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I've got a Claws/Bio/Soul. Thing just PEW PEW PEWs all over everything's face. And lots of soft-CC. Great ST and AOE damage. Really fun combination.

Interesting. I do have to say Nin definitely leads to a different feel than the other orimarily DEF based secondaries. Way different, at least to me. I'm personally a taunt aura whore. If Nin had one I'd do it way more often for sure.

Legit curious why you prefer Ninjitsu over EA. This actually says a lot about your playstyle.

As much as I love Super Reflexes, I have to give the nod to Lightning Armor on this one. This is my TW/ELE Brute that is Res capped to SLFCE and def softcapped to SL. Has 281 recharge, and really good defbuff resistance.

Just slapped this together. Hopefully you get some ideas. And get Mid's working:

Dragon's Tail doesn't have a strong enough MAG for the KB to send them flying. You are good. They will just do KD. Leveling up you may want Crane Kick, but once you get enough recharge I suspect you won't need to use it in your chain. AOE or otherwise. I only use four attacks kitted out. Storm Kick, Crippling Axe Kick, Eagle's Claws, and Dragon's Tail. You don't need ALL the accuracy, but you will want enough. That stands true for anything. Also, I'd advise getting Mid's working if you are serious about your build. MA/INV sounds like a good pairing. Inv doesn't get enough credit. I personally don't think it's the best secondary, but it's good. Something to keep in mind regarding your accuracy comment, is that Invincibility does give a +TOHIT bonus for each target in range when Invincibility is in range.

Just keep in mind you have already compiled a lot of data for an easy to look at spot. What you have already done is immensely useful. Don't push yourself to hard (unless this is something you want to do).

Now look at cast times...Follow Up, I'm looking at you. *CoD says they are the same, but I used to play a Claws/Ele brute and definitely remember FollowUp being way slower. Not sure if that's changed (I haven't done claws brutes since shutdown).

The fact you included TBE AND TBA is really nice. Thank you for your work on this. Those two numbers combined = AT obviously, still really nice that someone already did the math. Like, the TBE and TBA on Midnight Grasp makes putting the ATO2 there just silly. Then at the other end of the spectrum is Conc Strike. Really good chance for ATO2 to go off there and a really good window for when it does.

Yeah, the stalker verion of Staff was my introduction to playing the set. I had a really fun ride to 50 with it, but I do know the group of people I played with did the lion's share of DPS work on the way. I played the set by myself at 50 and when I had it fully kitted out and...wow. Kept the costume. Gutted the set.

Out of the scrapper primaries, I can legit say DM was never tedious to kill anything with. I do know it wasn't as fast as other stuff. Tedious though? Nah. Not at all. I have almost gotten there with KM a few times, but I worked a LOT to get as much as I could out of the set. Staff? Oh god. It's just noticeably bad when by myself. I wish it performed as well as it looks, cause to me, it's legit one of the best looking melee sets.

Not exactly a high bar to clear. But you do bring up good points. DM is a fun set. I know I was able to solo every TF/SF in the game (except for the villain reichsman one) with a DM/BIO a few years back.

Primaries? Dual Blades Katana Fiery Melee Stone Melee Titan Weapons Martial Arts Energy Melee Claws Battle Axe War Mace All those primaries will drop hard targets consistently. Energy Melee having the weakest AOE out of them all. Secondaries? Energy Aura Radiation Armor Bio Armor Shield Defense Invincibility I personally am a big fan of secondaries with a taunt aura, and yes I know I left Willpower out of this...its a solid set just really boring to me. Each their own... The first three secondaries I listed are my personal three favorites. EA being number 1 for me. It gives the least amount of offensive help compared to Rad/Bio but it's super easy to build for and has really really good survivability. All those primaries will definitely take down hard targets. You can not go wrong playing any of those. Fun matters.

Auroxis is actually the person who got me looking at TW/ELE over a decade ago. I do averages without outside buffs. Build only. Always have. I will do fun runs, but if I share them, I will specifically say what I used, or just say it's a LOL run cause really...I don't care what temps I used, or lore, if hybrid was on. If it isn't perma I don't list it. I've gotten times in the high 40s with scrappers. That's why I do averages. Hell, I used to AVERAGE in the low 50s with TW/BIO before TW (rightfully) got the nerf bat. Hoo boy that set was OP.... If I just listed my best? There is zero way it would be believable. @aethereal brings up a very interesting point about stalkers. Their playstyle is VERY different when compared to scraps/brutes. I do wonder if Brutes had a very different playstyle if their measurable sub-par performance would be as much an issue.

What? I'll just ask again. Has anyone else noticed more runners?