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Complaining about energy damage? Toxic, I get, but if you have all your shield powers 3-slotted for resist, you should be near the resist cap for energy, or AT the cap if you also took grounded.|
Originally Posted by Mr_Grumpums
...fixing even half of my problems when there is so much energy and toxic damage flying around...
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That aside, before you consider IOs at all, you need to review your build, power picks, and slotting. Do you have all your shield toggles? Do you have Energize slotted up for +heal and +recharge? Are you using Power Surge and having issues with the crash?
Let us know what powers you have and how they are slotted, or at the very least your resist and defense totals from the combat attributes window.
EDIT: Also, slotting for +resist set bonuses is almost worthless due to how few +resist bonuses actually exist. Best set bonuses to seek out for survivability in general are +defense first (up to soft cap), then +max health and +regen, with +recharge's value depending on whether or not you have defensive powers like Energize on long timers that you'd like to use more often.
EDIT2: +4/x8 is NASTY. Isn't that the highest possible difficulty? Elec isn't exactly the most survivable brute set out there either, so you shouldn't be expecting to tank that without either serious corruptor/mastermind support buffs/debuffs or really serious IO slotting.
+4/+8?! Wowzies. You should of taken the Invul or WP route. I love elec but it's pretty fragile.
Do you have a budget? You can also tell us the power pools that you want to take and other preferences. We can use the Mid planner to export builds here, and you can simply treat it as a shopping list.
This is basically my build, though it's currently at lv 44. Taking into account your advice on playing my brute, I managed to also keep up my survivability a bit, but he generates big piles of aggro, still, since he's spamming Spin, Ball Lightning, and his other attacks. Eviscerate and Shockwave are decent powers, but I really only use them as filler AoEs due to Eviscerate's long-feeling animation and Shockwave's knockback component.
The powers at 47 and 50 aren't set in stone, either. I made it 44 levels with Ninja Run, Lightning Reflexes, Hurdle, Sprint, and the Jump Pack/Raptor Pack, and I had very little trouble, except for that long stretch of nothing in Nerva between the main area and the place where all the later missions are in those forest ruins.
I'd like to keep Mu Lightning, though the thought had crossed my mind to ditch it for Electrifying Fences so that I could use Shockwave without worrying about KB. It's nice having two ranged ST attacks, though, especially because they recharge so quickly.
Thanks in advance for any suggestions. Sorry it took me so long to reply.
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+ Built with SuckerPunch's Online Planner v5.0
+ http://planner.cohtitan.com/planner
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Archetype: Brute
Primary: Claws
Secondary: Electric Armor
+----------------------------------------------------------------
01: Swipe => Empty(1)
01: Charged Armor => Empty(1)
02: Slash => Empty(2)
04: Conductive Shield => Empty(4)
06: Spin => Empty(6)
08: Hurdle => Empty(8)
10: Static Shield => Empty(10)
12: Lightning Field => Empty(12)
14: Health => Empty(14)
16: Grounded => Empty(16)
18: Focus => Empty(18)
20: Stamina => Empty(20)
22: Lightning Reflexes => Empty(22)
24: Follow Up => Empty(24)
26: Eviscerate => Empty(26)
28: Energize => Empty(28)
30: Hasten => Empty(30)
32: Shockwave => Empty(32)
35: Power Sink => Empty(35)
38: Power Surge => Empty(38)
41: Mu Lightning => Empty(41)
44: Ball Lightning => Empty(44)
47: Swift => Empty(47)
49: Super Speed => Empty(49)
+----------------------------------------------------------------
+ Inherent Powers
+----------------------------------------------------------------
01: Brawl => Empty(1)
01: Sprint => Empty(1)
02: Rest => Empty(2)
Too many alts to list.
I'm running a lv 42 (almost 43) Claws/Elec brute, and it's having a pretty rough time on teams with the difficulty jacked up. The brute is usually expected to run in and take the alpha, but in a +4/8 Player difficulty team mine will get slaughtered every time if he runs straight in. I don't have access to Mids (I'm a Mac user, and I couldn't make my emulator run Mids due to some language packet), and I don't know how all the rules on limits of IO bonuses, etc. The only thing I know I can do without IOs is to go into the fighting pool and pick Tough, but I don't see that fixing even half of my problems when there is so much energy and toxic damage flying around.
Which sets would you recommend I invest in to raise resistance, recharge, accuracy, and damage for a Claws/Electric Brute?
Too many alts to list.