Ok, spit out a "Loki Master Race" or a "Loki sucks" comment to yourself before you post :P.
We all know that Invisibility is an extremely popular/infamous ability for obvious reasons. This is not a post on if Radial Disarm is better or not, or if Invis and Loki in general is just an easy button, and I would prefer it not go that route.
This post is about a different way to approach building for Invisibility. Normally, you would want to put on all the duration mods (Narrow Minded, Continuity, and Constitution), working towards a max duration build. This runs you to about 30 seconds of invis, which is pretty nice/crazy. However, my main issue with that is, depending on when and where you use it, you might end up wasting a good amount of that duration on running around places with no enemies, which is a waste of whatever energy you put into it, whether it be Streamlined or not. Also, if at any chance you lost energy from leaders or disruptors, your squishy self is left out in the open until you get enough energy to resume invisibility. Not fun.
With that in mind, I decided to go for a max efficiency build instead, including Fleeting Expertise. "Why would you kill your duration?" some may ask. Well, for one thing, if you get sapped (my word for disrupted) you'll not want to wait to build up a lot of energy to get a squishy you out of a heated situation, especially if other means of self protection (cover, teammates, etc.) are not available. Secondly, and this is most important, if you build for max duration while building for efficiency and have an Energy Siphon aura, by the time your invisibility is done, you would have regenerated the energy you had used to cast it. You essentially have infinite uses for invisibility, as long as you dont get sapped or drained of energy for too long.
With Continuity and Constitution maxed and Narrow Minded at 7/10, with 75% max efficiency from Fleeting and Streamline, after the 20 sec invisibility is done, you would have regenerated via Energy Siphon the exact 12.5 energy it had cost to cast the power. With other players with energy siphon, it is a quicker regen, obviously.
So yes, "if Loki wasn't a Master Race already", but that can be discussed in a separate thread. I'm just showing what I believe is an optimal way to build for invisibility.
EDIT: You can most certainly use the Essence Helmet to open another mod slot, but I personally hate the way it looks and, these days, the helmet is not as available as it used to be.
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Ok, spit out a "Loki Master Race" or a "Loki sucks" comment to yourself before you post :P.
We all know that Invisibility is an extremely popular/infamous ability for obvious reasons. This is not a post on if Radial Disarm is better or not, or if Invis and Loki in general is just an easy button, and I would prefer it not go that route.
This post is about a different way to approach building for Invisibility. Normally, you would want to put on all the duration mods (Narrow Minded, Continuity, and Constitution), working towards a max duration build. This runs you to about 30 seconds of invis, which is pretty nice/crazy. However, my main issue with that is, depending on when and where you use it, you might end up wasting a good amount of that duration on running around places with no enemies, which is a waste of whatever energy you put into it, whether it be Streamlined or not. Also, if at any chance you lost energy from leaders or disruptors, your squishy self is left out in the open until you get enough energy to resume invisibility. Not fun.
With that in mind, I decided to go for a max efficiency build instead, including Fleeting Expertise. "Why would you kill your duration?" some may ask. Well, for one thing, if you get sapped (my word for disrupted) you'll not want to wait to build up a lot of energy to get a squishy you out of a heated situation, especially if other means of self protection (cover, teammates, etc.) are not available. Secondly, and this is most important, if you build for max duration while building for efficiency and have an Energy Siphon aura, by the time your invisibility is done, you would have regenerated the energy you had used to cast it. You essentially have infinite uses for invisibility, as long as you dont get sapped or drained of energy for too long.
With Continuity and Constitution maxed and Narrow Minded at 7/10, with 75% max efficiency from Fleeting and Streamline, after the 20 sec invisibility is done, you would have regenerated via Energy Siphon the exact 12.5 energy it had cost to cast the power. With other players with energy siphon, it is a quicker regen, obviously.
So yes, "if Loki wasn't a Master Race already", but that can be discussed in a separate thread. I'm just showing what I believe is an optimal way to build for invisibility.
EDIT: You can most certainly use the Essence Helmet to open another mod slot, but I personally hate the way it looks and, these days, the helmet is not as available as it used to be.
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