MsSmart

If you can have the courtesy to read a few posts above, you will see I confirmed you can have six slots on a level 49 power, but why bother reading when you can be insulting

Would cautious use of the option/general/disable exp help with the leveling too quick?

Thanks, your need to be condescendent is overwhelming, but I know this makes you feel real big, does it not?

MidsReborn does allow a 49 level power to have all 6 slots

The problem of doing what you correctly suggest, is that the last power you buy, tends to be a lame one IO set wise

True, but still, it does not cleanly address the issue, it is a work around, there truly should be 6 level 50 slots

This is a useless response, respec does nothing in resolving the last power you buy to be stuck at 3 slots

I tend to agree with the overpower comment, yet when I send the pets ahead, I always get mezzed by a ranged attack somehow...

You make a good point there, but as I described in my post, Brutes were a needed compromise between Tanks and Scrapers by design needs. I do not agree with making Brute CC be more powerful than Tanks, for now you are making Tanks irrelevant because the Brute is not significantly less resistant than Tanks; have better CC ; and, their damage is much better! So why play a tank after all? I really can't see how to make the Brute distinctive and not risk making the tanks or scrapers pointless

Interesting post, thinking back to the days of live, where you played either blue or red, the red side team had to had a tank for obvious reasons, since the blue classes were not available on red side to choose from as it is now. So the Brute had to be made to satisfy the role of tank, it did considerably more damage than the humble tank, but it also was not as resistant as a true tank, and thus a sense of balance. I do not advocate for the changes you propose, they are not needed. I do not use Brutes as tanks at all, if I wanted to tank, I play a tank. Instead I see Brutes as ultra tough scrappers, and if you look at AE farmers, the majority of them are Brutes which should be telling you something exciting about them.

When powers are used, in the norm, you can see a graphic originating at you and then traveling to your intended target, which allows the mob to know it was you! I am mystified at how mobs knows you are the master of your pets when attacked and then go after you, how they know it was me in a team of eight players? But I digress... With indirect powers, say you lightning bolt instead of emanating from you starts at a power pole or some other object, so that there is no way for the mob to know you struck it and then aggroe you. If you are the only other thing in the area and they get zapped a third time, then they can add the pieces and deduce its you. This would be a fun power with funny outcomes

I like the idea, since I use mids, I know what my ultimate build is going to be. If I can slot those IOs as early as possible, it makes my alt more competent and less of an exp leech as I progress. I do not buy IOs to later dump them to the trash as I am sure my detractors gonna be preaching at me, telling me that was the way the game was designed to be and I should play the game just they way they want me to

Making any tank stealthy can be done with the purchase of celerity stealth and then from the speed pool, select super speed and you there. What attracts me from Ninjutsu is that it is a well balanced power set that has self heal, self endurance, and stealth is just a cherry on top.

Only a request, but could a defense set of ninjutsu be made for tanks and brutes, scrapers gets the choice.

Melee at the moment are very important in a team, in fact they tend to be the star in this action movie. The change to allow them to affect themselves, is a logical one, but despite that they can buff themselves, they will hardly become more survivable than melee who were in the PBAOE and are enhanced themselves by as much (so the power differential in favor to the melee remains), all is happening is the degree of brittleness and at times helplessness is decreased for the support. Let me provide an example, say an emp PBAOEs clear mind, the Defender goes from a protection of 0 to 4, while the Tanks 12 rises to 16, I just can't see how anyone claims the defender became tougher than the tank.