I don't have access to Mids atm, but assuming you use the standard choices from your powersets I have some thoughts.
Alpha: Cardiac is almost certainly the best, unless you have some issues with your recharge. I don't know much about the new ones though, one of those might be good for you as well. I'm pretty sure one of them boosts resistance as it's primary value. That might be good for /Fire but I'm not sure how much of a return you'd see from that.
Judgement: Void. Ion has a better target cap but at the rate you'll be putting out AoE damage that shouldn't matter. Void gives you -Dmg on your enemies which will stack nicely with the high resistance values of /Fire.
Destiny: You could go Barrier. The +resist part won't help much but +def sure will. It will also stack with the -ToHit from Soul's toggle if you use that. You could maybe look at Clarion or Incandescant to help the league out. I haven't seen Incandescant used much, so I'm not sure if it's really good and people don't know that yet, or if it is just too situational. Clarion would help in the escape phase of BAF and the fight against the Avatar of Hamidon since confuse effects are rarely resisted by things that aren't Clarion and usually there aren't enough Leadership toggles on the league to negate the confusion entirely. Clarion would also help you against the UG trial's Olympian Guards, which have a very high mag stun. I've seen that stun take out a lot of melee toons that got too far from the league.
Interface: I would take Spectral or Preemptive in all honesty. So many people have Reactive that some non-Reactive DoT would help out. The DoT caps at 8 applications from the same interface. Spectral has the benefit of thematically matching Void and Soul Mastery. Preemptive doesn't make a lot of thematic sense but it does have an arguably more useful secondary effect than Spectral.
Lore: Numerically, Cimeorans or Warworks are the best for single target damage. Seers have the best support pet, which might be more useful on your character anyway. Longbow have a ton of -regen from the Cataphract, and I've heard that Storm Elementals are great at AoE damage but I haven't really seen that personally so YMMV. Really, you can't go wrong with Lore pets anyway.
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Originally Posted by Vauluur
I don't have access to Mids atm, but assuming you use the standard choices from your powersets I have some thoughts.
Alpha: Cardiac is almost certainly the best, unless you have some issues with your recharge. I don't know much about the new ones though, one of those might be good for you as well. I'm pretty sure one of them boosts resistance as it's primary value. That might be good for /Fire but I'm not sure how much of a return you'd see from that. Judgement: Void. Ion has a better target cap but at the rate you'll be putting out AoE damage that shouldn't matter. Void gives you -Dmg on your enemies which will stack nicely with the high resistance values of /Fire. Destiny: You could go Barrier. The +resist part won't help much but +def sure will. It will also stack with the -ToHit from Soul's toggle if you use that. You could maybe look at Clarion or Incandescant to help the league out. I haven't seen Incandescant used much, so I'm not sure if it's really good and people don't know that yet, or if it is just too situational. Clarion would help in the escape phase of BAF and the fight against the Avatar of Hamidon since confuse effects are rarely resisted by things that aren't Clarion and usually there aren't enough Leadership toggles on the league to negate the confusion entirely. Clarion would also help you against the UG trial's Olympian Guards, which have a very high mag stun. I've seen that stun take out a lot of melee toons that got too far from the league. Interface: I would take Spectral or Preemptive in all honesty. So many people have Reactive that some non-Reactive DoT would help out. The DoT caps at 8 applications from the same interface. Spectral has the benefit of thematically matching Void and Soul Mastery. Preemptive doesn't make a lot of thematic sense but it does have an arguably more useful secondary effect than Spectral. Lore: Numerically, Cimeorans or Warworks are the best for single target damage. Seers have the best support pet, which might be more useful on your character anyway. Longbow have a ton of -regen from the Cataphract, and I've heard that Storm Elementals are great at AoE damage but I haven't really seen that personally so YMMV. Really, you can't go wrong with Lore pets anyway. |
Alpha: Nah, I can run the ST chain as Burn>Haymaker>Gloom>KoB>Haymaker>Gloom flawlessly with just my global recharge. For AoEs I have Obliteration and the FF proc in FS almost always fires if I am the first to a spawn (assume 5-6 baddies). Cardiac sounds like the best. I was planning Core Paragon with gives 20% resistance too (this is the one with 45% end redux value too).
Judgement: sounds good to me.. Radial Final Void looks nice
Destiny: I noticed I was getting hit with Terrorize and Confusion.. the effects didn't last long but they were a pain nonetheless. Is this a reason enough to take Clarion though? Slight aside: I do not use soul's toggle (Darkest Night), only Obliteration and Gloom, both are slotted for -ToHit though.
Interface: How big of a damage difference is "moderate" (Reactive) vs "minor" (Preemptive and Spectral)?
Lore: It seems the Seeker Essence uses Fort on you? That's nuts..
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Alpha: Spiritual. I love it on my SS/FA/Soul. Flames, burn, FS, and consume all recharging faster yes please...and healing flames also gets a boost. My flames recharges in <8sec
Destiny: Ageless between consume and this cardiac is a poor mans version compared to ageless...and more recharge. I am also well above the soft cap and the only time I need more would be in Itrials and there is always a buff to bring me to incarnate cap.
Judgement: I went Ion but due have Vorpal as well for the -%50 damage. So either is great
Lore: Cims its thematic and the best dps for my toon win/win.
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Alpha: Nah, I can run the ST chain as Burn>Haymaker>Gloom>KoB>Haymaker>Gloom flawlessly with just my global recharge. For AoEs I have Obliteration and the FF proc in FS almost always fires if I am the first to a spawn (assume 5-6 baddies). Cardiac sounds like the best. I was planning Core Paragon with gives 20% resistance too (this is the one with 45% end redux value too). Judgement: sounds good to me.. Radial Final Void looks nice Destiny: I noticed I was getting hit with Terrorize and Confusion.. the effects didn't last long but they were a pain nonetheless. Is this a reason enough to take Clarion though? Slight aside: I do not use soul's toggle (Darkest Night), only Obliteration and Gloom, both are slotted for -ToHit though. Interface: How big of a damage difference is "moderate" (Reactive) vs "minor" (Preemptive and Spectral)? Lore: It seems the Seeker Essence uses Fort on you? That's nuts.. MT |
If you do decide to go Barrier though, I would without a doubt take the Seers Lore pet to stack the +def with Fortitude. The recharge on Lore means you won't be able to use the Seers all the time, but while they are up Fortitude stays on you constantly. Most of the time you are using Lore pets it will be against AVs and stuff anyway, otherwise known as the times you'll need defense. Really, Seers might be a good option for you regardless of your Destiny choice unless you want to do something like solo AVs, in which case Cims surpass Seers since their DPS against a single target is like having a pocket Scrapper. It's against larger spawns and on teams where the Seers more all-purpose buffing ability becomes more useful than the DPS-centric Lore pets.
The damage difference for the interfaces isn't very high. I was actually under the impression that the DoT from Preemptive and Spectral was "moderate" and comparable to Reactive. The DoT for Degenerative and whatever the psionic one is called is "minor" and strangely enough resisted more often by enemies. I wouldn't suggest the psionic proc for any reason, since like half the incarnate enemies are robots and even in the new Dark Astoria with i22 it will be Banished Pantheon zombies.
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Alpha: Spiritual. I love it on my SS/FA/Soul. Flames, burn, FS, and consume all recharging faster yes please...and healing flames also gets a boost. My flames recharges in <8sec
Destiny: Ageless between consume and this cardiac is a poor mans version compared to ageless...and more recharge. I am also well above the soft cap and the only time I need more would be in Itrials and there is always a buff to bring me to incarnate cap. Judgement: I went Ion but due have Vorpal as well for the -%50 damage. So either is great Lore: Cims its thematic and the best dps for my toon win/win. |
And how many toggles are you running?
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I dunno man, Vanguard seem really terrible in both branches, but maybe I am missing something. The buff pet turns Assault off all the time, and has a tohit check on the heal, and doesn't run up to you or the other pet for the heal to hit either. They were listed as second worst damage from that one Pylon test when we are talking about Core too.
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Lore: Numerically, Cimeorans or Warworks are the best for single target damage. Seers have the best support pet, which might be more useful on your character anyway. Longbow have a ton of -regen from the Cataphract, and I've heard that Storm Elementals are great at AoE damage but I haven't really seen that personally so YMMV. Really, you can't go wrong with Lore pets anyway.
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Preemptive/Spectral/Reactive actually do the same base damage. When the next patch hits, Cognitive and Degenerative will only do 3 points less than the rest if I remember correctly.|
Originally Posted by Vauluur
The damage difference for the interfaces isn't very high. I was actually under the impression that the DoT from Preemptive and Spectral was "moderate" and comparable to Reactive. The DoT for Degenerative and whatever the psionic one is called is "minor" and strangely enough resisted more often by enemies. I wouldn't suggest the psionic proc for any reason, since like half the incarnate enemies are robots and even in the new Dark Astoria with i22 it will be Banished Pantheon zombies.
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Preemptive's end drain effect, even after the upcoming patch, is completely pointless unless you are a character that is designed to do end drain, like electric control/kinetics etc.
Spectral - I went with this one on my stone/dark since I was hoping it would help fight Oppressive Gloom wandering. I want to do some thorough testing when the patch hits to see if it would be worth it for my fire/fire scrapper, since all enemies run out of my burn patch (no taunt.)
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Hi all,
I decided to incarnate my SS/Fire/Soul (build below), and I would like some suggestions. I just jumped in a BAF/LAM last night (first ones) with this guy and he performed pretty well even though I didn't even have Alpha slotted yet. I only want this guy for end game content, and I'm pretty sure that build will be at least decent at farming regardless. I don't care about exemping.
Alpha: pretty much leaning towards Cardiac
Judgment: Ion sounds the best in terms of target #, but Void seems to have most useful effects for a melee character
Destiny: not sure on this one
Interface: does anyone take anything other than Reactive Radial Flawless (said in jest, sort of)
Lore: not sure on this one.. was thinking Rularuu just for aesthetics.
Suggestions? Thanks in advance
The build:
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