Cynic

I think from looking at it Fire actually has better all round resistances than my /Da, so I wouldn't count fire out as being weak for a brute. However comparing any brute to regen (except stone) you're probably going to find the brute the weaker. That said all the time taken to click heals on yourself could be spent attacking, and I'm happier kicking out a higher DPS and letting foes die quicker, using that as my mitigation

On the plus side you could forget your toon was then using it left handed and therefor entirely wrong

Bah my fire attacks make my brute always be noticed, I be a spines DA is never ignored either

Pros really depend on your primary and secondry, for my brute my pros are the ability to tank psi and manic AoE damage, for others they're the ability to herd, or the ability to one shot kill.

cons......... you make your own by picking your sets, endurance isn't a con for Dark/EN for example

Pros - you're rare. Means when you're in a teamt hey're generally thankful for your presense. When domination is active you can build up a stupid mag of holding very quickly. You either get a pet, or terrify, making solo play possible at later levels.

Cons - There's a reasonw hy you're rare.
Solo Play is only really possible at later levels.
Debt badges (maybe its just my style)

My brute is much more a damage dealer than a tank, VolKalno is very much a tank with good agro control. Brutes are what you make them

I dont PvP, in PvE I love it to 40, but I dont know if I'll continue on, bit put off by the patron powers to be honest.

I saw more Plant/Thorn than anything else when I was playing mine, but then I did hit 40 before Christmas and now with my brute I'm seeing a lot of Ice/Ice. Mind/Psi has been common throughout, others seem to go in trends.

Its closest to the controller, but it has a very different feel. It does of course depend how you play, a Mind/Psi can sit back the same way a controller does and not worry about domination, Ice and Fire both have to be in your face though, a bit like a blapper without the nice damage.

To run the battle. I want to impose my will on others when i play my dominator, and to a certain extent that includes the team. I decide when things have gotten to the point the AoE hold is needed, when its time to drop an ice patch and retreat. I like to be in the thick of it, but if I didn't I'd probably have hover and sit above it.

I7 brings a single nice Patron Power Pool, but 3 poor at best ones. It pushes dominators to the front rank of toggle dropping in PVP and makes it easier to use Domination in PvP. PvE wise it does very little, a small boost to some attack powers.

I like the Mu Mastery in red, cause it suits my brute's graphical explosion, not sure of the Electrical Armour, the Electrical Melee looks alright, but could be better. so in other words the PPP gets my thumbs up, the rest, meh

I think the only reason it didn't get to me is no one had inf when I was playing my first villain through. I didn't have a complete set of SOs till 32.

I think once you get to the mid 30s you actually start earning more than you need. I found hiests good inf, and smaller teams (cause the XP gets a bonus based on number of players but AFAIK the inf doesn't)

As there's no single target fear, and as terrorise is the best power ever (possibly not, but its a hard one to beat at least) I'd say keep that no matter what.

Every 14 days suits me better, as i'll be driving over to Digi's to use his broadband the idea of no drink every sunday is some what scary

One avenging angel signing up to remove the blight of corruption with holy wrath.

In others words count me in with Dark Celestine

I've still yet to find this "lack of teams" thing on CoV, I normally find one with in 5 minutes of logging on. My poor rad Defender, when I used to play her, would often spend 75% of her time LTF and 25% actually playing on hero's though

Very nicely, it works out very nicely thank you

Looks pretty hideous without Cloack Of Darkness to cover it all up TBH

PB can however be double layered almost half the time

Spine/DA, scrapper with little buttong pushing, turn on damage auras and wander around (dont attack though you'll end crash)

Siphon Life can leave the chain when he gets thw 32 power, I believe that's what he's talking about.

Why shadow punch over siphon life to start with? Quicker animation, quicker recharge, lower end cost, all in all more efficient for causing damage.

IIRC ToF is the highest acuracy attack in DM (not 100% sure) Its something I rarely miss with, so would probably just have the one recharge in there.

Am glad Siphon life is going.

Otherwise seems fine

That's probably it then, they were too busy burning to stun my DA

EA and SA both have defence, defence means less status effects actually hit you so the status protection doesn't have to handle as much.

That said my DA hardly ever gets stunned so I'm not sure why your inv is having so many issues. I believe Brutes mez protection is lower than tanks, on a par with a scrappers, but once more I'm not sure

01 : Ice Bolt acc(01)
01 : Block of Ice acc(01) hlddur(3) hlddur(3) hlddur(5) recred(17) recred(37)
02 : Ice Sword acc(02) dam(15) dam(15) dam(17) recred(37)
04 : Ice Sword Circle acc(04) dam(5) dam(9) dam(9) endred(11) recred(11)
06 : Arctic Air endred(06) endred(7) endred(7)
08 : Hurdle jmp(08)
10 : Combat Jumping jmp(10)
12 : Ice Slick recred(12) recred(13) recred(13)
14 : Super Jump jmp(14)
16 : Health hel(16)
18 : Hasten recred(18) recred(19) recred(19)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Power Boost recred(22) recred(23) recred(23)
24 : Frost Breath acc(24) dam(25) dam(25) dam(27) endred(40) recred(40)
26 : Glacier acc(26) acc(27) hlddur(29) hlddur(29) recred(31) recred(34)
28 : Chilling Embrace endred(28) endred(31) endred(31)
30 : Ice Blast acc(30)
32 : Jack Frost acc(32) dam(33) dam(33) dam(33) hlddur(34) hlddur(34)
35 : Greater Ice Sword acc(35) dam(36) dam(36) dam(36) recred(37)
38 : Bitter Ice Blast acc(38) dam(39) dam(39) dam(39) recred(40)

Is the build I run with, am pretty much just PvE so not sure if it would work PvP. Cant recommend AA enough though

Edit: Plan for extra post 40 slots is confuse in AA and slow in CE

You saw me use it right? I love to TT them first then possition for a good old self buffing before firing off my attack chain

Oh and on the shields, the 3 main shields from SR seem to use more end than the 3 damage resitances, Cloak Of Darkness and Acrobatics combined. So yeah end is an issue.

OK now I need to find my build.

Stamina HELL YEAH is my first thought. Attack chain for me is midnight grasp, Shadowmaul, Smite, Dark Blast, Shadowmaul, Midnight grasp.......... all around them, but have got Air Supp.

Pre 32 I had Shadow Punch, Shadow Maul, Smite and Air Sup as my attack, until then I really needed Shadow Puncuh.

And damn dont have a saved build, if you want me to I can try and put one together, I took Dark Mastery secondry.

Attacks I never needed Siphon Life & Taunt. Shadow Punch is not needed at high levels.