UnicyclePeon

So basically if my SS/SR brute monitors 3 positional defenses, recharge, recovery, end consumption, damage bonus, and stealth radius, odds are I may have to re-configure that?

Not too bad, if that is the case.

Thanks!

Lewis

AlienOne,

Can you describe the bug you mean? I just want a little info so I will know what to look for.

Thanks,

Lewis

I dont usually like matching powersets, but I may do dark/dark. But it doesnt really do it for me. Of the 12 new characters I will be making tonight, the dark/dark controller is #12.

Lewis

All,

I can't wait to make a Fire/Dark controller. I plan to play him up and take pretty much every power.

However, once he is level 50, I plan to have and endgame build with either Cardiac or Vigor and as much ranged defense and recharge as I can get. I dont have a modified Mids, but here is my endgame build:

Char with 4 basilisk gaze
Fire cages with 6 normal Will of the Controller
Smoke (maybe) unslotted
Hot Feet with 2 acc/dam/end and 2 dam/end
Flashfires with 6 stupefy
Cinders with 4 basilisk gaze and 1 acc/hold/rech
Fire imps with 6 expedient reinforcement
Twilight grasp with 5 touch of the nictus (might scrounge a slot for 1 acc & 5 doc wnds)
Tar patch with 2 end/rech/slow and 1 rech
Darkest night with 4 dark watcher
Shadowfall with 3 luck of the gambler
Howling twilight with 6 stupefy
Fade (or whatever the pbaoe def is called) with frankenslotted 4 def/rech and 1 luck of the gambler
Dark servant with 6 cloud senses
Health will have the miracle and numina procs
Stamina will have 2 performance shifters and 1 generic endmod
Hasten will have 2 level 50 recharge IOs with 5 enhancement boosters each (i have these to spare)
Superspeed will have 1 blessing of the zephyr knockback IO (prob level 10 via hero merits)
Combat jumpimg will have 1 luck of the gambler
Maneuvers with 3 luck of the gambler
Boxing unslotted
Tough, which I wont run (sadly) with the steadfast defense global
Weave with 3 luck of the gambler
Fireball with 5 positron blast
Fire blast with 6 thunderstrikes
Fire armor with a single end reducer

This build gives me 43.5% ranged defense, not counting smoke and not counting the pbaoe defense buff. It will also give me 97.5% global recharge. At level 50, the build wont have the end drain power from dark affinity, but I will have cardiac or vigor with the miracle and numina procs. If I can scrounge any other slots, say from the pbaoe def power or from hot feet (using 15 enhancement boosters on a purple dam/end and 2 a/d/e) then I could put another slot in twilight grasp and get more recharge, or put a purple dam in char and +5 the dam purple for 66% damage in 1 slot.

Anyway, thats my plan. Anyone else excited?

Lewis

Yeah, Fire/Dark has been my dream since launch, more or less.

Lewis

I assumed the last one was a reference to spending your time in Mids Planner, instead of actually playing. Because thats what *I* do.

Lewis

I plan to make Dark/Storm and Dark/Poison pretty much right out of the gate. Fire/Dark also.

Eventually, I plan for Dark/FF, Dark/Time, Dark/Dark, and Illusion/Dark as well.

Oh hell, maybe I'll just do 'em all.

Lewis

Thats cool. We probably have different thresholds for tolerable end consumption. I think I have higher recovery than you and less end consumption, without cardiac, and I still prefer it.

I have a miracle, numina, a perf proc, slotted stamina, and physical perfection, with good endurance reduction in my powers AND access to the elec armor power which let me leech endurance. Even with all that, I couldnt live without cardiac.

But I am sure others would be fine with agility.

Lewis

I personally hate elec melee. It seems a bit light on single target damage, and I dislike jacobs ladder, and find thunderstrike to be merely adequate. Lightning rod is nice though, but not enough for me.

But some people love it.

Claws/dark should be a good set, though dark is one of those sets that requires that you keep your wits about you and proactively work to leverage it. But the payout is high.

Good luck!

Lewis

My ss/elec brute prefers cardiac. Even with the ability go leech endurance, I need the direct end reduction. Also, some of my oblit and other set slotting almost requires it. Running 9 toggles is a bear. Plus I prefer having the luxury to leech foes as an attack of sorts, rather than feeling obligated to activate it so that I dont pass out.

Lewis

Ah! Now we have something for Tuesday in the announcements. Wish the posts had been inverted in time order. But it was fun counter-trolling the OP.

Lewis

/Y U mad, bro?

Oh I see. The burden is on me to read the thread and see what the joke is, and not on Zwill to justify thumping the aquarium glass, or whatever it was. Which characters do I use for the GG smiley? That always seems to calm everyone down.

Lewis

/relax, yo

As a person not in on the joke, I find this official redname post to be misleading at best.

Lewis

I have a SS/EA brute who is level 50, and he is great! I loved the combo, and I played him up way back before EA got any love. Now he is even better in ways. My guy is softcapped to most stuff, and I think I am even pretty high on negative defense. I am not permahasten, but I am just maybe 5-10 seconds off.

Anyway, whatever you decide, I will say that I thnk Super Strength / Energy Aura is a fun combo.

Lewis

My first controllers out of the gate will be dark/storm and fire/dark. But I think force field and poison are pretty interesting.

FF will eventually be able to self soft cap defense, and even early on you will be able to more safely use the pbaoe stun as an opener, thanks to the defense from dispersion bubble. Plus the haunted ghost things can be defeated, so bubbling them (and the wolf) could be fun and helpful.

I also think dark/poison is gonna be really wicked, esp against hard targets. Between the confuse and the poison hit debuff toggle, youll also be able to stick around in melee and use the stun aggressively. Plus, dark/poison has a cool Egyptian mummy sort of vibe, which I like.

Lewis

I preferred the original size. Oh well.

Lewis

Why would it be horrible to have shiver also have a sleep component (in addition to the -slow and -recharge)? I mean, it wouldnt help on teams, and I like other ideas for Shiver more than this one, but its not horrible.

Lewis

Black_Assassin,

What do you mean by doing Maria's arc multiple times hoping to get it?

Also, is Unai's first map well suited to normal farming? Or what builds would farm it well? Do BP do mainly psi damage and smashing/lethal?

Thanks!

Ah, I see. I guess thanks to the new sewer trial, one can self Sewer Bump fairly well too. Though the Brute Bump sounds a bit faster. Perhaps I will sewer-bump my SR/Ice tonight.

Lewis

What about Ice/Poison?

Seems like it would be fun to double stack holds on a hard target, poison them, and then rip them up with ice. Or maybe hold+weaken+envenom+hold+Blizzard on a single guy, just because you can.

Lewis

Cool deal. I need to get mine rolling ad well, tho I fear that I would delete and reroll if a proliferation was announced.

Btw, what is a Brute Bump?

Lewis

DreadShinobi,

Is the Unai demon farm no longer available? I never liked it much so I stopped taking it, but I swore that I heard someone on my server channel just this past week comment that they just unlocked "the demon farm" and couldnt wait to get started. Or did I hear incorrectly?

Also, you listed Battle Maiden as still being available, but I swore that it had changed for the worse somehow. Is it still available to new characters?

Are there any good farms you can make from simple door missions? Like maybe a scanner/radio mission set in one of those big boat cargo holds? Or a lucky office layout? Just wondering.

Thanks!

I think the backpack/jetpack sizes in the OP are perfect. Any smaller and the vibe just wouldnt be right. I like how high they sit on the back as well.

*Perfect* as-is.

Lewis