Silas

Transference recharges fast and refills your end bar which is fantastic, but I still slot for good end rdx, get recovery bonuses and take Stamina on my Kins for one reason.

The more +rec/end rdx you have, the less you need to hit Transference. With Kin being as busy as it is, you have to prioritize. The more you have to hit Transference, the less you're doing other awesome Kin stuff.

My thing about Brute vs Tanker survivability is that while a Tanker will pretty much always be tougher, being that tough isn't necessary.

A Brute, with IOs and/or team support, can be tough enough to take the punishment of anything that is realistically going to be thrown at them.

In any situation where you've got anything that does enough damage to warrant the toughness of a Tanker, you've generally got enough team support to enable a Brute to take the punishment and do far more damage in the process.

Yes, a Tanker, (depending on Primary, skill, slotting, etc etc), could tank them without support. That's not really meaningful unless your team is 7 Blasters and the Tanker.

I'd rather have the Brute.

Team makeup is also in the linked post, but the second Dom was me on my Fire/Fire Dom. My friend (Fiery, whose screencap it is) was playing the Mind Dom.

Honestly, the biggest hurdle wasn't being able to outdmg/hold the greens, but not dying while doing so. With 2 Permadoms and 2 Controllers we had plenty of MAG, we just had to be really careful taking out the Mitos and use EoEs so we didn't get squished.

We figured it was best to take more time and be careful than go full speed and spend time restarting because someone got splattered

Awesome I think you guys'll really enjoy them. I love my Fire/Dark Corr.

If you mainly like melee and Dark Miasma, I'd definitely go for a Corr/Brute duo or dual Dark Miasma Corrs.

Speaking to your point about Fury though, I don't know what combo you're using but you should be able to maintain good Fury just taking the alpha of a spawn and using your attacks.

Use Brawl to fill out your attack chain if it's not full already, since attacking builds Fury more reliably than getting attacked (because of mezzing, -rech debuffs etc).

Just being the first into a spawn and taking their alpha then attacking as usual should get you plenty of Fury. What you should also do is save your really slow heavy hitting attacks for once you've got Fury built up. Use your lower damage, faster recharging attacks with Brawl to build up Fury, then go nuts.

Dom and something else could work. Two Dominators, even. Both of you would be the Controller/Scrapper Locking things down and killing em.

That said, for my responses anyway, bear in mind I'm redside biased I love the redside ATs, find the blueside ones really tedious.

For a relatively objective response to go redside, all of the redside ATs tend to trade defense for increased offense. The advantages of this in a duo where you're always playing together is that you can build/play to cover each others weaknesses so all you've got is the awesome offensive flexibility, while also being able to solo capably if necessary.

For example, a Brute and a Corr. Brutes can be squishy since they use Scrapper numbers but their Tanker buff caps and Fury mean they benefit greatly from support. Corrs don't have as high buff/debuff values as Defenders or the lockdown capability of Controllers, but they more than make up for it in damage.

Of the sets you've mentioned, Dark Miasma and Traps are the ones that jump out at me for being part of an awesome duo.

Two /DM Corrs would be awesome, since one DM is pretty great and two would be monstrous.

Well, I can't tell you what concept to make, but given what you said above, you might like an AR/Traps corr. Easy to find a concept for that

The Traps playstyle doesn't really gel all that well with Brutes though (either toebombing or pulling) so you may want to run dual Corrs or Corr/Dom for AR/Traps.

I dunno, wouldn't the Armageddons and the FotG proc be better in Slice (or whatever the cone is called, I forget) or Whirling Sword?

I know you want to make the most of Headsplitter, but I think you'd get better use of the procs in an AoE where they can hit more targets with greater frequency.

I'd probably put 5 Obliterations in Headsplitter (all but damage as with Werners Geddons suggestion) and something else in the 6th slot depending on the rest of your build. An end rdx if you've got end problems, another damage proc if you don't.

Edit: Unless it's an AV soloing build, in which case you won't be using (or even taking?) the AoEs, so Armageddons would the choice for Headsplitter.

Basically anything but Emp or FF /Sonic.

Defender Sonic Blast is stupid-good because of their buff/debuff mods.