You can probably use this up easily. Since all patrol xp past the level is lost.
Just keep using it till it's out of charges, and instead of 2.5 levels of patrol xp, you'll get <=1
Melee attacks murder them before they murder you.
Still they can't survive stuff scrappers, brutes, stalkers and Sents can - they are damage specialists not generalists like those others.
For a usual melee set
4 ST attacks
2 melee AOEs
Past that and all my slots end up used up.
With 6 you can just use purple sets for everything.
A proc build would look different of course
Tank Guy -
Forged Iron
Forged Steel
Steelforge
Ironforge
Hammered Iron
Hammered Steel
Blaster Guy -
Worse than Wrong (with appologies to Feynman)
Mister Higgs
Entangled Quantum
Tachyon Torch
Proton Proton
Hydrogen Dawn
Supersymetry
Shield takes a more dedicated effort to get there than SR though.
EA can sofrcap easy except dark and psi (and toxic)
Brute SR is the best version really. The AOE toggle comes at 20. So you can exemplar well. And with scaling resists S/L can climb to 90 easily with most builds instead of 75 like on a Scrapper.
On Tankers SR numbers are mostly overkill.