NEED CRITIQUE - PvE - Brute - War Mace / Shield Defense - Mids' Build excluded


Battle-Born

 

Posted

hey everyone, thanks for taking your time to check this out. I recently got my War mace/Shield brute to 50, (Thank you Double XP Weekend) and I'm really excited to 'Pimp' my brute out. I've seen some impressive toons in the last couple months wielding a shield, and would like this toon to up there as well. I'd like to be able to solo +4x8 from time to time, but main focus on damage. I'd really appreciate if you could give me some advise, pointers, hints, ideas, or anything else you would be willing to offer. Feel free to give me a look at a build you have or one you came up with. When I created the build I posted below, I wasn't sure what I wanted to focus on. I stayed mostly toward defense I believe because so far, WM had proven to have high damage already. I took fly for character concept (fyi), i know it would have been more ideal to just take SJ or SS but idk... well, thanks for your time again.

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The Battle-Ready
Battle-Born

 

Posted

Tinkered with your build a bit to get your defenses softcapped. Not sure how recovery will work out, I got 2.25 end/s without the 3 pshifter procs so I think it'll be ok... Rather than list all the things I changed, I'll just post a datachunk. Worth mentioning, however, is that Grant Cover is a big chunk of your DDR. I wouldn't skip it.

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edit to add: I really like hasten on my /sd builds, both to bring up my AoEs more quickly and to keep Active Defense double stacked more (this is your other source of DDR). Not sure if you can give up fly, or OwtS for it? However, some people have trouble clicking it (since AD should be on auto) or dislike the visual effect, so I left your power selections as they were.