Wavicle's Issue 11 Energy/Willpower Blaster Guide

The great thing about the Invention System is the variety of slotting options now available to us. No longer is there really a single best way to build your toon. You can choose to focus on those aspects that seem most important to you.

The following build guide is not intended to be viewed as the 'most optimal' build that everyone should aspire to, but rather as an example of how one can use Invention Origin Enhancements, Hamidon Origin Enhancements, and Accolades to make a build very powerful while simultaneously retaining some features that most Min-Maxers would consider part of a 'concept' build.

Before the Invention System was released Wavicle had a build using about 40 HOs and about 25 SOs. The build was effective and fun, and focused on two 'conceptual' features: great Range and good speed Hovering and Sprinting.

The following build uses about 40 IOs and 20 HOs and retains almost everything from the HO build while also adding many Invention Set Bonuses and improving upon the HO slotting for several of the powers.


The standout features of this build are:

*Capped Hit Points - 1606.3, the Blaster Cap. If I team with a /Cold Corruptor in the Rikti War Zone, she can put Frostworks on someone else, because it doesn't do anything for me.

*Impressive Regeneration - Including Health, Global Effects and Set Bonuses Wavicle has 292% Regeneration, she Regenerates 19.5 Hit Points per second.

*Better than Pre-ED Damage and Accuracy - IO Slotting, Set Bonuses, Assault, and Defiance bring Wavicle's damage to +160% without Aim or Build Up. This surpasses the slotting she had in Issue 4 with two accuracy and four damage SOs.

*Exceptional Range - Wavicle's Range is dramatically increased using both the Boost Range power and additional slotting for Power Burst, Energy Torrent, Sniper Blast, Recall Friend and Teleport. While the usefulness of such high range shouldn't be underestimated, the fun factor is a major part of this aspect of the build as well.

Several other Set Bonuses and Global Effects add to this impressive package.


So to reiterate before I show the build itself, this is not meant as a guide to be adhered to religiously. I have found that this build has no problems with either endurance (she never runs out of end, even fighting Hamidon's Mitochondria Electrolytes, except when Force of Nature crashes or right after using Nova, and then she hits Conserve Power, eats a Blue Inspiration, and continues blasting while her endurance gradually fills up) or recharge (Total Focus permanently stuns level 52 and some level 53 bosses, easily with the use of Power Boost). However, many people like recharge and endurance recovery bonuses more than I do, and there are several easy ways to alter this build in order to have even more recharge and endurance. Other alternatives include use of Procs like Chance for Build Up or Chance for Hold, or additional Status Resistance Globals and Set Bonuses.


I call this the Willpower Blaster build because the high hit points and regeneration, coupled with Force Mastery powers, are similar, in my mind, to having High Pain Tolerance, Fast Healing, Indomitable Will and Heightened Senses. Clearly Willpower is significantly more Psi focused, but the analogy fits, in my mind.

One quick note, this is a respec build and as such I've removed the slot levels since they do not reflect when each power would have been slotted while originally levelling up.

Finally, I need to thank my friend passengerpigeon who helped me greatly in designing this build.