Nalrok_AthZim

Fair enough.

Um, Dark Armor?

*hears the speedy noise from Six Million Dollar Man*

This. Fiery Embrace is like Incendiary Ammo for your fists. I love using it and watching the extra third number accompany my attacks. Burn is a new amazing beast in and of itself; it's like an AoE non-immobilizing Midnight Grasp.

Indomitable Will at 47? You'd better be thankful he's already 50, because that build is stupid otherwise.

I've been doing that for years. On some toons I keep it decked at high for the experience/rewards.

Right. Because when that Fake Nemesis takes a swing at you with that absurdly damaging staff of his, you'd be better off just having one point of health.

What?

Are you saying every AT should just have one point of health? Are you saying +Max HP effects such as Dull Pain and High Pain Tolerance are useless? Did you even read what you typed before you posted it?

My 50 Fire/Fire/Pyre would disagree. I've been running Tips and Paper Missions at +2/x6 (x6 for AoE cap purposes) with no problems. Sure, I die quite a bit! But that's just more damage with Rise of the Phoenix. With the recent buffs to Fiery Aura, my Fire/Fire/Pyre is now on-par in damage output as my Dark/Dark/Soul (who's decked with sets and several purples). And don't give me that "Dark/Dark is crappy" argument; that whole spiel is moot, and several players have proven it (see: Dechs Kaison).

Fight enemies who primarily use Fire and Cold. I trash CoT. Pick your battles and stick to those choices. Would you throw a /Invul into a herd of Carnies or Fortunatas?

First of all, it's not "NC Soft" (spell it right please). it's Paragon Studios. And if you can't survive, good! I actually welcome being defeated on both of my top-quality 50 brutes. It's a chance for me to use the self-rez power and lay down some heavy damage/debuffs. Did you not take Rise of the Phoenix? Also if you've given up on him can you send me your stuff?

Welcome to min-maxing. Tons of other brute players take Tough, Weave, Combat Jumping, Acrobatics, etc. to get their toon right where they want them. How is it such a nuisance for you? I only took Combat Jumping and Acrobatics on my Fire/Fire/Pyre; it solved his defense hole immediately. Two powers? Oh lordy, save the children! We won't be able to take Maneuvers!

People take different sets for different reasons. I love my 50 Fire/Fire/Pyre. It's like playing a giant superheated buzzsaw. Yes, I die more often than my Elec/Invul or my SS/Elec, but I do way WAY more damage and have a self-rez to boot. Nothing's wrong with /Fire, just the way you play it.

Allow me to rephrase: /EnA is harder for ME as a player to get manageable than /FA.

I'm going to have to disagree. While /WP doesn't have any of the problems of other sets, it doesn't have their benefits either. To me, when the cornerstone of a "defense" is relying 100% on one power to regenerate damage taken you before you run out of health/enemies to power it, that doesn't count as an advantage. RttC is a great power, don't get me wrong. But I wouldn't say that Willpower is the walk-on-water set of sets because of it. My /Invul always outlives my /WP except in the case of psionics.

EDIT: My SS/Elec disagrees with you saying he has low baseline survivability.

It may, if you just dump it in a group and don't take the time to warn your teammates. As an Elec/Rad I'm constantly making sure I tell the team "Don't kill the anchors!"; "Please watch the debuff anchors."; etc. Now that I have Static Field, I've made a macro that briefly explains what it does and what I'm doing with it. I find that the team is usually understanding when I tell them that not only will Static Field keep them from getting attacked, but it also gives them free endurance. It's positively awesome to watch a team just standing around in a group of sleeping foes and soaking their endurance.

And even if they do plow everything over with an AoE, it's still nice to drop at choke points such as doorways to keep ambushes and clusters of herded enemies in control. The sleep pulse is also really great for making enemy attack chains stutter.

Uh. Endurance Reduction?

After just hitting 12 last night and getting Static Field, you're right. I'll still be getting it since I don't feel the need for the energy attacks in Primal. It'll be good for AV fight as well, when I don't have a huge cluster of minions to feed me endurance.

Static Field rocks.

If I had to drop two, I'd drop Synaptic Overload and Electric Fence (singular).

I'm going Elec/Rad/Power. Conserve Power will be a godsend, and Power Boost will be just absurdly fun with all the end drain, debuffs, slows, and... everything available to my primary and secondary.

That's CoH taking up almost all of your memory. Use a program like iStat Menus and watch how much RAM the cider client sucks up. It's scary.

My alts would kill me if I blew 200 million on 4% of damage. They need money too!

I'm having a ton of fun on my Mercs/Dark.