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I'm curious....|
Originally Posted by Soopa
I've really never given either the primary or secondary much of a go as of yet and am really curious to see if it would make the "Tanky" brute I would like to try.
I'm more a solo pve'er and would love a build with soft caps to the "fab four" and an idea on how not to faceplant on my rise to 50! Thanks all! |
If you're a soloer I would NOT pick /stone. It's overkill for ANYTHING you'll face solo, and if you crank up the levels or amounts of spawns the single target nature of DM with the -damage and -recharge of granite will slow your leveling to a crawl. If you don't intend to run granite then the -speed, -jump of rooted will also slow you down and given the +def of all of the other armors won't make you that much more survivable.
For a soloer I would suggest:
electric=good resists, good heal, great end management
shield=good defenses, +damage (against all odds), good nuke
willpower=decent defense, decent resists, good to great end management, good +regen
fire=good resists, great heal, damage aura, +damage, pbaoe (burn), decent end management
DM is a fine pick for a soloer as its mostly single target based, comes with a heal that also does great damage. Its AoE is paltry (1 attack, and 2 utility powers). Though when something resists negative energy, it RESISTS negative energy. Its -to hit buff synergizes nicely with defense based sets
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I'd start something like this. A early Kismet will help.
Level 12 Technology Brute
Level 1: Smite
- (A) Accuracy
- (5) Accuracy
- (A) Endurance Reduction
- (3) Endurance Reduction
- (7) Endurance Reduction
- (A) Accuracy
- (3) Accuracy
- (5) Recharge Reduction
- (7) Recharge Reduction
- (9) Recharge Reduction
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%
- (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
- (A) Accuracy
- (9) Accuracy
- (11) Recharge Reduction
- (A) Recharge Reduction
- (11) Recharge Reduction
Level 14: [Empty]
Level 16: [Empty]
Level 18: [Empty]
around lvl 32 I'd build similar to this
Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.953
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level 32: Level 49 Technology Brute
Primary Power Set: Dark Melee
Secondary Power Set: Stone Armor
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Fighting
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
- (A) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (5) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance
- (7) Luck of the Gambler - Endurance/Recharge
- (7) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (9) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (9) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (11) Eradication - Damage
- (11) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (13) Multi Strike - Damage/Recharge
- (A) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
- (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
- (34) Luck of the Gambler - Recharge Speed
- (A) Kinetic Combat - Accuracy/Damage
- (13) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance
- (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Recharge
- (15) Kinetic Combat - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (17) Touch of the Nictus - Accuracy/Healing
- (34) Touch of the Nictus - Heal/HitPoints/Regeneration/Recharge
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (17) Recharge Reduction IO
- (34) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Recharge Reduction IO
- (19) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (A) Efficacy Adaptor - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
- (19) Efficacy Adaptor - Accuracy/Recharge
- (21) Performance Shifter - EndMod/Accuracy/Recharge
- (21) Recharge Reduction IO
- (A) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance
- (23) Titanium Coating - Endurance
- (23) Titanium Coating - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
- (25) Multi Strike - Accuracy/Endurance
- (25) Multi Strike - Damage/Endurance
- (27) Cleaving Blow - Damage/Endurance
- (A) Eradication - Damage
- (27) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (29) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (29) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (A) Eradication - Accuracy/Recharge
- (31) Eradication - Damage/Recharge
- (31) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
- (33) Eradication - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
- (31) Red Fortune - Defense/Endurance
- (A) Empty
- (A) Endurance Reduction IO
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
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building a lvl 50 stoner require's more information as to what yer looking for. There's plenty of Stone Armor builds floating around. I prefer to not use granite except in rare cases so my build would look alot different from someone who's in granite most the time.| Copy & Paste this data into Mids' Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1129;537;1074;HEX;| |78DA7D93DB6ED3401086676D87344ED2E6D09CDA244D2A71D38A7028F7A8108A8A1| |A2910D4DB288425B1EADAC13615B9E405E086E7E03538BF012F003414B84766BA33| |09489658C9FA76FEF9D7DE995D779EB553AFEF3CBF012279CB1EF87EFFA6F73490E| |603391C3BAEED8EA63A002CD9F244DA8D9D6B710C8ACAD1EF485BCA567BE01DD1B4| |42725B3E968E2F5BBDC075647FD73B76BDECBE33969E7482D67C92EABAAEDD3A908| |389E58C4C15F426523E4AABE99E351A0798C8AA68DF39B17CEBA1655BC1347F7B62| |0D5BBBDE30B086FDCEC00FA4372DE3962EE2730AF311EAD0456C1AA0DD63DE271A3| |DE29B739B606F41502E43BC9063E689B3B915C298F8AA01D40C583A657E239A5F98| |01BD3FE511DF2274FA0EE865A13C45EC618C3411FB0D4A6BF21ECE308CF3B7E25C4| |38A6B58E61A96B9864C41576CAE1237716182D66A896DF6309BCC778824794492B5| |1CB384EBD39483F4674D691F305A616DA549BE9F88ACEA48A8675F902FF792B8FA8| |AC9EFFC88C853AD5A7E8B6A2C5E665E22BEC76C81CFADC0FD2BFBCC27C4B563A228| |0294D85BE29EAFF19954F92CAA7C36BFD055E17D56D853674F9D3D8D19F113BAD6B| |92FEB5C67DDA4FD09EC4B8D7B500B71808ECA069FEAC6B9BB6C40F8DF5135167713| |9415B622CA95887235A2EC4494EB1165CF58DCEDF020929D9998E4BD0BA59CFD558| |4B84B35370E89DF23EE1FFFBA1BD4A906B36B2CFE1476273278FF4909FF003EDCE3| |74| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|
fyi, Rooted detoggles travel powers including CJ. (I'd only use Rooted as needed)
and Granite detoggles RA, BA, CA, and Minerals (a 50 could skip these sheilds)
perma jump is ---> /up 1
Thanks for the levelling build Hindenberg!
Larcen3, I'm just looking for something a bit different. I totally love ELA and WP, they're my go to secondaries for the majority of my guys. Haven't given FA any real love and I always thought SD was more of a scrapper secondary (But meh, I don't claim to be an expert on those things).
I really just want to give DM a try with a strong defensive set that can mitigate damage well and I've always liked the stoney appearance of other I see running Stone.
I plan mostly to level through story arcs and then eventually see if can tank for teams once I get to 50 in the incarnates, or even solo them when they become soloable trials (well the new ones).
I've really never given either the primary or secondary much of a go as of yet and am really curious to see if it would make the "Tanky" brute I would like to try.
I'm more a solo pve'er and would love a build with soft caps to the "fab four" and an idea on how not to faceplant on my rise to 50!
Thanks all!