Destroyer in SSP (good/bad)?

[dklm]

I bought my Destroyers AP to 500.  At that time, that was the highest AP of all my characters.  My summoner which I didn't use money on had 498 AP.  In SSP, on my summoner with 480 AP I managed to get credit and do decent.

 

When I went to SSP on destroyer, it was a different story.  My damage output was not even close to my summoner's damage output.  

 

Anyways, I had such a poor experience in SSP with the destroyer, I wanted to ask the community, how do you survive and put out damage in SSP?

[Natello]

If you can, get the HM skill emberstomp and spec it so that you have 200% defense and cc resist. Spec hurricane with the 400% defense and 25% damage reduction on the enemy's first hit. This way you don't have to dodge a lot and can put out more damage. Then you just left click and right click to anicancel.

[Tubby]

your dps on a destroyer will not be close to a summoner for a few reasons... 

 

1.  Melee has a little bit harder time more things to do.. dodge / re position

2.  Summoner feeds off other summoners because of the permanent crap on the ground so you can always keep procing your sunflower

3.  Summoners have barriers so you can just permanently dps through stuff like ogre poisen

 

Overall on a destroyer HM 3 is a necessity to do damage consistently in ssp but you will still struggle compared to ranged classes 

[MoistEggroll]

Dont bother if you dont have the ap needed to spam ani-cancel while gettin demolished by a terror. Make a range, live the ez life. (protip if you see an ally down thats a range class, pick them up n jump towards the bosses, most likely killing them) its fun :)!

[Molok13]

I'm not level 50 yet but from what I hear melee is kind of screwed in SSP. So don't have your main be a melee. But with that being said I'm a gluten for punishment and I plan on maining my destroyer anyway because I like him.

[Stensatsu]

Spec 1 and 2 for Iframes. Deflect spin. Have an itchy trigger finger on your iframes. Stay behind him, you can avoid his frontal 180 attack and then he will do a triple spin that you can deflect 2 hits of for free focus. Other than that just anicancel. For boar, hold rmb when he spawns, charge him after he charges, then pop fury/ember/smash and anicancel. Just eat the red hit. Spec stage 1 red spin for boar and just stay on his side while red spinning until he stops again. Then anicancel some more and iframe this red hit. Boar will probably die at that point.

 

[Wataru]

They seem really good at defending mining from opposing faction.

 

Best to stick to your main for SSP, as your gear will always improve. Using an easier class and not upgrading much isn't gonna get you much prestige.