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Post by jadedragon1922 on Jun 30, 2023 17:56:32 GMT -5
Hi, I am looking for help with putting together a build for a character that uses Power Armor with a Laser Sword. I am looking for a build that makes use of the Laser abilities in the Power Armor tree and combining them with the Laser sword skills for a melee/range hybrid type character
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Post by Shapey on Jul 2, 2023 13:19:56 GMT -5
Unfortunately a wide majority of Power Armor stuff locks a player's powers down while they're maintained, so there isn't a lot of intermingling the two. A couple of the powers from Power Armor do help Laser Sword though; Chest Beam and Energy Wave, neither of which lock the other powers down.
Let me know if you'd like help with that kind of build!
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Post by jadedragon1922 on Jul 3, 2023 12:57:04 GMT -5
Yea id be interested in a build like that. Whats the stats I would need to focus on for that?
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Post by Shapey on Jul 4, 2023 22:24:29 GMT -5
There's a few different ways you can build Laser Sword, but one consistent thing is using Endurance (unless you use Dragon Rush, which would be pretty outside the theme of laser sword). You can either have Intelligence prime and stack Intelligence with the Particle Accelerator form, Intelligence prime and stack Dexterity with Form of the Tiger, or Strength prime and stack Dexterity with Form of the Tiger. I'll post a simple setup for Laser Sword including Chest Beam and Energy Wave. Super Stats ○ Strength (Primary) ○ Dexterity ○ Endurance
Talents ○ The Penitent (+10 Str/Dex/End, +8 Rec) ○ Take all Superstat talents from there
Powers Energy Builder: Laser Edge Power 2: Lightspeed Strike (Particle Acceleration) Power 3: Lightwave Slash (Light Mend, Burn Bright) Power 4: Unified Theory Power 5: Power Conversion Power 6: Luminescent Slash (Rank 2, Rank 3) Power 7: Form of the Tiger Power 8: Unstoppable (Rank 2, Rank 3) or Quantum Stabilizer (Rank 2, Rank 3) Power 9: Energy Wave (Reverse Polarity, Recharge) Power 10: Chest Beam (Rank 2, Point Blank Blast) Power 11: Energy Shield (Rank 2, Rank 3) Power 12: Resurgence (Unchained) Power 13: Meltdown (Rank 2, Rank 3) Power 14: Thundering Return
Specializations Strength
○ Swole (2/3) ○ Physical Peak (3/3) ○ Brutality (2/2) ○ Overpower (3/3) Warden
○ Fortified Gear (3/3) ○ Ruthless (2/2) ○ Elusive (2/2) ○ The Best Defense (3/3) Brawler
○ The Glory of Battle (1/3) ○ Penetrating Strikes (2/2) ○ Ruthless (2/2) ○ Finishing Blow (2/3) ○ Flanking (3/3) Strength Mastery
There's some damage difference between Unstoppable and Quantum Stabilizer, Unstoppable being the stronger option, but the latter would let you use Chest Beam as more of an AoE. The idea behind the build would be to have your debuffs, Disintegrate from Lightspeed Strike and Burn Through from Chest Beam, up on your target while you hammer away with Luminescent Slash. You can use Lightwave Slash to refresh both Disintegrate and any Plasma Burn stacks you have on the target on a tap, which you'd follow with Chest Beam tap to re-apply Burn Through before going back to Lumi Slash. If you have energy problems with it, using Power Conversion should help with it. Energy Wave can be used to bring your targets in closer to you as well as grant you a small heal-over-time. Meltdown is a good way to get 5 stacks of Plasma Burn quickly and it's a very strong AoE ultimate. Also, this will have some leftover points, feel free to use the last 2 (after upgrading your Travel Power of course!) wherever you see fit.
Hope this helps!
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