Stone/WP is stupidly fun, your single target DPS is otherworldly and your safety is assured. Oddly its my teaming brute but I think it would be a breeze to solo as sometimes I don't note the rest of the team have gone a different direction and end up with a mob to myself
"Well, they found my diary today.
They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
Eight legs, one body, silk,
spider, brilliant!"
Willpower is the best choice for solo play, certainly. You'll need Tough to beef it out a bit, but apart from that you won't find any choice as simple, effective, and robust for all situations.
Superstrength is another good, solid choice. The combo is reliable and never fails to get the job done. If you're not too interested in SS though, I would propose consideration to Fire Melee. The damage type is resisted by virtually nothing and it can maintain an attack chain with the same kind of recharge and animation speed feel as SS does. It'll hit hard, look good, and constantly provides new and useful attack powers all the way up to 32. For the heavy damage it does, it's also quite impressively endurance efficient, Stamina and Willpowers Quick Recovery will quite happily overwhelm any attempt to make that blue bar go down. I have a FM/WP Scrapper, she runs all the Willpower toggles, Tough and Focused Accuracy without even making her end bar twitch. She can literally attack non-stop forever.
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My main is a SS/ELA. SS can deal good damage and can protect you in pvp with its KB. ELA has amazing resists while Power Sink will allow you to attack forever even with Hasten plus the recharge bonus from Lightning Reflexes.
The only drawback is the lack of a decent heal.
Thanks guys i think i will go with FM/WP now with this do i need Stamina in the build.
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Thanks guys i think i will go with FM/WP now with this do i need Stamina in the build.
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It would be recommended. Oh you could probably cope easily enough without it if you slot your endurance reduction aggressively enough, but adding Stamina allows you that bit more breathing room and a little more personal flair for your slotting and power pool choices.
Obviously I wouldn't be stupid enough to say Brutes NEED Stamina in all cases, but Brutes are a simple AT at their core and it's always a good idea to provide yourself with as many ways as possible to just keep on going. Stamina, Aid Self, you can't really go wrong with just making sure you don't ever stop.
You don't need to prioritise it though, just slide it in somewhere around the thirties and it'll help deal with the huge number of toggles Willpower ends up running.
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You'll be getting most of the Fitness pool anyway, Health fits right into a WP build, playing to it's strengths. So getting Stamina somewhere in the 30s isn't much of a stretch.
I'm currently playing a Dark Melee / WP and will be getting Health around level 30. Even though I've currently got Dark Consumption once I hit 35ish I may then respec Stamina in instead of it. Dark Melee is a nice combo for WP, you've a self-heal which is now one of your most damaging attacks. The lack of useful AOE is annoying though. I find myself picking on bosses and letting his minions cluster around me to fuel my +HP and power my Dark self-buffs (Dark Consumption and Soul Drain).
Hiya guys im going to make me a new brute and i am leaning towards SS/WP can any of you guys change my mind into better combinations of primary and secondary powersets.I just want to solo my way to 50 i want to sample all the content apart from AVs.I just want a powerful combo that can tackle it.