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Torn Between Stoners

je_saist

By je_saist,
Posted on: 2009-11-29 18:04 in Brutes

 

Posted

Hey all you Brutes. I'm having trouble deciding between SS and Dark for a pairing with Stone Armor. I'm hoping you all can help me out. Please point out anything I miss and give me your opinions.

Super Strength

  • Active mitigation through knockdown/back/up. Personal favorite of mine
  • Hard hitting single target and good AoE damage
  • 80% damage boost from Rage goes a long way toward offsetting the penalty from Granite. Not a fan of the End crash though

Dark Melee
  • ToHit debuff stacks well with Stone's Defense
  • Self-heal to back up Earth's Embrace
  • Hard hitting single target damage backed up by some AoE from Soul Drain and Dark Consumption

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Posted

Honestly, I'd go with Dark.

The damage debuff on stone is something like 30%, and you'll easily make that up with fury.

Once you get granite (and yeah, that does take a while), mitigation doesn't really matter so much since you'll probably be able to easily soft-cap smashing / lethal resistance...

and if you spend some money on IO's, you'll probably be able to easily softcap on a couple of your defensive powers... although you'll probably be stuck in the awkward position of either soft-capping your defenses or getting enough recharge IO's to remove the 60% speed debuff... presuming you don't have a pocket kin.