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She doesn't know what "nubile" means.

They tried turning Human Target into a chick flick, so it lost what audience it had. The first season with its action-movie-of-the-week approach was far superior, and a lot more fun.

I typed /chanjoin 4chan. Is that bad?

You're fast CursedMortivore!

Here's a 28 build that will be much better for you. I'm sure you can take it and build on it using the build principles you see in it. Any questions, please don't hesitate to ask.

OK, that's a highly sub-optimal build. Ima work something up for a 28 KM/SR Brute and see what you think.

Coffee klatch FTW!

P.S. These Ustreams were a really great idea. Did Zwillinger come up with it?

Rolla Tank!!

Cover dated:
-Fantastic Four's centennial issue. Not bad!
-The New Wonder Woman. Bad!

On Sale:
-Conan the Barbarian #1. Moving comics towards the Bronze Age. Yuck.
-The Flash bicentennial issue. Awesome!

You want to see a weak set? Roll Icy Assault. Now there's a set with almost no damage at all combined with questionable utility.

Earth Assault kills things and kills things fast. And it gives you a second single target hold, in addition to everything else it does.

Tremor gets a lot of grief, but it's a very good power:

Tanker Foot Stomp:
Damage: 63.17
Range: 15'
Cast Time + Recharge: 22.1
Endurance: 18.5

Dominator Tremor:
Damage: 58.39
Range: 15'
Cast Time + Recharge: 21.3
Endurance: 16.8

Very competitive with Foot Stomp, widely considered one of the best powers in the game. It's only downside is its animation is about 1 second too long, but it recharges faster than FS, for almost the same damage with less Endurance.

One of the best, most solid sets Doms have IMO.

I'm leveling a KM/EA (early 30s). Last session I ran into a large group of Rikti Drones (mission set to +0x3B). I'm EA, they're tossing Energy attacks at me, I even have the 3% Defense IO slotted, so no problem, right?

WRONG! Inspiration gobbling was the only thing that saved me. Against Energy attacks. In Energy Aura.

Yeah, EA is still kinda suck. It's better than it was before (I leveled a EA Brute to 48 and deleted before the EA buff), but the poor performance against the damage type it is theoretically strong to really had me shaking my head.

Oh yeah, then I went up against a large group of Red Caps and Tuatha. EA is weak to Smash/Lethal. It was bad.

The saving grace of EA is that you can get the Day Job Combat Shield and craft the Kinetic Dampener Temporary Power to give yourself an hour of godmode at a time. But when you're leaning that heavily on Temporary Powers, you know your secondary isn't doing its job.

On my KM/SR, both those missions would have been cake-walks. SR is way, way better than EA.

But do try it. Combat Stealth must be seen to be believed. Where other Brutes will have two or more spawns come down on them at a time, EA can fight one spawn at a time as your CS makes the other spawns ignore you (unless you get stupid and attack them or get too near them so as to allow Fury to aggro them).

You might consider rolling a KM/EA Stalker, as well.

TL;DR: Willpower is much, much better than Energy Aura. As is every melee armor set except Electric Armor, which is also pretty miserable (Brutes don't get the Heal until 28...owie!)

Now if only event critters gave decent XP instead of the crap XP they currently give.

I was hoping for the build the OP is using at level 28 rather than the end-build. Addressing the end-build doesn't really help the OP at 28. Perhaps the OP could post the current build being used?

Here's my notes on the end-buld, however:
-Don't take Aid Self on SR. Totally necessary. Waste of 2 picks and slots.

-Don't get SR to softcap via set bonuses. SR gets to the softcap so easily without them, leverage that strength and do more useful things with your set bonus opportunities. This is one of the chief advantages SR has over sets like Shield Defense. Use that advantage!

-You've got way too much Defense. Scale it back to 48% or so.

-Triple-Slot your Luck of the Gamblers for HP boost.

-I wouldn't bother with the Stealth IO on a Brute. Fury will break your Stealth anyway.

-I wouldn't put Taunt on a PvE build.

-I'd take the Energy Mastery Ancilliary Pool instead of Mu Mastery. Superior Conditioning and Physical Perfection are awesome powers. Focused Accuracy can come in handy from time to time.

All just humble advice, take what you will, leave what you will.

It's always struck me as strange that we like to think of ourselves as unique individuals, yet our personal names are shared by thousands if not millions of others. Perhaps it's an admission that our supposed uniqueness is more or less a fiction?

Could you post a data chunk please? My Mids isn't liking the link.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but can't you "buy" a respec recipe on Training Room for free from the store? I seem to remember doing that.

It's a bug. Arbiters are rarely seen in combat due to their peacekeeper role. At times they will be seen in combat, as with Arbiter Sands, but this is a rare instance.

Put a partial random phrase into Google and see what Google thinks you're trying to say.

My phrase: Why does my

Results:

Why does my eye twitch
Why does my dog eat poop
Why does my dog eat grass
Why does my cat lick me
Why does my back hurt

IMHO Fiery Aura is crap on Scrappers (I have a 50 Fiery Scrapper so I know first hand). No matter the primary you're going with, if you want Fiery Aura roll a Brute.

Kinetic Melee on a Brute is still one of the strongest sets available to Brutes. People say it's weak, but compared to any other primary, it more than holds its own.

Back when I was arguing against side-switching, I argued people would take their Brutes and Masterminds and leave for blueside, leaving redside population worse off. Well, I was right. Nothing much to do about it.

Remember the best way to get a team is to play on Freedom or Virtue and to form your teams yourself rather than waiting for an invite from someone else.