SS/INV, which AT?

So my first character ever was a SS/INV brute when CoV just came out, and it was my first time playing.

Now I'm playing on a new account and my Brute is now long gone.

So I want to remake him and I wonder which class between scrapper/brute would be better for SS/INV and if it's actually viable.

I wonder if it's also good in PVP?

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Well this is an easy one, there's no alternatives to Brutes for SS/Inv, SS is not available to Scrappers. You could go Inv/SS with a Tank. That is a viable alternative. Which is better? Do you like Smash or getting Smashed?

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Oh wow, I feel dumb, I just assumed scrappers had it.

And uhh I'm not sure, I guess I like both?

Which one would be more viable in PVP and PVE?

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I don't PvP but I love my SS/INV tank. Check out Call Me Awesome's guides because they are great reading.

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The Tank would be better in PvP. The Brute would do more damage in PvE while the Tank would be much tougher and easier to softcap SM/L/En/Neg/Fire/Cold.

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I have both an Inv/SS Tanker and an SS/Inv Brute who are the same character. The way I have my slotting set up, the Tanker is somewhat inefficient in terms of End, and uses it up quickly on heavy attacks, settling on well slotted weak attacks at the end. The Brute is the other way around, uses his weak attacks to build Fury, then unleashes his strongest attacks at the end, with them slotted well so he can keep using them without draining his End and having to stop.

They kind of act diametrically opposed. The Brute starts slow and builds up to high damage, the Tanker starts with high damage and tapers off as his foes get down to where he can hold them off indefinately.

I don't know if I would recommend such a build to anyone else, but it does demonstrate that the two are equally good, just in different ways. The Tanker's slow but can wade into anything without thinking, the Brute is fast and can steamroller through a spawn, but sometimes you have to stop and hold yourself back.

Also, a major consideration is whether you would like to have Unstoppable sooner, or Foot Stomp sooner. With Unstoppable you can become an engine of non-stop destruction that much faster. But you can only attack one foe at a time until you get Foot Stomp. So which would you like better at 32?

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