JusticeValkyre

Originally Posted by evil women for pinn

Originally Posted by Syntax42

What are your goals? I can see some things that could be improved, but I don't know if they will take you where you want to go.

One issue I see is the Discouraging Words set. You could use those same three slots in Brawl to add another Kinetic Combat set to push yourself over the soft-cap. The to-hit debuff isn't worth enhancing.

Maneuvers is under-slotted. Generally, it is more efficient to slot toggles before relying on set bonuses.

I think aiming for 45% S/L defense has stretched your build too thin. You don't quite have perma-Hasten with the tier 4 Spiritual Alpha, and your main attack chain will have horrible accuracy against +4's when Soul Drain is not affecting you. Soul Drain's recharge without the Spiritual Alpha has about 10 seconds of downtime. The accuracy on Soul Drain against +4s is so low that you could end up missing entirely against small groups or in single-AV fights and leave your attack chain missing a lot.

Siphon Life could be enhanced for healing but you lack the slots.

Procs in your attacks contribute a decent amount of DPS.

I would aim for 32.5% S/L and E/N defenses. That puts you one inspiration away from the soft-cap and gives you more flexibility in making your build. Getting to 45% S/L defense is overrated when it means you sacrifice your DPS, in my opinion.

Originally Posted by TheBruteSquad

It's true.

They've said that all ATs share a tutorial (Galaxy City) and that where you go after the tutorial is determined not by your archetype but by your choice.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

When claws was ported to brutes, the powers team increased the base recharge of some of the attacks. This caused the damage and endurance costs to also go up. And then there's the funky claws specific damage/activation equation that got slapped on.

End result? Brute claws was better by a bit than scrapper claws.

Then fury got smacked with the nerf bat. Now? Brute still wins but not by nearly as much.

On the WP side, I'd say brute wins for no other reason by the higher base HP.

Originally Posted by Mylia

Well what is your goal for your DM/WP? Also sometimes it is best to make your own build and bring it up so people can help you out.

DM/WP is an awesome combo, but what one person does is different from what other people do.

Originally Posted by AnElfCalledMack

Ah, another Fire/Fire. I knew there was more than just me and Grey Pilgrim.

Originally Posted by Seyshara

My Tanker (and in fact all my characters except the two Kheldians) would be screwed with this. I only took Hurdle and Hand Clap because there wasn't ANYTHING in any of the other pools that fit my original concept. (Technically, the Super Speed doesn't really fit either, but I like being able to get around) Fortunately, most of them already have Stamina, and I don't intend to respec any time soon anyway. One or two had Hurdle planned (for the same reason as my Tanker) which might cause problems, but I can probably adapt.

I guess I'm going to have to rush my Praetorians to level 20 and pick up Stamina before i19, in case the new pools don't suit them.

(As an aside, none of my characters has more than the initial slot in any fitness powers, so that means I would have absolutely no slots spare for any other power I might decide to take)

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

Then its entirely possible that any mention of extra slots by the devs were being based on the alpha slot which they might be considering a "universal slot." As it does grant extra enhancement to all powers.



I'm going off of past developer statements. I don't get insider info and would never share it if I did.

Regardless, it doesn't make the case for suddenly needing more slots. No character in this game is going to become less powerful because fitness is being made inherent. There is no nerf to correct with a balance move of any sort. We are all being given the ability to choose an extra power pool that were aren't able to at the moment.

Just because someone doesn't like that builds are going to be more slot starved than they are now means nothing.

Originally Posted by Call Me Awesome

It's quite easy to soft cap a shield tank to melee/range/aoe... it can be done with just a Steadfast 3% unique if you take the fighting pool for Weave. Just on SO's if you slot your shields, Combat Jumping and Weave to ED cap defense you're only about 3% short. Your resistance numbers aren't going to cap out without One with the Shield which is only up about 1/3 of the time.

Shield/Fire is a nice combo... I've been leveling one lately. From the mid-30's on the damage output is actually around the low end of Scrappers. At 45 it kills about as fast as my 50 BS/Regen scrapper although it's a good bit shy of my BS/Shield.

My SD/Fire tanker was also really cheap to IO; I don't need to worry about expensive set bonuses for durability. Gift of the Ancients in the shields solves my endurance woes, Multi Strike in my AOE's gets the extra defense I needed and that lone Steadfast 3% def IO gets a bit of cushion. I think I've about 40 million in the entire build. Yeah, I can make a more expensive build and go for recharge and other bonuses... I may end up doing that eventually. For now it's very effective and it didn't cost a fortune.

Originally Posted by Protonic_Flux

And on a totally unrelated topic. Shadowkitty, I love that video with the kitten.