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I am not sure, "Better on a ...." is all that meaningful to a list of what is stronger or weaker in comparisons of brutes to brutes. To the assertion (possibly correct) that Shield and SR blow everything else out of the water, I do not come across in play that very many SR or Shield brutes. Lastly, part of me wonders what happens when one combines Primary A (better on AT 1) with Secondary B (better on AT 2), particularly when AT 1 does not have access to B and/or AT 2 does not have access to A. There are not exactly a lot of SS/EA scrappers, stalkers or EA/SS Tankers running around.

Waitaminute...you did NOT take Contaminated Strike?

You want head scratching, probably wanders into Sanity Check territory with a guaranteed loss even if you make the roll? Try to figure out a reason behind what has been given a thumbs down. I'm guessing random yes/no operator personally.

D'oh! You are correct. Somehow my mind translated Sentinel to Stalker.

Edit: Will just filed this under Emily Litella's, "Nevermind!"

It is not just you.

Proton Sweep is just plain not worth having. Replace it with Cross Punch. Devastating Blow is disappointingly slow but some stick by it. It does hit hard and is a near guarantee for applying the Contaminated status to a target, however I found Radiation Siphon performed only a little less reliably and with sufficient +Recharge you could apply Contaminated status with it and have it recharge to consume it for the healing/damage splash.

I've already fought the portal invasion of my duplicates. Best we just agree to stick to our own dimensions. 😁

I commonly say to my friends when they bring up someone doing something incredibly odd, "Eight billion"--meaning there are that many humans on the planet and someone, somewhere, will have thought of doing whatever weird, nonsensical thing you can imagine. Even so I am actually surprised that someone is so bored and has so little to do with their time that they go through a thread they started and give every post a thumb's down.

😱 That's like saying, "I'm not sure I need oxygen at this time either."

Theft of Essence?

Fortunately ours techs did not care. The trick back then pre-ISPs was maintaining an account after one had graduated.

Savage Melee's is reliable. Is Electric's?

Let me tell you about the early days of MUDs pre-MUD clients....

Trusting my poor luck with regards to doing things at the last minute, I made sure to login and purchase last night before going to bed.

I am not sure I would lay that solely at the feet of Stone Armor. Yes, it has a lot of toggles but my experience with Rad/Shield (scrapper) and Elec/Rad (tanker) suggest to me that Radiation Melee is far from innocent when it comes to delivering endurance woes--I struggled to overcome endurance issues on both characters and the thing they have in common is Radiation Melee. By contrast my recent go at Elec/Stone (brute) has felt better as goes endurance than the worst of the experiences with the two aforementioned characters1. I am fairly sure non-extraordinary set IO slotting along with making use of the Energy Mastery2 epic set will alleviate her endurance issues. At the very least she is looking at a 2.2/s endurance recovery difference between what she generates and what she consumes at rest with my current build plan for her. [1] Using basic, non-set IOs on each of the characters. [2] I generally avoid Energy Mastery because I see it as taking one down the road of lost opportunities since it is taken quite often to address endurances woes while giving up more potent build opportunities were endurances not an issue. In the case of my Elec/Stone brute most of her slots were allocated elsewhere, with only three added slots for powers taken from level 35 upward. As such Energy Mastery provided the best bang for such limited slotting bucks.

My sentinel Mind Blaze will have to invite you over for some fiery philosophical debates. 😁

Their buff/debuff powers later yes, but Corruptors get their blasting powers sooner. Moreover the difference between when they get powers varies with level. Tier 1: 0 level difference Tier 2: 1 level difference Tier 3: 2 level difference Tier 4: 4 level difference Tier 5: 8 level difference Tier 6: 8 level difference Tier 7: 10 level difference Tier 8: 9 level difference Tier 9: 6 level difference The speed of levelling is hardly universal but personally I am going to have Tier 6 powers on the secondary somewhere around the 2nd hour play. So will have waited the duration of a TF (probably Posi 2) to have gotten that T6 secondary power over when I would have gotten it on the other AT. Different strokes for different folks and all but that is insignificant in the life and amount of play I will be doing on any character.

Everything else but the hair matches.

On Torchbearer they are announced, two of them back to back, every weekday around 5pm. I don't do Hami but see the messages like clockwork. So many times I can almost repeat the various jokes about Hamicide and the Monty Python references. Then Saturday and Sunday noon I believe (I am often out of the house at these times so have experienced the announcements less than on weekdays) along with the 5pm Hami raids. Did I mention I don't do Hami raids? [Largely because when I tried a few a good while back there was a presumption you knew what was going on with minimal instruction--though I admit there was instruction.]

Do Freaks not run because I have a video of them facing my Savage/EA scrapper where they seem to stick around until their end: KRBW.mp4

You just described my most recent scrapper: But yeah, back on Live in the first month of the game I made a DM/ Inv scrapper (well before Brutes or IOs were a thing) and he was a mini-tank. Nowadays with IOs.... Someone remind me why I have never revisited DM/Inv?

You were saying something earlier about not reading a post correctly? Pretty sure I was speaking about running out of endurance while having Energy Drain available. You know...that power that gives you endurance? Edit: That was too tempting to ignore as a response. Now you're actually going on ignore.

Better idea. I'll just ignore someone who clearly has no idea WTF they are talking about. Truth is not a democracy and the crowd can be wrong. Still, most people marching to the beat of a different drummer are merely hearing things in their own head...along with voice telling them to do plainly bad things. You might want to make sure you are not one of them.