EarthWyrm

A few semi-random notes:

Entropy Shield only needs one endred.

I'm not sure the HP bonus is worth slotting the KB Protection IO, since you don't need it for KB Protection.

If you change KO Blow to 6 Mako and move a slot into Combat Jumping to boost your defense (level 50 common defense IO or level 50 LotGefense), you end up soft-capped to neg as well, and are still above the soft-cap for s/l.

In general, your +Def(all) powers (Combat Jumping, Maneuvers, Weave, Energy Cloak) are under-enhanced for defense. Play around with the enhancements you slotted on them to see if you can get more defense bonus from them; the more you get from your powers themselves, the less you have to rely on sets.

The fifth piece of eradication isn't as useful to you as adding something like damage/end (or acc/dam/end) from multi-strike would be, since the quad by itself just doesn't mitigate endurance usage well. I dropped the A/R from Eradication for the A/D/E from multistrike on my ss/ea?

Energy Drain feels under-slotted.

The reality of writing for a large, shared-world, setting, is that you will inevitably have people who believe that you are "doing it wrong," that the storyline is not what they thought they signed up for, that the decisions you have made without consulting them conflict with the decisions they made about their characters (without consulting you), and that if they were writing things, Everything Would Be Better.

There are always going to be continuity problems with a property this expansive, and there will be unevenness in the story-telling if it's allowed to be done by more than one person. These things are true in every fictional universe that people emotionally invest in, whether it's the SW universe of LucasFilms or the CoH universe.

To the "What do we do about it?" question, the answer is simple: Take every opportunity to give feedback, be respectful and precise when you give it, and direct it to the right people.

A few thoughts, in list form because it's late and I don't think coherent paragraphs are in the cards for me.

The knockback protection IOs are 1000% not needed (unless you plan to PvP, in which case /Energy Aura is probably not your best bet...). Assuming this is a PvE build, I'd move your uniques into the passives and allow yourself to slot Tough.

If you're actually going to use your Fighting pool intro power, boxing is both faster to animate and cheaper to use than Kick.

With Energy Drain, you don't need 3 slots in Stamina. 2 will do.

I prefer the Regenerative Tissue unique to the Miracle unique for /EA, because of its strong end management.

Energy Drain doesn't have a to-hit roll. Using pieces with accuracy components in them is a waste of %'s.

I think you had 6 LotG globals in there, which breaks the "rule of 5" cap.

It feels like you burned way too many slots getting psi defense that's still not at the cap. More on that below.

Patron pets are worse than useless on Brutes. They're minion-class and don't even make good speed bumps. I know it's there for the psi defense, but this is 5 slots you could be using in better powers. If you drop the Striker entirely and take Taunt instead (or anything else that doesn't require slotting; having Overload as an "Oh crap!" button, even with one slot, wouldn't be terrible), you can move those other 5 slots to places they'll benefit the build more consistently.

For example...

2 more slots in Power Shield for a LotG Def and Def/End gets you a ton of value-added to your F/C/E/N.

Dropping 2 more slots into one of your 4-slotted defense powers (since you need to get rid of one LotG anyway) for a set of 6 red fortune gets you to 43.5% Neg, and picks back up the 5% recharge you'll lose when we yank the crushing impact set (below).

Taking a slot from stamina and one from SJ (the third Zephyr really gets you nothing that you need, once power shield is slotted) lets you get Tough to 3 slots and Energy Drain to 6, so that you can drop 3 reactive armors into Tough and another 6 Red Fortunes into ED (once I21 hits) and be soft-capped to all types but psi, and the only hit your psi has taken is the 5% from losing the purple pet set, which leaves you at 36% and using the same small purple insp that you needed to soft-cap psi originally to get to the soft-cap.

Swapping the Crushing Impact in Body Blow for 4 Kinetic Combats and something to fill out the stats (I like Nuc's, but that's me) gets you further above the cap for S/L than you were.

This would put you at 48.9% s/l, 50.2% f/c, 55.7% en, and 46% neg (so you could technically harvest a slot from SJ to use elsewhere and still be above the e/n soft-cap). That's all before you get the bonus from Energy Drain, of course.

I also think you'd get more out of Soul Mastery than Mu, but that's a separate issue.

All of the above are just my thoughts. In the end, build the character in the way that's the most fun for you.

This thread is epic. It has literally redefined the word "discussion" for me.

Last night I ran into a new and somewhat bizarre issue. I ran into a mission, hit Spin once - and then it just sat there as a tiny, non-recharging dot in my power tray. I died due to lack of damage output, zoned out to the AE hospital, and still had a tiny, barely-recharged dot in Spin's slot. I decided that maybe logging would help, and as the countdown approached zero the button started coming back. When I relogged, though, it still hadn't quite finished recharging.

It happened one other time, with Lightning Field rather than Spin. I got killed by random burst damage where a lot of things hit me at once without more than 1-2 oranges running, zoned out, and LF was a tiny dot. It took about five minutes to recharge, and relogging didn't help. It wasn't just a display thing, either; if I clicked the teeny-tiny button, I got the "Recharging" message. I even made a macro to activate the power, thinking that might be a workaround, and got the "Recharging" message.

Anybody else run into this?

This would be my second CEBR, on a new server. The second one really is easier than the first.

Oh, and whoever asked about Sands of Mu?

Don't. Your other claws attacks and brawl are fine if you want fillers. Sands will root you, keep you from chewing inspirations, not benefit from Fury, and get you killed.