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Yes, I was just speculating why the original poster might think that foot stomp had no foot stomp animation.

Yes, but if we'd had the exp/sidekick system we have now. I wonder if leveling pact would have existed?

With exemplar/sidekicking being basically seamless now, is it even really necessary? Seems more a relic of the clunkier systems past.

My thugs mastermind concept is just a gang member. So no one involved has any super powers. No one in COH is as powerful as Superman Plus there's a lot of super tech out there.

You likely can't cap energy resist on a WP brute outside of SOW with anything like a normal build. Not sure even a tanker could S/L Sure Its likely not necessary. 70 S/L resist, 30 typed def and slotted regen and you are where WP tankers with tough/weave were when the set came out.

Instead of a new AT, why not proliferate some DOM assault sets to Cors, Defs, and Sents

Blasters have the strongest Melee attacks of any AT, so the correct term for a melee blaster is probably Blaster

No real need to test all the melees Just test Titan Weapons with other secondaries

Martial arts has a lot of quick attacks but Eagles Claw is slow. It is possible to skip it though. Street Justice feels similar in some ways, however crushing uppercut is slow and not skippable. Savage Melee also has quick attacks par the first 3 ST attacks.

Though both will likely be more survivable than electric.

SR or Invul for the secondary to get a feel for end use would work. Neither are going to survive as well as WP on just SOs though.

Brutes can softcap SR to all positions at level 21 EA gets all its shields at a pretty low level, but you need more IOs

For ease of use though .. You really don't want anything that needs any time spent on survival, or without mez protection.

Those would more come from the Brutes are DPS side though, in that if there was a token reduction in the Brute resist cap to 85% then they somehow aren't a tank class. The Brutes are tanks side would suggest something more along the lines of lower Brute damage by X, increase the base values in the Brutes secondaries to from 0.75 to 0.8

Yeah but if you chose alt anim theme for the powerset it would plug in the alt anims. Since footstomp comes so late i can see never realizing.

There are scrappers sets with built in stealth, if stalker is out. A /nin scrapper might be a good choice.

It does not make sense that Broadsword and Battle Axe would be significantly worse than War Mace, since they are nearly the same sets. Likely a result of WM being buffed because it used to be the one of the 3 that trailed behind.

Lol. I love that one. Some of the cutscenes are pretty awesome tbh

The old republic online does this too

There are both options. One is a foot stomp where you stomp your foot. The other one is the fist ground punch that was added when powerset customization was added.

This forums in general is fairly slow though, so its not really that many posts.

I think part of the issue is that there is a fundamental disagreement about what a Brute's role is. Those from the "broots are DPS" side don't see Brutes as actual tanks, after all Tankers have tank in the name. And thus Tankers shouldn't do damage like DPS ATs you know, like Brutes. Those who see Brutes as the lighter/higher damage Tank AT don't see the issue. Because most MMOs have heavy and light tanks. Those sorts of arguements will continue, game testing or not. ======= We're actually lucky the Brutes are tanks camp isn't arguing to keep live Tanker damage, and just nerf Brute damage for being too close to Scrappers.

Keep in mind the blaster ATO proc (slotable at level 7) can give you a couple points of stackable defiance like status protection.

Blasters and Corruptors are not an AT pair. Corruptors are the inverse of Defenders. Blasters have no analog. Much like Masterminds and Sentinels. -------- Another thing to keep in mind is that this game is like a mmo retiree that got a new job at Walmart. Take advantage of its strengths, but stop trying to redesign it, Beta was 2 DECADES ago.

I assume there is a fair ways to go before we get to ghost town. After all there's multiple servers yet.