by Nihilii
Personally, I like Cardiac as it allows me to get Rebirth +regen and forgo Aid Self, which eats too much animation time for my tastes.
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@Oathbound & @Oathbound Too
I will continue working on getting my Cardiac Slot. Thanks for the infomation!
Proton Sentry Peacebringer:lvl 50+++ - Human Build / Triform Build
Quasar Sentry Warshade:lvl 50+- Human Build / Triform Build
Red Katipo Arachnos Soldier:lvl 50+++ - Crab Build / Bane Build
Black Katipo Arachnos Widowlvl 50+++ - Fortunata Build / Night Widow Build
Definitely helped my Crab Spider.. reducing end costs is always a plus IMO
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It what I used on my Crab and it was fantastic at tier 4 she gets 45% more end 2/3 of which exceeds caps and also gets an added 20% to all her damage resistance.
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Spiritual here. After the Accolade powers and the Numi and Miracle uniques, I found my endurance was well within tolerances. I really likes me some Permahasten.
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Originally Posted by oreso
Spiritual here. After the Accolade powers and the Numi and Miracle uniques, I found my endurance was well within tolerances. I really likes me some Permahasten.
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This, except I have a Fortunata built like this (and I went Musculature, not Spiritual). I've 4 slots in Stamina, one with the Performance Shifter proc, Numi and Miracle uniques (easy to do with Tips), and I've got perma-hasten already via IO Set bonuses, so I went for extra damage.
It's possible for my Fort to bottom out on Endurance, but really hard, so I don't mind popping a blue now and again. I don't know how a Widow compares to a Fort, Endurance wise, however.
I got my first alpha slot and after doing research I decided to stick with Cardiac. All my numbers are good, but the end, range and resist buff will help a lot.
Cardiac Core Paragon [Very Rare]
For all powers: Reduces Endurance cost
by 45%, increases Range and Damage
Resistance effects by 20%.
Two-thirds of these bonuses ignore the
effects of enhancement diminishing returns.
This power also applies a level shift.
Proton Sentry Peacebringer:lvl 50+++ - Human Build / Triform Build
Quasar Sentry Warshade:lvl 50+- Human Build / Triform Build
Red Katipo Arachnos Soldier:lvl 50+++ - Crab Build / Bane Build
Black Katipo Arachnos Widowlvl 50+++ - Fortunata Build / Night Widow Build
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Originally Posted by Big_Soto
Hey everyone... I have a Fort I recently pulled off the shelf and did a respec. I have no issues with anything except end. The end issue is a easy fix with the help of insp. I am planning on getting my alpha slot soon, but I was wondering with all the other incarnate powers avaliable, should I get a different alpha or am I on the right path by getting Cardiac?
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Yes.... and no...
I'm have 2 sets on my Fort:
Cardiac Core Paragon+Rebirth Radial Epiphany
Cardiac:
Endurance reduction and range is good.
Resistance is useless (~5% psi resist from both Foresight and Mind link, ~2.5% resist S/L IF you have Tough)
Rebirth:
AOE healing and regeneration is good... for party.
Self healing is not so good - long recharge on healing, and regeneration is bad on Forunata - low max HP=small regen.
Musculature (any) Paragon + Ageless Core Epiphany +Aid self
Musculature:
Damage is always good.
Immobilization is semi-good.
Other effect useless (in my build)
Ageless:
Endurance boost + Recovery=Godly! Remove ANY endurance problems for you and your party.
Recharge speed - you and party deal more damage, more healing, more debuffing (and have END to do so)...
Both combinations are good, but second have more survival (only if you pick Aid Self), damage and party contruibution (ageless effect is powerful for all its duration, Rebirth effect is not; Ageless is good for all AT, Rebirth lose its effectiveness on low max HP AT ).
P.S. Sorry for my bad English... again...
P.P.S. From my observation (2-4 iTrial + 5 Tips(+4/*2 with bosses) every day), Aid Self gives Fort much more survival then Rebirth Destiny; Ageless+Musculature is much more powerful then Cardiac+Rebirth. But this may vary on different builds, ofcourse
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Datarus, WP/TW Tanker
Hey everyone... I have a Fort I recently pulled off the shelf and did a respec. I have no issues with anything except end. The end issue is a easy fix with the help of insp. I am planning on getting my alpha slot soon, but I was wondering with all the other incarnate powers avaliable, should I get a different alpha or am I on the right path by getting Cardiac?
Proton Sentry Peacebringer:lvl 50+++ - Human Build / Triform Build
Quasar Sentry Warshade:lvl 50+- Human Build / Triform Build
Red Katipo Arachnos Soldier:lvl 50+++ - Crab Build / Bane Build
Black Katipo Arachnos Widowlvl 50+++ - Fortunata Build / Night Widow Build