{"id":189,"date":"2005-07-06T06:04:09","date_gmt":"2005-07-06T12:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp\/2005\/07\/velvet-respec-redux\/"},"modified":"2005-07-06T06:04:09","modified_gmt":"2005-07-06T12:04:09","slug":"velvet-respec-redux","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/2005\/07\/velvet-respec-redux.html","title":{"rendered":"Velvet Respec Redux"},"content":{"rendered":"

I never did do the Velvet <\/strong>respect I was talking about a month ago<\/a>. Just never got to it.
\nBut running around with her last night with Avocet and P-siren<\/strong> (and sucking wind on End and not doing a lot of actual damage) made me reconsider — especially with the Hess TF coming up this weekend (and having seen how Hyperthermian went through that).
\nPart of the problem I have is the conflict between being a damage-dealer and being a damage-taker. As a tank, my priority should be the latter, locking down the mobs and letting other folks pick them off.
\nWhat gets in the way of that a bit, mentally, is that when duo with P-siren, the numbers change. Her bubbles reduce my vulnerability dramatically (I usually don’t have to run with TI up, just Unyielding, esp when I’m in the Big Bubble), which makes my relative lack of damage dealing more irksome. It was very refreshing running with Avo last night, as mobs got cleared much more than 50% faster than just the two of us.
\nOkay, given that Velvet is now 24, and will be at 25 with another night of play, here’s what I’m looking at (from CoH Planner):
\n01 : Jab acc(01) dam(3) dam(17)
\n01 : Resist Physical Damage damres(01) damres(5) damres(7) damres(11)
\n02 : Punch acc(02) dam(3) dam(17) dam(19)
\n04 : Dull Pain recred(04) recred(5) recred(7) recred(19) recred(15) recred(15)
\n06 : Combat Jumping endred(06)
\n08 : Unyielding damres(08) damres(9) damres(9) damres(11) damres(13) damres(13)
\n10 : Taunt tntdur(10)
\n12 : Swift runspd(12)
\n14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
\n16 : Health hel(16)
\n18 : Invincibility defbuf(18) defbuf(27) thtbuf(27)
\n20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21) endrec(23) endrec(23) endrec(25)
\n22 : Temp Invulnerability endred(22) endred(25)
\n24 : Boxing acc(24)
\n26 : Tough damres(26)
\n28 : Weave defbuf(28)
\nI actually just changed that from the respec I’d suggested previously, not maxxing out RPD in favor of slots (recharge) to Dull Pain (on 2 minutes, off 90 seconds); eliminating Haymaker (sigh) in order to more quickly get through the Fighting pool (and its defense boosters), and adding a couple more slots to Invincibility. I also take Health rather than Hurdle, at BD’s suggestion.
\nStill sucks wind, Endurance-wise, though, and still is weaker to Elements\/Energy. And the combat damage is no better (a bit worse, in fact). On the other hand, it still gets me Invicibility, it gets me to 98% damage resistance on lethal\/smash (hitting the 90% cap) by the time its up to this level.
\n(All the above numbers are with even-level DOs; I can selectively SO some of them, too, but I haven’t fine-tuned things quite to that level.)
\nThat 98% may be overkill with Invincibility (at least for big mobs). If I go back to Haymaker, that sets me up for either taking the fighting things thereafter, or else going with Tough Hide and Rage.
\nThe key to this build seems to be going for the Invincibility, but it would be nice to beef up the damage a bit, assuming that I’m going to be bubbled (I hope).
\nContinuing to ponder (and read).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I never did do the Velvet respect I was talking about a month ago. Just never got to it. But running around with her last night with Avocet and P-siren (and sucking wind on End and not doing a lot of actual damage) made me reconsider — especially with the Hess TF coming up this … Continue reading “Velvet Respec Redux”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources-rules"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/heroes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}