First Brute Claws/WP

Hello fellow Brutes, i just made my very first red toon and its a Claws/WP Brute
I love him, smashing things non stop is tons of fun, but i have no idea of how to slot him
I will moslty use DOs and SOs because i dont have money for IOS yet.
The Claws part im slotting mostly 2 Acc 3 Dmg and 1 EndReduc, idk if thats the right but its working nice
But my survivability is not soo good compared to brutes i group up, its probaly because i just start putting new slots in the WP tree( i just wanted more smash :P)
Anyway, how should i slot WP? +Heal? +Defense?+Resist?

With SOs, this is how I'd slot WP:
HPT: 3heal/3dam-res
MoB: 1end-red/3dam-res
FH: 3heal
IW: 1end-red
RttC: 1end-red/3heal
QR: 3end-mod
HS: 1end-red/3def

Your slotting is fine on claws, but I'd go 2acc/2rec-red/1end/red/1dam in followup if you're using it.

I'm glad someone started this thread, I actually need some guidance on my first brute (also a claw/WP - an alt of my same powerset stalker), but I need to be on my home machine to see if I can put up what I have now. My mid-fu is pretty weak, though.

With claws, I'm a firm believer in abusing respecs. On my claws/wp brute, here's how I leveled up so far. (He's 24ish now.)

1: Swipe
1: HPT
2: Strike
3: 1 slot in strike and 1 in swipe
4: Slash
5: 1 slot in slash and 1 in HPT
6: Fast Healing
7: 2 slots in FH
8: Spin
9: 1 slot in HPT and 1 in Spin
10: Indomitable Will
11: 1 slot in Spin and 1 in Slash
12: Followup
13: 2 slots in FU
14: Mind Over Body
15: 1 slot in Spin and 1 in MoB
16: Rise to the Challenge
17: 2 slots in MoB
18: Focus
19: 2 slots in Focus
20: Quick Recovery
21: 2 slots in QR
22: Start grabbing whatever else floats your boat.

I've actually run a few claws brutes up like this only to delete them, because I really like lowbie claws. It's blenderific. Sometimes to 14, sometimes to 20. Different secondaries.

You might swap spin and FH. Spin is just that damn good.

Feel free to post builds. I'll be happy to look at them as will many others. Think I'll play my claws/wp some now.

EDIT: 45 minutes to get from 24.1 to 25 while solo. Blenderific.

It's a great combo for sure, and an early bloomer for sure. As soon as I got spin I was ready to up the difficulty slider so I had more guys to shred. By 20 and once you have QR, focus and RttC slotted you really start to shine and can up the difficulty slider even more.

I went a little overboard with mine though and layed in some defense to add to the ungodly regen and solid resists and made him practically unstoppable. I really needed another notch or two on my difficulty slider as x8 wasn't enough and I had to go grab multiple spawns to keep buisy. You don't want to see that build though, softcapping a /WP toon redside hurt alot.

The only part of the build I really question is slotting end redux in /wp (especially claws/wp). To be honest, I tend to get stamina even with QR. That being the case, I almost always go 1-2 accu (depending on the level I'm fighting), 3 damage, 1 rec redux.

I almost always take hasten, but there's nothing that REALLY benefits from hasten (like say in /ele where you have Energize, Power Sink and Power Surge that all benefit from more recharge).

My brute is level 27, and aside from my BS/Shield I don't remember a toon leveling this quickly, though I'm rolling -1/4 in my missions.

Okay, here's sorta how I'm working so far. I haven't IO'd out a melee toon before (including my 50 stalker, who is seriously chock-a-block), so I don't have a lot of ideas on how to IO/Enh/set my attacks. So, what I do have is based on other builds.

This'll be a PVE toon, with hoping to have balance of team/solo. TP travel is a thematic issue, so I am not planning to slot out of it - and the set contributes to the regen-focus I appear to be leaning toward. As you can see, I'm big on frankenslotting for the most part. I didn't put in any enhs for the two Epics 'cause I'm not sold on which Epic I'll be taking (she took GW on the stalker).

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celine-brute-try1: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Willpower
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Teleportation
Power Pool: Fighting
Ancillary Pool: Soul Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Swipe

• (A) Touch of Death - Accuracy/Damage
• (3) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
• (46) Perfect Zinger - Chance for Psi Damage

• (A) Healing IO
• (5) Healing IO
• (13) Healing IO
• (21) Resist Damage IO
• (27) Resist Damage IO
• (34) Resist Damage IO

• (A) Damage Increase IO
• (3) Damage Increase IO
• (11) Accuracy IO
• (15) Accuracy IO
• (34) Endurance Reduction IO
• (45) Damage Increase IO

• (A) Mako's Bite - Accuracy/Damage
• (5) Crushing Impact - Accuracy/Damage
• (11) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
• (15) Touch of Lady Grey - Defense Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
• (33) Touch of Lady Grey - Chance for Negative Damage
• (37) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff

• (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
• (7) Titanium Coating - Resistance
• (7) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
• (42) Aegis - Resistance

• (A) Damage Increase IO
• (9) Damage Increase IO
• (9) Damage Increase IO
• (21) Accuracy IO
• (34) Accuracy IO
• (36) Endurance Reduction IO

• (A) Run Speed IO

• (A) Serendipity - Defense/Endurance
• (13) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance

• (A) Time & Space Manipulation - Range
• (50) Time & Space Manipulation - Endurance

• (A) Miracle - Heal
• (17) Miracle - Heal/Endurance
• (17) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
• (31) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
• (40) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
• (43) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff

• (A) Entropic Chaos - Accuracy/Damage
• (19) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Endurance
• (19) Thunderstrike - Accuracy/Damage
• (33) Thunderstrike - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (36) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage
• (37) Devastation - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge

• (A) Time & Space Manipulation - Endurance
• (46) Time & Space Manipulation - Range

• (A) Healing IO
• (23) Healing IO
• (23) Healing IO

• (A) Endurance Modification IO
• (25) Endurance Modification IO
• (25) Endurance Modification IO

• (A) Damage Increase IO
• (27) Accuracy IO
• (31) Accuracy IO
• (40) Damage Increase IO
• (43) To Hit Buff IO
• (46) Recharge Reduction IO

• (A) Damage Increase IO
• (29) Damage Increase IO
• (29) Damage Increase IO
• (33) Accuracy IO
• (36) Accuracy IO
• (37) Endurance Reduction IO

• (A) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
• (31) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
• (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
• (43) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Recharge

• (A) Accuracy IO

• (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
• (39) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge

• (A) Resist Damage IO
• (39) Resist Damage IO
• (39) Resist Damage IO

• (A) Resist Damage IO
• (42) Resist Damage IO
• (42) Endurance Reduction IO

• (A) Healing IO
• (45) Healing IO
• (45) Healing IO

• (A) Empty
• (48) Empty
• (48) Empty
• (48) Empty

well my toon is at lvl 20 right now, just got stamina so i only have the 2 passive powers of WP and the first toggle one(cant remember the names)
im doing my first missions at -1/x3 and seems to be doing fine, tried 0/x4 and it worked fine too.
Anyway i see everyone here taking Swipe and i skiped it, should i go back and take it?

Uh, sorry to double post, but i was sorta looking for some comments on whether that build was reasonable or not. Toon's presently at 30, but I'm kinda floundering on where to go or if I should respec closer to the above or something else

Twelfth, what's your current build look like? I'm looking at your build now in Mids and there's quit a bit I'd change, but I'm assuming that you want to work with the SetIO pieces you have now?

Looks like a fat lot of mess, Bill -- I got to pay the bills for the next few hours, so I won't be able to jump back try to jimmy up a build. IIRC, I know the present build is not too different at level 30 except:

Attacks are generally somewhere still in the 3-4 slotted range; Follow Up might be 2 slotted, Eviscerate might be 2-3 slotted still.
Took Health instead of FH in the teens;
I don't think I have many franken-sets in place at this point.
Present Enh slotting is still in the pre-20 acc/end redux arena.

Thanks for looking at things on this, btw, trying to get this hammered out before the new freespecs hit.

Okay Bill, since you asked, here is the at-present build. Toon is actually at 31 at this time but I haven't slotted anything yet. Actually enh values might be one up or down or 25 vs 30 or something like that, but this is basically how it looks.

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