SS/SD Energy or Earth mastery? Cardiac or Spiritual?
By
Angelxman81,
Posted on: 2011-05-08 15:52 in Brutes
Due to the way slotting for positional defence mainly requires full sets that are low on end-red, even tier 1 cardiac will reduce endurance use more than PP+SC will increase recovery. Adding another AoE to your repertoire, even one with a 64s recharge like Stalagmites, is likely to be more beneficial than the extra recharge offered by spiritual.
There is now the option of going with Ageless destiny for a recharge boost and endurance refill on a 2 minute recharge and either a significant recovery boost (core) or capping your defence debuff resistance (radial).
Are you sure?
I mean, I never take hasten because I hate the FX over everything else.
I think going spiritual would help with recharge, so I can stack rage.
You don't pick Hasten because you hate the effects? But it's one of the best powers in the game! Hasten is a GLOBAL 70% recharge. It doesn't get any better. The recharge cap is so high that you can still grab all kinds of IO recharge bonuses on top of it.
Look, if you want to upgrade your Brute's performance, pick up Hasten, the Cardiac Alpha, and Stalagmites. Even without Hasten, your mighty SS attacks will take up a good chunk of Endurance, and you also have Rage crashes to deal with. Cardiac helps you come back from Rage crashes, makes your numerous toggles cost less...It's a great help for a character with high endurance usage and no Endurance Recovery powers.
I guess you COULD get both Cardiac and Energy Mastery. I've seen people do that on SD/SS Tankers and pop Conserve Power when their blue bar gets low.
Also, you may want to put a Force Feedback: -Recharge Proc into both Foot Stomp and Shield Charge. The proc almost always activates when you use those powers against groups of five enemies or more when I use it, and the recharge boost is a tremendous help.
Good luck!
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Don't put a FF into Shield Charge. |
Originally Posted by Mr_Grumpums
You don't pick Hasten because you hate the effects? But it's one of the best powers in the game! Hasten is a GLOBAL 70% recharge. It doesn't get any better. The recharge cap is so high that you can still grab all kinds of IO recharge bonuses on top of it.
Look, if you want to upgrade your Brute's performance, pick up Hasten, the Cardiac Alpha, and Stalagmites. Even without Hasten, your mighty SS attacks will take up a good chunk of Endurance, and you also have Rage crashes to deal with. Cardiac helps you come back from Rage crashes, makes your numerous toggles cost less...It's a great help for a character with high endurance usage and no Endurance Recovery powers. I guess you COULD get both Cardiac and Energy Mastery. I've seen people do that on SD/SS Tankers and pop Conserve Power when their blue bar gets low. Also, you may want to put a Force Feedback: -Recharge Proc into both Foot Stomp and Shield Charge. The proc almost always activates when you use those powers against groups of five enemies or more when I use it, and the recharge boost is a tremendous help. Good luck! |
Unless you like wasting FF Procs of course.
Edit : To clarify, because SC uses a Pseudopet to do the knockdown and damage you'll only ever get a single chance for it to affect you when you cast it, rather than a chance per enemy hit as Footstomp does.
True, FF: recharge proc doesnt tic on Shield charge.
I got it in Footstomp and I got 6 Obliterations in Shield charge.
Still not sure on hasten, I hate the FX plain to much.
If I go cardiac, I pick earth mastery.
If I go spiritual, I pick energy mastery.
I have a SS character, earth powers based. I have doubts about APPs and alpha.
One option is grab earth mastery for concepts and go cardiac as only option since the combo is endurance heavy.
The other option is about better performance for long run. Pick energy mastery for physical perfection and superior conditioning and go spiritual for better recharge for: rage+footstomp+shield charge=massive havoc.
Posted builds welcome!
Any advice? Thanks in advance guys.