Scorpion Shield - the best Patron/Epic Shield?
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Auroxis,
Posted on: 2011-08-27 22:12 in Corruptors
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Come see for yourself son.
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Originally Posted by Silas
Not likely!
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Kill the enemy. Take their souls. Drink their blood.
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lulz
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Originally Posted by Heavenly Perverse
Come see for yourself son.
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This was certainly an entertaining thread.
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Originally Posted by _Tux__EU
lulz
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The easiest way to see is for you to post a build. Although you won't because it's probably bad judging from your view on defense.
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Originally Posted by Heavenly Perverse
Come see for yourself son.
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I would just echo others here that the nice thing about scorpion shield is it lets you concentrate on other things.
Not a corr yes, but I recently tried my TA/A defender with capped range on one build and then and also capped range + capped s/l on another. I recently respecd again to just capped s/l with scorp shield and gobs of +recharge (like +200%).
The capped s/l + gobs of +recharge build is just miles better than the other two. YES being softcapped to range is nice, but it takes effort. And that effort could be better spent doing other stuff. It tends to be better being a little less defensive (and this is IMO still true in something like a TA/A that can be purely a ranged hoverblaster and never need get close to anyone) with the softcapped s/l and scorp shield and then use all of that freed slotting to make your toon really kickass in other ways.
There are exceptions of course but I think scorp shield is always at least a solid and reliable choice that you can fall back on.
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Originally Posted by _Ail_
I would just echo others here that the nice thing about scorpion shield is it lets you concentrate on other things.
Not a corr yes, but I recently tried my TA/A defender with capped range on one build and then and also capped range + capped s/l on another. I recently respecd again to just capped s/l with scorp shield and gobs of +recharge (like +200%). The capped s/l + gobs of +recharge build is just miles better than the other two. YES being softcapped to range is nice, but it takes effort. And that effort could be better spent doing other stuff. It tends to be better being a little less defensive (and this is IMO still true in something like a TA/A that can be purely a ranged hoverblaster and never need get close to anyone) with the softcapped s/l and scorp shield and then use all of that freed slotting to make your toon really kickass in other ways. There are exceptions of course but I think scorp shield is always at least a solid and reliable choice that you can fall back on. |
Softcapped at Ranged is by an large preferable, but not always practical.
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It's not that you should neglect recharge to cap defense, but the option to get both permahasten and softcapped defense exists, and that is far more powerful than having only one or the other.|
Originally Posted by Heavenly Perverse
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You did get one thing right though - your opinion isn't much.
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Yes, yes it was.
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Originally Posted by Rad_Avenger
This was certainly an entertaining thread.
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