Bastion: The Ultimate Energy DOT Counter
HassamaMama
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So I've been watching the Bastion Deep Dive over and over again and have realized Bastion is an absolute Swiss Army Knife and potentially the greatest Energy DOT (labeled "non-instant Energy damage effects" in his kit) counter to exist - let me explain.
First I want to focus on the big niche he'll fit in - countering Energy DOT. The Infection he ends up applying reduces the Ability Accuracy (both Off and Def) of Energy DOTs, specifically. Yes, that means he doesn't counter any Physical DOT like Rupture or Corrosion, or Direct Damage DOT like Degeneration or Disintegration.
BUT - if there's a defender that applies Energy-based DOT (Incinerate, Shock, Plasma, Nova Flame, Coldsnap, Soul Barb, Critical Failure, and Neuroshock) and he prevents it from proc'ing, he'll feed his own Direct Damaging effects via applying Disintegrate Vulnerability (2x max stack adding up to 32% vuln; 64% for Mutants).
So that's his niche. But it doesn't stop there. In addition to handling all those DOT effects he can counter:
I need this guy as a 7* and to get him to sig 200 - he'll likely be my first tech r4. #SaveTitansForJune. Get pumped!!
First I want to focus on the big niche he'll fit in - countering Energy DOT. The Infection he ends up applying reduces the Ability Accuracy (both Off and Def) of Energy DOTs, specifically. Yes, that means he doesn't counter any Physical DOT like Rupture or Corrosion, or Direct Damage DOT like Degeneration or Disintegration.
BUT - if there's a defender that applies Energy-based DOT (Incinerate, Shock, Plasma, Nova Flame, Coldsnap, Soul Barb, Critical Failure, and Neuroshock) and he prevents it from proc'ing, he'll feed his own Direct Damaging effects via applying Disintegrate Vulnerability (2x max stack adding up to 32% vuln; 64% for Mutants).
So that's his niche. But it doesn't stop there. In addition to handling all those DOT effects he can counter:
- Bleed
- Poison - also can't have his regen rate reduced by poison
- Crush
- Non-Contact attacks
- Unblockable attacks (Instant regen 85% damage if block broken)
- Higher combat power rate (Power Reroute)
- Evade (Pursuit)
- Self-Repair is EITHER 8% Missing Health or 3% Max Health AND its bias is to the greater value
- Infection reduces opponent attack rating by 35%
- SP1: 10% Direct damage bursts that double (or even triple) up when the opponent is Infected
- SP2: 36% Fury passive; doubled if Infected; will amplify the above bursts on sp1
- SP3: Applies a Disintegration debuff which feeds the sp1 and thus triples the burst damage as mentioned above
- Sentinel relic FURTHER increases Disintegration potency by 10% (20% against Mutants)
- Expands to counter Energy DOTs from NODES (Hazard Shift who??)
- Adds a pause to his abilities (Regen, Furies, Disintegrations, Disintegration Vulns, Pursuit, Infection) against Mutants
- Increases his sp2 Fury potency by up to 30% at sig 200
I need this guy as a 7* and to get him to sig 200 - he'll likely be my first tech r4. #SaveTitansForJune. Get pumped!!
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So does this mean that he can take Domino even though he is not immune to Ability Accuracy Reduction?
Explanation
Proc is a term used in game programming. It originated as an abbreviation for "spec_proc", which was used by Jeremy Elson, the original programmer of Circle-MUD. In Circle-MUD, special processes were functions that could be assigned to players, objects, and locations in the world.
When gamers discuss "how often this weapon procs", they are referring to the likelihood of the special effect occurring"
Bastion should counter that as well.
You can well time block to get 8 charges, but if you can't parry, then you have to do 4 mediums and hope that you don't receive any Energy DoT during that time. And then, when you're comboing away, you also have to hope that the Energy DoT still doesn't get through on occasion.
Plus, Kabam likes sticking AAR immunity nodes on most of their difficult fights, so this utility disappears for those fights.
Angela still remains the queen of DoT, as decreasing the duration of damaging debuffs is rarely blocked.
However, Bastion does have a lot more going on, so he does seem more interesting and useful for a wide variety of things.
He’s still a Tech champ, so he’ll never get Unlucky, which means no further reduction to his Ability Accuracy like other classes or impact on crits or block proficiency. But if he Crit Fails (which is still prossible) he’ll still take all the Crit Fails damage.
Domino's critical failure damage is an energy DOT which unless I am wrong should count towards the "non-instant Energy damage effects" part of Bastion's kit. His infections which reduces ability accuracy of energy DOT upto 60% flat against mutants would prevent critical failure from triggering and inflict disintegration vulnerability instead.
I can't even imagine how many points it will take to get him, especially if we're competing with modders.