_Chin_

The answer is Yes and Yes

Tahnks for the tip on Mutation, this is my 1st defender so wasn't sure of the recharge times, but got 1 DO on it and it comes round fast enough....if not they'll have to wait.

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Cheers for the offer of advice.

Here's my current build :

Exported from version 1.5C of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Brute
Primary Power : Energy Melee
Secondary Power : Energy Aura

01 : Kinetic Shield defbuf(01) defbuf(5) defbuf(7)
01 : Barrage acc(01) acc(3) acc(11) dam(13) dam(17)
02 : Energy Punch acc(02) acc(3) acc(11) dam(13) dam(17)
04 : Bone Smasher acc(04) acc(5) acc(7) dam(15)
06 : Swift runspd(06)
08 : Whirling Hands acc(08) acc(9) acc(9) dam(15)
10 : Entropy Shield endred(10)
12 : Teleport Foe acc(12)
14 : Teleport endred(14)
16 : Health hel(16)
18 : Total Focus acc(18)

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I can get a reasonable chain going with the occasional Brawl punch to fill in, but I am lacking in the defence department. It seemed like a good idea at the time as defences are irrelevant in the early game, but with Stamina coming at lvl 20 it'll be lvl 22 before I can get another defence power. Been getting pummelled by mobs with energy attacks just lately.

I've pretty much got the secondaries that I want unless you can suggest something useful, so all that's left to get is the few remaining powers in EM and all the defenses in EA. Any suggestions as to which should come first?

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Sorry me again, just noticed that you have 3 Acc enhancements, i never use that many, i found by taking Build up with the added ToHit buff it gives ya i can pretty much hit everything 1st time with only 1 Acc in all my attacks, just slot Build up with 3 Recharge and if you have some spare stick some ToHit buffs in there.

All my attacks are slotted 1 Acc, 1 End cost, 1 Recharge and 3 Damage....with the addition of Haste everything comes round quick to keep up a decent chain attack, i know this is moving away from your current build, but i'm just putting my 2 cents forth for people to critic.

And for the record with Build up i can 2 shot a +3 minion and Lieutenant with just Total Focus/Energy Transfere and Bone Smasher.

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My Brute is an Energy Melee/Energy Aura and whilst I like Energy Melee, Energy Aura seems to be lacking.

He's only level 17, but I've not seen much good said about Energy Aura. Does it get better at higher levels?

Can any high level Energy Brutes defend the set?

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I was in the same boat as you, apart from my EM/EA was in the early 30's and was pretty much getting creamed, but then a lovely respec came my way and i made a few changes.

I think the 2 biggest changes i made was taking the medicine pool for Aid Self (3 Heals, 3 Intrupt...makes it pretty much instant, just suffers from a long animation in my mind), and Energy Cloak...that plus the 3 main shields has made me pretty much unstoppable in soloin on the highest rep(apart from against Carnies, i hate them damn chicks).

Also i found by taking the fitness pool for staminia and taking Energy Drain, my endurance problems are a thing of the past, also i never noticed that Energy Drain doesn't take Acc enhancements..so slotted it with 3 Recharge and 3 End Modification, it gives it almost sapper strength end drain (can normally drain about 1/2 the endurance in one shot, and it never misses)

But anyway i'm starting to ramble, long and the short of it is stick with, it all ends in sunshine and smiles....but not for your targets

I just picked up mutation on my Rad defender, on the description it says that when it wears off the target will feel slightly weakened....i was just wondering what guise this takes, i.e a loss of health/endurance, or do they just do less damage for a while?

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or first rez and then recall friend so you can use lvl 7 to 3slot your rez

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3 slot rez!? I never add any extra slots to rez myself...much better to get them in your heals and buffs.

As for what pool powers to go for, apart from the travel power of your choice, I'd definately go for assault and tacitcs from leadership, vengence as well probably.

Hasten is pretty useful, fire it off after your auras to lower the recharge time.

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But now with the introduction of ED, you'll be left with spare slots to stick on it....i'm only saying this as i just started a Rad/Rad and just got mutation, which i was gunna stick some slots on when i had some.

Count me in, i've tried for 50 levels to get this badge with next to no offers....and the times i tried someone quit in the closing moments. I'm a AR/Dev blaster called Chin, just update this post when ya know when you're going for it and i'll do my best to be there.

Yeah we just had the same sort of problem...it rmoved our Hospital pods and our beacons for our Teleporters, soddin annoyin if ya ask me

Apes sound cool to me, but how about Robo....no wait they already done that one.
But how would like to have a team of Chavs doing all the dirty work for ya or prehaps a team full of Gnomes.
At the end of the day its a game so you could pretty much have anything ya like, so i'm counting down the day till i can send a team full of Spring Greens in beating on an elite bosses bottom.

I think it came into play when i was mid 30s, personally i try to never let my health get low enough for the extra power to kick in...simply because as many peeps have said that at the levels i was fighting being in the red was nothing more than being 1 hit away from debt.
I would much prefer the double damage power that Corruptors get on Villians.

I'm a couple of levels away from lvl 35 and Conserve Power on the Energy Aura set, i was wondering if it was worth respec'in once i get and get rid of the Fitness pool in favour of the Medicine pool as i have no self heal and it would be good to have as back up.

Basically i'm trying to find out if you can run a Brute on Energy Drain and Conserve Power alone.

I would have to go with Suicidal....well some shmuck has to take the alpha strike and it seems to be muggins ere who's the 1st one and last one out.

Thanks a lot guys n gals...had sort of decided to get Fitness anyway but always like to here peoples thoughts.

Also one other thing, if i get a free space for an extra power I was gunna look in to defence of some sort...what type of power pool defence has the better numbers?

I'm thinking of starting a Regen Scrapper as i've read a bit about them on the forums and they sound kinda cool.

The question is "Is it worth taking the Fitness power pool if you have quick recovery?"

I'm just seeing if i can free up some room for different powers, also i was gunna run a MA/Regen, what are peoples thoughts on them

This is a lttle note to say that the Sweet Tooth badge is fixed and also i wanted to see if my avatar has worked.

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im a lvl 26 in shark head and i cant get no more contacs ive only ever had 1 there and he didnt introduce me to any more. so i started doing paper mish agine then pulled a job but i didnt get a contac . does any one no why this is cold it to be with my lvl as i got power lvl to 26 befor i went back to shark head.some one was saying somthing about rep cold any one tell me what he is talking about and how do i get a new contac as i wold like to solve some more storys there or is there a lvl restriction

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I had the same promblem in Cap Au Diablo, never got a contact the entire time i was there, which sucked as you miss out on the badge missions and the bonus xp for story arc's.
I just carried on working from the paper until i was high enough to survive in the next zone and everything turned out peachy....not only that the paper missions are shorter and still get the same xp.

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however what I've found out is that if you cant manage to kill those 24 vines in time (with an 8 man team) they will respawn for the 8 man team.

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The Vines respawn no matter what... but when you get them down to 0, they don't count anymore... they respawn, but you don't need to kill them to attack the tree

Try it with 97.... THAT is a pain in the,.. BUM!

And if 8 people can't kill 24 vines in time... they suck!

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97!! Damn thats a lot, tried it other day with 50+ vines and that took some doing, so i tip my virtual hat to you my good man.

Also has anyone else found that in whole the respec mission is a damn sight easier than the Terra Volta trial....but dont let the dev's know that or its a nerf'in for sure, knowing my luck i'll try it and would've stuck Hami in with the shrub

If ya fancy a SVG with a slight undertone of insanity come join the ranks of Dark Lords of the Underworld.
We cater for all lvls,types and players and our leaders are old hats of the CoH universe. We are currently 40+ strong and always on the look for more numbers.

If ya intrested PM either myself Kronic, Dark Bru or Frankenhooker we play most days or failing that we have a forum board on the Union-Villains site, leave a message an we'll find ya.

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See thread in player questions

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Thanks for pointin that out to me, i did look before but must of skimmed past it.
i managed to find the hole in the map and would like to state this for the people also lookin for it.

"Dont even bother unless ya got fly or hover, its imposible to otherwise"

Us non flyers will have to wait for the patch to fix it, but if ya want to try have a look at Vidiotmaps forum page for a detailed description on how to get there.

Just a quick question and a moment of your time pls...
Has anyone else manged to find the Sweet Tooth badge from north Cap Au Diablo, i've checked the whole of the roof top and can't for the life of me find the soddin thing
Anybody else had this problem or am i just blind.

Just one of the illustrious leaders here...just wanna say welcome to all the new comers, and if ya have any ideas of something fun to do feel free to put it foward...we are a family after all.