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Originally Posted by Syntax42
Why not make a tanker? Their armor sets have higher base values, making it easier to reach high levels of survivability, and they can do it much earlier than other melees. You don't have to worry about doing tons of damage or maintaining fury, which also makes tanker builds cheaper to be effective. If you would rather tank and have a character capable of doing damage solo, I can understand that.
I think Invulnerability is overrated. It can soft cap damage types (not psionic) and it has a good amount of S/L resistance (around 70% for Brute) but tanking anything other than S/L damage makes Invulnerability no better than other defense-based sets. |
Okay, he is in the Brute forum, asking for advice on what Brute to make. Its an interesting question, but still, lets just assume he has decided on a Brute.
You think Invulnerability is overrated. Cool. I am not going to contest the Psi thing, we all know Invul is not good versus Psi. I have run a few Invul brutes, including my current main. I tanked the LRSF, with very little help from my team. (They were busy killing one hero while I teased POSI away, held him off for 3 minutes, not using unstoppable.) Invulnerability has a few tools in it besides S/L resistance. Like Unstoppable. this little gem of a panic button gives you 3 minutes of pure tankiness. also, Dull Pain, part of the reason i could tank Posi. Increases your health for a loooong time. Part of how I tanked Posi with no outside buffs was due to good planning that can be used on any brute, the other was Dull Pain and how it works for my build. So, I had a bunch of inspirations, I have my def and res on monitor, and I pop enough oranges and purps to bring me to Cap. This alone will not work against Posi. That guy is ornery. So, after he lays into me with a couple big attacks I hit Dull Pain. Not only am I totally healed, I now have a lot more health. And thats good, cause the next portion of my strategy involved used my Dark Melees Siphon life to keep me health topped up. No reason to really try to do damage to Posi, couldnt solo him, so I just kept him occupied, slowly edging him farther away from my team. About half the Brute secondaries could not accomplish this, even with massive inspirations. Funnily enough, I think Fire could, but would need a ton of KB prot, or you couldnt keep him placed right. You see, its all in the health management for Brute tanking the top crap. And Dull Pain alone will not do it (one use, i got 2 in, but thats another story), but Dull Pain was part of the tools I used. Invul is a great set in most Pve stuff.
My DM/SR can tank just about any single AV I’ve gone up against indefinitely, without any insp or buffs, that includes AVs with crazy -def like posi. I need insps or some buffs if I’m going to take on two though, or romi and his nictus in the last mish of ITF ******* auto hit aura *****.
Now I haven’t tried the LRSF yet on him (so just ignore me i guess?) but i have tried most of the AVs there. However, my widow has done some and was crazy epic, even surviving where brutes have fallen. And DM/SR is tougher, so my guess is it would do pretty well.
But considering you would most likely have buffs (or insps in Blue's case) just about any brute would be good.
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That would be awesome if you would share that Invul. build. I have been looking at trying to make a good tank brute.