I had figured I need quite some AI levels on my engineer before I level on to 165-170, so I will stop at 150 to farm some axp in s10/LE mish.
Ideally I would even have AI24: CONC9, COLA9, Creative Mind 6. But I probably will skip Creative Mind for my end-setup as it doesn't really land well at all in pvp, if I can't stand the grind anymore ending up at AI18 will suffice for me.
Anyhow! To get teams, you either need to have an essential role in teams like tank or heal or crowdcontrol (engineers don't have that), or you need a bucketload of DD (which is expensive).
As some of you might have figured out by now I'm a cheapskate, avoiding AI armor when I can - simply can't afford it or else it takes me years to even get my engi pvm ready. So I needed an alternative setup, that doesn't need epic twinking or loads of cash, but that does push out DD like a maniac.
I present to you: http://auno.org/ao/equip.php?saveid=135190
If my calculations are correct I'll end up with around 5.5k hp self, 29-30s FA recharge, 9s Burst recharge. 13-14 bullet FA will be the max I do.
If I have used Medallion prior to FA (so AAD goes negative and every hit is a crit), I can get FA hits up to 10-11k I *think*. If I haven't used Medallion, it should be around 5k FA damage.
Burst will be 1.2kish damage only as Burst doesn't crit, sadly, but it will recharge in 9s. More damage over time than the Kyr'Ozch Pistol - Type 4 would have done (which recharges in 40s), and besides the Burst req would be the limiting factor for the QL of my Kyr'Ozch Pistol (FA and Burst conflict).
1kish regulars on the Kyr'Ozch, 400ish regulars on the BigBurger. 1.5kish crits on the Kyr'Ozch, 1kish crits on the BigBurger.
All of the above calculated with 10k AC by the way, so constant min damage.
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Additionally, in s10 raids I can be a great help to my team once they figure out how an engineer can shine. If the enfo doesn't chain-mongo (aoe hit) I can chain cast Disruptive Void Projector, which is a -1210 AAO blind.. making tanking a whole lot easier. That blind sadly breaks on any hostile action (reflect/shield damage, getting hit, debuffing, attempting to debuff, etc). And of course Medallion on bosses - chain crits for the whole team, for 23s.
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Oh, any comments are certainly welcome.. I'm noobie at pvm damage setups.