Final Build Confab.

[Vasiir]

Backstory:

Champion - Right path
Human - Left Path

2x mediocre completed Epic Charms

Currently Running 4x Nidhog Altruist pieces with shoulders and Boots being 2x Myomer protection armour ala Bio class selection screen, plus betrayal sword and pistol set.

Usage - I use this guy, who is my first character and has almost 200 hours banked into him, for high damage pistols, fast slug rate and mediocre sword damage as back up, the sword damage is still enough to 1 hit everything except leaders/Elites/Trolls/Spiders/Bosses etc etc.

Whats the thought on this endgame setup i am heading for -

Going with Full Altruist set atm, depending on feedback may switch singular pieces for Aesir pieces.

Helm
Dexterity 50%
Strength 50%
Sword Damage 15%
Sword Damage 15%

Chest
Total Armour 20%
Total Armour 20%
Total Armour 20%
Total Armour 20%

Shoulders
Attack Speed 15%
Attack Speed 15%
Slash Resistance 10%
Blunt Resistance 10%

Gloves
Pistol Damage 15%
Pistol Damage 15%
Pistol Range 20%
Health 25%

Leggings
Health 25%
Mastery +1
Mastery +1
Improved Reload Speed 20%

Boots
Loot Drop Chance 15%
Increased Ammo 25%
Increased Ammo 25%
1-Handed Critical 2%

Aesir Pistols 4 open slots
Slug Fire Rate 15%
Slug Fire Rate 15%
Slug Damage 15%
Slug Damage 15%

The sword is not definite but was thinking of going with

Sword 4 open slots
1-Handed Critical 2%
1-Handed Critical 2%
1-Handed Critical 2%
1-Handed Critical 2%

Thoughts and feedback will be appreciated.

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4 open slots

[batosai]

I would swap the resistances for 1-handed damage. And throw in a ballistic-lock distance aswell.

[Vasiir]

Tried to update several times but it wont let me, just sits and egg timers - changed the Resists for 2x 1 handed damage runes, cant believe i forgot them, also swapped the 1 handed critical on the boots for ballistic range rune

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[batosai]

I'm just glad I was able to help you.

[Vasiir]

You can help some more if you like :P

Just currently getting 1 of each char and alignment to 50 so i have every char on both alignments so i can play whatever i want

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[batosai]

I'll help with anything I can. I know all about haveing each character. I have 24 lvl50's.

[Vasiir]

Nice lol

I arent that ambitious just yet, but i am going to be prepared for TH2 ;-)

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[Darth]

I only have 10 level 50, so I am not in Batosai's league.

I would remove the critical chance entirely. Your first skill gives you a good chance, and if you go right path your BC basically makes every hit a critical. Also do what Bats said and get the ballistic lock and pistol range. For a pistol Champion, especially a Human, that is a HUGE help.

Also, unless you are dead set on swords, I would swap those out for staff damage and go with the Mercygiver of Fallen Kings. That is an amazing 1 handed weapon. And you could replace the crits and resistance with air melee damage and air melee time. Champions gets more air attacks than anybody. If you ever decide to go middle path with the guy, you can use it. It doesn't get a lot of love, cause the right path is so pistol heavy/critical hit and the left gives you the sword damage. If you play it though, you will see that the BC makes everything you hit get knocked into the air. No double tapping, just a single hit. A Champion equipped with a long weapon like the Mercygiver can knock large groups into the air and then jump up and attack them all while they are helpless for huge amounts of damage.

[Vasiir]

I have a middle path Cyber Champ at about lvl 25, so i know what your on about, left him alone to set up some other things, like 2 lvl 42 chars i can give bounty to fro Altruist Shoulders and Boots shop farming permanently.

I dont do alot of air melee if i am honest, i have a set of Aesir Pistols with 2x Pistol Damage 15% and 2x Slug rof 15% runes and a +2 skill bonus from charms, they mow through everything fast enough, air or ground - its why i didnt use any air melee runes in the v1.0 build.

1 question though, the BC efficiency runes, do they work with the right path battlecry? I know the damage ones do nothing because the BC is a passive damage boost.

I have the full Fallen Kings set so the staff i know off and use regularly, i just didnt stick it in the final setup as i thought more slots would be useful to whack more damage runes in.

Although, looking at the build now, even if i swapped the sword dmg for staff i would still have 5 slots open, so i could drop 2 slots and go for air melee damage - the other crits i just put there so i could do more damage on low combo meter level.

The only reason i went middle path on a Cyber was for the slide damage and the alignment damage boost, my thought was to slide into things with battlecry and when there up, anything i didnt 1-hit (elves) i would immediately fly straight up with high slide speed from combo and decimate them there anyway.

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[Subhuman]

The nice thing about champions is that their "middle of the road" status essentially gives them no weaknesses. I recently made a set with 1 piece of Aesir armor, 5 blue pieces with 2 empty slots each, and 4 slot orange weapons (sword and rifle). Nothing is truly capped on the guy but I still have no problems getting through iceforest relatively safely.

So if you want to focus on either guns or melee, you can easily cap out your primary weapon and still have lots of room to boost your secondary weapon. Or you can go for balance and still get excellent damage, especially if you're a right path champ, you don't even need to cap anything necessarily.

Stuff like 1-handed critical, Battlecry Efficiency, and resistance runes, those are gravy runes, once you get the meat and potatoes in there like health, total armor, damage runes, attack speed, slug stuff etc, put the gravy runes on last if you have room on your plate.

[Vasiir]

Wow, forgot about posting this thread lol, think i gave it up in the end for awhile because a few runes wouldnt drop, kept getting duplicates of trash runes.

Might fire up the old char and see if my lucks changed.

Not to mention trying to finish other Aesir sets on whichever of 12 chars lol

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