Tres_Chic

Wow, that's just awesome! You did that very fast. I love the Effect you did for Smashteroid, that's just perfect (he also happens to be my favorite at the moment!)

Really don't know how to thank you enough for it.

Could you make me an animated gif that switches between 2 images? One is Tres Chic, lvl 33 Science Defender . And the other is Smashteroid, lvl 14 Magic Brute.

If you could, I would very very very very much appreciate it. I gave you 3 pics of each to choose from for the Avatars. The ones for Tres Chic are the closest hairstyles I could find to the "Mod" hairstyle she wears in her main costume.

Though Tres Chic is only lvl 32, Count her in to defend any Zone with an Icon Shop.

For what it's worth, I played a Dark Melee/Fire Aura Brute almost to 30 at one point. Running Fire Shield, Plasma Shield, Acrobatics, and occasionally Blazing Aura, I rarely had End problems using Dark Consumption and Consume. The biggest Drain on End was Blazing Aura, which is similar to Lightning Field

And a Great Tactic is using Soul Drain in a big group, building Fury up, and Turning on that Damage Aura (make sure to slot for damage, it'll add up in the end) and just melting through enemies.

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Flurry doesn't really build Fury. It would be a waste in my opinion. Fury would tick once when activated, then drop 2 to 3 ticks during the course of the animation. It's the same with Shadowmaul in Dark Melee (except Shadowmaul has better damage and is a cone for a chance to hit more than 1 enemy).

I would keep AS, it's a great attack by itself.

Other than that, I must say, while it sounds good in theory for total lockdown like that, it will somewhat hurt your fury. Fury builds by both your attacks, and attacks made against you.

There were many a times where as a Brute, I just didn't like teaming with Dominators because my damage sucked in the process.

I'm wondering if perhaps a Dark Melee Stalker would work best for you. Great damage when you need to, and good control when scrapping it out after the alpha strike. Pair it with Ninjutsu for Caltrops and Blinding Powder and all that, and it's essentially the same thing without hurting the Primary Functionality of it.

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I make it 10 sets of 5% Recharge?
Maybe you're using an old value for Red Fortune? I make it 5% not 3.75%.

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That would do it. :P

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I got Elude down to 240.7 seconds with this Dark Melee/Super Reflexes Build. Highly Unconventional though. I'd never play it that's for sure.

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I make it 252.7 seconds with that build.
You appear to have forgotten the "no more than 5 identical set bonuses" rule...

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Identical, yes. But when Crushing Impact gives a +5% Enhanced Recharge, and Red Fortunre gives +3.75% Enhanced Recharge, they're not exactly Identical. I can't remember where, but I had gotten the impression similar but not identical bonuses like that were applicable. If not, then the whole build is out of whack as it has 5 sources of +5%, 5 sources of +7.5%, 5 sources of 3.75%, and 4 sources of 6.25% Recharge Enhancement.

I can't very well test it in game yet though, so don't mind me. If anyone could confirm it though, that would be wonderful.

I got Elude down to 240.7 seconds with this Dark Melee/Super Reflexes Build. Highly Unconventional though. I'd never play it that's for sure. Completely had to skip the coolest powers like Soul Drain, Dark Consumption, and Shadow Maul in favor of a min/maxed Recharge build. And note, Hasten also recharges in 113.7 seconds in this build also.

while 3 minutes up/ 1 Minute down is Nice, I don't think it's worth the hassle honestly.


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: Level 50 Magic Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Super Reflexes
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Flight
Power Pool: Leadership
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