SS/FA/Soul Build advice


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Heyo,

Revamped my broot since I haven't played him in a few years, please look over the build and let me know if there are any glaring holes that need fixed.

I went for primarily rec/regen/def, not going incarnate so save any advice about that stuff. I am a casual player and do not have the time or patience for the grinding.


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That build is... utterly hideous.

For the most glaring issue, you're wasting hundreds and hundreds of millions of influence overslotting Knockout Blow for damage with *Hecatomb*, of all things - you're slotting over 160% damage enhancement, and getting only about 100% out of it.

You can't seem to decide if you're going for typed defense (Kinetic Combat) or positional defense (Gaussian's, Obliteration, Titanium Coating).

You're spending slots on things like bringing your psi resistance up from 1.3% to 4.3%.

(Also, you don't need to grind to incarnate - you run a brief arc of missions, then the shards start dropping in, giving you alpha slot stuff as you play. Skipping the grindy stuff is fine, but a basic alpha doesn't involve grinding.)


 

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Actually the Hecatomb was for the recov bonus.
Kinect Combat gives 3.75 to s/l and 1.88 to melee was going for s/l, melee is just in there.
Oblit, Gaussians, Titanium all give 1.25/1.88 s/l def and 2.5/3.75 melee def don't really have a choice on what I get to choose on the set bonuses as far as numbers or choosing typed or positional.

I am thinking you might have thought something else or you don't understand how the set bonuses work.

Finally the only thing I see as far as psi res is the doctored wounds set and that was 6 slotted for the faster rech and the psi bonus was accidental because I really don't care about the psi res.

In addition I really have no clue what you are trying to get across, other then you might not know how the sets or Mids works. I ran this build on +2/x8 and it tanked, gonna try higher diffs tomorrow.

Not worried about inf either, I have been playing the market for awhile and have billions of inf laying around so no worries on that. Still scratching my head on where your coming from.


 

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Originally Posted by The_Larker View Post
Actually the Hecatomb was for the recov bonus.
Kinect Combat gives 3.75 to s/l and 1.88 to melee was going for s/l, melee is just in there.
Oblit, Gaussians, Titanium all give 1.25/1.88 s/l def and 2.5/3.75 melee def don't really have a choice on what I get to choose on the set bonuses as far as numbers or choosing typed or positional.

I am thinking you might have thought something else or you don't understand how the set bonuses work.

Finally the only thing I see as far as psi res is the doctored wounds set and that was 6 slotted for the faster rech and the psi bonus was accidental because I really don't care about the psi res.

In addition I really have no clue what you are trying to get across, other then you might not know how the sets or Mids works. I ran this build on +2/x8 and it tanked, gonna try higher diffs tomorrow.

Not worried about inf either, I have been playing the market for awhile and have billions of inf laying around so no worries on that. Still scratching my head on where your coming from.
To begin at the most silly mistake, you're slotting for endurance cost reduction in CONSUME, which costs less than one point of endurance. Really?

If you'd like maths, it comes out to saving roughly 0.004 endurance per second - ONE POINT of endurance EVERY THREE MINUTES.

Titanium Coating is terrible for typed defense - use four slots of Reactive Armor instead, and add a slot of endurance reduction if you must - bam, same SL defense, more EN, saved one to two slots.

Gaussian's is abysmal here - six pieces gives you less SL defense than two bits of Rectified Reticle - and it doesn't even ED-cap the recharge in rage.

You're using the wrong enhancements from Hecatomb, even if you insist on slotting it for recovery - the pure damage one is completely wasted, granting less than 5% more damage than the triple or damage/recharge. (Either will fix the abysmal recharge you have in the power.)

Hell, replacing that wasted slot with a plain endmod IO in Stamina will give you more endurance than the hecatomb shenanigans, at the cost of no damage.

Despite influence not being an issue, you're not using the Gladiator's Armor +3% defence IO.

As for Psi resist, you're using the Aegis psi resistance IO. (You don't need status resistance, which removes a very small piece of the duration of status effects that land. You have status protection.)

Your attacks are terribly underslotted - why do you even take Dark Obliteration or Gloom if you can't spare the slots to make them useful attacks? Especially recharge is very much lacking in every single attack, except foot stomp.