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Best ST chain for Stone Melee?

JayboH

By JayboH,
Posted on: 2012-04-27 08:20 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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I'm considering bringing an old Stone Melee character off the shelf so I'm currently trying to give him a build in Mids. I'm wondering what the best attack chain is though so I can figure out how much recharge to put together.

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A bit outdated, but... here is a thread which uses the chain Seismic Smash/Stone Fist/Gloom/Stone Fist/Heavy Mallet for a calculated 218dps without procs - which was tops in the thread results outside of DM with capped Soul Drain.

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I'm considering bringing an old Stone Melee character off the shelf so I'm currently trying to give him a build in Mids. I'm wondering what the best attack chain is though so I can figure out how much recharge to put together.
The best attack chain is going to be the chain that maximizes Seismic Smash. At near-recharge-cap, that's going to be SS/Heavy/Gloom/Fist. That's.... probably unsustainable, so you throw an extra Fist in there somewhere, for SS/Gloom/Fist/Heavy/Fist.

At that point, your limiter is pretty much SS. Base 20 seconds, and you need it down to 5.28 to be gapless. Solve for X, you need ~280% recharge in SS between enhancements and global. That's within a few % of the number for permahasten.

 

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SM isn't exactly easy on the blue bar either, so keep that in mind. I recently got a few compliments on my SM/DA video on my Youtube page for running every toggle minus the stealth while barely draining my end bar, but that's because I dedicated much of the character to that, instead of recharge.

I may rework him sometime to fit in more recharge now that my endurance is under control. Your combo is probably better than SM/DA though.

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