Level-locking at 30

What would be the best powerset combo to lock at level 30 for AE ticket runs?
I was thinking staff/fire because of all the aoe attacks, but when I put it in mids it doesn't look so good with the lack of slots. Is there a much better combo for this, or should I just cut back on my number of attacks?

While I am certainly not an expert, my Staff/Fire used the following attacks/powers during my last run - starting at level 31 and ending at level 38. I am not a min/max player, nor have I optimized anything. I simply love my Staff/Fire, and took her for a spin in AE just to see.

Mercurial Blow
Precise Strike
Guarded Spin
Eye of the Storm
(Staff Mastery too)

I don't have a perfect attack chain, and I use Eye of the Storm usually after moving into a new group (while I have 3 levels of Perfection). After that initial smacking, I don't use it again in that group unless I feel the need to smack them again! I also have Blazing Aura and Burn going, so that's enough for me. After my last run, I'm torn about what to do - get more attack powers, drop Precise and pick up a replacement power, or something else. I "built" my brute to survive everything from DFB to AE to PVE, so I did focus a little harder on surviving and took powers at slightly "abnormal" times to fit my plan, but it works very well.

Ok, off to rebuild her...making her better, stronger, faster...

/kin corruptor

at level 30 you really aren't going to be burning through maps for max ticket drops. What might (would) be effective is to help someone else burn through maps more quickly. +spd +rech +rec is always appreciated.

if you really mean to level lock at 33 to get the recipes that work at level 30 one of the corruptor primaries with a crashless nuke would pair well.

Interesting, I just rolled a Claws/Fire Brute for precisely this reason.

I was just giving an alternate solution.

A /kin could be very effective at getting tickets. Maybe not be super effective for them self but a boon to a more powerful character actually doing the work. Also, with a corruptor's damage increasing as a targets health gets lower it's a good fit to help the more powerful character finish off remaining bosses.

"+spd +rech +rec is always appreciated." Stay 30 or 33 and buff 50s. Could get tickets faster this way vs trying to solo at 30.

If you really want to solo with a brute, claw/fire or bs/fire and there are some counter intuitive ways (smaller maps, less targets) to leverage the game mechanics.

Here is my build for my lvl 33 claws/fire brute havent finished slotting him nor have bothered to edit his build to have the ATOs

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.956
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Level 49 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Fiery Aura
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Concealment
Power Pool: Leadership

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Strike -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fire Shield -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(3), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(3), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg(25), Aegis-EndRdx/Rchg(25)
Level 2: Blazing Aura -- Sciroc-Dmg/EndRdx(A), C'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(5), M'Strk-Dmg/EndRdx(5)
Level 4: Healing Flames -- Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(A)
Level 6: Spin -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(11), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(11), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(13), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(13)
Level 8: Follow Up -- Mocking-Taunt(A), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg(15), Mocking-Taunt/Rchg/Rng(15), Mocking-Acc/Rchg(17), Mocking-Taunt/Rng(17), Mocking-Rchg(19)
Level 10: Temperature Protection -- S'fstPrt-ResDam/Def+(A)
Level 12: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(19), RechRdx-I(21)
Level 14: Combat Jumping -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), Ksmt-ToHit+(21), DefBuff-I(34)
Level 16: Plasma Shield -- Aegis-ResDam(A), Aegis-ResDam/EndRdx(23), Aegis-ResDam/Rchg(23)
Level 18: Stealth -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 20: Grant Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 22: Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 24: Consume -- Efficacy-Acc/Rchg(A)
Level 26: Eviscerate -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(27), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(27), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(29), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(29)
Level 28: Burn -- Oblit-Dmg(A), Oblit-Acc/Rchg(31), Oblit-Dmg/Rchg(31), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(31), Oblit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg(33)
Level 30: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), DefBuff-I(33), DefBuff-I(33)
Level 32: [Empty]
Level 35: [Empty]
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
Level 2: Swift -- Run-I(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(7)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- P'Shift-End%(A), EndMod-I(7), EndMod-I(9)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 0: The Atlas Medallion
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Tweaked Black ***'s build to use Staff. Perm Hasten (w/kb proc) & AOE-ness.

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I am curious, why are you level locking at 30?

What type of ticket farming are you doing?


If the ambush/door farms aren't nerfed to oblivion a lack of slots shouldn't matter too much and maybe a spines/fire scrapper. but omg throw spines so close yet so far away


*E: If possible, have a friend or an alt account locked at 30, SoA can easily survive a ticket farm without doing anything special, while also supporting you, and team up with your main ticket farmer.

I want a lvl 30 (33 most likely) fire farmer so that whenever I am doing some type of farming/powerleveling/whatever I can hold on to the recipes that I might want to slot and sell the others.
I prefer to slot for lvl 30 for exemping reasons, though really I don't exemp that much. I just like staying semi-uber when I do.

As of right now I have a friend that is going to run a kin/ice defender locked at 33 with my staff/fire brute also at 33. Worst case scenario if it doesn't work out that well, we just turn xp back on and hit 50 real quick