Had a claws/wp up to 35, was kinda meh for me. Rerolled to claws/DA.
Freaking spectacular.
Granted, DA is my personal favorite. But it goes really well with Claws.
Soloing, at level 22, I grab up all the mobs that are close together with Death Shroud, Spin, Slash, Swipe, DR, Spin, and there is a pile of dead bodies at my feet. I got my Theft of Essence proc amazingly cheap, but I won't get to use it for a few more levels, at which time, I am just gonna go all kinds of stupid with it.
Lots of AoE goodness, solid single target damage, plus the best heal in the game on a fast recharge timer = super awesomeness beyond compare.
WP is a good set, but really, you just turn on some toggles and stop thinking. DA you actually have to watch your end bar, plus you get neat tools like CoF, which is going to figure heavily into my build. I am really tired of cookie cutting my builds for softcapped Def. Yeah, Softcapped defense is amazingly sick, but with other tools at my disposal, I think I may be better in the long run going with them and having a more fun build.
Dark Armor is like that kid you knew in school that didn't know when to shut up, and no matter how bad he got beaten down, he got right back up again and kept on talking.
Survivability wise, SR is pretty bad until 35ish. Then once it hits 45 is gets great. And when you IO it out at 50? Who boy, that stuff is SICK.
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Yea, thats pretty much the definition of "late bloomer". In contrast, /WP is strong right out of the box and only gets better as you invest more into it. My Claws/WP brute was one of the first toons where I started playing with the difficulty slider before level 10. Once you have Spin, Focus, RttC, FH and QR slotted you become a blender of death, it's truely easy mode. Start layering in some defense and resists with tough/weave and manuevers in the 20's and 30's and you'll be a beast. I managed to softcap mine to S/L/E/N and he truely is unstoppable.|
Originally Posted by Rock_Crag
Survivability wise, SR is pretty bad until 35ish. Then once it hits 45 is gets great. And when you IO it out at 50? Who boy, that stuff is SICK.
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My /SR scrapper, yea, cheap to softcap, +recharge in quickness, nicer DDR, but other than that my /WP toons feel tougher in battle and seem to offer me more.
Man, I hated the grind up to 50 on my old /SR Scrapper. Now, I know that Brutes =/= Scrappers (not quite anyway), but I hated just about everything about getting to the bloom. Once there, I started to enjoy myself a bit more, but I wouldn't want to go through that ever again.
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As I understand it, SR is a late bloomer, but how late are we talking here? I've never gotten a SR character past level 12, so I know little of how it works in the mid range levels.
I've done WP before, but I'm just looking for something new to do.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.