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Bloodhell

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Emp Defender and Hasten?

I am comming back to the game after a long unfortunate break. I am mainly looking at specing my now lvl 30 Defender to be a strictly Team player Emp. Defender.
In such, I am going to go with Full Emp Line minus last one untill lvl 32.
No attacks to really speak of except for Mind blast.
Then I was debating on whether or not Hasten from the Speed pool is worth having as of right now.
I was planning on taking:
Leadership: Assualt, and Tactics.
Fitness: Swift, Health, Stamina
Teleportation: Recall friend, Teleport
So the debate was to add in (Speed: Hasten) to further enchance my ability to quickly heal and buff.

I am wanting the opinion of others on how this looks so far. And how important Hasten is now. Or atleast in my situation.

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01/01/07 10:44

LordStarwolf

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RE: Emp Defender and Hasten?

I personally have not felt the need for hasten on my level 50 Emp Def, and don't think I would want to give up a power pool just to get it. Most of my powers recharge quickly enough without it and those that don't get three recharges and they come back fast enough. I also would not take the leadership pool. Yes it can help the teammates, but I don't think the boost is enough to justify the extreme end drain. I had it on mine and respec'd it out. At 50 i didn't have too many end problems, unless I tried to use leadership. Then the end evaporated. That's my experiences anyway.

Guardian
Avant Guard = Emp/Rad/Psychic Defender Lvl 50 (Dedicated Healer)
Astral Plane = Peacebringer Lvl 50
Spica = Fire/Em/Energy Tank Lvl 50 (Scranker)
Avant Spines = Spines/Regen Scrapper Lvl 50 (AOE King)
Beliskner = Eng/Eng Blaster Lvl 42 (Blapper)
Avant Kin = Ill/Kin Controller Lvl 39
BMG = AR/Dev Blaster Lvl 29
Avant Psy = Psychic Blast/Empathy Defender Lvl 20 (Offender)
Avant Def = Kinetics/Energy Blast Defender Lvl 16
Avant Stone = Stone/Storm Controller lvl 15 (Super Controller)
Triumph
Lord Yu = MA/Regen Scrapper Lvl 24
Protector
Electrostun = Electric/EM Blaster Lvl 21 (Sapper)
T-99 = Ice/Ice Tanker Lvl 20
Starwolf = Katana/Inv Scrapper Lvl 18 (my very first toon, 3 1/2 years ago)
Pinnacle
Avant Claws = Claws/Regen Scrapper Lvl 24
Champion
Avant Dragon = Fire/Fire Blaster Lvl 20
Freedom
Avant Arch = Archery/NRG Blaster Lvl 50
Avant Char = Fire/Kinetics Controller Lvl 50
Avant Shade = Warshade Lvl 36

And many, many, many more....

01/01/07 13:08

Mystic_Emp

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RE: Emp Defender and Hasten?

I had hasten up to lvl 34 ish, its usefull when you need to heal absolutly non-stop but with the way your going with your build. You should be fine with out it. I'm lvl 44 now, and I don't regret respecing it out at all. You should stick with Leardership, Fitness, Teleport if you can get it in, and personally I like fly. That way to stay somewhat above the action, not in it. LoL.

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01/08/07 20:32

govtmorgue

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RE: Emp Defender and Hasten?

My Lvl 50 Emp has it, 4 (or 6...it may be 6)slotted, and I really like it. When the end drain hits, it does knock some off of your end bar, but even when I run all out, fighting/healing my butt off, I still have end. With it 4 (6) slotted, I have about 30-45 seconds of downtime without it, so it's not perma, but in that 45 seconds I have noticed quite a difference. With Hasten on, I can usually maintain fortitude on at least 3 party members, and my RA's come back so that I can use them quite often also. For me, Hasten still has great effects for things other than just my healing, such as the fact that with Hasten on, I can daze elite bosses with my cosmic burst by spamming it, and also hold them due to my hold power coming back nominally faster. That's my stand on hasten for the Emp def. I'd also like to state that if you have a team split, with SS running, you can move quickly enough between both groups (resonable distance of course) to maintain healing on them until they regroup.

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01/08/07 23:21

Electro

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RE: Emp Defender and Hasten?

I have used Hasten on some of my Emp Def's. Back in the day when you could 6-slot powers and actually see benefit from it, I used perma-hasten and recharge enhancies to keep RA up and running all the time, thus skipping the fitness pool. Nowadays, though, hasten is still useful for keeping the buffs recharging as fast as possible. Your heals come back fairly quickly on their own, but with hasten you can keep 3 teammates hopped up on fortitude, keep your RA up about half the time, and keep 1 teammate Adrenaline-Boosted about 80% of the time. This is pretty nice since I view healing as secondary in the late game as buffing becomes more important.

01/09/07 09:08

LordStarwolf

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RE: Emp Defender and Hasten?

I would have to agree with you there electro, buffing really is more important in the 40s than healing. And I'm thinking about breaking out the 50 Emp and makeing some changes and taking him out for a spin and see. I'll let you all know how that turns out.

01/09/07 09:55

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