Dark Melee/Invulnerability ideas


Blue_Centurion

 

Posted

Okay, I have decided where to throw the rest of my cash. All onto one build. It will be a Dark Melee/Invulnerabilty Brute. I know these things are juggernauts, because I ran one for a few months straight about a year back. But the build was not optimal.

Looking for ideas for how to squeeze every last shred of performance out of this thing. I peeled my Glad +3% off another toon using an unslotter. So, 2 bill down lol.

I am looking at softcapping with 1 mob in range to everything but Psi, while not sacrificing on Recharge. Recharge really feeds the Synergy of Dark/Invul, in my opinion. So build priorities are defense then recharge.

Thanks in advance for any tips. I will be looking at any builds thrown up here, of course. I will also be looking to post my own build here by next weekend. With any luck it will be the "final build" and not just pencil sketches. I have startedthe guy today, and am slowing the leveling only to grab a safeguard every five levels. Running Blueside.


 

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Look for Succubus Kali. It's pretty much unkillable. It is a scrapper build, and uses the fire epic, but should be easy to translate into a brute build.

I made a similar build with mine, but taking Soul mastery instead, for thematic reasons.


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?

 

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On one of the comps I use I think I actually have the Succubus Kali build in mids. Otherwises I'll track it down. lol. Thx for reminding me!


 

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heres a build i just made, its not got softcap to fire and cold but i didnt make that a priority because that damage type is not as common as smashing lethal and energy, assuming you will go incarnate.

let me know what you think.

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INVUL DARK 1: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Invulnerability
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Concealment
Ancillary Pool: Pyre Mastery
Villain Profile:
Level 1: Smite

  • (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  • (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  • (3) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  • (5) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Resist Physical Damage
  • (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
  • (7) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
  • (43) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (46) Aegis - Resistance
  • (46) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
Level 2: Temp Invulnerability
  • (A) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (5) Aegis - Resistance
  • (7) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
Level 4: Dull Pain
  • (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal
  • (29) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
  • (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
  • (31) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
  • (31) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
Level 6: Shadow Maul
  • (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (15) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (21) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (21) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
  • (23) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
  • (23) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
Level 8: Siphon Life
  • (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  • (9) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  • (9) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  • (11) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (11) Accuracy IO
  • (15) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
Level 10: Resist Elements
  • (A) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (43) Aegis - Resistance
  • (43) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
Level 12: Maneuvers
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  • (13) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (13) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 14: Combat Jumping
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 16: Hasten
  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (17) Recharge Reduction IO
  • (17) Recharge Reduction IO
Level 18: Stealth
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
  • (19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (19) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 20: Unyielding
  • (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  • (34) Reactive Armor - Resistance
  • (34) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
  • (34) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
Level 22: Resist Energies
  • (A) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance
  • (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance
  • (36) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Recharge
  • (37) Reactive Armor - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
Level 24: Dark Consumption
  • (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (25) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (25) Eradication - Damage
  • (27) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
  • (27) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Recharge
  • (29) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 26: Soul Drain
  • (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (37) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (37) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (39) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Damage
  • (39) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
  • (39) Cleaving Blow - Accuracy/Recharge
Level 28: Invincibility
  • (A) HamiO:Enzyme Exposure
  • (40) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (40) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 30: Super Jump
  • (A) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%)
Level 32: Midnight Grasp
  • (A) Enfeebled Operation - Accuracy/Immobilize/Recharge
  • (33) Enfeebled Operation - Accuracy/Endurance
  • (33) Enfeebled Operation - Endurance/Immobilize
  • (33) Enfeebled Operation - Accuracy/Immobilize
Level 35: Tough Hide
  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense
  • (36) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
Level 38: Shadow Punch
  • (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  • (45) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  • (45) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  • (46) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 41: Char
  • (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold
  • (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
Level 44: Fire Blast
  • (A) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (45) Decimation - Accuracy/Damage
Level 47: Fire Ball
  • (A) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Endurance
  • (48) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage
  • (48) Positron's Blast - Damage/Recharge
  • (50) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
Level 49: Melt Armor
  • (A) Achilles' Heel - Defense Debuff/Recharge
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Level 2: Swift
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Health
  • (A) Numina's Convalescence - Heal
  • (50) Numina's Convalescence - +Regeneration/+Recovery
Level 2: Hurdle
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Stamina
  • (A) Endurance Modification IO
  • (50) Endurance Modification IO
Level 1: Brawl
  • (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
  • (40) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
  • (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
  • (42) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint
  • (A) Empty
Level 2: Rest
  • (A) Empty
Level 4: Ninja Run

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Thanks Sypher Vendetta. I finally got around to looking at this. Was gaming with my wife all Saturday, she is new to the cities. She likes it so much I stayed up until 3 am Sunday morning running door missions with her in Steel. Sunday I basically just ran random stuff on the new Dark/Invul, finished off both Positrons and Synapse. Never run Synapse exhausted, wow did it feel long.

So, I have thrown some I/Os on him already, just 30'd. I am fully expecting to do one respec at 50, so I'll adjust where necessary. It looks like I am going to be using your design as the basis for my build. It is more survivable than my SS/Invul that I have set up. And no, I am not stripping that guy. I made a commitment to myself to have a pimped out SS/Invul build for at least a year. It was my first love in the game, and I want to see how many times I flop back onto it over the next year. This Dark/Invul will represent most of the rest of the treasure I have, except for the odds and ends of a Permadom build I have sitting in a base. I already know I like running a Dark/Invul Brute. Side by side it will be interesting to see which I go to more for trials and such, with both being high end builds. I suspect it will be the Dark/Invul, but you never know.

Anyways, thanks for the bones of the build. I will start looking at it this week for making minor tweaks and adjustments, then post my list of ugly alterations for critique lol.