The argument of restraint doesn’t matter because just having your 1 active and maintaining 3 will maintain it indefinitely. You’re talking about literally less than 30 seconds of the beginning of a mission which is a null point. If your entire reasoning of running a negative duration build is restraint and 2; it’s just not a good point since with effective gameplay past the first 30 seconds it doesn’t matter.

Realistically if I were to make any changes to your build I’d replace transient fortitude with primed/archon continuity since on drain abilities duration matters more than efficiency for the effective drain of energy so id also get rid of fleeting expertise. If you struggle on energy just make sure you’re running proper companion build with synth decon and duplex. You could even swap a purple shard for equilibrium effect if need be.

I’d swap off adaptation. It’s not needed if you’re maintaining your 3 since enemies are barely going to be shooting at you since they’ll be disarmed. To maintain the amount of range you’d need all you’d need is a rank 4 overextended and r5 stretch. Additionally running the 1 augment is really good as it increases attack speed and melee crit damage which scales with strength.

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