Everything else aside, Drain Psyche would be sickeningly powerful on a Tank. I want it now.
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Not just on a tank. Everyone needs Drain Psyche! Its just to much of an awesome power.
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Originally Posted by The_Spad_EU
Everything else aside, Drain Psyche would be sickeningly powerful on a Tank. I want it now.
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K Thx Bai
where's stink aura? i wanna make a war mace hippie with a protest sign for the weapon.
So, I was talking with someone the other day and they brought up the fact that the devs (to our knowledge) hadn't announced any plans so far for a new melee defense set. They've released stuff for defender types, blaster types, and melee fighting types. Plus they are coming out with titan weapons (and staff melee?). So where is the new defense set? We haven't seen anything since Willpower. My suggestion was a combination of currently existing powers to make a psychic themed defense set.
Of course they'd have to tweak numbers, and maybe even change a couple animations, but the groundwork is already there. I envision this set as kinda being like a precognition type set that gives psi resistance and defense. Basically Willpower meets Super Reflexes meets Ninjitsu, meets Arachnos Widow.
(Not necessarily this order. Just listing best potential powers)
2-3 powers - (Toggles) Positional defense, and Psi defense (or psi resistance)
Indomitable Will - (Click) Prot status effects, +Def Psi
Mind over Body - (Toggle) Res S/L/Psi
Foresight - (Auto) Res status effects, Res Psi, +Def to all
Mental Training - (Auto) +Rech, +Spd, Res Slow
World of Confusion - (Toggle, Taunt Aura) PBAoE minor DoT, Foe confuse
Drain Psyche - (Click) +Regen/+Recovery, Foe -regen/-recovery
Other powers to consider would be Mask Presence (toggle, stealth, +Def) and even Mind Link (team +def) considering shield defense has somewhat of a similar power.
Considering stuff would have to be balanced the positional defenses for this set should probably only add up to, or just under 13% (unenhanced) because it wouldn't be a purely defensive set like SR*. I say this especially because Mind over Body is a resistance power and Drain Psyche can be used like Instant Healing from the regeneration set. So while 13% unenhanced seems low its still a number that with some work a person could make a soft capped defense build out of. The only decent argument this set could have for having a higher base defense to positionals would be that I didn't suggest some uber tier 9 power that grants forty something percent defense to everything with a thousand second recharge. That being said, it would be a psychic defense set, psi defense should be a bit higher than ~13%.
*(stalker/scrapper numbers) SR gets 19.5% positionals unenhanced. Also note that Ninjitsu only gets 13.9% defense to positionals considering it has a self heal and a couple debuff powers.
~stops ranting and steps off soap box~ What do you guys think? Even if it didn't end up being apart of some awesome flavor of the month build, a little variety in melee defense sets wouldn't hurt would it?
K Thx Bai