Dark Echoes 1 Destruction 4 Salvation 1 Tenacity 4 Shock therapy 3 High voltage 1 Electrical storm 4 Wraith form 1 Charged blood 5 Terrify 1 Free will 4 Betrayal 1 Retrograde 1 Over drive 1 Epiphany 1 Psychopath form 1
I'm not going to get in to some big talk about strategy I'm just going to give you the basics but I assure you this is a build that will be tough to beat. The idea here is a simple one: hit HARD. You throw up free will turn one then you can take your time dropping Wraith form and Psycho form, yes you can do both at once and yes it in fact does pwn. Then you got 3 turns to hit with shock therapy for a guaranteed 8k+ every shot. If that's not enough to kill you opponent use free will to stall till you can get wraith form back up and swing three more times. Your ability wheel should look like this:
Shock therapy 3 Free will 2 Electrical storm 1 Wraith form 1 Psychopath form 1
If you need more fire power you can switch out a move for Destruction if you need more healing you can switch a move out for another Free will but I have yet to need either.
As for abilities, I got one word: Instincts. Nothing else matters. Strength is useless in this build, wraith form takes care of speed and free will protects your health so no need to buff it.
Here is your equipment list:
Helm Broken Promise Armor Johnson's legacy Gloves Council Gloves Weapon Wrath of the council Leggings Bite proof pants Boots Council shoes
The Shock armor from act 2 is a good second place to this gear and will do you just fin till you get this stuff but believe me this stuff is better, 200 some odd points of instinct beats 60 points of lightening piercing any day. In any case, most of this stuff should be easy to come buy accept for the stuff with âcouncilâ in the name you may have to go in to the fight club several times to find the city council and get all the items in question. Till then you can subsist on the full set of mayor gear its not quite as good but is a more than acceptable substitute. If you have trouble finding the weapon you can go in to act 4 and fight in the training ground there till you find a Poseidon's Fury. Its definitely second place In the weapons list. Failing that you can just go to the Pwn Shop and buy that light saber looking weapon whos name eludes me at the moment. The Bite proof pants are the wild card most of this stuff comes from either the mayor or the city council, this is the only item that doesn't. It is important to note that these items where selected because they have the highest Instincts bonus at the cost of all else. Your other stats will suffer badly for the sake of your instincts although it will pay off giving you an instinct score close to 700.
Now I will be the first to admit there are builds that can make characters who hit for far more damage like a shatter hydro but that build lacks defense, and yes there are builds that can get huge hit points and are tough as nails to kill like a buffer bio, but they lack fire power. This build is a near perfect balance of power and defense. If used correctly it can crush anything even the two aforementioned builds. Never the less there are always critiques so if any one has any tips or suggestions I'm all ears.
You made a couple of points most significant of which is the fact that everyone is looking at health you reiterated the point I have been trying to make about that most adeptly. Health is relatively unimportant in this build.
However, I personally don't see the need for sacrifice and ultimatum. free will in those slots would allow you to protect your whole team not just yourself, more team members for longer is always good.
I'd also like to point out that the life loss from overdrive is negated by both psychopath form and free will.
I guess you and I have different tastes in Psychos. I enjoy the dangerous and treacherous flavors of Sacrifice more than the nutty aromas of Psychopath form, but I can see why you don't. Losing teammates is bad.
I will suggest, however (to whomever might care), that Ultimatum and Sacrifice go hand in hand.
Yes, and let me make an adept reiteration of my own Voltcruelerz, and say thanks for all the effort you have put in, you analysis was even more extensive than mine was.
I would like to make one huge amendment to my build thoes last 2 points that I put in to destruction I would like to relocate to traumatize, I knew that the move killed focus points but I did not know it stunned making it tremendously better than I thought it was, and I thought it was pretty good to begin with.
I use this now, and I must say with the new Z7 gear this is insanely powerful. Much better than pure electro. And I tweaked it a bit to experiment and I ended up taking those points that maxed out devastate and put them into epiphany and replaced on of my free wills with that. That adds even more damage, because I find one FW enough to get by fine with vera healing whomever needs it.
Luffi: While your entitled to your opinion, you can't overlook the proof that has been given to us by Volt's trials.
Volt himself was a non-believer at first. If you read through this entire thread from the beggining, you will see the arguments that go back and forth between Perspicacity and VoltCruelerz. You will see that Volt was very much as you were and not believing this at all.
Then you will see Volt's trials that puts this build to the test. Trials that are reviewed and reported back very thoroughly.
And finally you will see that Perspicacity's build here is in fact more efficient in every way.
Those trials on page 3 says it all. You can't really dispute it.
This build, by the way has allowed me to complete a Legend run and defeat the corruptor. Granted there are several times that re-spec's are needed to alter your strategy to get by certain encounters.. but having said that, the bulk of the fights are done using this build and it's quite amazing.
It's the most fun I've had yet playing sonny 2 (using this build).
Well, I have returned, but my caches have cleared since the last time I played, so I started up as psycho and remembered this build. As such, I am bumping this. It deserves it, and the community deserves to know that it exists.
No its not. This one is better overall and is not so dependent on lightning piercing which means that you have more room to get equipment with health boosters. That means that you have more health. Not only that though, but you also have incredibly high durability and high damage output (higher even than the default electro build).
