Dechs Kaison

I'd never skip Dark Embrace. I would put off death shroud until about stamina. Get Dark Regen as soon as you can and slot in this priority order: Endurance, Accuracy, Recharge, Endurance (again). The best IO for this power is Theft of Essence: Chance for +end. You shouldn't need more than 12 points of KB protection. The only KB attacks over 12 are something on the order of 20+. If you want a build for reference, you can check my DA/Fire build.

Dark/Dark might be able to get away without stamina after it gets the endurance recovery tool. Otherwise it'll be rough.

Your mistake is assuming that it's a job that needs to be done.

Those are just bad players. There are tanks that do this.


Please understand that I'm not an advocate of the "all offense" brute. You seem to be saying that playing a brute like a scrapper is wrong, and I agree. I also say that playing a brute like a tank is wrong. You should play a brute like a brute, which means you like having aggro and are tough enough to survive it. Your job, however, is not to "tank"; that is to say, you don't keep the team safe. All of the redside ATs are designed to be able to handle themselves. This is why I say no one needs to tank.

Many bluesiders that go villain will learn this lesson in a very painful manner. "Your aggro, your problem."

Brute "Pokevoke" doesn't taunt five targets like a tanker does; it only hits one.

I'm going to hazard a guess that you're the kind of guy who doesn't slot endurance reduction in his attacks.

Hey, if you claim it's been done, I'm not going to challenge it. But just to be sure we're on the same page here, I do mean all four of Reichsman's AVs plus Reichsman at the same time. Not Reichsman plus one of his AVs at a time until that AV is dead.

I'm well aware of the affects of either on DPS and survivability. That doesn't change the fact that they are mirrored clamps on either end of the same formula.

The 5% to-hit floor represents the fact that a roll of 20 on a d20 is a hit, regardless of enemy armor class.

Still true.

I've done all four at once, and held them for quite some time on my own. It really depends on how lucky GW is with her hold and the team I'm with. Those four can cause quite a bit of AoE damage, and if the team can't handle it it doesn't matter how long I can hold all four.

If it's a Master of attempt then I do single/double pulls only.

I don't have a high level brute. Something about them just doesn't click with me. I find them lacking if I try to build them as a tank, and I just don't like being a scrapper/brute. I find myself enjoying the game more when I make the team awesome, not the other way around.

Thanks for the compliment. It means quite a deal coming from someone with your record.

EDIT: I see what you mean here. Had to read that a few times. I think tanking all four of them is a feat. I'd love to see an invuln, willpower, electric, or even a stone tank that could do the same. There's a lot of psi and even defense and recovery debuffs in these four.

Yes. Two of them, in fact, +4. If you really want a video of it, I'll get you one. I've done the RWZ challenge standing next to a pylon, which is three Rikti bosses, and I do have footage of that already recorded.

DA resists -recovery as well.

I've seen no such indication of this. I'm perfectly willing to believe, I just need a link.

There already is a hard cap. It's functionally irrelevant, until you fight nemesis and their vengeances or the +200% tohit DE quartz.

Lowering the hardcap on defense introduces more problems than you realize. Tower buffed Lord Recluse would be made trivial simply because of Tactics. The yellow mitos that can only be hit by melee attacks? Not anymore, because you can use Aim to get around it. Same for the blues that can only be hit by ranged.

Moment of Glory and Elude won't be worth a damn anymore when it comes to the +tohit powers they're needed to counter.

It's not a matter of the formula. I mean, it is, partially. You can rewrite the formula, but the important part is the principle behind that formula. The caps were designed with each other in mind. This was purposefully done.

Remember, that would change the defense side of the formula too. As it stands, the last 5% of defense does as much for you as the first 40%. Adding another three on top will cut the remaining damage that softcapped characters are taking by an additional 60%.

Use winamp. Global hot-keys.

I can pause/play/stop/skip track all from within CoX.

This, generally.

But I do provide builds at a modest fee of 800 million a piece.

Fix'd.

Hyperbole is bad, mmmkay?

I only spent 300 million in IOs on mine. Granted, it's a tank, but a brute should have an easier time taking care of +4/x8 Malta than I did.

In a race for sheer survival, "tricked out" DA beats Shields with ease, and it stands toe to toe with Willpower until the WP sees endurance drain. Then again, it should beat Shields, because Shields is the offensive set.

It's not a fallacy. The caps are linked to each other in purpose and were designed with each other in mind.

If you always have a chance to hit, you must always have a chance to miss.

Or you hit with a few rad blasts that stack -defense.

It'd need to be something greater than 200%. Accuracy, -defense, and tohit are just far too easy to come by to come up with some meaningful cost here. My warshade can easily stack himself with over +50% tohit. Right there I'm at 125% chance to hit. Put in the standard acc multipliers and I'm over 150%. I have a ton of accuracy bonuses by accident which will end up with my final tohit at or near 200%. All on my own, and mostly by accident.

The 95% cap needs to be there, much as the 5% floor. If you take one away, the other no longer makes sense. We can't have characters with 50% defense becoming perfectly invulnerable.

Face facts: Everyone gets lucky. I don't care how good he is, I'm going to still have that chance to land a lucky blow. I don't care how good I am, that guy has a chance get out of the way in time. This is a comic book game, and the improbable happens all the time in comics.

Then I don't get what you're saying there. You can't get 100% tohit. Are proposing that you allow the tohit to be 100% but have a ridiculous cost to obtain it?

So your problem isn't the 95% hardcap on final tohit, it's the base accuracy?

Yes, my DA is a tank, so it will be inherently tougher than the brute. I'm pretty sure most of you brutes will tell me, though, that a brute can be built tough enough.

Considering the "kill them faster" nature of a brute, I have no doubts that a Fire/Dark Armor brute could do the same things I have.