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You know what would be awesome?

If Might of the Tanker, slotted in your T1, caused bruising to everything affected by Gauntlet.


Ohhh, yeah......

Wow, that was weird, here's the rest of my asnwers:

Fire/wp/soul.

Possibly the best brute all-rounder out there. It will survive well, and get even better with sets and incarnate powers. It does more damage than a scrapper fire melee toon, and has alllll those hitpoints.

The soul pool offers both damage and survivability in hefty quantities.

If you are looking for the broadest spectrum of ability, this combo is hard to beat.

Especially if you take vengeance.

Claws/inv is another great combo, as are many others.

If those numbers hold up, shin breaker is MEAN.

Appropriate, given the awesome look of it.

Street Justice is lookin' to be a LOT better than Kinetic Melee. None of that swoopy, wavey crap.

Rib Cracker looks SAVAGE, and Shin Breaker looks ever worse.

Got a StJ/Elec brute to 8, very smooth with all three of the first attacks. Sweeping strike is a solid little cone.

Sadly, I could not find the secret passage in manti's mansion and ragequit. I'll figure it out tomorrow.

Getting the incarnate powers will be a huge boost to your performance for very little cost. So, the first thing you should do at a minimum is get your tier three alpha slot. On a fire, look hard at spiritual or cardiac.

To get these is simple, requires no teaming and gets you a level shift, which is HUGE.

Or, do what you want, what good is my advice, anyway?

You have a fire tank.

Go incarnate immediately, do not wait, do not pass go, do not collect money's.

You have no idea the level of awesome awaiting you.

I envy you.

My advice: ALWAYS follow concept first!

If you can, or don't care, then:

For single target, the cimmys win, by a mile.

For overall damage, the warworks are hard to beat. Viki is nice, and ace is right there in a crowd.

For debuf the Cataphract is the boss.

If you hate the idea of pets messing up your concept, the polars are ideal. They're practically invisible.

Hmmm.

A seriously tooled-up fire/fire/body tank with the cimmy pets, barrier, reactive, void, and cardiac might be a good approach.

(boggle)

Perma hasten with no slots.

Criminy.

That said, the 30 second downtime would drive me nuts, but to each his own.

If even a third of the players would exert as much effort on a good costume and awesome backstory as you did, this would be worthwhile.

If I see a new player who has spent time and effort on an obviously beloved concept, they get all the help I can give them without overwhelming them.

Carry on the awesome.

Years ago, I found a one-page .pdf that walked you through getting all four of the stat-increasing accolades, all together. It was awesome, I'm not a badger, I just want mah goodies.

However, I've moved, and can't find my printout OR where I saved the darn thing in...some computer. Somewhere.

I figure you dedicated badgers might recall this old resource and maybe have a link?

Failing that, I'm struggling my way through using paragonwiki, but is there a simpler resource out there?

Thanks in advance for any help!

My opinions of Judgement:

Looking at T4's, here's how I rank them.

Void is by far the easiest to use. As a PBAOE, you don't even have to have anything targeted: Just punch the button and boom. Further, it is probably the most 'defensively' oriented, as the 50 percent damage debuff for 30 seconds is HUGE. So, I tend to take it on less-sturdy melee toons, like a fire tank. It's a nice 'ooops' button that gives you some damage, and a better chance to survive.

Ion is by far the most damage. 40 jumps, and it can spread to a HUGE area, and if you go extra damage, the crits will wipe out minions and even some lts, especially if the jumps hit things a few times. However, it pays for this awesome by being by far the most unreliable: If your initial target dies during animation time, you lose all damage. If the jumps go badly, it can squib on you pretty easily. So take it if you want the glorious, glorious damage, and are willing to suffer the occasional fizzle.

Pyronic is middle of the road: Quite a bit more reliable than Ion, but you have to pick your targets more carefully than Void. It's range makes it a LOT safer to set up than Void if you're not on a hard-shell toon, though. However, unlike Cryonic, it can be used effectively at point blank range if the situation is cramped. It's probably the 'best' all around choice, and will not often leave you unhappy.


Cryonic is the blasters choice. It has HUGE range, even more if you take Cardiac. It can reach all the way past the charging melee guys in the front rank and smash a spawn before they even get to it. As a result it takes a bit more thinking and positioning to use well, but if that's your cup of tea, it works well. The biggest downside is that it requires a lot of space to work at it's best: Like all cones, most of the attacked area is far away.