Doctor_Xaxan

So, I really do love this set. I'm looking forward to the game being more than boss farms so that I don't have to deal with constant jeering from the (yawn) electric/stone brutes. Not that it upsets me all that much. I can take point against bosses just fine.

Anyway.

Do any of you brutes, scappers and tankers get aggravated by the fact that Cloak of Darkness makes your character not just stealthed, but GONE? Even with particles turned all the way up to 5,000 (which causes my laptop to crai teerz), my beautiful character becomes a blob of crud.

What gives? Five costume slots in a game that's at least 50% style, and one of my main defensive abilities renders me almost impossible to see on my own screen.

Argh.

Lame. :/

Devs, get on this. Seriously.

Bizarrely, I can't find an answer to this question anywhere.

Please don't tell me to re-roll. XD I realize this is nowhere near an alpha build, but I'm determined to make it work as best I can.

My character is currently level 47.

Endurance is a massive issue. To make it less of an issue, I have to kill some of my toggles, which makes me squishy as heck.

How can I help myself out here?

Hi!

I've been on Virtue for a few weeks now (I'm a newbie to the game) and I've only come across sporatic RP (I play on villain side for the ambiance, and I find I enjoy the classes more).

Myself and my friends are looking to get more into RP, but we all have an aversion to Pocket D and the absolute strangeness that tends to go on there. I occasionally find diamonds, but I'm really looking for steady hangouts where I can get into the gritty Rogue Isles feel with my characters.

Can anyone point me in the right direction?

I tried to do some homework, but I can't find anything on the issue of walking in the game, for RP purposes.

Can anyone link me to past threads, or possibly just give me the gist of what the devs have said about this?

Can anyone point me toward one? The two links on the guides sticky point to 404s of doom.

Is there a process for retrieving the password for an account if the person no longer has access to the e-mail they signed up with?

So is the general consensus that Medicine (Aid Self) is a "cannot do without" pool, for /ELA?

Really? Not a single reply?

:/

I've been having some trouble with my Brute, owing largely to the fact that I'm new to the game, and also because, apparently, I went and picked a powerset that recently got the nerf bat taken to it. However, I do enjoy playing the character and want to come up with the best build possible. I have my 24 respec yet to do, and am coming up on my 34 (I'm currently level 32).

So, here's what I have right now, to 40. Number of slots are given as (n):

Energy Melee:

Energy Punch (6)
Bone Smasher (6)
Build Up (3)
Total Focus (5)
Energy Transfer (6)

Electric Armor:

Charged Armor (4)
Conductive Shield (4)
Static Shield (4)
Grounded (1)
Lightning Reflexes (1)
Conserve Power (3)
Power Sink (3)

Leaping:

Combat Jumping (3)
Super Jump (1)

Fighting:

Boxing (6)
Tough (3)
Weave (3)

Fitness:

Hurdle (1)
Health (3)
Stamina (3)

Attack chain under 50% fury would be:

Boxing > Energy Punch > Bone Smasher

And then TF and ET when it becomes worth the time (and HP loss)

Feel free to rip this to shreds constructively. I've been doing my best to do my own legwork on figuring this out, but there isn't a whole lot of information on EM/ELA more current than a year or more.

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I wouldn't drop Barrage for Bone Smasher.

Dropping Jump Kick for Bone Smasher would increase DPS.

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The problem with "dropping" jump kick is that it's not an even trade. Jump is my travel power. So even if I took Combat Jumping instead, I wouldn't be trading 1-for-1.

Hey all. Real quick question as an Energy/Electric Brute.

At level 25, my current attack chain is:

Brawl > Jump Kick > Barrage > Energy Punch > Total Focus

I've been missing Bone Crusher like an old friend, and it's highly recommended from what I've read (I took Barrage and Energy Punch because they're quick Fury-builders), but if I go into the Fighting pool for Tough, I'll end up with yet another attack.

Recommendations?

Isn't there sortof a universal rule regarding accuracy slotting? You want 99% (three slots?) for all of your attacks, correct?

Also, for this build (EM/EA), should I plan for Stamina (Fitness) or will the electric goodness cover me for endurance?

Okay, so after some advice-taking here, a curious revelation has occured to me.

Brutes are not tanks. Who knew.

Anyway, now I'm having a -lot- more fun. XD So thanks, all of you.

However, I still have some questions about my build.

As EM/EA with jump, how should I be slotting my powers? Is there a general rule of thumb for this? I've looked for guides, but all of them I've found have either been too vague, or just out of date.

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Brutes can be tanks, brutes can be scrappers.

Sometimes, if I'm the only brute on the team I'll tank however my Axe/SR is built more like a scrapper (I don't have taunt and my taunt aura is slotted for def/end redux).

Most brutes I know of, unless they're a tanking style build rather than a scrapper style build, wont pick up taunt.

Whirling axe was the last power I picked up, 4 slotted it with 3 acc/damage set IOs (Frankenslotting) and one generic endurance reduction IO.

Basically if I'm not tanking on teams I run her as a scrapper, run into a mob SMASH, run into next mob, SMASH and so on. Fury really does encourage this playstyle...running from one group to the next.

It also encourages Brutes to take the Alpha since they not only get fury from attacking but from being attacked and being the target of an Alpha means you get a load of fury.

At level 12 though you can't play as a slave to the SMASH, most Brutes suffer heavy endurance problems early on but you'll probably play more like a scrapper (since you won't have all your defenses in place) than a tank at that level.

Those are my personal experiences.

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Thanks for the input.

With a lot of the questions I'm asking, I'm finding the answers to generally be "Hang tight until later levels."

Would you mind giving me some pointers on an EM/EA build? As far as which powers to skip, which to absolutely take, how slot allocation, etc. It'd be a huge help.

EDIT: Pointers on both tanking and dedicated DPS would be great, although I'm a tank in my heart, if you were going to pick one or the other to give me help with.

I am looking for personalized input from different people on this, by the way. Feel free to tell me how -you- run missions!

Hi!

I'm new to the game, and even newer to Bruting. I'm just starting to get my head around the core mechanics of the game, and I started out playing my Brute as essentially a more DPS-oriented tanker.

Fail.

The good news is, I have an actual tanker, so this means I won't have two characters who are redundant with one another.

The question is, how does a Brute play in teams? And I'm just talking mission teams/bank jobs at this point. The character is level 12. XD

How do you do it? Who triggers the alpha? When's a good time to get the taunt/whirling hands type stuff going?

Essentially, how does teaming work for villains?

Is it possible to get the Good vs. Evil edition perks (Pocket D pass and the jump pack) through buying it online in some way?

I'm asking for a friend who came to the game to play with myself and some others, and she picked up the architect edition at an EB.

Sorry for the long delay. It's been a busy few days.

Thanks a ton for the pointers everyone. I'm really starting to get my head around this.

New question: Is there an up-to-date power/enhancement calculator floating around out there on the web?