Erratic1

Just poking you. 😁 Finally got Brimestone on my Elec/Stone brute. Chain Induction threatens to become my favorite ability because of it.

You complaining that a Brute did content faster than a Tanker? 🤨

So you buy that our characters can teleport groups of people to them but the teleporting a speeding chunk of rock from space 100 feet above a target is a bridge too far? And my character with Meteor is a magician. Anything goes when magic is involved.

Repulsing Torrent in Kinetic Melee wonders how how it does not qualify.

Shift your slotting on Maneuvers to DE/DR/R/+5 Res while dropping the slot in Combat Jumping used for holding the +5 Res. Maneuvers low base Defense values results is no real penalty to your overall defense values and by doing this you save a slot. Tremor's base Knockback value is 0.67. Since values under 1 are knockdown, that suggests you do not need to slot used for KB->KD, so drop it, saving a slot Drop the Recharge IO in Earth Embrace. The power cyceles in 40s instead of 35s and you save a third slot. Add the three saved slots to Weave and change its slotting to Shield Wall: DE/DR/DER/D + Luck of the Gambler: D+Recharge That would pick up 4.5% E/N resistance. And because you increase the slotting in Weave your other Defense values come up slightly.

The Boggle mechanic works but is not a grand mechanic. As for things getting better, Mass Levitate is fun but I am not sure that is going to ice your cake. I do not dislike my original Homecoming character, a Rad/Psi Tanker, but I do not play her very much either.

@Meta Brawler Came at your build while referencing my Elec/Stone brute. So different damage powerset and different ATOs but I felt you could do better in the Smash/Lethal resistance department because sometimes one does face defense debuff and having resistance as a fallback can be quite handy. Of course there were tradeoffs. Take what follows less as a suggestion than as something to possibly mine for ideas: As you can see the biggest changes are S/L defense gets considerably snipped in favor of notable boost in S/L resistance. Fire/Cold defense does come up decently but not to levels where you sneer at it and Energy/Negative resistance is lower. Recharge is probably not as bad as it seems since I think I turned off Hasten on the revision but you will want to check that.

Keep in mind Lightning Rod is a radius 20 power, compared to radius 7 for Thunderstrike meaning it hits 8 times the area.

On my Elec/Stone brute I find it to be pretty nice whenever I use it. When it is up I use it. As a fallback opener you can target a foe, queue up Thunderstrike, then simply teleport into the crowd.

You Muenster!

I once had a character using Energy Aura suitably colored to suggest it was a field of cold around his body because Ice Armor's animations were so miserable.

Only at level 31 but Elec/Stone has been a surprisingly enjoyable combo for not having an obvious synergy baked in.

While I have had an Ice character before (live) I have shied away from it because the animations limited my conception space. Now I will have to reconsider. Darn it!

Did it on normal (vicious) difficulty yesterday. At that level it is not the nastiest TF but well in line with wanting a solid build. My only defeat was when I did not notice what I was charging into was a pack of five AVs however there was one character who was routinely watching action from the floor. The character I was playing has his third level alpha. I suspect the character routinely going down did not. The higher difficulty levels though I think will definitely cater to increasingly optimized character and (without having tried them) possibly require crafting a specific team for.

Three points for consideration: There are different levels of "being wrong" but saying "here is how I play" cannot really be wrong because that is how a person plays. May not be your, my, the majority's cup of tea but it does not have to be. However a person view can be illogical or self-inconsistent. Diantane has a built a certain reputation which colors how their posts are received, particularly with regards to facts, but Diantan did open their post with, "The following is just my opinion and is not the way to play by everyone." It is possible to disagree without being disagreeable. I tried to be underscore where I thought there were flaws in the OP without actually attacking the person. There is a review of the new Seismic Blast set by the same user which is a step up on the "wrongness" ladder. I ignored it hoping it would sink into oblivion but for those that have not, pointing out the flaws is not something which is out of step with what I am taking GM Widower's advice to be (could have been phrased better), which is to ignore trolling. But pointing out factual errors I am pretty sure still fair game.

The developers have direct access to see exactly how people's characters are slotted (what percentage use IOs), how many are 50, and so on. The oddities of the forum are just that but not going to sway the developers.

You're betting he reads the replies?!?

I wager 50,000 quatloos against.

If I like a character, I'll play them. 50 will occur eventually simply through playing the game. For the most part neither do I. And yet I still have level 50 characters because playing them is fun and that is what I do. Not seeing what setting an arbitrary cap on where I stop playing a character does for me. And its not like I do not make plenty of characters and play them.

Every armor set has a hole, be it a defensive or resistance one. So calling out WP's defensive hole as if Radiation Armor, Bio, Invulnerability, or any other set does not have one is questionable. The IO system is one way to address holes, particularly defensive/resistance holes. Addressing holes makes a good thing (everything else the powerset gives you) better.

Stone Enema

You need MORE POWER so things die to it. I am not the biggest fan of knockback but with such a stupidly high value I love it. Seriously considered renaming my character Chicxulub or Extinction Level Event because of Meteor. You do not want to know what I considered naming my character because of Upthrust.

If your group is wiping out spawns that quickly, move ahead of them, pop Seismic Forces, then use Meteor on a fresh group while they are killing the previous spawn. Do Upthrust immediately after casting. What doesn't die to your Upthrust (which will hit with the Meteor) and Meteor combo will be spread and your team will be along presently for the pick up.

Bravo! I do not like the bare chest option in the game but overlaying the pattern over it was inspired and seriously brings up the underling blah of the chest. (Can we not get a slightly more defined chest option?) Awesomely done. Edit: Found a way to get the Lanaru look by cheating and using Tights with a close color to skin color (and oldie and why they changed the skin palettes to be slightly different from costume, as people were making nude characters). I also stole shamelessly from you. 🙂 RularuuMage2.costume