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Brutes are tougher than Scrappers and do more damage than Tankers,.... what is the problem. A tanker being able to survive better in tougher content is normal lol. The damage the buffed mobs are putting out is possibly overwhelming Brutes/Scrappers with their lower mitigations and health but that could be a build/power creep problem or it could be the aggro caps. But those 2 ATs do more damage than Tankers by quite a bit. Brutes have the same resist caps as Tankers, it is just harder to achieve caps for them, but that is why we have team buffers and temp powers. If you can not handle harder content then maybe you need a better build, better team composition or do lower content. Try looking into that first.

Invuln/Staff could be very tanky also. Invuln provides some +to hit for staff. Staff gives +resists and melee defence in guarded spin. Just build for more ranged defence and less melee defence.

O Obviously this guy didn't have Combat jumping turned on and coudn't avoid that toxic mess. He should have switched it on.

You could make them for free on the test server and let the game just random slot them. Then you can decide which you prefer. SS is good but a lot of players don't like the crash, you will have to decide on that. Bio armor works well with a secondary that has some good CC though, like knockdowns etc. Bio also likes +recharge, so being able to slot a Force feedback proc is nice. SS and Claws have that, staff also.

Oops.

Just your small opinion and not necessarily reality.

So you are talking about survival again. A Tanker will win. Tankers can handle tougher content earlier by design. You do seem to be struggling with that even though it has been mentioned a few times. The Brute will get there but It will clear faster., especially if there are some hard targets. It proves nothing.

I will say this....Tabkers are much more played and more popular than they were. So based on that the develipers got it right. It is just a shame that you can not see beyond the maths.

That is a support AT. They bring much to the team already. But i am not against them getting a small dps buff. Tankers fight mobs. Defenders buff/heal/debuff for teams whilst doing as much dps as they can. No you can't, You will have more chance of Bob Dylan turning up for afternoon tea than getting perfect balance. 😛

There is more to enjoyable gameplay than mathematics and perfect balance will never be achieved. Any game in history could probably tell you that

What i see is a few disgruntled players banging on about how broken they are and a lot of players saying how awesome they are and how much fun they are.

Perhaps it will amount to nothing and be a waste of time also. Perhaps everything it just fine.

You tell me it seems you have already worked it out and judged.

You can select which inspirations you don't want to drop and the vendor is right there in AE.

Fire Brute will level faster than any Tanker. Just hit AE. Brutes are quite sturdy themselves. As i said it depends on sets used. Build. Outside buffs and probably a lot more. I have not done the math and i don't think you have either. You are just going off your own gut feeling.

It was just a rough example to give you the idea not exact maths. Clearing +2s much faster could be better than slowly taking out +3s

Inspirations.

For fast leveling it is the access to the AoE attacks that really matter. Brutes win there. SS should absolutely be considered but yes others set should be also. It will also depend on the Armor set picked. Also there are many outside buffs in the game to boost a brutes survival enough for leveling. A Tanker may have an easier time turning the diffeiculy up but slowing its clear rate but a Brute is more than capable if you use inspiration/outside buffs etc.

But they don't. A tanker may take on +3 mobs and take 1 minute say to clear them with their limited secondary attack picks. Whilst a Brute may take on +2s only and clear them in maybe half the time due to better dps and faster access to the good attacks. Abuse the inspirations and the Brute will pull ahead easily. I think you are basing it all on just your own personal results. Those results may not be very accurate. My view is very different.

So a Tanker might take on +3 mobs due to better survival and be slow to take them down due to limited attack skills but a Brute might take on +2 mobs and clear them much faster due to better dps and access to better attacks faster. Seems normal to me. Blasters are glass cannons, defenders etc are buffers/debuffers. They are also at range

A Tanker can take a lot longer than a Brute to gain some decent attacks to take mobs out though. Super stength on a Tanker does not gain any decent AoE until level 38 with footstomp. A brute gets it earlier and is still pretty damned tough.

To push content high means you can survive it. Tankers do this better naturally. Brutes take a bit longer to build their survival also as they do not gain the secondary skills as fast as a Tanker gains its primary skill set.

My Bio/SS Tanker sits at around 2mins 15 seconds on the Pylon with a fairly aggressive proc build. Not a pylon only build. A pylon only build can be faster. My SS/Bio Brute sits at around 1mins 45 seconds on the Pylon with a fairly aggressive proc build. Not a Pylon only build. A pylon only build can be faster. MY EM/Bio Brute sits at under 1mins 30 seconds on the Pylon with a Fairly aggressive proc build.. Not pylon only build. A pylon only build can be faster. Scrappers/Stalkers are sitting closer to the 1 minute mark on a Pylon with many different builds. From my experience with my builds it seems fairly balanced to me. But it depends on how you build. If you can survive the ITF then you will complete as long as you put out some half decent damage. Tankers naturally do this. It does not make them OP, they are doing what they were designed to do...Survive. They have better damage now but that makes soloing etc a much better and less boring gameplay imo and doesn't really matter in teams. Brutes can do it also with a decent build, just as fast and faster on the hard targets. Scrappers/Stalkers certainly have the dps to finish it faster, but the survival is questionable, They are not tanks they are a dps though. If they could survive they would be much faster than a Tanker. Throw in a team and the dps will pull further ahead and gain enough survival from team buffs. A buffed ITF is not the best for a comparison as the Tanker has the best tools to deal with it, which means Surviving!

Why, you stuck up, half-witted, scruffy looking, NERF HERDER!

A Tanker is going to survive better by design which does allow some aggressive slotting. A Brute is less survivable but really benefits from Team buffs which can give them very close Tanker survival whilst doing more damage. The extra AoE size of Tankers can help with clearing trash though as the Brute may miss a few. A Brute does have better damage though, especially solo. Hard targets rather than trash will show the Brute clearly pull ahead. Survival is key to soloing whether that be big dps, cc or mitigation. Tankers are just very well equipped for it. The Tanker ATO MotT proc is probably giving the Tankers the edge which could do with some adjustment really. The Brutes is rubbish lol. Bring the Tanker ATO proc down and give the Brute a better proc and that could make a big difference.