Need Critique - PvE - Crab Spider - Mids' Build included

David_Yanakov · 10-11-2011 08:24 PM

I'm a big fan of versatility. To date I've run this toon as a Huntsman type back when VEATs were new it allowed even small teams to plow right through content like it wasn't there. Now that I've returned I've found it to be a mite squishy and at the same time, lost my aversion to wiggly legs due to some of the new costume options really clicking. Budget is 700 to 1 billion inf plus 5-8 A Merits. I'm not worried about incarnate stuff yet as that will fall into place once the core build is complete.

My main goals are tankability and team support but big, big orange numbers are never a bad thing.

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Lady_of_Ysgard · 10-12-2011 07:17 PM

No offense, but this build is all over the place and is WOEFULLY poor on basic IO bonus slotting.

Now, let me see what I can do here. You say that you're interested in tankability and team support with a desire to see big orange numbers, and you say you have a desire to be a low-ish-cost build...and yet you have severely underutilized the powers available to accomplish this.

700 million to a billion inf and 5-8 Alignment merits is all you're willing to spend? What about normal merits? Are you accounting for them in the alignment merits by rate of conversion?

Bah. Time to fiddle with what you have here, though your slotting is atrocious.

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...8DFE07268A2520

I kept most of your power selections, though I made improvements for the sake of synergy and common sense. With this build you are capped to ranged and can easily pop a purple to be capped to everything else.

Shatter Armor is rather...silly on a crab. You are an AoE death machine, leverage those AoE's. As such, I handed you another few AoE's and had to radically redesign your sub-par slotting.

There should be Incarnate data in this as well if you wish to see a decent plan for how you can softcap to all positions without Barrier. Arachnos Lore pets were given for chuckles since this build removes spiderlings. Ion and Reactive were no-brainers since you want Big Orange Numbers. Since there's an error in Mids right now that has killed the Destiny entries, assume Ageless Core for it in the submitted plan.

All in all, fights MAY take longer without the mini-spiders, but I find it unlikely since you have more direct-damage powers in this build.

My personal build is completely different, but Stygian Variolus is a complete monster that can practically solo one of the collection areas in a Lambda run.

http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...90FF02267D08FD