Rage Defense

RAGE DEFENSE (biserker, so I'm told)

The resistance for the set would be Smashing 80% with full taunt only 20% with taunt off. L/F/I/E/N 60% psy 20%

1) Controlled rage: [auto] *+special (as <(BASE)> health decreases, HP/regen/damage) Full controlled rage bonuses: The HP bonus would be 50% of HPs and regen bonus would be as high as a regen scrapper with instant healing on. about 150 HP per sec at 33% health.

The HP/rage scale is formed like this [( base hp )(rage hp)] Meaning, if your base HP is 2000 and your to "controlled rage" TOTAL HP is 3000. If you're damaged for 100 HP, you're HP go up by 50.

2) Aggravation: [toggle] res S/L/F/I res to stun

3) rage fuel: [auto] end/HP buff, res to end drain and recovery/regen debuff

4) focused rage: [toggle] res L/E/N/psy, res placate/fear/-tohit/hold/immoblize

5) can't back down: [toggle] taunt 5% Smashing resistance per enemy reduce secondary effects by 10%

6) short temper: [click] minor self heal, build 50% controlled rage bar (dam/regen/HP) for 5 sec

7) beating heart: [auto] F/I/E/N res, res to slow, recharge debuff

8) rage stomp: [click] with fast recharge low endurance cost. built up rage can be used in PBAoE attack (scale of damage is 1 at full health, to 200 at full rage)

9) uncontrollable rage: [click] Full rage buff, this would cap the dam/health/HP bonuses, cap all res except toxic, and def at 45% unenhanced When it crashes: loose all health/end (like electic armor), recovery debuff for 5 sec, PBAoE fear.


It is a "take damage" based set, that being said, S/L resistance could be capped with IO enhancements, and all resistance, except toxic, would be around (tanker) 50% . It's weaknesses are: The damage/health/HP bonus requires being hit, toxic damage, and no def debuff resistance. BTW,The attack set would still do it's normal damage at full health

For those that think you'll hate healers ... if a healer healed this set for 100 HP ... he would loose 50 HP of rage bonus. Affectively resisting 50% of the heal. So, He wouldn't entirely hate healers. healers would hate him :P But, if the healer healed him when his health was lower than the rage HP bonus, he would get the full effect and he still wouldn't care.

For those that want the health bonuses to count like the rage bar ... I wouldn't. If it did that, the rage would build then crash, build then crash. and would make it a not very dependable defense.


updated.

This would be a damage/health/HP version of SR with the health dependant regen

The concept is that the build itself is more suvivable than anything other normal defencive set (provided toggles remain active). Near cap resistance to all and as you take damage your regen, HP and damage is increased. The "rage" is guaged based on a percentage of your BASE HP (not enhanced or the new HP ammount added by the loss of health).

So, the sets power relies on being hit, but that is also it's weakness. It has no resistance to -regen, -end, -damage, -tohit, end drain.
It might need some tweaking ... I'm open to options

I don't know coding ... will this set cause a problem?

firstly the set would be ridiculously easy to kill as soon as the tier 9 was popped, 100 hp is nothing, most lvl 50 minions can hit for that much, even with capped resist and regen a AV can hit you for 10x that, 2 shots and you would be dead even with capped resist

secondly if your going for a hulk type of theme just make super strength/wp or super strength/regen and you get the same effect

Build info has been updated

Yes, I know about IOs. It was humor. Go with it.

Interesting ideas... but I'm not sure what space this is supposed to fill thematically. You mentioned a Hulk-like theme in your second post, but the Hulk isn't protected by his anger, he's protected by his superhuman toughness and healing factor. (Those in turn increase with his anger, true, as do all of his powers, but in game terms that would just be his Fury bar. An undamaged Hulk is certainly not a calm Hulk.) SS/WP Brute already captures the Hulk very well, I think.

Debuff Resistances across Armour Sets:

Dark Armour: Endurance, Recovery, Perception
Electric Armour: Endurance, Recovery, Recharge, Run Speed
Energy Aura: Defense, Endurance, Recovery, Recharge, Run Speed
Fiery Aura: Endurance, Recharge, Run Speed
Ice Armour: Defence, Perception, Recharge, Run Speed
Invulnerability: Defence, Endurance, Recovery, Recharge, Run Speed
Ninjitsu: Defence, Perception
Regeneration: Regeneration
Shield Defence: Defence, Recharge
Stone Armour: Defence, Endurance, Recovery, Perception,
Super Reflexes: Defence, Perception, Recharge, Run Speed
Willpower: Defence, Perception, Regen

I believe what OP really wants is a "Berserker" set, in which there has been at least 1 or 2 very good threads about such a set in the past, which could probably be found using some search fu.

Updated how concept is comparable to something existing in game

an SS/Inv brute isn't good enough for you?

Your tier 9 should be called "Kill Me Now".

Your HP drops to 100, but your resistance is capped and you are soft-capped to everything. Why does that sound so familiar?

Oh yeah, it's almost identical to the old Moment of Glory, which most people skipped because it SUCKED.

Imagine fighting an enemy group that has a large to-hit buff available to it. Like, oh, Nemesis or Devouring Earth. Pop your tier 9 while fighting DE, hit the floor 0.652 seconds later.

Actually, I'd like for the devs to make this set for you, just so you can see how horrible it would be for yourself.

And on the flip side of things, if you were to give this set to a tank it has the potential to be incredibly overpowered. Capped S/L resistance, and 60-80% resistance to everything else? Sounds like Granite without the movement or recharge penalties.

Add in the fact that a tank can soft-cap defense with IOs even if they have no defense to begin with, and you have a broken set.

Here is effectively what you're asking for, but thought out in a way which is a lot closer to existing sets and survivability numbers so it isn't horrible dead in this game. The set you are suggesting there may work in other MMOs or RPGs but sadly from the way this game works you'd likely be the only person playing it while the rest are yelling at the devs for balance changes.