Talk:Gauss/@comment-109.123.118.9-20191003233901

What do you think is the best way to give Gauss some survivability (without doing a full tank build at the expense of everything else)?

His passive seems great for building for shields, so there's Redirection - but Kinetic Plating is vulnerable to Slash procs, Toxin damage, and Toxin procs, which are all things that go straight through shields... So building for shields seems to make him even better against the good elements he's already good against, but leaves him completely vulnerable to do the bad elements. Arcane Resistance can help a bit, but not entirely.

Other options are Vitality, Quick Thinking, and Adaptation. Is Quick Thinking the way to go, since Kinetic Plating restores energy upon taking hits?

It seems like such a huge shame to waste the shield regen passive though...