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I find the mag 1 hold resist very good , it can resist one hold , most tanks , blasters and defenders , have one hold power , so in those 1 vs 1 fights acrobatics realy shines , even vs trolers its gives me some extra seconds before the trolers hold recharge !

It has no stunt/disorient protection so vs MA , sonics, EM , etc... its useless !

knockback = ~2 free hits without being unable to fight back or run away!

Sleep , is the less usefull of the holds , it last a long time , and healt wont make any difrence, sinse im always hit before sleep runs out !

already moved all of my +30 alts from sirens to warburg

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I'll also give my standard advice of swaping swift for hurdle, as bouncing around missions with hurdle and combat jump (I go for just a single jump enhance in both) is a lot faster than running. Also it is rather more fun.

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For me swift is beter , i have a bind to target closest nmy , and another bind to auto follow , so i dont waste time manouvering to get to a mob , i just hit 2 keys , and in less than 1 second im smashing them

Hurdle is faster but needs more work to get you to where you want :P and ends up being slower than spint + swift in the midle of a batle !

@Syra , looks boring you will spend most of your time spaming bralw and jab , waiting for those 8 swconds to go by to use haymaker again ! I would work on a more fun build , get punch or Air Sup , and drop something not fun !

I think you have a fun brute there !
I would trade some of those dmg DO's for a few end redux DO's but that all, you lose some dmg , but you will be able to keep a high fury bar for longer !

All you need now is power shild , and you will have all of the must have EA defences !
Energy cloak is nice to have , you get a lot less agro , and the staked defence is nice!

Aid self, is almost a must have in a EA brute ,get Aid self + nrg drain , and you will never have to stop betewn mobs !

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So does CoV suffer the "City of Blasters" syndrome that CoH apparently used to have way back at Issue 1? And if so do you think Mr Nerf Bat cometh for us?

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On Issue 1 , one blaster could solo a 8 man mission :P

With DM , i would go fire... DM/EA has a great sinergy , acc debuffs + defence set , seft heal from DM on a secondary without a heal !
But i think you want to team most of the time with your sencond brute , DM doenst have the crowd control powers of stone or SS that let you take the alfa strike , and get a few extra seconds for your team to heal you, + a resist set like fire , is more team friendly ...

EA is a good set !

It just lacks a self heal , most brutes can jump into a mob , take some beating and use a heal when healt starts to drop , EA aura can do the same but needs insps...

EA weakeness in pve , is defence debuff mobs , longbow and cot , are the most common mobs in CoV , and both of them use defence debuffs attacks , EA gets 20% defence debbuf resist at lvl 40 , but that doesnt help a lot!
+2/+3 mobs are more dangerous for a defence set than a resist set , so EA is weaker than most brutes vs high lvl mobs!

The good thing about EA is that defence insp are actualy good , cold corruptor shields ,FF bubles, and dark miasme debuffs makes a EA brute almost impossible to be hit !
And theres Energy drain at lvl 28 , this fix the problem most brutes have , runing out of end to fast , but thats not problem for EA after lvl 28

Most brute sets have some weakeness , stone moves to slow , invul only has decent resist vs Smash/letal dmg , Fire and Dark Armor get knocked back all the time (they have no defence vs knockback ), EA has no heal .

EA isnt weak , if you need some advice on your build fell free to ask !

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yeah that ranks right up there with wanting to see my brute take on an empath heres an example, my stalker has less than 700 HPs in sirens while SinghMCs regen scrapper has 1500 with the accolades

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Empath are regen blasters without the mez resist :/ to beat them you have to rely on status efect ,like knockback , stunts or holds !

Btw: A regen stalker can have over 1200hp with dull pain in sirens :P
Some stalker combos can scrap , but most wont stand a chance vs a scraper without AS !

I would realy love to be there, fighthing gimp trolers is allways fun

But , i cant need to go walk the dog at the exact time you and the other gimp trolers enter sirens!!

I gess the troler team got lucky this time ....

Thanks guys

Miss Nasty was my main toon in CoH beta , i always wanted to make a Miss Nasty in CoH retail but ... you know, im a guy ..the "i cant play a female toon complex" keept me from lvl her in CoH

In CoV i roled a brute , and when i realized how much fun they where , i thought to mysell ... its time get Miss Nasty back to action, the complex went away , and i have had a lot of fun playing her, i even dare to say, that she was the most fun toon i have ever made !
Cant wait for the lvl 50 cap in CoV ,to her back to SMASHing action

ps: Thanks Tyl didnt see the gratz post before :P

SR scrapers have resistance to slows in quickness, Speed boast gives resistance to slows also !

Some info on frostwork here:
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It seems that theres a max HP cap per lvl , and the frostwork buff changes if the target is lower or higher lvl than you !

If you have a +2 SO at lvl 38 , that SO , will be "exemp" to lvl 27 when your in BB !

btw , tanks are no treat in pvp :P At lvl 25 they problably only have 2 or 3 atacks !

A /nrg Blaster without meale atacks , might have a chance vs a scraper without defence powers :P


The only chance that blaster has vs a decent scraper , is to hover blast , but -fly powers are to common ... And no scraper is gonna stand still while you blast them !

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2 blasters run up to a stone-brute in granite.
2 stalkers run up to a stone-tank in granite.

Who dies first, Jack?

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The brute !
less hit points , 75% dmg cap vs 90% from tanks , stalkers need to hide in order to crit ,and stone has mud pots , no AS possible :P



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My solution is a bit strange from what every one has sugested, I say nerf their mez protection to about a mag 4 protection in PvP. That way they will put them self to great risk if they go against most groups but not if they target an individual.

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Scrapers and brutes(i think) have mag 4 mez protection , i fint it hard to believe that stalker mez protection is beter than brutes and scrapers !

I only have 1 acc slot on my brute, and its on KO blow
Haymaker and footstomp have 2 recharges + 1 end redux !

I do miss a bit when figthing +3/+4 , maybe my acc drops to 75%,but i believe that someone whit 2 acc slots would also miss vs +3/+4 !
And i always have LOT'S of yellow insp, i keep forgeting to use them ...

I didnt have stamina on my brute until lvl 38 !
You can have a stamina less brute, and rely only on energy drain , but you will need to use a lot of slots on end redux , to make up for the lack of stamina !
I had all my atacks with 2 end redux , shilds with one end redux , even sprint had one end redux :P
I could solo non stop , but on teams its hard to use energy drain , !


Conserve power has a 600s recharge , 3 sloted should be about 300 seconds , and it last 90s.
Swift , healt and stamina , will make your brute life a lot beter , conserve power due to its long recharge will almost never be used !
Its always possible to respec out of 2 less used powers to get the medice poll , the passive EA powers, change travel power to fligh and get Air Sup , get rid of one atack, etc...

Something like this was made for pve mobs , but what about pvp enemys , who do you like to fight the most , and who do you avoid fighting !

love:
-scrapers and Brutes , they are hard to kill , hit hard , but are always fun !
-Blasters ,very hard , do a lot of dmg , but they die fast

Hate:
-Controlers , chain holds , and triple dmg , the most hard AT to fight against if you dont cary a full tray of BF, and arent a meale fighter !
-Stalkers , well i cant see them , they use hit and run tactics, and they have same problem as trolers , you need a full tray of yelows to beat them :/

*I have a lot of toons that i use in pvp , 2 scrapers , a brute , defender , corruptor , and a blaster !

When i see someone with a red healt bar in pvp , i always target them!

MoG will turn you into a prime target :P

AoE is a Area Of Efect Atack, any atack that can hit more than one enemy is a AoE ! If a mob trows a granade at you (AoE) your meale and ranged defences will have no use , only your AoE defences will prevent you from geting hit !


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How many SO's would it take to get practised brawler perma after having taken quickness.


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2 slots , but i did get 3 on my SR scraper , i never liked to wait for PB to recharge after a pvp dead :P

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And lastly, anyone know the base defense on the powers on SR, both toggle and auto?

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Meale and ranged togles: 12.5% defence
Meale and ranged passives: 5% defence
AoE defence is a litle higher : i think its about 20%

Any of them 3 sloted for defence with SO's will almost double the base defence values !

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If a power lists defense against ranged, melee and AoE, what is missing for me to get all?

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That is defence vs all The only powers that gives you that is elude , i it has a huge recharge time :/

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The down side to this power is lowerd defence and end drain,my question is how bad is it?

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It only lower yours defence when rage crashes , it last 10 seconds, during those 10s you have reduced defences and are unable to atack !
it also drains 25 end points when it wheres of , if you dont manage you endurance , you can end up , with a full togle drop , a nasty defence debuff , zero defense togles , and unable to atack :P

The end crash , is easy to manage but the reduced defences will hurt you ! Also its sucks on teams :/ those 10 seconds when you can attack ,seem to last forever when everybody around you is fighting, and needs your help!

I run perma rage on my brute , and overall i say its an amazing power you just need to learn how to manage the rage crash !

1º You were alone vs 4 stalkers...
2º You survive 2 AS !!!!
3º A stalker loking afk and not using hide , is a very clear sign of a trap :P

Heroes also have very powerfull AT's , ie trolers , and /nrg blasters

How is repel on pvp vs tanks/scrapers with knockback resistance ?

Does it prevents them from geting into meale ?

The vilains also need your help :P

The odds are against vilains , only a few high lvl toons , and most of then are brutes or MM !

If possible log your evil self to help balance the batle

* I hope nobody gets mad at me for asking this on the hero tread , but its just for the sake of good pvp fun !!!

I think scrapers do about 40% more dmg than brutes , i remenber reading a dev post saying the scrapers dmg was 1.25 and brute dmg 0.9 or 0.8 im not sure !!

But its easy to test it !!
Go to sirens , and compare the dmg of brawl on scrapers and brutes using the same mob !
It would be nice to know what the BI of 9 from KO blow , would be in scraper BI !

Yes fly doesnt work very well on a brute for pvp , i have fly on my brute and i know that for pvp SJ or SS would be beter !

I didnt know you were thinking of pvp on this build, but your proposed build will work great in pvp, hasten will be very nice to have , KO Blow will rechrge in 12/13secs and dull pain will be almost perma !
Yea you have some hard decisions to do :P