* Get your hp accolades - some of these are kind of a pain to get
* Get sets that up your hitpoints and regeneration. Numina, Miracle, Luck of the Gambler (all pretty expensive) all provide plenty of help in this area. However, a number of cheap melee sets and travel power sets provide sizeable hitpoint boosts
* If you can, grab sets that provide smashing/lethal defense. This is mostly a nice to have, because what I found in the LRSF, it's better to have just lots of hitpoints. Aim to get around 2400 or more.
Don't think you have to tank. Some dominator based teams just puts to sleep the entire Freedom Phalanx and brings the heroes down one at a time, allowing just about any character with a large amount of hitpoints + team buffs to "tank" while the team beats it down.
This mix can tank and do it well, but as Flechette stated. Get your accolades and get IO'd out. Mine is sitting at 2.3k hp and does quite well vs AVs.
My personal focus was Regen > HP > Recharge
Mine does have the Numina, Miracle, and Panacea procs slotted. Don't worry too much about the panacea proc its not dire, I just wanted it for the extra endurance gain.
Mine has over 2500 HP. It's nice but too many longbow will even cut down a granite.
Play smart, taunt around corners and run around like a maniac and you'll be fine.
I have a Elec/WP Brute that's about to hit 50, and one of the things I'd like to do with him sometime is run the Recluse SF.
I'm planning on using his second build for that. I don't have a ton of Infamy to throw around for his build, and I haven't really done a lot with IOs beyond the Generics.
Can anyone recommend an under 200 million Infamy build that would allow an Elec/WP Brute to fulfill the main meat shield position in a Recluse SF?
Or should I just hope to get on as another damage dealer?
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