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Having greater speed on jumping allows us to choose whether we want to move fast or not. A nerf on Hurdle or a buff on Swift would remove choice from the equation. So, no.

The slow resist, while not unique, is also pretty damn great, especially in Tin Mage with all those recharge debuffs flying around.

Really, the best thing about it in my mind is that it's a PBAoE buff in a melee powerset ; which means people who usually wouldn't play a buffer might end up doing just that.

PF only benefits you so there's no point slotting it.

It certainly wouldn't hurt to add 1 or 2 slots to GC. One of my friends did it on his tanker and I definitely notice the extra defense everytime he's around (tanker higher base and all, admittedly, but still).

You probably know that, but whatever you do, make sure you don't run to the squishies when they're low on life... I've seen shielders trying to "help" who actually got people killed by splash damage, as they tend to drag tons of aggro with AaO.

It was 24-25% (not 20%) to all positions. I recommend 20% to all positions if you go with insps, and in fact the plan was for me to go with insps, I just happened to try without and found I could manage some AVs.

I've had success with no insps no temps at about 25% def (on DB/ELA), but I sometimes had to back off and I sometimes couldn't take on certain AVs. 30-32% seems to be a good number to shoot for. If insps are used I think it's better to stay at 20% to all and just go all out (as much as you can, anyway) on damage and recharge. One luck would be enough most of the time, and eventually add a second one if the AV hits you with high damage attacks two times in a row (first hit you heal up with Energize, second one it's better to take a luck as to avoid a third hit that might kill you).

I think you also have to consider the chain as a whole. As Impale and Ripper have better DPA than Lunge, it might provide a benefit to have a faster animating power instead of Lunge (Fire Blast would also beat Impale in DPA).

Fire Blast is slightly better... But you're losing the Hecatomb proc (Apoc would already be used in Impale), so I'm not sure how it plays out.

You could trade Focused Accuracy for Conserve Power, stick a common recharge IO in the base slot and use the other one to slot a Kismet +6tohit in Combat Jumping.

Cardiac would also help, but if you can manage your endurance without it, you could then get the Musculature Alpha for even more damage.

So you actually meant you were all talk and no action right from the start? My bad then.

If you don't use Hover I'd swap it for CJ, gives a little extra defense, good midair maneuverability and costs basically nothing to run.

I haven't opened the build in Mids, but things that jump out to me looking at it here :
- The +3def PVP proc is probably better in Unstoppable, unless you use Unstoppable a lot. It's always active regardless of the power it's slotted in, and this way it saves you a slot. Additionally, I'd slot RPD with more resistance.
- I'd put a range in Warrior's Challenge rather than a damage proc. It's not a damage power, and adding a 1 in 5 chance to do 74 psi damage won't change that ; it can even make the power worse (you might wake up sleeping AVs while taunting them for example).
- I'd swap the sets in REM and Unyielding, Aegis being level 50 gives a little more %.

One of my friend and I got the same bug on old characters since the last patch. I wouldn't sweat it.

Quantity has nothing to do with quality. It's better to have just Tactics than a bazillion hypothetical tohit powers that would each give 1% tohit... or than a bunch of defense debuffs, incidentally.

I'm not a believer of chaining AoEs exclusively outside of AE farms (and even there I don't do it, I use my big hitters on bosses every now and then ; pure AoE really only made sense to me at the time when we could make all boss farms at full exp). In regular play a group is a bunch of minions, some lieuts and 1 or 2 bosses. If you attack the boss(es) with your ST chain while using FSC as soon as it's up, you still end up killing the boss last more often than not - unless some minions/lieuts are in ranged mode and staying away, in which case having more AoE power wouldn't have helped either.

I knew BBJ would back down, but I got to say I didn't expect him to keep running his mouth after publically admitting he can't do it. Heh.

DB/Inv is my favorite character since years, but I can't honestly say it does anything that another primary couldn't do, if we're talking highend performance ; esp. on a brute where BF gives less damage (both in terms of actual buffage and relatively because of lower base damage).

FM for example is superior on almost every point except tohit. Good ST chain at low recharge? Check. Good AOE damage? Check. Good DPE efficiency? Check.

Add to that a rarely resisted damage type, and no weapons (no redraw). It lacks the ability to slot -res procs (so, slightly less useful against big targets on teams) but does about the same ST damage and FSC is much easier to use than any DB AoE.

If you really like KM/Inv, another thing you might consider is that I20 isn't so far away. It's a bit of a long shot, but with the Judgement slot giving us an AoE, who knows? It might give primarily ST builds more appeal.

Anyway, now that I got my "wah wah DB isn't good buff meee" out of the way...

I think you should skip Assault, on a Brute. 10% damage isn't worth the endurance drain when you're hovering around 400% damage on a regular basis.

You don't have Aid Self so I'd consider slotting Health more.

If you're putting a resistance IO in temp invul, you may as well add the mez resistance/psi res unique from Aegis in there, it only lowers your S/L res by 0.6%. I admit I don't see many people doing that except me, but I find the mez resistance rather useful in highend content ; lowers the time Reichsman stuns you, lowers the opportunity for mezzes to stack when you're tanking heavy mezzers without support (carnival especially, a lone illusionist mistress could sometimes mez me thanks to her lieutenant summons before I slotted the IO, since I did it hasn't happened yet), so I always try to slot it when it doesn't hurt the build as a whole.

Example build with the above changes :

Add the endurance each attack uses, divide the sum by the time it takes you to run through your attack chain, subtract your net recovery (end rec - end use) to the number you got, use the result as a divisor to your max end ; that final number is the amount of seconds it takes you to run out of end.