Dual Blades/Fire Shield Need constructive criticism
By
Amazing_Guy,
Posted on: 2010-11-05 20:08 in Brutes
Only thing I can see is to drop Nimble slash and take power slice to get the sweep combo. Empower and weaken are pretty useless. On my DB, I like to use attack vitals combo +BF mainly but when I get a bunch of mobs I throw in the sweep combo as well. Great mitigation with that one along with decent damage.
Well there is the issue of a little overkill on the recovery, not that it is always a bad thing.
Only 4 points of KB protection will be fine for most things, but since you said you like to do AV soloing, You most likely want mag 12 protection.
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
So I made a Dual Blades/Fire Shield awhile ago, I have made a build, have several people look at, they like it, and i like it, but im not too sure.
I've been playing brutes/tankers/scrappers my entire COH career and they make up most of toons, I love just bashing things in the head up close, no wimpy blasting away from range. But I've also been the one to be different than everyone else and always have a different build, and prove you don't have to be a Elec/SD Scrapper or SS/Fire Brute to be able to be an able body melee farmer. So I tried this out, and Dual blades is great! The cones are awesome for damage, I dont really mess with combos too much, and im Mostly a farmer/AV team person on this toon, so I saw no need to grab a travel power with ninja run. I got my S/L defense up to 45%, and got my fire/s/l res above 45% as well, not too hard with fire res, but just stating. For some reason though, I feel like its not as good as it should be though, Any Advice on how to improve? I have everything on this build already slotted on my toon, so i dont know howd it take it off to sell it, but any advice how to make it better or how to sell massive amounts of enhances off a toon to make room for others?
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Amazing Maximus: Level 50 Science Brute
Primary Power Set: Dual Blades
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
Power Pool: Fitness
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Ancillary Pool: Energy Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Nimble Slash
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Fire Shield- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (5) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (7) Reactive Armor - Endurance
- (7) Reactive Armor - Endurance/Recharge
Level 2: Blazing Aura- (A) Obliteration - Damage
- (9) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (9) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (11) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
- (11) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (13) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 4: Healing Flames- (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
- (13) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
- (15) Miracle - Heal
- (15) Miracle - Heal/Recharge
Level 6: Typhoon's Edge- (A) Obliteration - Damage
- (17) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
- (17) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (19) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (19) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (21) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 8: Blinding Feint- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (21) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (23) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (23) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (48) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff
- (50) Rectified Reticle - To Hit Buff/Recharge
Level 10: Hurdle- (A) Jumping IO
Level 12: Kick- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (29) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 14: Health- (A) Miracle - Heal
- (25) Miracle - +Recovery
- (25) Regenerative Tissue - +Regeneration
Level 16: Plasma Shield- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (27) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
- (27) HamiO:Ribosome Exposure
Level 18: Vengeful Slice- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (29) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (31) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (31) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 20: Stamina- (A) Energy Manipulator - EndMod
- (31) Energy Manipulator - EndMod/Recharge
- (33) Endurance Modification IO
Level 22: Consume- (A) Trimuphant Insult - Taunt
- (33) Trimuphant Insult - Taunt/Recharge
- (33) Trimuphant Insult - Chance to Disorient
- (34) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod
- (34) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy
- (34) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Recharge
Level 24: Tough- (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
- (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance
- (40) Reactive Armor - Endurance
- (42) Reactive Armor - Endurance/Recharge
Level 26: Sweeping Strike- (A) Obliteration - Damage
- (36) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
- (36) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (37) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (37) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (37) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 28: Burn- (A) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (39) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (39) Obliteration - Damage
- (39) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
- (40) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (40) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 30: Weave- (A) Gift of the Ancients - Defense
- (43) Gift of the Ancients - Defense/Endurance
- (43) HamiO:Enzyme Exposure
Level 32: One Thousand Cuts- (A) Obliteration - Damage
- (43) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (45) Obliteration - Accuracy/Recharge
- (45) Obliteration - Chance for Smashing Damage
- (45) Obliteration - Damage/Recharge
- (46) Obliteration - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
Level 35: Fiery Embrace- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 38: Ablating Strike- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (46) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (46) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (48) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 41: Superior Conditioning- (A) Endurance Modification IO
Level 44: Physical Perfection- (A) Performance Shifter - EndMod
- (48) Performance Shifter - Chance for +End
- (50) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Recharge
Level 47: Combat Jumping- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
Level 49: Hasten- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (50) Recharge Reduction IO
------------Level 1: Brawl
- (A) Accuracy IO
Level 1: Sprint- (A) Celerity - +Stealth
Level 2: Rest- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 1: FuryLevel 4: Ninja Run