Twilight_Snow

Originally Posted by glasswalkerny

Looking for advice on my proposed build for an Energy/Electric Armor brute i came up with.. not very familiar with the sets but it seems to have a lot of layered defenses (lots of resist and a fair amount of S/L defense) and should hit fairly hard too.. It's a concept build so I want to keep/make use of the MU Patron powers (google Van De Graff generator)

Originally Posted by Rikis

Which are some ways on improving upon this? I was able to handle two +0/x8 missions without using inspirations, one was CoT and one was Rikti. The Rikti have never been a problem to begin with, but the CoT mission had me dying once at the very end. That means that playing the game regularly with insps, I probably can handle +1 or +2.

Originally Posted by Elimist

Willpower is a set I haven't really delved into yet, or regen for that matter. I look at it and I see a phail build with defenses like this. I'm hoping that the regen makes up for it. I've heard willpower is great. Is that because the mid-level defenses and resists are complemented by the regen? Or is it just that I built it badly? Just looking for some advice on this one. I came up with this, can't see too much to do with it from here.

Originally Posted by Samuel_Tow

People keep talking about Energy Cloak vs. Stealth Inventions, but don't all of those Inventions suppress? I know the stealth radius in Energy Cloak only ever suppresses when you click an objective.

Originally Posted by Energy_Blaze

Hey all I was looking to min/max my Fire/WP brute. I was looking to get the highest def to all, highest regen possible, and get as much recharge as possible to have the highest DPS attack chain, while keeping FSC as a good AOE attack as i like to solo at x8. Here is the build I Currently have worked out.

Originally Posted by RadDidIt

I have a 50 /EA brute for every primary except Kinetic Melee. Wait, not true... my Claws/EA is only 43. I was compiling a large, end-all-be-all guide to Energy Aura; and then I realized nobody would read it, nobody would care, nobody would be helped.

The boards have effectively killed Energy Aura, merely by hearsay. Before IO's came out, my EM/EA could solo most AV/Heroes, as could my DM/EA. That's right, once I lrnd2play, my SO-only EA could do that. I still whine about it from time to time on my coalition channel when someone starts EA bashing, but... what can I do?

Originally Posted by NICKisdaBeast

Okie dokie. Is there anything I can do about it being so hot? I don't want it to splode on me.

Originally Posted by Wanted_NA

Is it possible to get an automated "AFK - user is respecing" message when you're in the respec screen and receive private tells? While we're at it, it'll also be awesome if we can get one when Base Editing and Custom Editing (Tailor), too.

Originally Posted by Supanig

I have been playing this game for about 33 months now and I still don't know how to crunch numbers to get a solid build for my invul/ss tanker (lvl 50). I have some enhancements that I have stored up (that I hope we may be able to use) and I have about 1,162,802,570 in influence that I've collected from all my toons (4 in total) for the past couple of months. I have a couple of other toons to work on but I really want to get a good tank build that does decent damage but really can stand toe to toe with an arch-villian (ie. STF) I would take any suggestion you give with the resources I have but I definetly want to keep foot stomp, fly, hurl, haymaker, jab and knockout blow. I don't just want to be a punching bag (as a tank is supposed to be I know). I like to FIGHT!! LOL. Can you help me?

The items (recipes/SO) that I already have are:

2 Oblit (damage) 1 Acc/Rech
1 LotG Def/End/Rech 1 Defense 1 End/Rech
1 Mocking Beratement Rech/Acc
1 Performance Shifter End Mod/Rech 1 Rech/Acc
1 Scirocco's Derv Chance for lethal damage
1 Springfoot Jump
1 Doctor Wounds: End/Heal/Recharge 1 Heal
1 Efficacy Adaptor: End Mod 1 End Mod/Rech
1 Freebird: Fly
1 Gaussians: To Hit/End Red 1 To Hit/Rech/End
1 Devastation: Acc/Dam/End/Rech

Originally Posted by Lobster

Any thoughts on what, if anything I could to do improve while keeping my defcap and avoiding purples (I'm still relatively poor)? I'm thinking I could throw one of the procs in OwtS for some random, minute PSI res or something. I may also pull the slot out of AD - since I have so much global rech - but the stacked def debuff resist is nice (at least I think it stacks?). Still, I'll have my incarnate +rech for those moments...

I will probably finish the 4 of LoTG set in Battle Agility just for completion's sake, when I can afford it.

Also, once I finish my uncommon rech/heal, I'll probably see if I can squeeze some kind of set bonus into True Grit.

Originally Posted by Arkadian_NA

Working on a new Dual Blades / Dark Armor Brute, i want him to be "Tankish" i.e. able to take point in a PUG comfotably if no actual Tank is around. I don't expect him to be the toughest, just tough enough

Build feels expensive, but if he works out well i don't really care about the cost. Choice of Death Shroud seems like a wasted power pick unslotted but i can't think of what to do there

Originally Posted by MadScyntst21

I'd have to disagree about the heartbeat of Pinnacle. I had been playing on Pinn as my main since launch but recently gave up on it due to low levels of activity. I shifted over to Virtue and while I miss my toons over on Pinn, I am much happier for the move... Sad to see good ole Pinn in such a state...

Originally Posted by protector_knight

Anyways Harm is the first Tanker build I have finished. Now I am stuck. The reason I am stuck, is because I can't come up with a justification on a respec for her.

Her Alpha attack is Energy Absorption, Build-up, LR, fireball, chain induction, jakes ladder, thunder strike. Now if the spawn survives that (big if) the spawn is completely sapped of endurance, and can't act. That is a hugh part of her mitigation.

Now she is soft capped to S/L/NRG/NegNRG.

My problem is making her better. Her build was set into place before Mids. I just put it on mids to make it easyer for set placement. But Maybe having some of you people looking at her and maybe you people can come up with a better build. I will post her build now. I was thinking of respecing her, and picking up a unslotted assult, tactics, and maybe a travel power or vengence. but I don't know. her recovery isn't all that great, but with her rech, and energy absorption well under 30 sec recharge, endurance is a non issue, unless I get down to one boss left. to which I just spam charged brawl and fire blast. I could cycle out charged brawl for havoc punch, and get a harder hitter, and keep the kin combat/set bonus from it. I dunno.

Before you say it, I am well aware I am well aware I am beyond the max of 5 set bonus of 10% regen cap bonus. I don't care. she regens 27 hp/sec, and has 2,211, and with Hoarfrost she sits at like 3,341hp 43 hp/sec, now when I get portal jockey, task force commander, freedom phalanx reserve, and atlas madalian. my endurance will raise, and my HP+regen will raise too. but check her build and if you can come up with something better lemme know

Originally Posted by Mothers_Love

Why is a one time change bad?, Ok then lets change it from one-time account to one-time toon change and limited to that slot.
I'd play my refeshed concept scrapper far more. Unfortunately when i made him back in 2005 there was no willpower, there was no kinetic melee.

Originally Posted by Shadow State

Don't see why it couldn't be switched to grant 2 powers (similar to Swap Ammo granting 3), one to summon the pet and one that works like Trap's Detonator.

Originally Posted by LateNite

I recently changed my global of 4 1/2 years because like many, I wanted to see how it would be. Within seconds of announcing the change to my friends, they shortened it, as we often do. The first part of my new global is Country (not hard to figure this one out huh??). I have emailed the GM's several times now, requesting I be able to change it back to my original. I was told there is "NO WAY" ! What was supposed to be a cool name change, has turned into an embarrassing situation. It will be funny to some of you but for me it's upsetting !

Originally Posted by Valorin

So, I made up a Mace/Shield brute, mainly because I'd never tried war mace for very long and I wanted to try a /shield brute. She's pretty fun so far. I'm trying to work on a "budget" build for her- mainly so I have some idea of what IO sets I'll need to start collecting. I put together a rough build with the goal of getting as close to the soft cap as I can while still staying within a reasonable budget (I'm guessing 100-150 million influence, I can pool more if I need it- but I'd start there with a rough number- I know the oblits are going to cost a good chunk of that, but I don't think the rest of the IOs in my current build are that pricey). Anyway, I'm looking for tips on how I might be able to squeeze out some more defense on her without taking too big a hit on her power effectiveness.

Originally Posted by Deathseed

This build atm has the following not listed on the build. Keep in mind this guy is ment to Tank.

Aid Other (Interupt IO)
Aid Self (Interupt IO)
Assult (EndRdx)

Alpha Slot: Spiritual Radial Boost: 33% to Recharge and Healing.

Please let me know what you all think.