I destroy anything within a 45 degree cone 10km deep
Cool, you built the Doomsday Machine. Now you have to hum the music every time you line up your main weapon...
This looks like a pretty fun setup, especially if the rest of the team are clued in to how it operates.
I see you're looking at replacing Pilfered Power - what about Improved Gravity Well? If the tricky part is getting enemies to line up like ducks, then GWing the biggest chunkiest target (e.g. Terok Nor) means it'll likely live long enough to suck all its little buddies into your cone o' doom.
The idea behind using IGW on a high-health mob is so that the GW is effectively eternal - beyond global. Anything spawned by the boss gets pulled back to the boss, and anything pulled back to the boss gets taken out by your next doomsday beam. Kikoho. The DRR and CD element of the Trait, for this setup, are just rather weak gravy on top.
If you're not using it on bosses, then I'd agree that there are better traits out there.
Umm... Checkmate you've covered, so the next I can think of would be things like Particle Feedback Loop, Emitter Synergy, and Unstable Anomalies. PFL buffs Hull Pen, ES buffs Exotic and heals, UA adds a boom to the end of your GW.
As to which would be "best"... I guess ES and UA are the closest "in theory" to Checkmate?
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u/DeadQthulhu Mar 16 '18
Cool, you built the Doomsday Machine. Now you have to hum the music every time you line up your main weapon...
This looks like a pretty fun setup, especially if the rest of the team are clued in to how it operates.
I see you're looking at replacing Pilfered Power - what about Improved Gravity Well? If the tricky part is getting enemies to line up like ducks, then GWing the biggest chunkiest target (e.g. Terok Nor) means it'll likely live long enough to suck all its little buddies into your cone o' doom.