MF Rocket test dps leveling pve pvp rocket raccoon
Guide by Cupcake8675 Last update at Mar 31st 2014, 01:09

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1. Build – Say Hello to my Massive Lazor Cannon!

A. Basic - Quick Shot - We unlock this right from the get-go. Its a pretty solid fast attack that does decent single-target damage. Honestly we'll only really use it when we run low on spirit and we can't BFG everything down! We'll want to max it because sometimes we're going to run out of spirit and we'll want to actually have damage when that happens. MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES

B. Personal Defscreen - Def rating, absorbs damage, and gives us 25% mitigation. Pretty awesome. This ability is a must have in the event that anything does look our way, and maxing it really helps our survivability. MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES.

C. Energy Barrage - A super fast attacking plasma raygun of death. We'll use this as our single-target boss shredder. MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES

D. Stun Grenade to be Retconned into BFG - We will be using Stun Grenade early for AOE damage, since we won't have much else. Then we'll switch over to BFG and never look back. BFG is a channel that is an absolute trash murderer, extremely fun, and benefits hugely from +Area radius stuff (Power Prism Shard, Doc Oc. medal). Don't look back when you get BFG. RETCON WHEN YOU UNLOCK BFG AND MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES

E. Blaster Turret to be Retconned into Suppression Turret - We unlock Blaster Turret right away. Unfortunately, this is not the turret we'll use endgame. Blaster turret is just fine for low levels-and will help us get used to the mechanic where we can have 3 turrets out at a time, but will need to wait a few seconds for them to come off cooldown. Also, turrets have a small setup time. Drop Blaster and let it shoot enemies, and later we get Suppression. Suppression turret does a lot of damage, Weakens enemies (10% less damage), and stuns for a short period on its pulses. Fantastic skill RETCON WHEN YOU UNLOCK BFG AND MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES

F. Burrowing Escape - Rocket burrows underground. Helps us position, makes us invisible, and gives us an attack/move speed buff when we come out of it. Use it to get around and position. PUT ONE POINT IN THIS ABILITY

G. Shrewd Dude - A Dodge passive for you and the rest of the team. We'll get Dodge from items, so just dump leftover points here and let items do the rest. PUT ONE POINT IN THIS ABILITY AND DUMP REMAINING AT 60 HERE

H. My Friend Groot - Summon Groot, a very long lasting and heavy hitting summon. We'll use him mainly because he tanks for us and he's super awesome. I like maxing him, but if you don't you can ditch these points and move them into Shrewd Dude and Senses for passive buffs. MAX THIS ABILITY AT ALL TIMES

I. Procyonid Senses - A decent crit buff. We can dump points here if we don't want to max Groot, otherwise take one point. Lets us see stuff on the minimap as well. PUT ONE POINT IN THIS ABILITY

J. Timely Recovery - Hey, we get CC Immunity. Yay! PUT ONE POINT INTO THIS ABILITY

K. Wily Scavenger - A little bit of Rare Find, but the important part here is when we pick up an orb we get Spirit. With a Mark of the Odinborn artifact, will really help us keep up spirit-especially in X-Def. PUT ONE POINT INTO THIS ABILITY

L. Gravity Mine - For advanced gameplay, take a point in this to bunch enemies up so you can BFG them down harder-but with +radius to BFG it won't be super necessary.

Playstyle-

A. Burrow to position yourself

B. Drop Groot and a Suppression Turret.

C. Watch the enemies bunch up or Gravity Mine them.

D. BFG to murder everything but bosses.

E. Barrage the rest, and Quick Shot when low on spirit. That's it!

2. Gear

Uniques:

Slot 1 – Staple Gun (Rocket Unique) - Is amazing. Please get this. Gives +to our "Blow-Stuff'-Up" tree, does great damage, chance to apply bleed on hit, crit rating, damage, damage with fighting powers - just awesome.

Slot 2 – Burrower's Body Armor (Rocket Unique) - gives us some good tanky stats and some much needed help in our Space Raccoon tree. We now get spirit back when we burrow, burrow is better, and has a chance to give us a pretty mean damage buff (700ish). Additionally the +to Space Raccoon powers boosts our passives and Groot. Very awesome!

Slot 3 – We have a choice here between the Apprehendroid Array and the Chitauri Turret Control Device (Rocket Uniques) - While the Control Device gives us lots of bonuses to summoned creatures, we won't be running a Summon build exclusively. I'd much rather get the Array's amazing +to all middle tree powers (Turret being the only one we use, but hey) - and I'm even more excited about the +11 to Shrewd Dude since we won't be putting tons of points into that passive. Plus exploding beetle proc is amazin.

Slot 4 – Kree Turret Control Matrix (Rocket Unique) assumes that we'll be using lots of Turrets, so I don't like it very much. I would prefer Hydra Repulsors (any-hero Unique with +Energy damage) since we do tons of Energy damage and it'll make BFG even more potent.

Slot 5 – Raccoonatics LW-60 "Commander" Minigun - This Unique exists courtesy of @Leowyld and its boss. Damage, crit rating, crit damage, brutal rating, brutal damage, some +to summons, Spirit, +to our Galactic Guardian (blow stuff up) tree, which includes BFG! Awesome, awesome, awesome!

Artifacts: Not super sure what to get here, to be honest

1.Pym's Shrinking Serum - You dodge constantly and will never run out of spirit so we can BFG for years.


2.Pluvian Superconductor - BFG will deal tons more damage with +Area damage.


3.Super Soldier Serum - Spirit/health/etc. Good tanky option. We can also use Mark of the Odin Born to get spirit back on Orbs, if we don't need the extra health. Make sure you have some way of getting spirit.


4.Power Prism Shard gives us radius on BFG and some offensive stats, might be solid.


Blessings: I would recommend Hela's for the brutal since we can get some crit, or Fandral's because we will get a lot out of the Dodge and crit rating.

Costume: +1 Fighting and +1 Energy

Legendary: Cosmic Control Road or Gungir would be pretty crazy for him I think. He doesn't get tons of crit damage, so I'm leaning a bit towards Gungir but with Cosmic control we'd be getting incredible Fighting and Energy-making powers like BFG incredibly potent.

Insignia: Dat O'Grady.

@caradhas Suggests a Groot Insignia, giving us not one...but two Groots! Quite durable, and can proc for the team. GROOOOOOOOOOOOOT!

Uru item: Energy Uru/Ranged Uru with - Fire Barrage (Ranged+Energy) or Bowazon.

Relics: Lemurias for life on hit, Gibborim for more BFG spam.

Medallion: Tough. Pyro for flat damage, Oc for more radius on BFG/Suppression turret.

3. Leveling Strategy

Rocket doesn't really take off until he unlocks BFG. Utilize Stun Grenade in place of BFG and Blaster instead of Suppression turret, drop turrets and grenades and quick shot until spirit is back. Get used to throwing up a turret whenever its off cooldown. Make sure to level Groot and keep him out, as that tree-thing does work. Be sure to retcon as soon as you get BFG, and throw away Stun grenade for it while switching from Blaster to Suppression Turret. Rocket becomes a whole new character!