BigMamaBlueberry

What's so enjoyable? My boyfriend and I primarily duo, and he doesn't like to team up with others . This is my chance to team up with different people, which I really enjoy He's been alseep for a little bit, and in that time I had two different Rikti team. Definitely win/win

Hi All! I have a level 41 Energy Aura/Energy Melee brute (please, no jokes, I really like her ) who is planning on doing a respec at level 42. I have taken Ghost Widow as my patron and a slew of powers from both sets.

I am asking this wonderful community to help me make my brute more survivable. I realize my powers don't lead to the most "smashtastic" combo, but this is my highest villian and I would really like to get her to level 50.

What can I do? I am looking to beef up my defense/resistance via invention set enhancements and maybe even tough and weave (which I currently don't have). I really want to keep Air Superiority, Fly, Swift, Health & Stamina.

I don't have unlimited funds, but I could save up or craft as I find things. I have about 150 million infamy right now and don't mind being patient on the market/cashing in merits/rolling AE tickets.

My brute is a lot of fun to me since I come from a long line of controllers and blasters. Thank goodness for status protection ! I just want her to be able to survive a bit better. Any slotting or power advice is really appreciated. I guess I'm also looking for specific invention sets that will help these powersets shine to the best of their ability.

All of my shields are 4 slotted (end/3 resistance) and I have all passives 1 slotted. I have plenty of respecs plus dual builds so there is tons of room to play around. I primarily solo, since my boyfriend's villians are all paired with other characters of mine.

Thank you so much, knowledgeable Brute community! I appreciate any help you have to offer

A gazillion thanks to BillZBubba for this great info (and also to the kind folks in Player Questions who linked me to this thread) I really think this should be stickied somewhere.

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As a side note, I was also one of those folks who ran into the installer appending the installation location with "\city of heroes" (i.e. I selected c:\games\city of heroes" and it'd try to do a fresh install to "c:\games\city of heroes\city of heroes"). It took me a little while to figure out why the heck it was popping into a full install! I didn't realize at first that installer was adding in "\city of heroes" to the installation location until I read some of the responses in this thread and looked at my installation path more closely. Once I realized what it was doing, I just selected "c:\games" as my location instead (so the game would install to "c:\games\city of heroes" instead of "c:\games\city of heroes\city of heroes") and it worked like a charm!

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Thanks for your post too Manoa. I ran into the same issue and fixed it by reading what you did. This community is awesome

Those were really cute, thanks Hertz! The theme music to Atlas Park gets me every time; makes me feel all warm and tingley