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Your dark def brings -tohit, a heal, a large fear, and a pet that puts out as much control as some of the more poorly played human controllers I have teamed with.|
Originally Posted by Pyrotechnick
My GF is running a Mace/Super Reflexes Brute, cause she likes to smash things. Now, playing blasters, I figure that a brute should be pretty tough, but for some reason, she gets killed rather easily (or much more easily than I expected).
I am playing a Dark/Ice Defender, and the two of us can kill about anything, but I had her helping my blaster the other day, and she ran into a pile of Rikiti and became one with the carpet. I have not looked at how she is slotted, but I know NOTHING about Brutes. I know she is using SOs of the correct level. We are in our early 40s. I think 42. Anyone have a Super Reflexes Brute, or have any general advice? |
When your on your blaster all that extra mitigation goes away.
Without seeing her build its hard to offer a lot of advice. Is she soft capped to all 3 positions yet? That will provide a metric ton of survivability for her. Many /SR users like to find a way to fit in aidself to take the edge off of the low number of hits that do get thru even at the soft cap.
Also against Rikiti your going to run into Psi attacks that lack a positional tag. They will hit and they will hit for full damage since her brute most likely has 0 Psi resistance.
Global: @Kelig
I'm pretty sure those Rikti Drones have a hugely increased tohit make the soft cap vs them alot higher than other enemies.
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They ignore stealth. They do not have any plus to-hit. They do themselves have very high def and can be a pain to hit as a player
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Originally Posted by MajorTractor
I'm pretty sure those Rikti Drones have a hugely increased tohit make the soft cap vs them alot higher than other enemies.
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Global: @Kelig
SR is not playing to its full potential unless you are softcapped to all of positions (melee/ranged/AoE). That would be 45% in all those categories. DDR can be maxed out on SOs I believe, but I am not sure if you need sets to make it to the cap. I imagine that fitting in fighting pool, combat jumping and if your defender has some leadership powers, your GF may be able to reach the cap without using any set IOs.
For most PvE content (before Incarnate content) 45% will keep a toon pretty safe. SR is a set that pretty much needs all powers, with the exception of Elude, to be functional. It is less forgiving if one skips powers and generally requires a tight build, so make sure she didn't skip anything before Elude.
I shelved my /SR brute mainly because of the poor performance of EM/ and some synergy problems there, but I will admit that a capped /SR brute is fun to play. But the fun didn't really start until I made the investment to get the toon softcapped to defense.
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"You're right...I forgot...being constantly at or the near the damage cap is a big turn off. Definitely not worth it."
- Vitality
My GF is running a Mace/Super Reflexes Brute, cause she likes to smash things. Now, playing blasters, I figure that a brute should be pretty tough, but for some reason, she gets killed rather easily (or much more easily than I expected).
I am playing a Dark/Ice Defender, and the two of us can kill about anything, but I had her helping my blaster the other day, and she ran into a pile of Rikiti and became one with the carpet.
I have not looked at how she is slotted, but I know NOTHING about Brutes. I know she is using SOs of the correct level. We are in our early 40s. I think 42.
Anyone have a Super Reflexes Brute, or have any general advice?