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I was referring to Energy Drain

Shield gives you 11.5% resistance across the board. ED cap puts you at 17%. This is the same amount as Tough. The two powers you need to pick to get this resistance also gives the player Melee Defense and +HP. Now Shielder is gonna to skip these powers.

EA only gets resistance to both Energies from a passive that also happens to be the power most likely to be skip.

EA's T9 is defensed based while Shield's T9 grants resisance across the board and more +HP. The more hit points you have the more mileage you get out what resistance you do have.

Shield has way more Resistance then EA and Shields other tools (+HP and Positional Def) help stretch that resistance out. When EA's defense fails there's nothing to help soak up the damage.

I think you mean stalkers.


I have an Eng/Eng brute (lvl 36) and Dual Blades/Eng stalker. Energy Armor seems to me, to be more dependent on being paired with an attack set that has built in damage mitigation. Dual Blades, Mace and Axe add so much soft control that EAs short comings get covered up. Pair it with Fire and Engery Melee and those shortcomings become so apparent. Playing my brute reminds of how unfun playing SR was before SR's passive got scaling resists. When a mob hits you, you get hit for full damage. EA is the only brute Armor that puts in that sitituation. EVery other brute armor has resistence. When other brutes die, it's a slow process but an EA brute can end up eating pavement in a blink of an eye. Quick deaths can quickly erode a players confidence in the powersets they picked for their brute.

I think EA needs some sort of Resistence to kick in when the health bar gets low. This set needs something that adds more time to when a brute's health goes red and the brute dies.


The heal added to Energy Drain is too weak to heal a brute out of a bad sitituation, and while the cast time for Energy Drain is really quick the heal and end you get are getting granted at the end of the GFX for the Energy Drain animation. This power is no Dark Regeneration thats going to take you from near death to full life. When I hit Dark Regen I don't have to worry about it healing me up, I take it for granted that my health bar is going to be full, and consistently, time and time again it is. My brute has to fire off Energy Drain when I hit 75% health so it can be recharged near the end of the fight, either to save me from death or just heal me up enough so I can jump into the next mob.


The animation, cast time and heal of Energy Drain should be reworked so the player gets the benifits of that power when that power gets cast.


EA needs an effect or power that can help mitigate incoming damage. If a player doesn't pick an attack set, that can interrupt the mobs attack chain, through knockdowns or slows, players are gonna die, die and then reroll. I think the easiest solution is to add a -recharge to Energy Drain. Early in the fight, when all the mobs powers are recharge and ready to go, -recharge doesn't sound that great. Once the mobs cycle through their attacks once -recharge is adding seconds inbetween incoming attacks. This gives the player more time between that health bar going red and using a wakie.
Anther downside to using Energy Drain as a heal in team settings, is that Energy Drain is also a AE Taunt aura. In the fact its the only PBAOE that taunts. If I'm standing in a big mob with my teammates and I go to heal and get those big green numbers, I just taunted everything within 10ft. If I wan't the attention of all those mobs before, I am now. If these extra mobs have an attack recharged I'm looking at a huge burst of damage. Most brutes can't say "I hit my heal and I died", but EAs can.

Personally I'd like to see Energy Drain get turned into a PBAOE lift power. Don't pull out the heal or end drain, just have a much smaller AOE go off that puts mobs on their back. EA doesn't feel powerful. The devs should add resists but there's no way EA is ever going to be as sturdy as stone, invul or will power. I know everyone of us loves our shield brutes, scrappers and tanks, so we all understand that feeling of power you get when you knock a mob on its but with Shield Charge. EA need a little slice of that feeling.

My EA brute feels like a coward, running around with stealth, stealing health and end and hoping I don't get notice. I wanna be able to hit Energy Drain and see the mobs hit the floor, so I can feel like a Brute.

You don't have to totally walk away from S/L defense, power boost gives you a chance to maximize either Scorpion Shield or Frozen Armour (cold mastery) with your blaps in ways other blaster can't. For 15 seconds Power Boost is going to increase the defense you get from powers by 75% (ish). So if you've got Frozen Armour 3 slotted for defense (FA will allow you to also slot the Res/Def unique) and you hit power boost you can hit 27% s/l defense. Add in manuveurs and CJ and you're hitting 30% S/L defense.

Power Boost works great when you have an armour that grants a large defense number. Getting 75% more defense out of CJ is kinda meh but 75% of those defense based blaster armours is around 8pts.

Put the rest of your IO efforts into ranged defense. Heres a partial build with a ton of leftover slots and powers left to be picked.

Here's the partial builds def numbers without Power Boost up


And with Power Boost up


I didn't take the time to slot any Posi Blasts in the AOEs so that recharge rate is going to go up. I left Aid Self in there, take a second to see how much you heal with PB up.

That's plenty of recharge.


The Gunslinger is just an example of a mez that isn't attached to a S/L damage vector, in fact most of the non-melee mez in this game does not have an S/L component. S/L defense will protect you from more attacks in this game then going with range defense, but what's the point if every mez that comes your way limits you to only three powers? The less time you spend mezzed the more those global +rech and +dam bonuses are being used on your heavy hitters and not just on your tier 2 attack.

The Malta show up in the Tin Mage TF and I really enjoy the mission but all those +4 Gunslingers teleporting around can have a squishie burning through thier inspirations while they make breakfrees. Ranged defense can help lower the need to make breakfrees and allow you to make wakies for your teammates.


LGTFs and Mothership Raids are also examples of "level 50" content that is mez heavy. LGTFs get run at even con so the mezzes are almost bearable but when it's +4 Rikti that are mezzing you it seems like you're sleeping forever. Investing your resources into Ranged Defense can help protect you against this in ways S/L defense can't. The less time you spend mezzed the more those global +rech and +dam bonuses are being used on your heavy hitters and not just on your tier 2 attack.

Not really.

Everyone is telling you go for more damage and more recharge becuase that is what they desire out of a blaster but you want more enjoyability out of your blaster by capping S/L defense. It's you're character and you do what makes you happy.

I would just like to say that if you're a player whose still at the Mids planning stage, and you're looking at a build that requires a couple sets of Kinetic Combats, Lotgs and a trip to the Rogue Isles to pick up Scorpion Shield, this is all going to take a lot of patience at the market and dedication to break away from Amerits long enough to go Vigilante then Villian then Rogue and along the way complete a hefty dose of Redside content.

IF you're gonna go after Scorpion Shield choose Black Scropion as you're patron its mostly Crey up to the point you unlock the Patron Pool, and get a free respec. You should try to get it done before level 44, Crey that spawn above level 45 can end up spawning nothing Crey wearing power armour that pack a lot more resistance then what the Creys wearing suit and ties have around level 42. There is a kill all in that arc that you should save a mission drop for.

Going for Range Defense on the other hand would be a bigger savings in both influence and time spent at the market. Going for Ranged defense is mostly Pools A recipies while S/L requires rares. If you've got money go for it. If you're gonna have to raise the funds to pay for a build in the first place, sell the expensive stuff and use the cheap stuff. Do that long enough and none of your character will ever worry about money again. Also it's really easy to 6 slot Obliteration and slot 4 Kinetic Combats in all your melee attacks in Mids, it's a lot harder in the game since demand for these recipes is so out wieghs the supply.

The A-merit system and a little patience will get you all the IOs you need. Going to the Isles and getting that shield also lets you grab Web Envelope. Building up your defense is a better plan then just chasing more more damage and recharge.

try using the Nem Staff to punt him down the hall and then around the corner.

You just don't understand men do you?

Also Olivaa appeared in Playboy, DID NOT show her nekkid naughty parts and now several of her old fans hope, wish and pray that her career goes down in flames for that.

Did he bread and bake the salmon, or did he bread and Saute the salmon?

Did he bread the fish in Special K crumbs?