SS/Shield end hog of all end hogs

I can't speak for brutes OP, but my shield/ss tank has no end problems. If you can, mix and match some cheap IOs in your attacks to reduce end (or give +recov) and put a SO end reduc in each toggle. I can't say its the most efficient method, but for leveling it worked fine for me.

Stone/Dark is a great build for the terminally lazy. Attack chain? What attack chain? Just put Fault on auto, wander in with OG, CoF, and Death Shroud running and wait for everything to keel over.

As for the OP, I'd go with everyone else in suggesting frankenslotting your attacks for lots of endredux. Let Rage take care of tohit; let AAO and Fury take care of damage. And I agree that Force Feedback +Rech in Foot Stomp is a party in a can, but it's not something to get all bothered over.

I recently leveled an SS/Shield, without kins or any outside help for my blue bar for the most part. Stamina consumption wasn't a huge deal, especially post stamina. Some things that helped me:

1. Put tons of endurance reducers in your attacks. Sacrifice damage. When I had DO's or under I basically just slotted accuracy and damage, by the time I reached SO level I did two acc, two end, and either two damage or a damage and recharge, depending on the attack. Fury gives you the option of neglecting damage until you're IO'ing it up, because you're still going to do brute damage with a loaded fury bar.

2. As soon as you can get IO's reasonably well, switch to them. Three or four school IO's have the most total enhancement percentage per slot. If you don't care about set bonuses, it's not difficult to get 60% enhancement or more to all the stats of all your attacks way before level 50.

3. Linked to the above two: Your attacks drop your endurance faster than your toggles, as a rule. Make sure to concentrate on putting endurance enhancements in your attacks.


Additionally, but I don't recommend it because it will cause me to be booed at: Rage seems to really deplete your endurance. I never liked the penalties of Rage anyway, despite the numerical superiority of the power. Once I started using Rage only in emergencies, I noticed that my blue bar went from almost full to almost nothing less often. This is most likely due to the combination of Rage and Hasten crashing at the same time. It seems to me that when I only have to deal with Hasten's crash, my endurance bar has a chance to actually bounce back.