If I recall, Marauder has pretty high smashing resist to start with, and then has Temp Invuln to boost it higher, and Unstoppable to boost everything really high. This makes him a poor choice for a first AV to solo, especially with a set that does part smashing like KM. An AV's resists really make a dramatic difference to the difficulty of soloing them with various sets, because AV regen is so high, and if their resists reduce your DPS below their regen rate, you can't make any progress.
I don't know much about KM attack chains, but Focused Burst won't help your DPS. It has lower DPA than the melee attacks. Concentrated Strike is your best attack even after adjusting for its long activation time - that is, it has the highest DPA in the set.
I haven't played enough high level KM to know the best attack chain, but what I did to maximize power siphon is to monitor your damage bonus. If power siphone is up hold off on using Concentrated Strike. As Hopeling said, CS has the highest DPA in the set, but it recharges so slowly that I like to make sure hit hits as hard as possible. To do that I don't hit CS until power siphon is fully saturated.
If you are outside of the PS buff though, use it when it's up.
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Originally Posted by SuperT
Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what the best attack chain would be for kinetic melee when fighting AVs but I'm not having any luck... Although my first and only AV solo attempt so far was against Marauder, I couldn't make a dent in him. I started spamming the first 3 KM attacks and hitting power siphon when it came up but that wasn't really doing much. Then I started throwing in concentrated strike since it is a hard hitter and has the chance to recharge power siphon but the attack is just too slow. I'm wondering if maybe I need to use focused burst... Anyone experienced with KM have suggestions? I know Marauder has crazy high resistance but, as a scrapper, I would think KM would still hurt him... of course, not as good as fire melee would... |
Hit Power Siphon, run the chain, keep Power Siphon cycled up as often as possible; do not break the chain unless something forces you to. CS will, with luck, help keep Power Siphon more consistent; but if you're running this chain, you'll most likely already have PS down to 30-34 seconds anyway which means you'll have your 10/s ramp up, 10/s saturated, 10/s decline which averages something like 80% damage bonus over 30/s.
The first three attacks of KM: QS>BB>SB only does ~170-180 DPS (if I'm remembering correctly), and with Marauder's Resists/Regen, you were likely doing so little comparative damage that you wouldn't have noticed. Concentrated Strike needs to be used and you'll need to get something like 150-160% Global Recharge (with Hasten) and either Spiritual or Agility for the +Recharge there too.
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Hi,
I'm trying to figure out what the best attack chain would be for kinetic melee when fighting AVs but I'm not having any luck... Although my first and only AV solo attempt so far was against Marauder, I couldn't make a dent in him.
I started spamming the first 3 KM attacks and hitting power siphon when it came up but that wasn't really doing much. Then I started throwing in concentrated strike since it is a hard hitter and has the chance to recharge power siphon but the attack is just too slow. I'm wondering if maybe I need to use focused burst... Anyone experienced with KM have suggestions?
I know Marauder has crazy high resistance but, as a scrapper, I would think KM would still hurt him... of course, not as good as fire melee would...