It's a decent enough build but I can see a few places you could improve. Your set bonuses are kind of spread around between Recharge, AoE Defense and Ranged Defense. If that works for you all well and good but personally I'd skip the AoE defense and build up Ranged Defense and recharge instead. Having 12%-13% in two defenses is often less useful than having 20% or so in one.
Even ignoring that I can see a few places I'd tweak things:
1. You really want a fifth slot in Irradiate and Neutron Bomb. You're one slot short of an excellent set bonus in both powers (AoE Def for Irradiate and Recharge for Neutron Bomb) which would compliment your existing build. Personally I'd steal the sltos from Health, you should have sufficient healing and regen from your powers that the extra regen there isn't helping much anyway.
2. The Psionic Resistance IOs in Temp Invulnerability and Force of Nature aren't really worth having. I've tried using them and the small amounts they give aren't really worth it unless you have other psionic resistances to stack with.
3. The Devastation set in Cosmic Burst isn't really that useful, the set bonuses in Devastation are kinda meh, you'd probably be better off with a Thunderstrike (for Ranged Defense) or Decimation (for more recharge).
4. If you swapped the Red Fortune Set in Fortitude for a Serendipity set you could pick up another AoE defense bonus and then switch to doctored wounds in Absorb Pain to keep the 5% Recharge Bonus.
Sorta surprised that Neutrino Bolt isn't slotted better. Either with more procs (as I'd advise) or at least more damage, as it's super speed makes it very fun in my experience.
Hello everyone. This is my first build posting on these forums and this is my personal preference on the Empathy/Radiation set. (Issue 21 compliant)
Beginning:
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This set is for those with alot of patience and influence.
Empathy as whole for its set bonuses that I have slotted are quite expensive at the moment but can easily be purchased through Merits or Gold/Silver/Bronze rolls. I put in about 1.2 billion influence on this toon over the 2 years that i've played him.
Radiation as a build feels underpowered and needs a good buff. It has a great PBAoE in Irradiate and one of the best non-nuke defender attacks in the game in Cosmic Burst. Great Damage and is able to disorient Lt's, and Minions. 2 applications and you'll be able to disorient most bosses in the game.
The Build:
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Level 50 Magic Defender
Primary Power Set: Empathy
Secondary Power Set: Radiation Blast
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Teleportation
Ancillary Pool: Power Mastery
Hero Profile:
Level 1: Healing Aura
- (A) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (3) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (3) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (5) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (5) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Neutrino Bolt- (A) Touch of Lady Grey - Chance for Negative Damage
- (46) Devastation - Chance of Hold
Level 2: Heal Other- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (7) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (9) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (9) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
- (11) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
- (11) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
Level 4: X-Ray Beam- (A) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (13) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (13) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
- (15) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance
- (15) Thunderstrike - Damage/Recharge
- (46) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 6: Absorb Pain- (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
- (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Recharge
- (17) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (19) Numina's Convalescence - Endurance/Recharge
Level 8: Resurrect- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 10: Combat Jumping- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
- (21) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
Level 12: Fortitude- (A) Red Fortune - Endurance
- (21) Red Fortune - Defense
- (23) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (23) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge
- (25) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (25) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
Level 14: Clear Mind- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 16: Super Jump- (A) Springfoot - Endurance/Jumping
Level 18: Recovery Aura- (A) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (27) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy
- (33) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
- (33) Performance Shifter - Accuracy/Recharge
- (33) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
- (34) Performance Shifter - EndMod
Level 20: Aim- (A) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Chance for Build Up
- (29) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Endurance
- (29) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - Recharge/Endurance
- (31) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge/Endurance
- (31) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff/Recharge
- (31) Gaussian's Synchronized Fire-Control - To Hit Buff
Level 22: Hasten- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (27) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 24: Recall Friend- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 26: Regeneration Aura- (A) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (34) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (34) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (36) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (36) Doctored Wounds - Endurance/Recharge
Level 28: Cosmic Burst- (A) Devastation - Chance of Hold
- (36) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
- (37) Devastation - Damage/Endurance
- (37) Devastation - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 30: Irradiate- (A) Scirocco's Dervish - Chance of Damage(Lethal)
- (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge
- (39) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (40) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage
Level 32: Adrenalin Boost- (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
- (40) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
- (40) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
- (42) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
- (42) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
Level 35: Neutron Bomb- (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
- (42) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (43) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
- (43) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
Level 38: Power Build Up- (A) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
- (43) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
Level 41: Temp Invulnerability- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (45) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/Endurance
- (45) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
- (45) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
Level 44: Force of Nature- (A) Impervium Armor - Psionic Resistance
Level 47: Total Focus- (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
- (48) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge
- (48) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 49: Super Speed- (A) Celerity - +Stealth
Level 0: Task Force CommanderLevel 0: The Atlas Medallion
Level 0: Portal Jockey
Level 0: Freedom Phalanx Reserve
Level 50: Pyronic Core Final Judgement
Level 50: Spiritual Core Paragon
Level 50: Diamagnetic Core Flawless Interface
Level 50: Longbow Radial Superior Ally
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Level 2: Swift
- (A) Empty
Level 2: Health- (A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (46) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
- (48) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
- (50) Numina's Convalescence - Heal/Endurance
Level 2: Hurdle- (A) Empty
Level 2: Stamina- (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
- (50) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
- (50) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Endurance
Level 1: Brawl- (A) Empty
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Empty
Level 1: VigilanceLevel 2: Rest
- (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run--------------------------------------------
Why did I take what I took? From personal experience with the build. I've remade him with Do's, SO's then eventually IO's. I don't slot purples because I like taking the money and dividng it up with my SG. This build is balanced to my standards and plays like a lower damage regen scrapper at times.
Why did I make this (reference)guide to making this particular build? People were asking me on how I'm able to be in what seems like 2 places at once. It's a build based on Recharge and the most important part; Practice. Practice on the empathy build is the most essential thing to any team of any AT. A, new-to-the-AT, build of Brute, tank or Scrapper can run into a crowd with no toggles on and lost on what they're doing, and you can make them survive the entire encounter.
Playing with newer people doesn't bother me either and it's always nice to get a challenge in there too. We were all New to this game at one point.
Well, I'm not one to try to explain something that's been posted by many different people with each their own take so I'll skip to a FAQ's part.
FAQ:
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Why Did you take both Superspeed and Superjump?
A: I just did and I know I could get other things like the leadership set but I'm not to big on toggles. I'm an Empath with near limitless endurance.
Why did you take Power Mastery?
A: Power Build up, Total Focus and Force of Nature was a nice "Oh no! My tank went down and I need to fill in!" power.
You took Neutron Bomb and Irradiate.. Why?
A: I like having powers, and seeing as how i team 99% of the time, AoE's are nice to have to help.
Weren't you farmed?
A: Simple answer.. Technically yes. When did I get it done? Pre-IO's. How many levels? 10, from 1 to 10 so I could start Positrons TF. Since then? Only as support when I'm bored.
You're from Freedom, How can I/we trust you?
A: It's all up to you. I chose my Incarnates based on no one's opinion and farming/pl'ing has influenced my choice to run TF's as much as I can.
What Shouldnt I get?
A: Electron Haze and Atomic Blast. Sure the Damage on the nuke is great with a chance to hold, but whats the use of a empath with no endurance? EH just takes so long for something that does KB and moderate damage.
You speak like a "Im a HeaLZor, invite me NAO!" kind of person. Why?
A: i hate being called the healer and it shows that you have little confidence in yourself. I provide heals AND Damage with some nice buffs so you may go on, buffed and healed, gathering both Influence and Prestige for us. (XP for those 49 and under)
How is PVP with this build?
A: I dont PVP. When I arena though, it's fun to have heal decay turned off. Regen Aura will make u feel like a god when your fighting 5 blasters and winning.
Conclusion:
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Compared to other primaries, it feels like one of the weaker sets in terms of damage and mitigation but with Cosmic Burst and X-Ray Beam, it can be overcome with proper slotting. Take it as you may and use it with caution that everyones play style is different.
Thanks for Reading!
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