If you want more defense here are a few recommendations:
1. Consider slotting school of sharks with a full set of Enfeebled operation. I know it sucks that you loose the dmg but you will net an extra 4.5% melee defense.
2. Drop the patron pet for Maneuvers and 3 slot it with LotG.
3. drop the 6th slot out of serum and put it into fortification and 6 slot it with titanium coating.
4. 6 slot TT:Leadership with the Gaussian's set. Use the slots from the patron pet, the 2nd slot in Crab armor, and the 4th slot from health that has the Numina's Heal.
These changes will take your Melee def up to about 40% without giving up to much regen or recharge. Not sure how much the patron pet and damage slotting in the Immob will hurt your damage output, but I don't think it will be significant.
Level 50s: to many to remember at this point
I recently finished out my FM/WP brute, and was hoping to move on to a new project. I have a level 50 SoA, and absolutely love* him in groups. I'm a bit underwhelmed while solo however. Kill speed is not an issue, survivability is something of a concern however. It doesn't take long for cascading defense to catch up to me.
This is the build that I had been looking at initially. It's focused primarily on recharge, but I'm wondering if a more conservative def. route would be more useful in day to day play? My other question is where are people finding slots/sets to even begin to up the def. on SoA's? The character seems best suited for AoE carnage, and targetted AoE sets have horrendous bonuses on the defense end. There are some attainable ones that I skipped (6 slotting gaussian in aim) but that seems like a substantial slot investment for the return.
Sorry if that seems vague, mostly looking for some direction on the build.
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