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Personally I'd avoid Stone Armour because while it is indeed tough it's also slow. |
Originally Posted by St0ner
Hi guys now that I've got a great farmer to raise infamy, I wanna start on a brute for soloing those hard hero missions. I know /stone prolly best survivability but I have never played around with the primary's much. Any advice?
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My Dark/WP was the toughest solo brute I had, based on common IOs and frankenslotting.
WP like Smashing/Lethal defense and +HP bonuses as well so there's scope for throwing in set bonuses.
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Yes, avoid stone armor for soloing.|
Originally Posted by St0ner
Hi guys now that I've got a great farmer to raise infamy, I wanna start on a brute for soloing those hard hero missions. I know /stone prolly best survivability but I have never played around with the primary's much. Any advice?
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Brutes solo very well, for overall ease of levelling Dark Melee, Claws or Stone Melee + WP would be some good choices.
Ela is also a good choice, especially with inherent fitness coming (inherent fitness pool will make the wait for Energize and Power Sink a bit smoother).
Ok so stone armor is out. I'm not worried about leveling just want to be able to solo a hero or AV if I need to. Not even sure if it's possable but I wanna at least have the best build I can to give it a shot.
You can't soo Heroes and AV's without some kind of -regen, which pretty much rules brutes out.
Almost any brute can solo elite bosses.
If ypu are doing the mission solo they heroes and arch villains spawn as elite bosses by default. The only way to change that is a fateweaver. Since I do not know of a brute that can solo a hero or AV I do not recommend this.
Almost any well built higher level Brute can solo this heroes and arch villains. There will always be exceptions. If a hero is a Psi monster most brutes are in for a tough fight. There are not as many heroes and AVs in lower level missions, and these can be a toss up. Another trick is to set the mission to -1 level. This will allow you to solo the story arc, collect the merits, and keep going.
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Your damage just has to be greater than the AV's regen. -regen powers just lower the DPS bar. If you have enough DPS then you don't need -regen. Scrappers/Brutes have been soloing AVs for years so it is quite doable.
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Originally Posted by milks
You can't solo Heroes and AV's without some kind of -regen, which pretty much rules brutes out.
Almost any brute can solo elite bosses. |
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This is what I like to call a lie. I myself have soloed AV's/heroes with my Dm/wp brute, claws/sr scrapper and brute, and ss/sr brute. It can be done. Oh and all that was with no temps or insps.
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Originally Posted by milks
You can't soo Heroes and AV's without some kind of -regen, which pretty much rules brutes out.
Almost any brute can solo elite bosses. |
Willpower has more passive regen than Regen does. Who thought that was a good idea?
Can we get a fix for Energy Melee instead of more new sets?
For soloing tough mobs: Stone Melee/Invuln.
For soloing groups: Anything/Fire. Get healing flames 6 slotted asap with recharge and healing, then grab blazing aura, and you'll never die to minions and lutenants.
I'm not sure what brute primaries have AOEs. Fire has Fire Sword Circle, and Super Strength has one. Electric has some cones. I think Dark has an aoe too, but I don't know off the top of my head.
Anyone able to solo with a kinetic/shield brute? I've been out of the game so long, not sure its changed.
For OP, the bread and butter solo king was em/elec.
I'm actually gonna throw a vote in for /stone.
+ excellent layered mitigation against all types of damage (remember to pick Minerals for psi AVs), easy to softcap against everything on top of capped S/L, good F/C/E/N/T res, good regen and great maxHP, decent DDR.
+ damage aura
- slower movement => doesn't matter against most AVs as these fights will be done standing still, save for a few notable exceptions (Mirror Spirit...).
- slower recharge => can break some primaries, but some other have good attack chains at low recharge requirements that are perfectly attainable with IOs even in Granite.
- damage debuff => not that big of a deal on a Brute thanks to Fury.
More on that maybe in the near future... 
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St0ner, this thread has kind of died, but I think part of the problem is that there seem to be two different questions here. Are you asking for some good builds for soloing heroes/archvillians, or for soloing in general? Powersets with -regen really help when soloing an archvillian, but for the majority of the game -regen doesnt matter. Powersets like Super Stength have knockup capabilities that are fantastic against bosses but pointless against an AV since AVs almost always have knockup protection.|
Originally Posted by St0ner
Ok so stone armor is out. I'm not worried about leveling just want to be able to solo a hero or AV if I need to. Not even sure if it's possable but I wanna at least have the best build I can to give it a shot.
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I would pitch Super Strength / Shield Defense as a great all-around solo brute with both excellent single target and AoE damage. But if I want to solo an AV I go get my Illusion/Radiation controller, rather than spend 30 minutes pounding on an AV trying to whittle its health down.
You might want to start a different thread with the subject "What brutes are good for soloing an AV." That will probably get a more focused response. I don't think I would try any version of a /stone brute for that purpose because even it's possible it would take a REALLY long time.
You might also want to check out this thread Help me solo heroes at http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=215361 .
Hi guys now that I've got a great farmer to raise infamy, I wanna start on a brute for soloing those hard hero missions. I know /stone prolly best survivability but I have never played around with the primary's much. Any advice?