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OK as I8 is out today I say we look to next Tuesday as our next Mind/Kin evening. I'm sure that some people will have trouble with the DL, others will have a ton of alts to costume up and test new things of and I cant see tonight as being too productive.

What do others think/feel/hear from the voices?

Healing flames is good for my brute, who Duo's with a corruptor, but is possibly not enough if you wanted to herd solo. Mind you eith tough it might be, dont know, not really tested it. It's not as big a boost but it has a lovely benefit of not rooting you, which is an advantage over even Dark Regen (and a definite advantage over Aid Self as a slight movement and you've interrupted it)

I dont think I can make either, but good luck

No PVP rating, dont tned to PVP, and that wouldn't effect my route to 50.

I dont have the accolades as I only did mayhems from 40-50 (was 40 when I7 was released) I do however have 27 tempory powers picked up from raids which shows I may have some experience in them. When fighting if I'm down to the last couple of foes I hit Dark Regen to make sure I have health for the next group. I've never needed anything else and tough is what stops my health dropping faster than Dark Regen recharges. I could use Aid Self instead, but it would drop my DPS as I wouldn't be attacking. My Fire/DA is a group killer (another reason for no PVP, am pure AOE build) and any time spent clicking powers that aren't killing is a waste for me. Build Up is just about usefull, Dark Regen does a small amountg of AoE damage and thus is alright, Aid Self is a nasty animation to stand their using.

Yes Elec has no self heal, so Aid Self is good for downtime. IMO invinc gives pleanty of defence and thus Aid Self becomes very powerful. I know that my SR scrapper can use it between damage Ticks, but if two things are ticking on him I have to wait for one to finish before I can Aid Self, defence stops that being common.

Obviously your millage may vary. You dont like downtime, I dont like slow attack chains, or downtime. With Dark Regen I have neither, I cant explain why you would but we can put that down to playstyle (the reverse of me not feeling comfortable relying on Aid Self without defence is you not feeling comfortable relying on Dark Regen alone)

Oh and I'd take Aid self over Siphon Life anyday, the only self heal I rank above it is Dark Regen.

When I'm not on the PC I read, the TV doesn't really get much of a look in, unless its DVDs......... adverts drive me nuts, reality TV drives me nuts, most US comedy drives me nuts, Soaps drive me nuts.......... there's not much else on TV. Books are good, reading shall save you.

There is of course a chance that I8 is released and no one will be ready on time this week. Will have to wait and see what tuesday brings

MaX cant get the mission on his tank by the way, so we'd need someone else to get there

damn that sucks, and you're too far away for either Bob or I to lend a machine too

See you need DM, then you can make AVs cower with ToF, you wont get that big effect from CoF (these days)

Am OK for mid day sunday. Found out early

I've heard SS & TP are handy for it, I do have both on schro and stealth atm too

Would like to do the Sewer Trial. From that list its the only one I've never done.

If that's alright with everyone else at least. Katie Hannon drives me nuts

I was there, I will be there again when the updater fixes my pigs

The last SS TF takes around 3-4 hours IIRC, have done that twice (5AVs..... its a RAD's dream I tell you)

I sometimes end up driving people around on sunday mornings, without checking I can confirm from 2pm onwards, but there's a chance I might be able to make earlier than that but I wont know till Thursday

Bots/Dark is lacking something........... glorious melee. Which means it's perfect for the op, but fairly useless for me.

Bots/Dark would be my sugggestion if you're just looking for a strong ranged set. Now Thugs would be much more fun, I mean a brute and all, but not so much of a ranged set. Mercs are fairly nice, but not really on the same level as bots.

I did dump it on my DM/SR along with the ranged passive to getg Aid Self. I found at higher levels I rarely needed a small top up from time to time, but when I did need healing I needed a big boost, which Siphon Life doesn't cut it for.

Oddly I used it in my DM/Regen to keep healing pretty much constant, dropped it in my attack chain when DP was down then stopped using it when DP was back up again as a replacement for the regen in that power.

Different strokes I guess

Hmmmm. Would really love to do the Sewer Trial sometime, and I've only got two of the Shards TFs on Schro. I definitely need the badge from Moonfire, cause they robbed me of it (I did that TF before the badge in other words)

I've not been feeling the need to play on the heros side too much of late, but a few organised TFs would probably grab my interest. If its level 32 or above it will likely be Schro I play, if we need a scrapper can bring Dark out but preferably not below 35, dont like not having evasion. Oh and 31 and below have my troller, which wont be great till 38......... some day I'll do it I swear

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Once Inv has invinc its best survivability comes from defence, thus I think it would be worth putting in the build, but not at early levels when it has no defence just as and where it can fit

I'd suggest OG, CoF used to be godly back in the olden days, but now its just way to lose end fast.

On the route to 50 I didn't find a single time with my brute where I needed a heal without someone to heal off of. I like to herd, the entired final room of the wearhouse maps are my favourites, and dark Regen cycles pleanty fast enough for that. As for there not being an enemy in melee when I need to heal? Another problem I didn't come across. If I'm being hurt then there is someone to heal from, and as I'm a brute I will be stood nose to nose with them.

I have Aid Self on my DM/SR scrapper, it is great, if I had it on my brute it would sit untouched, just like the green insps I delete when they're dropped for me

DA sure does well on its self heal, I dont have Aid Self on my DA and I dont miss it. (1 heal enchancement makes that full from 2 mobs, and is still usefull against EBs)

I also dont have it on my Elec/Fire cause I Duo with a thermal. My self heal is enough to keep me alive with the shields in place.

I wouldn't say Aid Self was a must for all brutes, i'd imagine its very nice on a /En brute or a /Inv though cause of the high defence

Most melee attacks cycle faster, they also do more damage for a dominator. I say most, Ice Assault is nice cause its ranged ones are so fast as well, meaning you run out of end mostly.

Incinerate builds domination faster than flares, faster animation time. It also builds domination faster than breath of fire, same reason.