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The gist was already covered, but I'd like to expand just a bit! I'd double down that Recharge is definitely the most important stat offensively, but it also benefits you greatly from a defensive standpoint as well! Don't forget that all clickies are important to your overall wellbeing! I'll also say the second most important "offensive" stat to build up is accuracy! It's kind of easy to forget about, at least for me. This matters less if you only plan on fighting even con mobs, as raw enhancement value will usually cover your accuracy needs at that scale. But if you start pushing up into the +3s or +4s, you'll need to find some extra accuracy somewhere in your set bonuses. This becomes exponentially easier once you start diving into VR sets and Incarnates at level 50, so don't sweat it too much now. Also, don't fall into the trap of building up +Dam bonuses! You get a poor return on them, especially as a Brute, who have a very strange relationship with their own damage scaling. Another thing I'd like to touch on is building Defense vs Resistance. As a general rule of thumb, always build upon what your armor is good at first and foremost! While Brutes start with the same base numbers as Scrappers, they get the same Resistance hardcaps as Tankers (90%), so as Electric Armor - or any other Resistance based armor - you'll definitely want to attempt to get to that! If you build up a little Defense along the way, great! But keep in mind that -DEF is the most common debuff in the game! Any mob carrying something resembling a machine gun or blade will reduce your Defense! It only gets worse as you level up!

You're asking a very subjective question! Not to toot my own horn, but I think I'm pretty good at making very powerful combos quite thematic! I think one bit example I can give is that if I have a combo that could really use the Sorcery pool to become stronger, but I don't want to make a magician, I default to a 'magitech' sort of trope that lots and lots of classic JRPGs utilized greatly! The only limit is your creativity!

You're going to have to take me dinner first! Somewhere "low carb"-friendly, please!

Fire/SS! It's pretty easy to find my thread on it!

I wish I was shrinking. My summer bod is not coming in well! What was the question?

It's been a rough day! I got a lot of stress pent up! I could really take a load off right now!

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Sentinel Dark Armor does not get Dark Regeneration!

Hey, I have one of these! Sentinel (Dual Pistols - Dark Armor).mbd Now, admittedly, this build is heavily damage focused like everything I make, so it may not be your cup of tea! However, I did accidentally end up soloing a +0 Neuron AV with this thing about 80% of the way finished, so take that with a grain of salt! I think my biggest stickler for this is that losing Dark Regeneration for Obscure Sustenance is an incredibly bad trade!

Here are some ideas for you!

Hullo! I'm a bit late. @Troo and @Maelwys did a fantastic job covering the basics! I think the one big overview I'd like to add is to treat your baby Regenner as a Blaster with some extra spot healing! Your primary mitigation as you level is going to be Inspirations, and there's no shame in hitting a Nurse/Combat Medic to stock before a mission! I'd suggest training your damage first and foremost. Your Regen clickies will serve just fine with recharge IOs in them first! The name of the game with Regen is uptime!

So, just from a quick glance, I have a feeling you spend a lot of time standing around! I understand we're running Ice Armor, but that doesn't mean you should move through combat as fast as a glacier! I really don't have the attention span to nit and pick over every single change I would make to your build. Sorry! But I can tell you that you're focusing way too hard on armor numbers, and it's really dampening the overall performance of your toon! By like, a lot! Instead, have a look at this! I quickly whipped up a no-expenses-spared, very active build that trades a lot of the unnecessary DEF for a lot of boom and pow! Prickly Pear Lager - Tanker (Ice Armor - Spines).mbd Since Ice Armor takes care of Slow RES all on it's own, I like to go ahead and use some of the free slotting to empty my bank account on Hamis! This means every single attack is hitting it's maximum damage potential. As for my RES numbers, they all get pretty close to cap with Rune and 2 ATO1 procs. When Rune is down, you can toggle Melee Core for the roughly the same RES bonus!

In a general sense, the Scrapper is going to beat the Tanker in DPS by a pretty large margin, at least on the ST front! I'm pretty sure Tankers are currently the best Melee AT when it comes to AoE performance, due to them having the highest target caps, but the difference in ST DPS is pretty astronomical. The biggest caveat to this is that the Tanker is going to be waaay safer to play than the Scrapper, and also have a much smoother experience due to Tankers oozing Taunt. There are some Scrapper armors that get access to a Taunt aura!

Well, I stopped building my toons for toughness quite a long time ago! If you check this thread here, my favorite Regen Brute has slightly worse armor numbers than that, and can still take on plenty of content just fine! Granted, I haven't put it through anything extremely hard like the 3x Avatar of Hamidon fight or my AE missions since the respec, but so far so good!

Largely, no! In a team, support sets will provide a large majority of your debuff protection. You'll just see me (and others) training things like Slow RES and -Tohit RES to smooth out a solo experience!