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Akuma_Mishima

By Akuma_Mishima,
Posted on: 2005-11-02 15:18 in Brutes

 

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A new guide on energy aura was posted. Maximal survival guide for Fiery Melee/Energy Aura Brutes

I did a search for existing guides on energy aura brutes as well. All of them are written before Issue 13 when energy aura was buffed. Some of them are pretty old like 3 to 4 years ago and not updated. However, I just list what I found.

Darkness Bound- a Guide to Dark melee/Energy Aura
Energy Melee/Energy Aura Brute Guide
The Masochist's Fire/Energy Brute Guide
Elec/Eng/Mu Brute IO Example
An EM/EA Brute's Guide to Level 40

 

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Quote:
Originally Posted by Kheldarn View Post
The following guides seem to have vanished:
  • The Brute Test (Smurphy) [I11]
  • A Stone/Dark Guide (Tempest_56)
  • The Red’s Guide to SS/WP v2.0 (The_Red)
For the last one, The_Red apparently changed their name, because they don't show up in the Member List.
The_Red is changed to runothered. The guide is here. Is this the Stone/Dark guide by Tempest_56? It was written pretty close to I7.

Edit: Smurphy informed me that his Brute test guide became his second post in the Endurance Dysfunction and You! guide. Maybe you can merge the two entries from Smurphy into one.

 

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Updated 16 April 2010
Original Official Guide Post Editor for the update was Camo_Fire. Prior Guide Post Editors for the update were Muad_Dib, followed by Camo_Fire.
Updated to work with new forums, and currently maintained, by Kheldarn. Missing Guides Found and Typos Pointed Out by Twilight_Snow.

ATTENTION: DO NOT POST GUIDES IN THIS THREAD. If you have a guide, make a brand new post for it in the Player Guides section, and reply to this thread with the link.

For non-Brute guides, check the master list of all Guides in the Guide to Guides.

Failing any clear identifier from the poster, I will go by the original post date vs. Issue releases ([I1]: 6/30/04, [I2]: 9/17/04, [I3]: 1/5/05, [I4]: 5/5/05, [I5]: 9/1/05, [I6]: 10/28/05, [I7]: 06/06/06, [I8] :11/28/06, [I9]: 5/1/07, [I10]: 7/24/07, [I11]: 11/28/07, [I12]: 6/24/08, [I13]: 12/2/08, [I14]: 4/8/09, [I15]: 6/29/09, [I16]: 9/15/09) - e.g., if it was posted in March/05, it is an [I3] Guide.

This thread will be updated periodically based on new guide links that are added in response.

-=* Miscellaneous Info *=-
General

-=* Primary Powersets *=-
Battle Axe Claws

Dark Melee Dual Blades Electric Melee Energy Melee Fiery Melee Stone Melee Super Strength War Mace

-=* Secondary Powersets *=-
Dark Armor Electric Armor Energy Aura
 Fiery Aura Invulnerability Shield Defense Stone Armor Super Reflexes
Willpower
Updated 16 April 2010.

All the links should now bring you to the first post in each guide. I updated the user names of the authors of some guides. Twilight_Snow found the "missing" guides by The_Red (who is now runothered), Tempest_56, and Smurphy. I also added her FM/EA Guide.

The powersets are now in alphabetical order, and have an icon beside their name to help people who do better with a visual representation of a powerset.

With the exceptions of Claws and War Mace, every powerset now has at least two guides.

Issues are colored similar to the game's Consideration System: [I16] is white, [I15] is blue (cyan, actually, so that it will show up on the Hero skin), [I14] is green, [I13] is grey, and [I12] and all issues before it are black.



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Thanks for the update!

 

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Very Smexy guide update Nightwolf! TY!


 

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An updated version of my old Electric Melee/Energy Brute guide has been posted here:

http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=224878

**GUARDIAN**
Assault Ohm - Elec/Sonic Corruptor
Deadly Ohm - Elec/Will Brute
Invisible Ohm - Elec/Eng Stalker
Master Ohm - Elec/Elc Dominator

 

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Just as a heads up, the maintained version of the guides I have posted are going to be the Paragon Wiki versions. Affected guides for this section are:


I may go back and replace the text here with links to Paragon Wiki. I do not know if it will make things harder to have the forum list point to the Paragon Wiki versions rather than the forum versions, but I will leave that to the list maintainers.


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Theres nothing here for the mace!!!!

 

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Hey guys. I was wondering if anyone has a claws/willpower guide for butes because i've looked everywhere and cant find one.

 

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Where can I find the most up to date, solid farming SS/Fire Brute?

 

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Are there no kinetic melee guides for brutes? I'll go ahead and post my questions in the brutes section but I thought one would have been out by now.

Find me ingame @Norlon
Winter ST

 

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Does anyone have a guide for Electric Melee/Fiery Aura Brutes?

 

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Originally Posted by Vexen777 View Post
Theres nothing here for the mace!!!!
seems no one likes mace or they are keeping it to themselves. i have been searching for a mace/ELA guide forever

 

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Anyone got links to DM/SD for a brute? Struggling to make heads or tails of it in mids, so some guidelines would be useful!

 

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Are a lot of these guides outdated? For example the ones I've read so far seem to all focus on getting Stamina, which I think is now an Inherent Power.

Next to that I'm playing a Street Justice/Regeneration Brute, and those powersets don't seem to be mentioned at all. This could of course also be because it's the worst possible combination, but then I'd like to see someone saying that in a guide. From what I understand from the Paragon wiki, those powers have only been available to Brutes since Issue 21 or later and that's more likely the reason they're not mentioned?

I'm a new player and was looking here for advice. But when a lot doesn't apply to the current game it becomes very hard for me to figure out what is and isn't relevant and the guides become more or less useless.

 

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Sooo according to this forum NO ONE has ever made a Mace Guide ? ? ? ? EVER!!
LOL
Come on folks, Help out a Will/Mace Brute.
Im already at lvl 37 and need help with slotting.


Thanks

@Ectokin