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Build Considerations for the Modern Kin

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Those are all fair points. I ended up playing around with a Mace Mastery build this morning, and found that the choice between Mace and Psy has become pretty tough!

Essentially, the Psy build brings the following to the table:

~3.31 End/sec gained (+0.2 from Perf. Shifter Proc); 1.03 End/sec drained
40% S/L Resistance
29% Psy Resistance
10.9-17.2% Defence to various types/positions
163.8% Recharge with Hasten (Perma)
Dominate
Mass Hypnosis

The Mace Build, meanwhile, comes in at:

~3.36 End/sec gained (+0.2 from Perf. Shifter Proc); 1.47 End/sec drained
22% S/L Resistance
17.5% Toxic Resistance
Softcapped S/L/E Defence
19.3-29.3% Defence to all other types and positions
142.5% Recharge with Hasten (Perma with one Siphon Speed)
Empty Clips/Dominate/Mass Hypnosis swapped out to fit in the Fighting pool

I'm sure these builds aren't perfect (I'll post them at the end for those who're interested), but they demonstrate the point. You're giving up some S/L/Psy Res, 21% Recharge, Dominate and Mass Hypnosis for significantly higher Defence values and some Toxic Res. I guess it comes down to how much value we can put on Defence going forward, and how much use she's likely to get out of Mass Hypnosis and Dominate. I'm leaning towards Mace right now, because the extra Recharge in the Psy build is pretty much superfluous compared to the value of the extra defence Mace offers. I'd still be sad to lose Dominate if it were my character.

(These are both first-pass builds - please don't pay too much attention to the level powers were chosen/slots were placed. )

Psychic Mastery:

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Build Considerations for the Modern Kin

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Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

Psychic Mastery brings two holds that stack with the hold you get in DP...

Now there's something I hadn't thought of (probably because I don't have a DP character). That sounds like a good idea to me.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

No amount of recharge is enough for a kin.

Good to know.

I'd thought as much, but I wondered if there was a guideline amount I should shoot for. 'As much as I can get' sounds about right.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

Spiritual also increases heals and stuns (which DP has). It also improves to-hit buffs if you run leadership, and jump if you're relying upon inertial reduction as your travel power.

I hadn't actually considered the Spiritual Radial route. It has a lot to offer! Unsure as to whether it's better than the Core, but it's certainly worth some thought.

Quote:

Originally Posted by RemusShepherd

Sounds as if your friend's kin is doing fine. If she's having survival problems it may be a playstyle issue. You want to duck in and out of combat, to deliver buffs then get out of the line of fire...

Don't get me wrong: it's not like she faceplants every group. It's just that being in melee range for Fulcrum + Nuke can be pretty hazardous if the RNG god is against her.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scientist

While your point about relying on soft capped defenses in Incarnate content is probably right, having high defense is still better then not having it for a squishy. As a kin, you don't have mezz protection, and deflecting half the shots is still much better then none because most of your defense is being able to move (consider Combat Jumping to avoid Immobs) and heal off a foe.

In principal, I agree. She already makes use of Combat Jumping for that reason, and the build I'm tinkering with at the moment has ~15% positional defence for deflecting the odd Mez.

However, it seems to me that you have to make significant sacrifices in the build to reach the S/L softcap. This is both in terms of slotting, set bonuses and power selection. I'm not sure that's a sacrifice I'm happy with considering the nature of the Incarnate content going forward. That, and some of the most dangerous enemy groups deal out a lot of exotic damage anyway, as RemusShepherd pointed out.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Scientist

Another possibility is the Psi defender pool, Mass Hypnosis is great to shut down ambushes, an increasingly prominent feature of high level content. Slept mobs are not woken by Fulcrum Shift, by the way, providing a safer opener.

Good point! And, as Deacon points out, it's a great place to put a cheap Purple set.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

So some of the new trials make high def less valuable? (I haven't looked into any of them at all to evaluate if true or not)...

My understanding is that Battle Maiden and the War Walkers have some nasty +ToHit buffs to counteract defences, which are now being mimicked by various mobs in the BAF. I can't be sure, however, as I haven't yet tested it myself.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

You've still got, oh, the entire game as it currently exists for high defense to still matter.

Well, yes and no. As RemusShepherd points out, S/L/E defence is hardly the entire game as it stands now. S/L certainly covers most of your bases, but the places where I find you need defence the most on my squishies are against the enemy groups where S/L isn't the prevalent source of damage.

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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA

I'm going to arbitrarily throw out 50% as a global recharge number to shoot for.

This bodes well for the build I'm looking at.

Build Considerations for the Modern Kin

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My girlfriend's favourite character - a Kin/Dual Pistols 'fender - has finally reached level 50 after a little over 7 months of casual play. Now that she knows the ropes (CoH is her first MMO), she's looking to play through some of the more difficult content that the game has to offer. We mostly duo'd up to 50, and she's been eyeing up the TFs we missed out on as we were levelling together.

Last weekend, we ran an STF together, which was a first for both of us and for a few other people on the team. Whilst it was very much smooth sailing (a PuG that listens?! Unthinkable!) she expressed a desire to trick her character out to maximise how useful she could be to the team.

Now, she works full-time, but I'm a student. This means I have a few hours to play each day, where her play is mostly limited to weekends. She knows how to play the market, but her funds aren't really sufficient for the kind of build she wants. So, as part of our Valentine's Day celebrations, I'm going to offer to help fund her build.

Now that the exposition's out of the way, I suppose I'd better better get down to business! I'm not asking for a build offered up to me on a silver platter. I can at least do some of the leg-work and come up with a first-pass at a build. Then maybe I can have it vetted by you build-fu masters later (my own build-fu is fairly middling ). My problem is that I have no experience of Kinning at end-game, and no experience with the Alpha Slot and Incarnate content. I have a few questions that I'd like answered before I start flailing around in Mids, so hopefully you guys and gals can help me out.

#1 - EPP/PPP's: her character is currently Power Mastery, but Power Boost seems to be of limited benefit to a Kin and she rarely uses Total Focus because of the animation time. Having taken a look at the other available pools, nothing really leaps out at me as being a 'killer app' power that would be of any significant benefit to her. Any advice?

#2 - Defence?: this is sort of linked to the last question, but is Defence really the way to go with a Kin's build? If it is, I guess Mace Mastery is the PPP of choice. Problem is, everything that I've seen suggests to me that the Incarnate content from here in out is going to punish people who only use soft-capped Defences to keep their characters alive. Would it be better to build for Recharge and take a EPP/PPP which offers a Resistance armour? She spends a good chunk of time in melee range, which can be pretty hazardous, so survivability is a definite concern.

#3 - Recharge: how much Recharge would you say is 'enough' for a Kin? She generally keeps 2 stacks of Siphon Speed active (less if things get hectic, more if they're fairly sedate). Should you sacrifice Defence in favour of Recharge? Is Perma-Hasten advisable?

#4 - Alpha Slot: which Alpha would you recommend? Spiritual seems to be the best bet from where I'm standing, as more Recharge means more Transference, Transfusion, Fulcrum, Siphons and bullets. I'm open to suggestions, however.

And that's all I've got...please be gentle!
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Request for build critique! (Shield/Ice)

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Quote:

Originally Posted by Basilisk

The biggest thing that I'm seeing right now is the Basilisk's Gaze sets in Freezing Touch. FT is your single hardest hitting attack, and you're really doing yourself a disservice by throwing hold sets in it. It's like slotting KO blow with holds.

Good point! I guess I went a little Recharge crazy there, for a while. Luckily, Fury Flechlette's build provides that damage very nicely.

Quote:

Originally Posted by Fury Flechette

How about this?

Same recharge, much better recovery/regen, still soft capped, more hps, much better resists.[/code]

This seems to be a superior build in many ways, though it weighs in at about 300 mill before the LotG unique. I can't quite afford the full build right now, but a little legwork at 50 should soon allow me to buy the rest (read: Numina's!).

Any of the sets that provide the defence bonuses or +Recharge bonuses that I need, I can afford with a bit of Inf to spare. So, unless there are any further suggestions/tweaks, I think I'll go with that.

Thanks a lot, by the way, Fury! It's a completely different angle to the one I was taking when I was trying to build it, but you ended up with much better results. My build-fu is indeed weak.

Request for build critique! (Shield/Ice)

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My Tanker is now happily sat at level 30 and is in need of a build which will allow him to level, perform well both solo and in a team at 50, and exemp down to 30 when required for various TFs. I've had a stab at a build myself, but my build-fu is fairly weak, so I was hoping there might be some helpful forumites who could tweak it!

My aim is to have him soft-capped to all positions by 50, and close to it by level 41. Once the soft-cap was achieved, I tried to shoot for as much +Recharge as possible. I chose Shield/Ice because it would allow for a decent compromise between defence and attack, and +Recharge allows me to pad out both of those - yay for Holds and Ice Patch!.

Without Grant Cover, I know that his DDR suffers, but I honestly couldn't find room for it in the build without sacrificing a fair amount of +Recharge. I'm hoping the excess Defence granted by Phalanx Fighting in a team situation will help to offset that, but I'm not sure. I tried to compensate by having Active Defence stack with itself more often than not, and boost DDR that way. Any other suggestions?

A note on price: all the Uniques are cannibalised from other characters. While the build looks costly, I've actually priced it at about 250 mill (based on the current market). A few Enhancements will have to be slightly lower than 30 so I can save Inf, and I'll have to wait a while for those auctions to come in, but it'll be worth it.

So, assuming the budget is around 250 mill, could anyone optimise it in any way? I'd really appreciate it.

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Icy Floes: Level 50 Technology Tanker
Primary Power Set: Shield Defense
Secondary Power Set: Ice Melee
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Arctic Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Deflection
(A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance

(3) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge

(3) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge

(5) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge

(5) Red Fortune - Defense

(7) Red Fortune - Endurance

Level 1: Frozen Fists
(A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage

(7) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance

(9) Touch of Death - Damage/Recharge

(9) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(11) Touch of Death - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

(11) Touch of Death - Chance of Damage(Negative)

Level 2: Ice Sword
(A) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage

(13) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

(13) Crushing Impact - Damage/Recharge

(15) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(15) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(17) Focused Smite - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge

Level 4: True Grit
(A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%

(17) Resist Damage IO

(19) Healing IO

(19) Healing IO

Level 6: Battle Agility
(A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance

(21) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge

(21) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge

(23) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge

(23) Red Fortune - Defense

Level 8: Active Defense
(A) Recharge Reduction IO

(25) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 10: Against All Odds
(A) Endurance Reduction IO

(25) Endurance Reduction IO

Level 12: Taunt
(A) Mocking Beratement - Taunt

(27) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge

(27) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Recharge/Range

(29) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge

(29) Mocking Beratement - Taunt/Range

(31) Mocking Beratement - Recharge

Level 14: Phalanx Fighting
(A) Defense Buff IO

Level 16: Hurdle
(A) Jumping IO

Level 18: Health
(A) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery

(31) Miracle - +Recovery

Level 20: Stamina
(A) Endurance Modification IO

(31) Endurance Modification IO

(33) Performance Shifter - EndMod

(33) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End

Level 22: Ice Patch
(A) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 24: Boxing
(A) Accuracy IO

Level 26: Shield Charge
(A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(33) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance

(34) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge

(34) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge

(34) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge

(36) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

Level 28: Tough
(A) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Endurance

(36) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Recharge

(36) Impervious Skin - Endurance/Recharge

(37) Impervious Skin - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge

(37) Impervious Skin - Status Resistance

Level 30: Weave
(A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance

(37) Red Fortune - Defense/Recharge

(39) Red Fortune - Endurance/Recharge

(39) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge

(39) Red Fortune - Defense

Level 32: Frost
(A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage

(42) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(42) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range

(46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance

(46) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge

(48) Tempered Readiness - Endurance/Recharge/Slow

Level 35: Freezing Touch
(A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge

(43) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold

(43) Basilisk's Gaze - Endurance/Recharge/Hold

(45) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold

(45) Crushing Impact - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

(46) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

Level 38: Frozen Aura
(A) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage

(40) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Endurance

(40) Scirocco's Dervish - Damage/Recharge

(40) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Recharge

(42) Scirocco's Dervish - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance

(43) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge

Level 41: Combat Jumping
(A) Defense Buff IO

Level 44: Hasten
(A) Recharge Reduction IO

(45) Recharge Reduction IO

(48) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 47: Build Up
(A) Recharge Reduction IO

(48) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 49: Block of Ice
(A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold

(50) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge

(50) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold

(50) Basilisk's Gaze - Endurance/Recharge/Hold

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Level 1: Brawl
(A) Empty

Level 1: Sprint
(A) Empty

Level 2: Rest
(A) Empty

Level 1: Gauntlet
Level 6: Ninja Run
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Set Bonus Totals:
8.5% DamageBuff(Smashing)

8.5% DamageBuff(Lethal)

8.5% DamageBuff(Fire)

8.5% DamageBuff(Cold)

8.5% DamageBuff(Energy)

8.5% DamageBuff(Negative)

8.5% DamageBuff(Toxic)

8.5% DamageBuff(Psionic)

7.38% Defense(Smashing)

7.38% Defense(Lethal)

7.69% Defense(Fire)

7.69% Defense(Cold)

9.25% Defense(Energy)

9.25% Defense(Negative)

3% Defense(Psionic)

8% Defense(Melee)

8% Defense(Ranged)

7.69% Defense(AoE)

1.8% Max End

34% Enhancement(Accuracy)

53.8% Enhancement(RechargeTime)

5% FlySpeed

77.3 HP (4.13%) HitPoints

5% JumpHeight

5% JumpSpeed

MezResist(Confused) 7.5%

MezResist(Held) 13%

MezResist(Immobilize) 21.3%

MezResist(Sleep) 9.7%

MezResist(Stun) 7.5%

MezResist(Terrorized) 7.5%

6.5% (0.11 End/sec) Recovery

20% (1.56 HP/sec) Regeneration

5.36% Resistance(Fire)

5.36% Resistance(Cold)

6.25% Resistance(Negative)

5% RunSpeed

2% XPDebtProtection

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Request for a build on a budget!

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I don't yet, no. Some expert mismanagement of my free time has resulted in a fairly spectacular workload that's threatening to bury me, so aside from the odd hour here and there, I can't really afford to play my Brute much. I'll get down to the merit farming business sometime in June, I imagine. For now, in the time that I do have, I've been doing a couple more test runs.

+1/x6 versus Council mobs with Bosses turned on was actually quite a breeze, only needing to chew the odd blue Insp (of which there were loads dropping) and one use of Unstoppable when the game threw two Eclipse Archons against my fairly paltry Negative Energy resistance. They punched through my Defences with some very lucky rolls of the dice (I was sat near to 40% Defence to Negative at the time) while Dull Pain was down, but hey, that's what the Tier 9's for, right?

The same setting versus CoT was a little more trying, with high amounts of elemental damage being thrown around, but they also went down like a sack of bricks once the AoE's started rolling out. I didn't need Unstoppable, but the damage was consistently higher. Dull Pain was being used almost on every cooldown, where as I could sit in the S/L heavy Council packs for quite some time without worrying about my healthbar.

Across those two missions, I earned over 1 million in raw Inf, a couple of half-decent Invention recipes, a piece of rare salvage, and a couple of other odds and ends. So yes, I'm very pleased with the results so far! Thanks again!

Update: got used to the playstyle and ramped up the diff to +1/x8 + Bosses without any issues. Might try +2 for kicks!
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There are still enough cheap sets which boost positional defense that it's possible, albeit difficult, to manage it on a budget without the fighting pool. You'll probably have to dip into some slightly more expensive sets, but it's still doable.

This might be the route that I take, I'm not sure. Manuevers sounds like a good pick, in combination with CJ, but we'll have to see how his End bar holds up on the way to 50. And I'll have to find power slots somewhere...nevermind. Food for thought. I'd settle for near-softcapped, as I'm pretty poor on blueside, too.

I just can't play Tankers as all-out bastions of defence; I need some pretty decent damage in there, too. With the low population of the EU servers, particularly at the hours I play, I have to be prepared to solo. I know wanting good damage on a Tanker is probably counter-intuitive to the way the AT works, and it'd be easier to just roll up another Brute if I wanted to do both, but I like Ice Melee.

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I'd also like to know. I slot up as I level so I'm curious how you feel the difference is.

The difference has been very significant, let me tell you! It's not quite night and day, but it's not far off!

Firstly, survivability. Before, he'd struggle to take on much more than +1/x4 missions solo at 50. Now, he can quite comfortably take on +1/x6 (no Bosses, though I can do Bosses if I make use of Unstoppable). He could probably manage more, but I haven't had the chance for further testing with everything I have on at the moment. The difference in S/L defence in particular is very tangible. It's rare that I jump into a group, now, and feel as though I'm moments away from dying.

Next, SMASH!ing. I imagine that if I went back to regular SO'd attacks with no Recharge slotting, it'd feel like I was playing in slow motion. It really has made that much of a difference. Cleave and Pendulum in particular always seem to be up for when I need them. As an added bonus, I don't have to resort to Boxing to fill out my attack chain any more, which saves on redraw. Of course, the more frequent use of my big hitters means that his blue bar's dropping down pretty sharpish, but...it feels weird saying this, but it doesn't feel that way. It always feels like, yes, my End is dropping, but I'm never in serious need of it. My attacks do enough damage to level a mob before I'm in danger of running dry, and by the time the next one's herded up, I have enough End to level that one, too. Maybe his ability to stand toe-to-toe with most spawns has allowed me to take that extra bit of time to allow it to regen, I'm not sure. I like it, whatever it is.

Just waiting on my two remaining Scirocco's Dervish recipes to pop up on the market, and he'll be fully built. With the leftover cash, I'm probably going to start on my mid-30s Energy/Energy Brute (yeah, yeah, I know), then work my way up to Kinetic Combat recipes to replace the Smashing Haymakers on my BA/Inv. Everyone needs a goal! Shame I have about...fifty.

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You will indeed want to shoot for positional instead of typed defense, but do remember the positional/typed pairings.

Ahh, yes, of course. That totally slipped my mind!

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In this case, though, shields on a tank is easy enough to softcap (if you take weave, anyway) that you might not even need to bother. Fully slotted toggles/combat jumping/weave plus phalanx fighting and a steadfast 3% = 43% defense, so it's quite easy to softcap.

See, there's the thing: I'm still undecided on how I'm building him. Shields is pretty offensive as a set, and I don't really want another situation where I'm scraping to find End in my Insp tray by having Tough/Weave running. On the other hand, without the Fighting pool, I can imagine he'll be pretty squishy. It's a bit of a dilemma!

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I very often grab level 25 generics at 22 for exactly that cost-saving reason, at least for slots I'm not planning to fill with sets.

I tend to do generic IOs at around 32 based on advice from a friend, is it better to do it at 22 instead, then?

As far as an update for my Brute goes, I must really have had luck on my side today!

Most of the bids I put up I thought were reasonable, and I had a good chunk of the rare salvage I needed for the recipes. By the end of the day, my bids had almost all come in, so now I'm sat waiting for 5 more enhancements and he's totally IO'd out! Woo! It only cost me about 55 mill, as well. Waaay less than I was expecting to pay. Happy times!

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This is all great advice, thanks very much! I appreciate the breakdown of the logic, I can see how I might go about slotting my upcoming Shield/Ice Tanker now! Awesome! I'm guessing I want to shoot for positional defence instead of typed, though.

I'll probably start throwing bids up over the next couple of days and start piecing things together. Over time I'm sure I'll acquire enough Inf to invest in one of those more expensive builds you were talking about, but this is a great and attainable place to start. Thanks again!
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Two questions: is your brute already level 50, and do you plan to exemplar often?

He is 50, yes, and he'll be exemplaring down to about the 30 range from time to time for various SFs. Most of his playtime is spent on ITFs/LGTFs as a 50, though. I suppose it'd be a good idea to shoot for level 30 IOs, as you suggested. Thanks for the link, as well. I'll check it out!

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It's tough to get good amounts of multiple types of bonuses on a budget. In this case, I mostly went for defense - about 15% extra smashing/lethal and 12% extra energy/negative (and as a side effect, you're at about 17% total ranged to blunt psi blasts a bit). There's also 15% recharge, but no real recovery or +end. The net endurance use is about the same as before, but I think that once you get those recovery uniques you shouldn't be having nearly as many problems.

Wow, that's way more +Def than I was expecting to gain! With a fair amount of Invincibility, that's not actually far off the S/L softcap! Thanks so much, I really appreciate it! And I understand I wasn't going to be able to have my set bonus cake and eat it with a few hundred mill, just thought I ought to set out my priorities.

As for the end usage, you're probably right. I'll invest some time trying to get the +HP and +End accolades. Those, in tandem with the other Uniques, should sort out his End problems. Using Unstoppable once a mission to regain Endurance is a risky business!

Anyone got any critique for Muon_Neutrino's build before I jump in with both feet and spend a load of Inf?

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Hey everyone! Long time reader, first time poster.

With Incarnate-level content around the corner, I've finally resolved to dump my Inf on one character in an attempt to beef them up a little. My choice for redside was my Battle Axe/Invulnerability Brute, because I just find him to be a fun character that stands to grow with some IOing out. Problem being, I don't have the foggiest idea about IOing! And, as if that weren't enough, I only have about 200 mill redside to play with. I could stretch it to 4/500 mill, but that'd take a while with the amount of time I can dedicate to the game.

I'm flicking through some guides at the moment to get a basic grounding, but I thought asking the experts might be a good place to start.

So, about the build: from what I've been reading, I want to prioritise defence and +recharge, as well as grabbing some +End and +recovery. That makes sense, because even with all attacks slotted for no Recharge and 2 EndMod, and all toggles slotted for 2 EndMod, he still sucks End like a vacuum. Plus, because he has no Recharge slotted, he has to take almost all of the BA attacks just to string together a chain!

Still, I've always found him fun and a (large) challenge. These days, he sees use as a tanking Brute on TFs. I rarely solo, but would like to have the option to solo efficiently when possible. I've already thrown him a Steadfast +3% Defence Unique, and a Performance Shifter Unique. I'm also working towards having enough merits for Numina and Miracle Uniques, so they don't factor into the cost of the build.

I'll enclose the vanilla + Unique build that I'm working towards at the moment. I'd like to keep Taunt if possible, and travel powers don't really fit with his concept. So, if anyone could come up with a build that worked around all of those crazy parameters, I'd really appreciate it!

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Ulfangir: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Battle Axe
Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Beheader -- Acc(A), Acc(3), EndRdx(3), EndRdx(5), Dmg(5), Dmg(29)
Level 1: Resist Physical Damage -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A), ResDam(7), ResDam(7), ResDam(31)
Level 2: Chop -- Acc(A), Acc(9), EndRdx(9), EndRdx(11), Dmg(11), Dmg(13)
Level 4: Dull Pain -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(13), RechRdx(15), Heal(15), Heal(17), Heal(17)
Level 6: Temp Invulnerability -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(19), ResDam(19), ResDam(21), ResDam(21)
Level 8: Swoop -- Acc(A), Acc(23), EndRdx(23), EndRdx(25), Dmg(25), Dmg(27)
Level 10: Build Up -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(27), RechRdx(29)
Level 12: Resist Elements -- ResDam(A)
Level 14: Hurdle -- Jump(A)
Level 16: Unyielding -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(31), ResDam(31), ResDam(33)
Level 18: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(50)
Level 20: Stamina -- EndMod(A), EndMod(33), EndMod(33), P'Shift-End%(34)
Level 22: Hasten -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(34), RechRdx(34)
Level 24: Whirling Axe -- Acc(A), Acc(36), EndRdx(36), EndRdx(36), Dmg(37), Dmg(37)
Level 26: Cleave -- Acc(A), Acc(37), EndRdx(39), EndRdx(39), Dmg(39), Dmg(40)
Level 28: Invincibility -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(40), DefBuff(40), DefBuff(42), DefBuff(42)
Level 30: Boxing -- Acc(A)
Level 32: Pendulum -- Acc(A), Acc(42), EndRdx(43), EndRdx(43), Dmg(43), Dmg(45)
Level 35: Tough Hide -- DefBuff(A), DefBuff(45), DefBuff(45)
Level 38: Unstoppable -- RechRdx(A), RechRdx(46), RechRdx(46)
Level 41: Tough -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(46), ResDam(48), ResDam(48)
Level 44: Weave -- EndRdx(A), EndRdx(48), DefBuff(50), DefBuff(50)
Level 47: Resist Energies -- ResDam(A)
Level 49: Taunt -- RechRdx(A)
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 4: Ninja Run

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