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I admit I'd thought about mentioning the transitive property but refrained.

Your qualifying words were, "...with some builds". "Well these couple of primaries" fits that.

It is left as an exercise for the gentle reader to find Brutes with better times on the Trapdoor Mission than found here I personally don't remember why the Dave Matthews Band was popular.

I believe you are confusing Tanks surpassing Brutes here.

Popped on the test server this morning to run my Fire/Bio sentinel a bit. The damage increase is noticeable and is probably sufficient in and of itself for me to bring my Sentinel off the sidelines. The inherent is more useful for being reliable while not (at least from the solo perspective) game breaking. I do wish the healing option were there, like say Sentinels got two powers--vulnerability and healing--and had to choose which to use their Opportunity activation on. But I am not greedy.

No, was only going to eat Insight well after getting a cycle of Psi Melee's other attacks. The idea of Fury boosted DoTs were one of the initial items to sell me on doing a Psi Melee brute. Picked up Mass Levitate this morning before the patch. Nice for laying down Burn before getting to work with Psi Melee.

I find farming about as interesting as watching paint dry. Probably paint drying wins out, but its close.

Made the switch and have managed to get back to level 26. The only real difference so far is the niceness of having Consume. I have a first pass final build. Oh, there is another difference. I am going to be victimized by Toxic and Psionic attacks.

A week ago I made a Psi/Dark brute since I had not played Dark since Live, and only played Psi on my initial Homecoming character (Rad/Psi Tanker). Play was enjoyable enough and without too much effort the character reached level 30. Still, I was concerned enough about how the character would play with a build I has planned out for him so I copied him to the Test Server to test his target, level 50 build. The power combo and build were perfectly fine and it was fun tossing carnies around. But... ...Psi Melee on its own is not really the best at dealing with crowds and while I had Death Shroud for dealing some area damage, Mass Levitate, while plenty of fun, just did not speed things along while waiting for Insight backed Psi-Blade Sweep to come along. So my mind has turned to possibly switching to Fire Aura for armor. Yeah, I would miss the Psionic Resistance from Dark Armor. But burning groups of things might allow me to live with the loss. Anyone ever give Psi/Fire a go? How was it?

Yeah, yeah...there are qualifications to be made. But still....

Seconded. Not really appropriate for a lot of backgrounds/origins

I assure you Protean's ranged attack is far less problematic than his melee attack and being at ranged utterly negates his healing mechanic.

I could name the character Eclipso...oh wait....

Not sure how that evens things out when on some EBs ranged characters can just hover above and shoot the single fish in a barrel whereas melee MUST be all up in the EB's face.

Recorded it: https://imgur.com/pU8oipv The sequence shown: Character pulses Deactivate Dark Embrace and pulsing stops Reactivate Dark Embrace and pulsing resumes Enter costume designer to show the power as a whole and Dark Embrace specifically is set to No Fade or Pulse. I could design around the pulse if the fight name were open, say Binary. But that is not the name I gave the character or want to use.

I can toggle Dark Embrace off with other powers running and stop the pulsing. So it is Dark Embrace causing the problem, but it is set to not pulse.

I have the general power effects set to No Fade or Pulse and I have Dark Embrace set to No Fade or Pulse... ...but my character pulses like he's being eclipsed and only when I have Dark Embrace toggled on (not negotiable since its Smash/Lethal resist). Why is the setting not working?

My first character on Homecoming was a Rad/Psi Tanker. Did not find the set bad but she did not really inspire me to continue playing her post 50 or to try Psi Melee again. Night before last I started a Psi/Dark Brute. Maybe it is the benefit of being low level backed by Fury, but Psi Melee seems fairly effective. I will have to see how it holds up as he levels.

The following gets you closer to perma-Hasten and what benefits it delivers:

I sometimes wonder what goes through people's heads. While I refrain from suggesting various possibilities, I will express dismay at being downvoted for a dispassionate response factually stating what was done in the last patch, as if I personally had a hand in patch changes or expressed support or opposition to them. The forum community is becoming a bit too insane/toxic.

Removed in the last patch.

I have been watching too much of a certain animated show and wondered how close I could come to a particular character. I am not planning on using it, if anyone is interested in having the costume for their own use:

Okay, Tankers have been updated on the Leadership page. Now it is just Blasters, Brutes, Scrappers, and Stalkers who have no reason to take Leadership. <insert comment about how Brutes get the short end of the stick again>

Leadership - Unofficial Homecoming Wiki

I still wouldn't take Maneuvers except to mule a LotG (though that holds for everyone), but Assault and Tactics look worth it for a Tanker/Brute.