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Burn on paper looks kind of weak, BUT it procs out like crazy. I can maintain a -20% res debuff on a pile and it does good damage. Consume is better to have an HP IO slotted. The recovery is only ~15 sec and you'll get a full blue bar off a few bad guys so the biggest benefits it offers is the boost to your health pool and the endurance debuff resist, both of which last for 120 sec, well above the recharge. Devastating blow is sloooooooooooW, however I took it too but rarely ever use it. When you click it, you can get up and go make a sandwich, come back, get settled back in, and still won't miss it executing. If you plan to stay in flight while fighting the lack of any real knockback protection won't matter. But I think you will find with only Hover on your movement speed may disappoint you, and adding in Flight will make your endurance use lopsided. But all in all, it's a workable build that should do fine.

I don't know, maybe they are just looking to get their cash flow going, it is king. I did the same thing only went the AH route. Which, honestly, I recommend over farming. Both are good ways to make ends meet, but with a market toon you can set things for sale then alt and play the game. Come back hours later or next day, pull in millions of inf, restock the market, and go play some more. AFK farming is probably the same if you have 2 accounts. Active farming, which I do on the reg, is for when there ain't nuth'n go'n on or I need to play without thinking. You guys are right though, don't skip over the content, there is some really good stuff. And the slow grind isn't really slow if you throw in a TF or two.

'Bout a year ago @Infinitummade a build for my Hulk-themed Brute. It's great fun but I wanted to have a 2nd build that wasn't Hulk-themed and more min/maxed. I also wanted to get my endurance under control and use Barrier and work in some +HP procs, while keeping Knockout Blow and Foot Stomp proc'd out. Is all this possible while keeping my exotic defense at soft cap? Cause it's not really working out for me. Alphas... Agility is out cause that messes with the proc %. Musculature is out cause I'll mostly be at damage max already (right?). So, I was figuring on Vigor. I suppose Cardiac could be on the table to bump resists more... Primary is SS so Rage crash is in the mix... BTW how do you guys handle the crash with Inv? Pop an insp? Cause 1 /min seems a bit much. Or do you shoot for higher than soft cap on def to mitigate the -20% hit to defense? I've been chasing my tail, and I think I've gone too deep to see a clear path. So hope'n for a bit of help. Thanks! -WT

So, what you're saying is.... Take Musculature.

Need just a tad more advice... Picking the Alpha... If I have decent resistances before Alpha, S/L 71.66%, for instance, would I be better off with Musculature over Cardiac? I think my tank-brain still prioritizes living over killing. I don't need Cardiac except for the resist bump and the +to shield is nice. I survive very well. I can usually run ahead and soften up the mobs before the rest of the team gets there. I can even stand in there for a minute or more before my green bar starts getting sad. That's good fun and all but wondering now if I'm leaving some DPS on the table? But I've also heard Musculature doesn't actually make that big of a difference, and MIDs could be wrong, but it seems to add a decent amount of damage. Thanks! -WT

Someone else may need to chime in but I'm not 100% certain Kismet +6% hit will work in Grant Cover. Edit: I see where MIDs has it working, but it is not always correct.

Roll a Rad Armor Stalker... 2 tasty AOEs with procy goodness.

I recently rolled a EM/Rad and found this to be true as well. But, thankfully, the rotation doesn't demand I open with AS. I open instead with Total Focus and that loads the chamber with dual Energy Focus, then AS for a hide proc then hit Energy Transfer. The wait for AS in hide is excruciating!

I tend to lean into the debuff resists even though I never really solo. But most of my toons are Brutes so as a tank I don't want to let the team down by being less effective. Then I got to thinking that I seldomly ever care about debuffs when on any of my range, often I have 0% to all. And Stalkers not having any form of an aggro modifier, would I really be targeted outside of splash... I can attest to, at least anecdotally, that even on a team with no tank, which I seemed to be signing up for alot this weekend, the debuffs didn't appear to be that bad. Unless I attacked a mob solo, they seldomly all targeted me, if at all, and chose instead to scatter - I can only assume my awesomeness was too much for'em. I will add, that Combat Teleport is a must on a Stalker, for me, from now on due to that lil problem. Gots another Stalker question. The ATO with BU recharge in it. It states a 5% chance, is that calculated differently, in-game, than PPM? I mean, does recharge affect its proc rate? I currently have it in the T2 attack, but it does not proc very often at all.

I've got a general question about Stalkers. Debuff resistance...is it that important, when on a team? Do the majority of debuffs come from AOE or ST attacks? My thought is that on a team and without an aggro aura and punchvoke then would Stalkers really be the target of the debuffs?

Meep!

Rage crash can give you the ouchies if you don't account for the -20% def debuff every 60 seconds (if you double stack it) when the majority of your mitigation comes from defenses. It is a powerful set though for sure. ST damage is through the roof.

Quick update... Finished out the build and got the important incarnates to T4. It does well, wouldn't say great. ITF is still tough, I guess all the mez resist sort of cancels out my whole stun thing, like @Warshadessaid. I've also noticed it seems to rely pretty heavily on the heal... But man does he look cool doing. At least he's not face-planting like he was!

Dude sorry to hear about your accident and glad you weren't hurt. On your build, Cardiac can be a good choice. For me it was between that and Resilience. Resilience offers a +toHit but my hit can't be debuffed so I felt that the endurance reduction was better option.

Man I haven't thought of this combo! This will be AOE madness! Rad armor is a great set, very easy to get resistances nice and high. Then couple that with all the KU and KD in Battle Axe and the shield from Rad talk about mitigation. Oh man, gotta have one now! But I might make it a Tank instead... Everything that @Maelwyssaid is very true. Proc'd out, the AOEs in Rad are mini nukes. Axe Cyclone takes procs very well too. Have fun with it. There are so many different ways to slot...