Rifleman Archive

About a week ago, I "finished" my build, master rifleman/doctor 0430 (res and buff)/TKA 0004 (defenses and head strikes). Recently I started changing out, with a goal of master rifleman/TKA 4304/medic 2040/fencer 4400, for improved defenses, sacrificing the self-doctor buffs for meditation/powerboost and improved defenses.

Here's the problem... I'm currently at TKA 2104, gave up doctor buffs, and I hate it. Never have I eaten so much damage (in PvE) and blown through so many stimpacks as a self-buffing doctor. I cannot rely/don't want to rely on getting doc buffs from someone else. Has anyone played with the super-defense build, and is it worth it? Right now I'm considering going back to my old build (or maybe doc 0230 and keep unarmed knockdown 1) and figuring on the upcoming patch to increase defenses to something useful. Someone throw me a bone here.

One thing to keep in mind... as a doctor I moved my stats to 400 400 400 400 400 400 1100 1100 800 (occasionally playing around with focus/willpower balance). To exploit powerboost I can't see doing much differently, which is one of the reasons I find this no doctor TKA concentration so annoying... going to 400 ham every 8 minutes or so (usually at a bad time), and gigantic health/action specials costs.

I'd like to see if the super defence build is worth it as well. But I'd guess it would be best to wait until the new defences go live being judging a super defence build.

I love doc+rifleman, but I have a feeling docs might get a nerf soon, there are hundreds ofpeople now going doc. It seems as if half my PA is going doc. Spices and food being broken doesn't help this.

As it stands now I see the ability to have 400/400/400, 400/400/400, 1100/1100/800 stats and wear full composite outweigh the benefits that a defence build gives, however this could change when the boosts for defence come in.

Wait until the next patch. Next weeks patch should see some drastic increases in defenses. Keep working towards your defense build, since med exp is so easy to get back. I really would like to know how well your defense build works after the big patch. Was considering it myself.

--Rorrimot