arclight.phantasm

I appreciate you taking the time to answer! I'll keep that in mind and reassess at 50 then. In some of the other builds I've looked at, people invested in Psionic resistance so frequently that I thought it was something every build should address. Since I don't think I could do that, nor build for typed Psionic defence by itself, it seemed the natural solution was to go for positionals since Storm Kick has that wonderful +7.5% built in. But if it's not going to be a problem, I'll just shore up other things. That's good to know. I think I'll have a fluid single target attack chain without it, or least Mids seems to think I can do Storm Kick > Crippling Axe Kick > Crane Kick > Cobra Strike without any pauses in the complete build (but obviously not at level 24). Energy Drain already recharges quickly enough with just one EndMod/Recharge IO that I don't have Endurance problems anymore; it's Energize that I was more worried about. Thank you for sharing. It's been helpful to look at the two side-by-side, though I notice Martial Arts can't use the sets you have in Focus and Shockwave. That extra Build Up looks nice. I hadn't considered regen, mostly because the value looked so small even knowing that it's a per-second amount of HP restored. Do you find that it all adds up enough to be useful? Also, I might have Mids configured improperly or something else is going on. I don't see how your build has more than double the regen value of mine. Could something be displaying wrong? Energize off Energize on Mine 226.0% 423.5% Yours 306.5% 504.0%

Hi everyone. A friend of mine introduced me to this game in 2021 but I had a bit of a rough time of it back then. We did a lot of powerleveling in the sewer dungeon and then in radio groups, and I tried every archetype that way but I was picking powers and assigning slots basically at random because I had no idea what I was doing. This Brute is the only survivor, probably because I decided to take my time with him and looked up guides (so many guides) to read and watch — and also because I was playing this character by myself at that point. Before I took an 18-month break from the game, I'd been slowly following Gulbasaur's guide to hero side story arcs so he's currently locked at level 24. I want to push on to level 50 but I'd like to have a plan to follow; unfortunately, this combination seems a little rare or else my search-fu is failing me. I looked up Martial Arts/* and */Energy Aura builds separately and roughly kitbashed together what I found because that's how a complete novice makes a good build, right? Any help would be greatly appreciated 🙏 Questions All of this assumes I have Mids configured correctly. Exemplaring: I want this to be my main so I'd like to be able to do content at every level as smoothly as possible. I'm also still following the story arc guide, so I'll be spending some time locked at every 4th and 9th level for a while yet. Should I rearrange any of my power picks to make this easier? Damage: I've seen that slotting lots of procs is a popular choice but I feel like I need the set bonuses more. For the ones I am using, is there a rule of thumb for how low the proc chance should go before it's not worth it? I tried to stay at 40-50% for all of them. Are the ATOs in the right place? Defences: S/L/E/N/F/C are obviously taken care of. My positional defences are all at 32.5% or higher with the boost from Storm Kick so one small purple inspiration brings me the rest of the way to softcap. I found this to be easier than trying to fix Psionic and Toxic directly. I had to dedicate a good number of slots to do this; is it worth the effort? I've seen talk about how annoying high-level Psionic enemy groups are. Recharge: Do I need Hasten? It looks like just about everyone takes it as a matter of course but I've seen the occasional post where people talk about not using it in one build or another. I wouldn't know how to make it (near-)permanent from where I stand now and I only have 60% recharge debuff resistance in any case. Would I have a gapless rotation without it? Should I take it just for better Energize uptime? Build I realize that this is very aspirational to begin with, but I avoided using the expensive purple and Winter IO sets. Datachunk Tech Brute - MA + Energy.mbd