REQ: Empathy/Psychic Blast

[Gamer6432]

I'd like to know if anyone has a better Empathy/Psi build than what I currently use.

My current build is this:

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The only thing that I MUST have is Fly for the travel power, and Psychic Mastery for the Ancillary pool (if one is used). Thanks in advance for the input.

[The_Laughing_Man]

Not sure what you're trying to achieve with this build so it's difficult to advise to be honest.

You haven't taken any attacks so I'm guessing you don't plan to do much but work on a team?

If you're planning a team only build, then I'd forget about delf-defence (no need for an armour) and the AoE sleep as a team will wake them all up anyway. You don't have any attacks, so you won't generate agro, therefore you won't be attacked.

Clear mind doesn't need a recharge IO. It takes 3 seconds to cast so it'll have recharged before you've finished the cast cycle.

Fortitude would do better with +Def (Red Fortune) rather than +ToHit. most folks have +Acc in their attacks somehow already. The +Def goes further to be honest.

Actually, thinking about it, this looks like a PvP team build? Is that the case? If it is, then I can't really advise much as that's a whole different kettle of fish. An Empath in team PvP is (in my experience) a walking corpse...

Give me a bit more info and I'll see if I can help. Or have a look at my guide on the official forums and PM me with any questions.

-H

[Steiner]

My first character was an Empathy defender so I can understand the "fun" that goes into making a multi-faceted empath.

Some things to keep in mind when building this:

• You're a defender, your endurance is awesome out of the gate. There is little need to boost that via IOs
• There is almost NEVER a time where you need to six slot powers without good reason (as of the IO era)
• When building an empath, it's almost always intelligent to increase your recharge to your heals as well as having decent heal IO bonuses... Put it this way, my emp had 6 slot "Heal Other". 5 numi's and 1 recharge IO. Coupled with 4 other LoTG 7.5s floating around the build and damn-near perma-hasten; my heal was obviously lower than it could be... however I could easily pop off 3 target heals in the same time it takes your build here to throw one and recharge. (Obviously an over exaggeration) The point is, it's better to get off 5 moderate heals in 10 seconds than 2 big heals in 10 seconds.
• CM should only have 1 slot max and it should be a range, you'll need it since you don't have much to fight with.
• Treat Absorb Pain like a real heal, not just a backup heal, because tanks and well build scraps will need this when their HP is in the red. You'll find yourself relying on it more than you think.
• Nice Use of hover, fly isn't bad, both my empaths have it, and it makes it much easier to avoid knockback and to get out of dodge.
• You're best possible setup for Fort is 3 Cyto HOs and 3 Recharge.
• RA should get three End Mods and 3 recharge, and HA the same sans End Mods with Heals. This should produce optimal auras and you should be able to throw them every other 3 mobs.
• You should really look into combining HOs with IOs, you'll be a lot more effective.

Food for thought from running around with my emp for 5 years... not the standards.... but should give you some direction.