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I give up making for other people.

Wasn't a fan of CT and grabbed maneuvers instead. Definitely moved a lot of slots around. I tried to keep the "flavor" of your build as much as possible. I'll share my take on BA/BIO in a sec.

Just set brawl on auto and call it good. Real reply. Procced out? Got my best results with: BF-SS-NS-AS-BF-SS (Does the Empower Combo) Non-Procced: BF-AS-SS-BF I can't remember the recharge you'd want to do either of those smoothly. I just remember I have to include NS in the procced chain since global recharge isn't high enough for the other with the way I build.

lol wut

Serious question, I've suspected it would be Thugs/Cold during Gang War. Why ya think Demons/Cold? For sustained I would think this (Demons/Cold) or a VEAT.

Melee Defender with 6 slotted brawl.

To answer the subject line's question I'll ask another question... Why do you think the best melee players in the game fervently avoid the regen secondary? People don't get that the best mitigation is layered. And then prioritize stats: Defense (not get hit) - Resistance (get hit for less) - More HP (this also increases regen btw)) - then wayyyyy behind those is regen, or HP/s. When you have a resistance based set that can soft-cap defense it is going to be really hard to kill (or vice versa). Combine that with a Tanker and it's crazy high HP and whoo boy. Psi Melee is neat. It has some fun gimmicks. I just wouldn't pair it with regen since when you hit 50 you are for sure going to scrap it since regen just does NOT scale a fraction as well as any other set. My first 50 was claws/regen. I tried my damndest to make it decent all the way until shutdown (I started playing in issue 2). The only saving grace was the claws part of that combo.

I didn't try the Slow enhancement to it. I toyed with the idea and realized it wouldn't matter with the extreme amount of runners I was getting with the cmbo I had (Rad Melee paired with it). It was great single target, but solo-ing was impossibly frustrating. And I solo. A lot.

I've done it multiple times on multiple characters, scrappers and other ATs. A few people here have. There are a few people that haven't tried that definitely could based on what I've seen.

Staff is the Dual Pistols equivalent for melee. Holy crap it looks great and is fun to play, but wow the damage is bad. You make a good point. Fire was the go-to set for everything BUT melee if you wanted raw performance at a time. Guess it finally got the love it deserved.

Numbers wise? Lol, no. Not even in the argument. Fun? That depends on the person. I like it thematically.

Play any primary you want that is fun, all the primaries are "good" now. Stay away from Regen. It has a lot of down time (dead is down time).

THISSSSS You never know if the person on your team in what looks like a Random costume can carry the whole team on a +4 TF.

That's exactly the reason why I have it in GFS. Yeah, the potential burst might not be as high, but I come from a "consistency" mindset with DPS. If this were PVP though... I'm sure you saw what I was averaging. I was getting more than a few runs under a minute without hybrid on. That wasn't the average. If it was I woulda definitely been "whoah, this needs to be scaled back". I never did runs with Hybrid active, but I assume there is no way it's not crazy.

They're all good. Play what's fun.

It's not. You say only T2 and those are already your times. That tracks with what I was getting with my Fire/Bio/Soul on Brainstorm.

LOL this is what I did for my Ill/Cold controller (in terms of blind slotting). Obviously slightly different because of ATO procs, but that's it. 😄

Now this is interesting as all get out. Really simple solution. I dig it. A lot. I just ctrl-click hasten and call it a day. I have a tendency to leave mez-protection stuff un-clicked until I need it since you can still cast them durng whatever it will break you out of (or cast it right before I jump in to a fight). What do you prefer to have auto-cast?

Blazing Aura is vaping in their face but it smells like cotton candy. Mass confusion.

That T9 is a good set mule and never put the power on your bars! I totally remembered when they first announced it was going to be a new set in CoV. I was super stoked. When it launched, oh man. I was super dissapointed.

I dunno man, Electric Armor is just awesome as hell thematically and play wise. I just wish it had a taunt aura on scrappers. Electric Armor is one of my personal fav sets. So...I'm biased 😄 Performance wise EleA really does do well. I'm honestly surprised more combos using it don't show up. And on Brutes/Tankers it is REALLY good. Rad Armor feels like a mix of Dark Armor and Bio to me. I definitely used to active fire farm with a TW/RAD scrapper. Rad Armor and Electric Armor are both AMAZING options. Now that I think about it, a ELE/SS tanker would be pretty damned hard to kill and poop out good damage. Does the tanker ATO1 proc go off in the PBAOE aura? If so...that would be whoah. People don't tank in to account the amounts of different types of debuff resistance Electric Armor gets.

Who knows. Just one of my quick takes on it.

Was curious, made a thing. Claws/SR has a lot of extra slots. Wow.

Condolences/congratulations on realizing Claws/Regen is dead. It was my first toon also, and I stubbornly stuck with regen for a long time too. I scratch my head at people trying to defend it's performance, but if someone enjoys it, then boo yahh. Go for it. It's like someone trying to tell me they're vegan for optimal athletic reasons. Umm, no, tiktok lied to you. I work with professional athletes. I'm an expert on this food thing, absolutely not, that's not how science works.. Regen is this game's equivalent of being vegan for performance reasons. Soft cap positional defenses. That will be easy on x/sr, Not sure what else your goals are, but personally I chase enough recharge to run the chain I want. Once I hit that, I get that sweet sweet resistance and then raise my max HP. Layered mitigation with those priorities. Regen (or HP/s) should be priority last on anything you play. You're better off making sure you can make things dead faster.

That's personally a tough question for me, but I'd have to give the nod to my Stone or Energy scraps for it.