This is a ranged build for Iron Man, the main focus is on having easy, relaxed gameplay throughout the game's content, utilizing the best items to maximize damage, but at the same time, various boosts to survivability across different parts of the build, with minimal sacrifice to damage. Our damage reduction will be around 42% to 50% in combat, and our effective health will be around 65k to 80k. 

You will not only be a war tank, but you will also keep your allies alive with your powerful healing. Furthermore, this build is very flexible, allowing you to use other talents and powers without needing to change any items; everything will work very well. But I prefer using the talents that focus on laser and repulsors damage; it's the easiest to play and makes more sense with Iron Man's powers.

 

 

The Power Rotation:

 

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1) Start the battle by locking your basic attack onto the boss >< , and move around the fight using only your dash, make sure to hit the bosses with your dash every 4 seconds to gain 8% damage reduction.

 

2) Use >< to apply vulnerability to damage to any enemy, and always keep that power activated in battle. Stay close to the bosses so they don't move out of the area of ​​effect of this ability, as it has a small AoE. This skill is also great for mobbing, as it deals guaranteed critical damage and allows you to maintain up to two areas simultaneously with a long duration.

 

3) Use the 2 charges >< to deal physical damage, triggering the Brutal Damage bonus from Power Doop. Dash can also be used for this too. 

 

4) Activate >< to deal area-of-effect damage; this is the ability that will prevent you from running out of energy. Furthermore, it keeps you and your allies alive by providing massive health regeneration.

 

5) After these 4 steps, all your buffs will be activated, so use your signature >< immediately to deal massive AOE damage. This ability has a very short cooldown, so you can freely use it for mobbing as well.

 

6) Use >< to deal damage in a wide area in front of you; the reason it is placed near the end of the rotation is that it has an execute bonus, which increases damage based on the enemy's remaining health.

 

7) And finally, hold >< until its duration ends; the best approach is to use it as your last ability, since you cannot use other powers while channeling this attack. It's an excellent skill for mobbing; you can simply spin your aim quickly and hit as many enemies as possible.

 

After completing these first 7 steps of the rotation, you are free to use whichever ability comes off cooldown first, always remembering to hold the micro-laser for last while the main attacks are reloading.

 

 

Extra tip: your    with the extremis healing nanites talent enabled is the ability that provides tons of healing for you and allies. To make the most of it, avoid using a med kit at the same time as the reactor. For example, the reactor's healing time is 3 seconds with a 10 sec cooldown. Use your med kit 4 to 5 seconds after using your reactor so you're practically constantly receiving healing, allowing you to stay near bosses without dying. 

 

Extra tip:    It can be used in place of your missiles , It deals practically the same amount of damage, but it debuffs bosses, causing them to deal 10% less damage; furthermore, it is easier to maintain your 8% damage reduction from melee hits, as the attack's cooldown is shorter than the duration of the Close Quarters trait which exceeds 4 seconds with the full duration bonus from Power.

 

 

Extra tip: With this build, you have access to three basic attacks (spenders), allowing you to choose the one you prefer.

 

1)  It's the one with the highest DPS and automatically hits two targets at the same time.

 

2)  It deals practically the same amount of damage per second as Barrage, but this attack is terrible for mobbing and is slow.

 

3)  It deals slightly less damage per second than Barrage, but its explosions hit more enemies, making it ideal for taking on groups of bosses especially if they are grouped together; plus, it's more fun because of the sound of the explosions :D

 

 

 

 

 

The build items:

 

Catalyst:

  The primary bonus desired for this build will always be a shield when using a medkit, to immediately negate any incoming damage; the second best bonus is recovering an additional 3000 health with the medkit. Invisibility is great for many heroes to shift the enemy's focus away from you.

 

Medallion:

   The only reason this is used here is because of the power duration, as this will extend the duration of the Microlasers, allowing it to last up to 3 seconds with all the items in the build, power duration also affects the temporary buffs from our items, It extend the duration of the Close Quarters trait to 4,5s which provides 8% damage reduction upon hitting enemies with melee attacks, in our case, using dash.

If you prefer medallions that boost damage more, these are great options: 

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Legendary:

Here we have two good options: M'Kraan Crystal and Norn Stones.

  43% base damage, 1000 crit rating, 1500 health, and 400.000 damage proc every 20 to 25 sec on average depending on our luck in activating the effect. This is being used in the build because, in addition to significantly boosting base damage and providing us with 2 to 3 procs of 400k damage per minute, it also increases our maximum health.

 

  46,5% base damage, 1000 crit rating, a shield activates when our health drops below 50%; additionally, this effect grants +5 to all attributes, which translates to +40% base damage for a short period. Unfortunately, it has a 1-minute cooldown, so we won't have that damage bonus available all the time; it's more useful for the shield, especially in Iron Man melee builds.

 

 

The Artifacts:

 

For the cosmic bonuses of the artifacts:

1) 10% Cooldown reduction for the signature, is basically mandatory for any hero.

2) 1500 Defense rating for more damage reduction and effective life.

3) 1500 Dodge rating is what will provide us with the most effective life, damage reduction in addition to increasing the chances of completely negating the damage received.

4) 1500 Deflect rating which also greatly increases effective life and damage reduction. Furthermore, it also increases the chance of reducing the damage from any attack by 50%.

If you prefer to boost your damage further and don't want as many defensive stats, there's the Cosmic Bonus, which provides +1 to all attributes and +150 maximum Spirit.

 

The blessings are basically Hela's for all heroes in general.

 

The best artifacts to increase your overall DPS are in the build, basically, with 99% of the heroes you'll use the Kurse and Crossbones artifacts, so we basically just have to choose the last two artifacts and there are many options for the last 2 slots, Fortunately, Iron Man is a character for whom choosing artifacts is easy, given that he has the Intelligence attribute and his damage benefits from increased maximum Spirit; so, the last two options are quite obvious:

 

  It's an absolutely essential artifact for any Intelligence-based hero, regardless of their build, as it provides a lot of base damage, attributes and a high critical / brutal hit rate. Most importantly, it grants invisibility when your health drops to 30%, saving you from death countless times.

 

  The best artifact for boosting Iron Man's base damage though, of course, you need to have the talent Over-Clocking activated for it to actually provide a significant amount of base damage through the 6% damage conversion. With just this artifact, we will receive 36% base damage.

 

Other artifact options that will give similar results, as well as options for temporary use:

 

  That is also very viable, since we are using a lot of power duration.

 

  This is basically a universal artifact; it works for all heroes.

 

   Certainly the strongest option after the four used in the build, the main positive point is the significant increase in critical chance and brutal strike, however, it leaves something to be desired in terms of base damage but that's somewhat offset by the damage procs.

 

   This artifact would be perfect if it had a damage rating instead of an energy damage rating; even so, it's a good artifact to use temporarily.

 

   That’s also an interesting option; significantly boosts our base damage and the Wizard's summon causes equivalent to half the damage of Iron Man's  per second.

 

  Significant base damage and a good boost to survivability.

 

 

Unique:

Slot 1:   Best option for most heroes overall, high base damage, crit, brutal, also deals DoT, plus provides health per hit which is very useful for survival. It has a revive but we don't want to need to use it, because if you die your DPS will be ZERO for several seconds, this revive is only to prevent you from ending up on the other side of the map if you die. If you don't have that item, stay with Iron Man unique item .

 

Slot 2:  Iron Man's unique itself is already very strong; it's the only good option, It's the slot 2 that will increase Iron Man's base damage the most.

 

Slot 3:  The best option, a general increase in base damage, a bonus to brutal damage, and most importantly increased duration for our powers and item buffs. If you don't have it yet, you can use Iron Man's unique item .

 

Slot 4:   Same case as the Coat of Skull: increased base damage, Brutal, and power duration. If you don't have one, stick with the standard unique .

 

Slot 5:  strongest option for almost all ranged characters based on the energy attribute, tons of base damage, critical damage bonus, and power duration. Use the standard Iron Man Unique if you don't have it .

 

 

Challenge bonus is Intelligence attribute for all unique slots because, in addition to increasing base damage, it will also slightly boost our critical / brutal damage a secondary effect of the Intelligence attribute.

 

For the enchantment of unique slots 1 and 5 is Critical Enchantment of Tyr , to boost our critical hits a bit more. Alternatively, you can use A.R.M.O.R. Damage Upgrade.

 

For the enchantment of unique slots 2, 3 and 4 is A.R.M.O.R. Health Upgrade for more effective life.

 

 

Uru-Forged:

  It's the best option for any hero because it provides a good increase in survivability; the others offer too little damage to be relevant.

The Runeword is The Power Doop  a large increase in brutal damage and a lot of critical damage.

 

Insignia:

   I always use this insignia for any hero, even if it sacrifices a small portion of my damage because any other insignia with offensive bonuses won't make as big a difference compared to the benefits this one provides, this is the insignia that increases your damage resistance the most in the game, the bonus toughness in the description means that your hero and your allies will receive an average of 1000 maximum health and 1100 defense rating.

The item description doesn't make this very clear; the only concrete answer I found regarding "Toughness" comes from the Doctor Strange Team-Up. He grants us the "Toughness" buff when he places his seal on the ground. This specific buff provides +840 Defense Rating and +1050 Max Health. these values vary slightly due to the defense multiplier derived from your hero's durability attributes accumulated and other synergies, so the value almost always ends up being higher than 1000 defense. 

 

For the affixes of insignia, the best is critical damage; for the second affix, you can try to obtain more freely, either with more brutal damage or with defensive bonuses such as deflect or dodge rating.

I know this insignia is extremely difficult to obtain; there are other options:  ,  ,  ,  .

 

 

Ring:

  Overall, this is the best option for increasing damage for most heroes. By default, it provides 1000 critical damage rating, which translates to a 12.5% ​​increase in critical / brutal damage. the bonuses I chose were increasing the Brutal Strike chance to further increase DPS consistency and +3 to the Intelligence attribute for +12% base damage.

 

Pet:

For the uncommon bonus: 8% of maximum health is the best option to have more effective life.

For the rare bonus: 50 max spirit for +3% base damage.

For the epic bonus: 10% brutal damage is what will increase our damage the most, the other bonuses are very weak.

For the cosmic bonus: 1000 maximum health when using signature to have even more effective life, as an alternative there could be a bonus to increase the power radius by 15% when using signature, the other bonuses are not interesting.

For the unique bonus: +3 Intelligence attribute for more base damage and spirit cost reduction.

 

 

Relic:

   This relic will provide us with 15.18% base damage, compared to the critical damage relic, which provides 13.83%.

 

 

Team-up: 

    Since Iron Man has relatively low DPS regardless of the build, Agent Coulson is the best option; he is the Team-Up with the highest DPS, which helps mitigate the damage issue. Fortunately, we don't need a Team-Up for protection or to distract enemies, making him the clear choice.

 

 

Infinity System: 

Around 960 points are required to make this build at least minimally functional for its intended purpose, remember to accumulate a minimum of 150 total points in each gem to get all the gem's secondary bonuses the gem mastery, some of them are extremely useful.

 

Start by putting 1 point into the activation chance for each gem's damage; anything more than that is a waste of points.

 

Mind Gem: 178 total points were spent here to get 30% critical damage, add a 0.6% critical hit chance, which gives us over 1% due to a beneficial calculation error in the game.

 

Soul Gem: 154 total points spent on this gem, it is mandatory for the survival of any hero and many people underestimate its bonuses or are unaware of their benefits.

To start, when you reach 50 total points you will earn the first mastery bonus, which will provide you with a second hidden med kit that will activate whenever you reach 30% health, this med kit has a 10 second cooldown and not 60 sec as the description says, however this med kit is not affected by the catalyst's bonuses, but is affected by the gem's healing bonus.

all points were spent on +15% healing received, which will affect all types of healing including med kits, health regeneration, skill healing, on-hit healing, even passive healing is affected. All of this helps any hero to survive much easier in battle.

 

Space Gem: 150 points in maximum health will be enough for good survival which will also avoid dying with 1 hit in many situations, it is worth remembering that the more maximum health you have, the more hp will be healed by items such as the med kit and skills that heal based on maximum health, another very useful bonus is that the Gem Mastery gets 10% damage reduction when using a Med Kit, which also affects the Soul Gem's secondary Med Kit.

 

Time Gem: A total of 152 points spent on attack speed to significantly boost DPS. This is the minimum for any hero; once you have spare points, you can maximize this bonus. Plus, with Gem Mastery, we gain a dash every time we use our med kit; this is great for having dash available at all times in battles.

 

Power Gem: Total of 172 points spent on 75% brutal damage, +0.6% brutal strike chance to get more than 1% yes the same error that happens with the mind gem.

 

Reality Gem: 154 points spent here on the Energy attribute for base damage.

 

After obtaining the 960 points and spending them in all the indicated areas, put your extra points into Max Spirit for more base damage, maximize your critical and brutal hit chances, and put everything else into Intelligence attribute.