Great builds or something more sinister?

[OlBoy88]

Recently I've come up against some incredible agents. Guys who can: recharge their skills within seconds; melt someone like myself with 430,000 toughness and it takes forever to get their health down. Fair play if they are legit and have genuinely built a great agent, however it just seems like too much. Has anyone else encountered this OR have an explanation? 

 

[MurphDog6]

Currently the best geared agents in the game with gear score of 228 have got all 240 gear and 204 weapons. 9/10 they are a TANKTICIAN. This build will let the agents run with a high toughness and skill power stat and sacrifice dps. I ran with some guys in dz yesterday through matchmaking and one of the guys shared his build. He was running 110k DPS 600k toughness and 27k skill power. Meaning he relies heavily on using sticky bomb to kill agents in PvP. His skills are refreshing quickly due to his skill power. Also he was running 2 piece final measure and rolled his gear to have 75% Armor mitigation and 70% exotic damage resillience. Meaning he is very well protected from everything and has a high health attribute too. He showed me this but standing in front of a cleaner in dz 06 and with overheal on let me watch his damage resillience protect him from flames. The recent state of game said that the devs are keeping an eye on the so called TANKTICIAN build as a lot of people are running and building towards that. Even Hamish Bode the community Dev who runs the state of game live stream runs a TANKTICIAN build. 

 

[OlBoy88]

This is probably it and there's is nothing wrong with it EXCEPT for how narrow it feels it makes the DZ. I like coming up against players with different skills but recently I'd say 75% if agents I come up against are running a build like that. It it tempting to do the whole "If you can't beat em, join em" mentality but I'm stubborn haha. Thanks for this interesting point mate. 

 

[MurphDog6]

I have always tried to maintain a balanced agent I run 228k DPS 325k toughness and 18k skill power, I have 2 piece final measure for the exotic res but I still can't compete with these people. New gear sets to play with soon though so see what the future brings

 

[OlBoy88]

I feel your pain brother! I'm running 243k DPS, 425k toughness and 11k skill and get pumped too.

 

[MurphDog6]

Basically need to scrap my gear and start again

 

[HHHope]

4 sentry 2 final measure is what I've been stuck on. 

 

[Dr Luigi Phd]

I have a few variations of a 2 tact/2 sentry/2 final measure that I use based off how much SP, EDR, or toughness I think I need.