Brutes with parry?

So we know that Brutes are getting Swords and Katanas. Do you think the devs will let them have parry as well? Or not? Clearly it would be awesome to be able to max out your defense vs. Melee and Lethal.

Part of me suspects that particular power will probably be removed, or at least nerfed, or .... something. If they nerf it, I hope it's just something like making it recharge slowly or lowering the defense buff amount, but with a benefit to balance it, like maybe dealing more damage if it hits, or something like that. If they remove it, it will be awesome to see what kind of creative power they come up with to replace it with.

i doubt they would be changing it, if its as overpowered as you say, then it would have been nerfed for scrappers a long time ago

i think broadsword and katana will be 100% direct ports with just a change of confront to taunt with minimal changes to fit the brute

That is a good point. I think I just don't want to get my hopes up.

It's very powerful in some situations for scrappers, but always the problem is the scrapper doesn't draw aggro very well, so it's just him/her that is safe. The rest of the team may still be dying.

Can't really think of a reason they would change either set, save Confront --> Taunt.

Brutes have same defense and resistance modifiers for their secondary sets. I suspect the Brute version of Parry will be exactly the same, leaving it just as powerful as the Scrapper version. In my opinion, it won't be overpowered because it lowers your DPS when you use it.

Maybe not overpowered, but definitely awesome. I'm thinking I'll make a sword/wp, and just bask in the +regen goodness when I get the enemies all gathered around me punching.

Kat/wp might just replace SS/wp as the Brutes for Dummies go to build since you don't have to deal with the Rage crash. I have a lightly played Kat/wp that I'm holding off on leveling just because I can't reason why the scrapper version would be better considering /wp is much better on a brute.

I don't see why it won't. I can see them increasing the recharge on some powers like they did with Claws which could change ST chains.

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Originally Posted by Amy_Amp Kat/wp might just replace SS/wp as the Brutes for Dummies go to build since you don't have to deal with the Rage crash. I have a lightly played Kat/wp that I'm holding off on leveling just because I can't reason why the scrapper version would be better considering /wp is much better on a brute.

Yeah my Kat/WP could have around 300 more HP and S/L resists could be 80+ with SoW...
I will be having a hard time trying not to re-roll some of my Scraps.... My Claws/Regen is another......

I'd been holding off on doing a sword/fire scrappy, mostly out of having too many other toons as it is.

BS/Fire brute is very likely to happen ...


... depending on TW/

I hope broad sword isn't nerfed for brutes......I'm thinking of making an alt inspired by.....THE KURGAN!

THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!

Take the Magic: The Gathering 'What Color Are You?' Quiz.

I think I'll be running a BS/Fire brute. Sounds like tons-o-fun.

Kat/DA will be super awesome.

I wanna make a Broad Sword/Shield Defense Brute. :'(

Would do a scrapper, but I don't like confront or having to use Provoke to taunt. Plus I want the higher hit points.

I'm definitely rolling a Katana Brute and I'd originally planned on going Kat/Regen. I know Regen won't be OP but it sounded fun, now I'm thinking the redraw might get annoying. I know redraw doesn't effect gameplay that much, but it would still be annoying to be constantly redrawing after every click heal.

Now I'm thinking Katana/WP and maybe rolling up something Street Justice/Regen...going to be some bad alititis come i21.