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I'm starting to realize my knowledge of "magic" terminology makes this quite difficult. I might have to stick to joke names like "A Wizard Did It".

Does he speak latin? Without reference to space age terminology, an etymologist would likely read it as a combination of "arcanus" and "nauticus" to mean a "sailor of magic" or "magic sailor". It does sound better than those though.

Arcane + Astronaut (or Cosmonaut). While "naut" by itself is really more of an aquatic term, when people stick it to the end of something else, modern vernacular implies a space-age quality about it. I think in this instance the spelling of "Arcanonaut" might be more appropriate, assuming I've read into that one-word post correctly.

Edit: assuming this is not a random reference to Arcanaville

According to my name checker for character creation, "Magic and Technology" is available on Virtue. It even comes with its own theme song if you're into that sort of music. Sorry, I just find it amusing.

Samples of names you like would be helpful. Favorite character names of mine are "My pants are on fire" and "Ask me if I care", so the names I could suggest might not be even remotely palatable to you. Though, the first few things that come to mind are names like "Flex Hex", "Electromagetic", "Arcanode" (Arcane + Anode), and "Merlin's Constant" (in contrast to Planck's Constant and a thousand other constants). How many suggestions do you want?

I find it amusing at how terrible it is for people to use their peers to judge challenges and success in a multiplayer game. It's almost like we're social creatures or something.

To reduce it to the absurdity of wanting to control what "other people can/are doing" shows you don't understand what it is you're berating... not that you're above those human beings giving in to their pathetic side.

I'm quoting this so I can find it easier for future reference.

Hit preview before making an ugly sight for the rest of us.

There are several crushing impacts sold for 10 to 20 million in the levels 30~33. I think that's hardly an intelligent marker for inflation given the recent change in focus towards high level content. Anyway, a lot of the price trends I see people talk about here are not totally incorrect, they're just too isolated to describe larger market trends.

It'll have a chance to occur every ten seconds as with all toggles. The leadership toggles tick every 0.5s, but 'chance for' enhancements won't check in a toggle every tick.

Every point defending teams for experience can be used to defend confuse for experience... except confused enemies can't start a taskforce.

I suggest confused enemies count as teammates for the purposes of starting taskforces!

Defeat fifty enemies with a team and without, and the player without a team will get more XP. Period. Fact. Unarguable.

Teams reduce XP.

Energy absorption gets a certain amount of defense for each enemy and a bonus amount for the 1st. The per enemy amount stacks between applications, but the 1st enemy bonus does not.

Not having tried it, scuttlebutt says the defense buffs from ice domination are not affected by the relevant portions of power build-up or power boost. They are flagged as such; I think it's described as "is not affected by buffs" or somesuch. The reason why, as I've read, is that allowing resistance powers the capability to accept buffs and enhancements makes them susceptible to crazy and unintended side effects. The same situation can be found with sonic resonance and its buffs. NO PBU BUFFS FOR JOO!

It's all very unintuitive, but only things like fortitude and forcefield buffs, which have no enhancable resist component, get the awesome defense softcapping capabilities when mixed with PBs

So, what you have is cold domination characters who simply do not gain buffing benefits from PBU but in this instance can benefit from Nerve since it's an enhancement but not a buff to the character, and do so in a way that cannot be replicated by IO set bonuses.

I chuckle at the thought of reading the complaints about fury generation with spines. No, really, I want to see it and enjoy Brutes having been denied ice sets due to the alleged effects on fury and then release spines first. The irony of it is so delicious the thought alone leaves a pleasant aftertaste.

In reality it'll likely be entirely reworked before or when it is transferred to brutes, if ever, but I will still dream my dreams...

Power build up enhanced for recharge combined with a small amount of global recharge makes PBU available twice within the duration of the forcefield buffs. I can provide PBU boosts to both forcefield buffs applied to three people each time, allowing 6 people to carrying the boosted buffs throughout a mission. The only decision I have to make is who the one person (besides myself) that doesn't get the boosted shields, and that's typically a very easy choice.

I've gone through entire pickup taskforces without missing people when it was their turn to get the pbu bubbles, surprisingly. In the relatively rare instance that someone doesn't catch it, They'll just have to manage dealing with dispursion bubble to get their godlike defense.

It's quite liberating to give the team that level of defense without them tied to dispursion's radius. [censored] small buff that it is.

I agree with the minimal impact the current incarnate benefits have with respect to defense, but I think this is a hard statement to accept. It comes close to a very telling issue though.

It really does matter because a player wouldn't simply take that alpha slot and ignore the changes. He or she would substitute sets chosen for defense bonuses (which may or may not have been slotted yet) with other IO sets for other bonuses such as recharge, max health, recovery, etc.

The most extreme example I can think of would be a shield tanker with combat jumping and weave that, using your enhancement values (56% vs. 70%) would take an SO'd build with about 40% defense to one with 43% defense. For such a character, that's about the defense gained from the gaussian's set. Not every character uses that set, but even fewer will see that much of a difference.

So, I don't think that there is an issue with being unable to utilize that benefit for characters that have defense powers, it's just that it's much harder to imitate an effect of the other incarnate options with a single IO set bonus.

ED isn't the problem here. It's just that you should find a good reason for 6 slots in rise to the challenge or get rid of the 3 slots dedicated to tohit debuff. By looking at your claws portion, you need those slots elsewhere.

You've put three endurance redux in a single resist toggle but have attacks without any endurance reduction at all. Without end redux, some attacks can consume more endurance during a fight than all of willpower's toggles combined.

For improvements to performance, strip all defensive toggles down to 4 slots. That 2nd flight enhancement would be much more effective as an acc, recharge, or endredux enhancement in one of your attacks. Put the new slots into claws until every attack you use has 6 slots. All of them. Every. Single. One. At 50 if you can't 6-slot all your attacks then you need to use fewer attacks or scrape enhancements from something else.

A special note for the taunt and defense debuff enhancements: Don't. You're better served for those purposes by enhancing for recharge and/or accuracy. I'd love for slotting secondary effects like that to be worthwhile, but in reality they only serve to provide alternative IO slotting means, such as Achilles' heel resistance debuff or a damage proc from a taunt set.

Air superiority is poor compared to claws attacks... the knockup from airsup is useful but a fully slotted claw brute will keep a single target tumbling throughout the majority of a fight simply due to liberal use of focus. Airsup will cause you to use more endurance for less damage and slow you down overall. Stripping it of enhancements will also give you more enhancements for your other attacks.

For IO set starters I think you should go ahead and put 4 serendipity in each defense toggle that you think needs defense. 5 (skip the acc/dam) crushing impact in strike and slash with the 6th slot used to fill whichever hole you find the biggest issue, which will probably be recharge. 6 Multi strike works for a cheap start in spin.

A build that focuses more on max health, recharge, and/or defense will be more effective (see LygerZero's comment) but will likely take a lot longer to properly build and will cost a lot more. The above set recommendations are easy to get, cheap to buy, and noticeably superior to basic enhancements. Replacing those with more expensive enhancements is a pittance on the scale of fitting several sets with Kinetic Combat, so you're not committing to anything less efficient by doing this.

I strongly suggest Tough. If you want to capitalize upon defense than weave will be a priority as well. Assault does absolutely crap on a brute and is a prime candidate for replacement by the fighting pool. I'd drop either fast healing or a claws attack (slash, eviscerate, or shockwave) giving room for tough. It's difficult for me to describe the lifestyle change of adding tough on top of a set that already has some smashing and lethal resistance. With strength of will you'll be able to cap s/l res. Please try it out on a 2nd build or on the test server. It requires no IOs to work. If you aren't amazed at the difference when fighting rikti, crey, cimerorans, council, or most any group feel free to skip this advice.

I'm trying not to ramble, but I want to explain my suggested changes rather than post a build and say "do that".