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On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 23:21:47 GMT, David Simpson
<dsimpson@NOnyx.SPAMnet> wrote:
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>OK, I've made it past lvl 40, and now have elude, and 2 respeces.
>Should I get rid of my active defences or the passive ones, or
>keep both????? I'd like to keep the active ones, so if I run a
>lower level mission, I won't die too easy, but if at the higher
>level, I'm going to be running Elude all the time, it would allow
>me to get other powers. Any suggestions would be listened too!
I have a 49 Katana/SR scrapper, and I went with Perma Elude. Because
of my other power choices, I was left with the choice(s) of which
defensive abilities to skip. The way I went, I skipped Dodge, and
managed to take all of the rest. The passive defenses are about half
as good as the active ones. Ideally ,you want both, but if yoiu have
to sacrifice one, my personal feeling is that you should sacrifice the
passive ones.
Now, granted, you didnt' say that you went with Perma-Elude, and i
have no experience with fighting AVs with it being non-permanent.
Post 40, you will find that you will be facing a lot of AVs. And I
can't see your passive defenses being enough to keep you alive in
thse fights when elude drops.
Anyway, that's just my 2 cents. Personally, because I didn't have
enough slots left to fully slot either Evasion or Focused Senses, I
ended up by taking both Agile and Lucky to partly make up for this..
Also, because I dropped Superspeed for Fly and Air Superiority, that
left me having to drop one of my defenses, so I chose to drop Dodge.
Those were just my choices --- don't feel like you have to do the
same. I know that almost every time that I listened to people's advice
on my build, I ended up regretting it. Maybe it was because they
didnt' know what they were talking about, or maybe it was because my
play style was entirely different than of those that were giving that
advice. I don't know, and it doesn't matter. So I would just listen
to what everyone has to say, and then do what you want anyway.