Giedroyc posted:

My Storm is level one and remains unplayed.

Swagger Dagger posted:

I think you want all of Taskmaster's uniques too, they're all really good and make skills like Action and Anti-Heroic Charge a lot more useful.

Doctor Shitfaced posted:

What's the best thing to spend Cube Shards on?

Doctor Shitfaced posted:

What's the best thing to spend Cube Shards on?

Senor Candle posted:

Since nobody wants to give a serious answer, if you've got spare ones you should just buy fortune cards to get boosts.

WarLocke posted:

What are the odds of getting non-boost stuff from cards (the exclusive pets or costumes or whatever else)? I'm guessing 'very low'?

Senor Candle posted:

Since nobody wants to give a serious answer, if you've got spare ones you should just buy fortune cards to get boosts.

Jeabus Mahogany posted:

Ugh, I really want Team-ups, like, now. How long does stuff usually hang around on Test Servers before going public?

Senor Candle posted:

Since nobody wants to give a serious answer, if you've got spare ones you should just buy fortune cards to get boosts.

a tea tree posted:

This whole build (and post) is considered work in progress - suggestions or recommendations on either are welcome, and I'm still tweaking the numbers and skills on the build itself. There's a summary at the bottom, if you just want to get to the good stuff.

Hey, kiddos - been playing Taskmaster a lot lately, right? Already paid me my 3 million credits and the soul of your firstborn to enroll in the Taskmaster Academy?

Some of you have even finished your Associate's Degree in Henching studies, Melee'd around the X-Mansion for a while... and you figure you know all there is to know about how to play Taskmaster - right?

Wrong, loser!

Welcome to Advanced Taskmaster 302, the class that'll make all the other Taskmasters want to be you, and all the Marvel honeys want to be with you...

"So You Want to Build a Ranged Taskmaster."


(She's here because she wants to be - I promise she is NOT a paid actress.)

Let's not mince words - even with my photographic reflexes, this build ain't perfect (close, maybe, but not perfect.) You'll do a lot of damage, but you're still gonna eat it if you overexert yourself. Possibly, you will eat it a lot. You're not the Taskmaster, after all - even when you're playing as me. You also don't have much single target damage - you need to wear bosses down with your DoTs and Shield Crush.


This one out-deeps'd Dr. Strange, once. Also, pay no attention to the many deaths from a Venom in wave 13.

The general idea behind ranged Taskmaster is copious spirit replenishment. You want to shoot your enemies, and never don't be shooting your enemies. Let's take a look at what to shoot them with:



The main themes of our build, outside of ranged attacks, is bleeds. Taskmaster is better than anyone who doesn't have adamantium claws at applying damaging bleeds. Let's look at each skill that I use individually:

Superb Combatant skills --

Anti-Heroic Charge: Well, I *did* say we'd look at every skill that I use. This is a one-pointer, it's our movement skill, it also negates a small portion of incoming damage. It's not exciting, but when you need to get where you're going, this is how you'll do it.

Rebounding Shield: "But Uncle Tasky," you cry, "we only use one point in shield to proc our Idols of Khonshu and Impervious Soldier auras!" Oh, how wonderfully naive you are, students. If you want to leave now, may I just remind you your fees for this class were 100% non-refundable.

That aside, we max this skill because not only is the damage scaling decent, but the DoT damage also scales. Between this and some other powers (more on those in a bit), we should be doing roughly 20k/second in DoT/bleed damage (not counting crits.)

You have to remember to work the shield into your rotation, but its damage is definitely worth it.

Shield Crush: A solid one-pointer with movement and AOE capabilities that - whaddya know - does more damage to bleeding enemies. We like to make enemies bleed, don't we class?

That's what I thought. You could dump bonus points here, but only the base damage is increasing, and we have better things to do for the other 3.7 or so out of every 4 seconds that the skill isn't up.

Cyclone Club: This one's season-to-taste. I like it for those moments when you amnesiac out a bit and get surrounded by enemies - the attack speed slow combined with the same from Web Net should allow you to deal some good damage while taking as little as possible in return. Wouldn't blame you if you didn't take it, though.

Deadly Marksman skills --
Now we're getting to the good stuff.

Deadly Volley: The bread, butter, and gooey chocolate coating of our build. Use this early, use this often, use it anytime there's more than two or so enemies in your field of vision. A large cone (made larger with itemization, if you so desire) with piercing and a high rate of fire. Max it and never look back.

Web Net: Not quite as good as the wall-crawlers, but at least it's not comin' outta your butt. Since they cause vulnerability, take one point in 'em and throw 'em down at the start of an AOE rotation, before Tear Gas Arrows and Rebounding Shield.

Dual Wield: Out of spirit? Feeling like nobody loves you anymore? Your guns still love you, and they want to help you earn back your spirit, real quick. Bonus ranks in these increase your DPS a lot (damage AND attack speed scale,) but the damage scaling isn't fantastic, and your spirit restoration procs are all on internal cooldowns, anyways. 1 point.

Tear Gas Arrows: Another skill I'm not quite convinced what to do with - I like them, and they help increase our chance to proc Peerless Archer, but you'll can see on the build chart why I would say some of these points could be better spent elsewhere. (The answer is "because of Impervious Soldier", if you were wondering.)

Photographic Reflexes skills --
My pride and joy - though I wouldn't mind having a working memory back, some days.

Flawless Emulation: No one has ever said "Don't max this," and I'm not about to start now. You will always be using skills that proc both halves of this passive. Max the hell out of it.

Peerless Archer: We like to make them bleed. This skill does that real well. You also get bonus ranged DR and 5% attack speed for free. Max it.

Impervious Soldier: Very useful. 5% chance to nullify an attack, +health, +health regen, and some additional damage mitigation on top of it. Good, especially if you max Rebounding Shield, but not amazing for our purposes. This should be your primary points dump (unless, like me, you have gear with 18 ranks in the skill. Score!)

Relentless: I have often been described this way, yes. So will your Taskmaster, after he uses this build. One point.

Action! With all the cool poo poo you get to do in this build, you'll probably WANT to film a commercial or three in your time. That said, unless you're speccing real hard into power duration, this is down 80% of the time. I'd consider this either a one-pointer, or a secondary points dump (for points from the story quests.)


Skills alone don't make the man, though - you've also got to dress the part of the ranged Taskmaster:



I'm less certain of authoritative "correctitude" in this portion of the build, and the ASSS (Super-Soldier Serum) is on him as much because I got it while I was leveling him as anything else.

That said, here's the key points:

(Advanced) Crystal of Kadavus: Daddy likey. Attack speed to shoot more arrows and guns, and a healthy amount of spirit back while using Dual Wield.

River of the Soul: More spirit, more power duration, and lower costs.

Doc Ock Medallion: My personal choice in neckwear, since we're using so many Area-tagged skills. DR, AOE size increase, and increased crit chance.

I'm using Relic of the Gibborim right now, but I think they could pretty easily be switched out for Xandar, Atlantis, Atilan, or Lemuria, depending on your personal needs at this point.


That's all for now, kiddos. Happy to incorporate any feedback you may have --


...Except for that.


SionSionSion friendly version

For ranged Taskmaster, you should:

MAX:
Deadly Volley
Flawless Emulation
Peerless Archer
Tear Gas Arrows

ONE POINT:
Anti-Heroic Charge
Web Net
Relentless
Dual Wield
Shield Crush
Cyclone Club (?)

and SPREAD POINTS BETWEEN:
Impervious Soldier
Action!
Rebounding Shield

Note that you should have a(n) (Advanced) Crystal of Kadavus and River of the Soul to make this build work.

--END LOW-EFFORT RECAP PORTION--

Eiffel On You posted:

Goons (maybe mainly Cease since he dominates these large build posts), for our newbies and even our veterans, I see plenty of posts on official forums and in game asking, "Who should I put this Any Hero Unique on?"

Doctor Shitfaced posted:

What's the best thing to spend Cube Shards on?

Shuka posted:

Is there a method of leveling up uniques via crafting or do I farm higher level versions of them?

Shuka posted:

Is there a method of leveling up uniques via crafting or do I farm higher level versions of them?

PoultryHammock posted:

Ha, it looks like we reached a lot of the same conclusions. We mainly took different avenues for spirit generation. Have you tried out Dismember yet? I played around between that and Shield Crush at earlier levels, trying to figure out which would be his best single target, ended up going with Dismember. I'll revisit though, you're not the first I've seen running Crush. And yeah, for a dude that seems like he would be primarily melee, he can get pretty good with the DoTs, and ranged too . His ranged especially surprised me, I was expecting total crap since he's hybrid.

a tea tree posted:

I was using Dismember on him early on, when I was still building melee. It's a good skill, but its attack speed is so slow that if you're going to build damage with it, you have to stay in place for a while (exposing you to a lot of danger.) It also doesn't proc Cap bonus on the Emulation passive.

Cease to Hope posted:

Donating them to level your crafter/enchanter

Toshimo posted:

This is the dumbest poo poo and you assholes need to stop giving newbies the worst loving advice.


Dear newbies:
Cube shards have 2 primary uses:
Fortune Card Mk 1: Common drops are boosts (which never hurt) and rare drops (but not unreasonably rare) are costumes. Even if you don't like the costumes, save them up and stick them in the blender for a random costume.
Ghost Box: These contain dogshit, but have a rare chance to drop the Bannertech Accelerator Reciped which is A Real Good Artifact. If you want the recipe, buy a few hundred of these and pray. Otherwise get Fortune Cards.

There are a few other things they get used for (like prestiging), but that'll be a very small portion of the cube shards you get.


Donating them to a vendor for a paltry amount of XP is the dumbest publord suggestion since the dude who was donating his Rainbows because ~I'm a strong, independent Black Widow, who don't need no legendaries.~

Toshimo posted:

This is the dumbest poo poo and you assholes need to stop giving newbies the worst loving advice.


Dear newbies:
Cube shards have 2 primary uses:
Fortune Card Mk 1: Common drops are boosts (which never hurt) and rare drops (but not unreasonably rare) are costumes. Even if you don't like the costumes, save them up and stick them in the blender for a random costume.
Ghost Box: These contain dogshit, but have a rare chance to drop the Bannertech Accelerator Reciped which is A Real Good Artifact. If you want the recipe, buy a few hundred of these and pray. Otherwise get Fortune Cards.

There are a few other things they get used for (like prestiging), but that'll be a very small portion of the cube shards you get.


Donating them to a vendor for a paltry amount of XP is the dumbest publord suggestion since the dude who was donating his Rainbows because ~I'm a strong, independent Black Widow, who don't need no legendaries.~

Harlock posted:

What is the best thing to donate to vendors? I've just been donating waves of Xdef trash after making my inventory full.

Baby Proof posted:

To be more specific, Fortune cards (Mk 1) get you costumes ~1% of the time. I've used about 200 cards, and got 2 costumes, 2 pets, and one cow level recipe.

Harlock posted:

What is the best thing to donate to vendors? I've just been donating waves of Xdef trash after making my inventory full.

Toshimo posted:

This is the dumbest poo poo and you assholes need to stop giving newbies the worst loving advice.


Dear newbies:
Cube shards have 2 primary uses:
Fortune Card Mk 1: Common drops are boosts (which never hurt) and rare drops (but not unreasonably rare) are costumes. Even if you don't like the costumes, save them up and stick them in the blender for a random costume.
Ghost Box: These contain dogshit, but have a rare chance to drop the Bannertech Accelerator Reciped which is A Real Good Artifact. If you want the recipe, buy a few hundred of these and pray. Otherwise get Fortune Cards.

There are a few other things they get used for (like prestiging), but that'll be a very small portion of the cube shards you get.


Donating them to a vendor for a paltry amount of XP is the dumbest publord suggestion since the dude who was donating his Rainbows because ~I'm a strong, independent Black Widow, who don't need no legendaries.~

April fools posted:

Lemon Curdistan posted:

Let's share some Taskmaster builds!

Ranged Taskmaster:
Max: Deadly Volley, Legion Arrow, Dual Wield, Nerve Gas Arrow (not sure how well it scales), Impervious Soldier, Peerless Archer
1 point: Rebounding Shield (Emulation defence buff trigger) Web Net (vuln), Relentless (CC break), Action!

Soothing Vapors posted:

Added "dumb uses of cube shards" to easy_ways_to_make_toshimo_sperg_out.txt

PoultryHammock posted:

Ha, it looks like we reached a lot of the same conclusions. We mainly took different avenues for spirit generation. Have you tried out Dismember yet? I played around between that and Shield Crush at earlier levels, trying to figure out which would be his best single target, ended up going with Dismember. I'll revisit though, you're not the first I've seen running Crush. And yeah, for a dude that seems like he would be primarily melee, he can get pretty good with the DoTs, and ranged too . His ranged especially surprised me, I was expecting total crap since he's hybrid.

Rasczak posted:

Oh hey look, it's my Taskmaster build! The only difference is I max Rebounding Shield and 1 point Dual Wield.

It owns a bunch