SevereCalamity

This is the funniest thing I read all day, and also the worst logic ever.

2000 HP character gets hit by 1200 damage = 800 HP
1800 HP character gets hit by 1200 damage = 600 HP

If both get healed for the same amount, say 600 HP, then the bigger HP character would still have more health than the smaller one. Having max HP is in no way a liability. Just because it may take more healing to get to max HP on the higher HP character does not mean than it is less likely to survive the next hit.

The reason that it's so funny is because it actually takes the same amount of healing to restore full HP either way.

If either character gets hit with the same amount of damage, they would both still need the same amount healed back.

If both characters were to get one shot, even if they both only got healed back up to 1800 HP, they would still both have 1800 HP. There is no liability here at all.

Like intended, brutes are a little more survivable while doing a little less damage. I too find brute patron pools a little better than what scrappers have, especially mu and soul mastery for their various purposes. Gloom is an awesome single target attack and fills in a brute attack chain, and darkest night is a quick shortcut to incarnate softcap and the -damage is useful in almost any situation.

Some people will argue that the extra survivability is useless, and this may be true part of the time. There have been times, however, when I was glad for the extra HP provided by the brute. I have two shield toons, one scrapper and one brute, and I enjoy them both very much for different reasons.

I was thinking the same thing. It seems like the entire combo system for street justice is vastly superior to the DB combo system. Whether or not the attacks are as effective, or more effective, has yet to be seen.

As for the combo points, I'm going to guess they are on the player. Which indeed will be way better than WoWs rogue combo system.

That sounds like a cool feature at least.

Isn't that technically true of all +damage boosts? Brutes just get less benefit from +damage than scrappers.

Aside from Concentrated Strike criticals refreshing Power Siphon in Kinetic Melee for scrappers, I don't think there's any difference between the way the in set damage boosts work between scrappers and brutes.

I don't think he was saying his guy is better than any other persons, just that some power sets perform better than others. I tend to agree to a certain extent; but everyone has different standards and expectations.

He said he didn't like certain power sets/ATs compared to his dom because they didn't perform as well. I was ironically playing my plant/fire dom the other day, and felt the same way about him. I have scrappers/brutes/veats that kill stuff much faster and are also much more survivable than the plant dom, so why even play the dom? Yeah the dom has control, but when one of my other toons can wipe an entire spawn by pressing two or three buttons while being nearly invincible, who needs them?

The answer lies is just finding a power combination and playstyle you like. Having a back story and a costume you really like helps out too. Sometimes I will design a costume I really like, and build the characters AT and powers based off of the costume.

Some power sets shine more solo, some shine more on teams. Some in big groups of minor enemies, some with just one difficult target. Every AT and power set has its niche, and some sets overlap into others territories. For me, I just come up with a character I like and go with it. I'll play around in Mids and see what I come up with, and if I don't like the guy in Mids or how it plays in the actual game, then I'll just move on to a new character. It isn't really complicated.

There could also be that you're just burned out and need to take a break from the game, I normally play a few months here and there in order to avoid that dilemma.

I was thinking the same thing.

This is the perfect summary.

I can barely stand to play my Elec/SD scrapper these days due to the terrible single target DPS. After the initial mini nuke barrage, you're pretty much stuck doing crappy single target damage and mediocre AoE damage until they are back up.

DM is survivable as all hell, and does excellent single target damage. When it comes to AoEs, DM is terrible and you need fuel to feed your soul drain. Fireball from the epic pools does help a lot with the low AoE.

I don't have a Fire/SD, but it seems like it would be an all around great choice for superb single target damage and good AoE.

I actually have an SS/SD brute, and really he is my favorite all around /SD character. Good single target damage with gloom, decent, sustainable AoE with Footstomp and Dark Obliteration. Darkest Night is great for incarnate content as it helps me close the gap between my 48% defense and the 59% required to be incarnate soft capped. The fact that it helps my teammates survive better is icing on the cake. Brutes also have higher HP, which is nice when something manages to land a hit. I originally took aid self, but found myself not using it often, so I dropped it and started packing greens instead.

The draw backs are obviously the rage crash, and the endurance trouble you get into with rage and hasten and spamming AoEs. I pretty much had to take the ageless destiny to avoid endurance issues. Brutes benefit less from AAO and shield charge compared to scrappers, but I really enjoy the all around-ness offered by super strength. Everyone wants different things out of their toons, and you have a wide range of options with what works well with /SD.

I may someday make a Fire/SD scrapper. It seems that it could quite possibly the most damaging it terms of /SD. It would have less health and would lack the darkest night in soul mastery i love so much, but the damage would be impressive and not dealing with the rage crash is nice.

Unfortunately, Warshades ended up not agreeing with me. However, Dechs guide is pure gold if you decide to go that route.

I'm pretty sure reactive is resistance debuff, not to-hit debuff.

Regardless, I went the exact same route with my incarnate slots on my /FA brute. Reactive focusing on the right side for the 75% damage proc, ageless left side for end recovery, and pyronic judgement.

He did not post it to be nasty. He was just letting you know proper forum etiquette; which is other people tend to help people with their builds when the person who needs help already created a sample build highlighting what they want out of their character. Your post comes off far more rude and nasty.