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Alrighty....but nothing screams maximum psycho like chainsaws, it's the logical progression from an tiny little axe...

I have a Tanker build you can look at and see if you can swap the slotting to Brute. I like the combination personally. And he's one of my fav Tankers and expemp's down really well. Hope it helps... Tanker (Radiation Armor - Martial Arts)Final-1.3-proc_RT.mbd

Also, you can dual wield chainsaws...

The only downside to ELe Armor getting and utilizing this new insane regen is that it got no regen debuff protection. I've had my in several 50+ TFs and there have been several times his regen hit 0 hp/sec. Luckily the 90% resists and team dynamic saved the day but something to think about.

@Grimm2 I'd say you are probably mostly correct with the mirror's being what they are. The only thing is, or at least what I've found to be the case for me each time, that defensive sets are tanky across the board from Stalker to Tanker. The damage output varies, but they all hold up. I have an Energy Aura Stalker that can tank, my buddies jokingly call her a Stanker. She has no aggro aura but she can stand in the middle of pretty much any group and not die. Of course her lack of AOE is a downer, but that's were a Tanker would shine...

Yes it is very frustrating not accomplishing a thing you set out to do. But it sounds like it's not doable, or at least not solo'able. So what's your next move?

I did set my difficulty to +5 on a farm. None of the enemies said 55 (stayed at 54) but an interesting thing was, the 50 I had in with me to unlock his incarnates...it put him at level 49. Then a friend joined me to finish unlocking his, and it was the same for his toon, level 50 shifted to 49.

Be sure to up the default enemy level to +4. You'll notice your accuracy takes a dip. As long as you have enough accuracy and you were already cruising on +4, I think your build would be fine, especially for active farming.

I forget who, but someone built a Brute with insane recharge and even crazier regen. After the last change to Ele Armor Power Sink provides significant regen to a set that can have 90% resists. It's nuts what some have done with it.

I'm not 100% on board with this. Or at least I don't think it's correct to make such a blanket statement. I think it's very dependent on what sets you choose on a Brute, at least for me. For instance I have a very proc'd out DM/SR Brute that does good damage and is nigh unkillable, same can be said for my Sav/Bio Brute. But you can make a Scrapper just as tanky as a Brute while maintaining good DPS, of course this again depends on what sets you've chosen and how you jive with them. And I've got a Bio/BA Tanker that puts out amazing damage while laughing at everyone hitting him. The thing I like most about this game is it's flexibility, both in building a character and playing the character. Everyone gets different result with all the power sets and of course ATs. Like I hear people ragging on Sentinels all the time, but I've seen people play them and do crazy stuff with them. I've watched a blaster solo an ITF ambush at +4x8 and not lose any HP. The driver, I think, has way more to do with what can be done with a build than powers. enhancements, or AT.

I think EC is skippable all the time. I took it on a Tank once... It looks cool, but meh. Its DPA is low if I remember correctly. And even the little damage buff doesn't make it worth taking IMO. Much better off using that power selection for an epic power.

Yeah I might swap out with Nature Aff... And you are right Poison has its fans and they have very strong opinions on how everyone else should play it. I just thought since Poison has the two early powers that debuff the bad guys that I'd be satisfied....but seems not.

I'm brand new to Controllers. I've rolled a Plant/Poison, as per usual I have a concept and am trying to make it functional. BUT... My initial experience - currently level 12 - is a very boring one. I've never been bored by 12, 30s yes, but 12 is still in the honeymoon phase. I should be all googly-eyed right now, but instead I'm doing the coyote ugly thing. Any tips??

Thanks! Will try this when I get home today

@AngrySunday You either need to toggle Evasive Maneuvers off or go into Options/Config/Effects & Maths and put a check by Attacked. What this does is gives you the real numbers for when you are in combat. Everything Evasive Maneuvers does turns off except the mez protection when in combat. Your defenses are highly inflated because of this. Also, I would suggest you change the Enemy Relative level to at least +3 for end game numbers. What this will do is show you that your accuracies are far too low in a few different powers, you want to shoot for a minimum of 95%. Edit: I didn't have Hover toggled on which also meant Kismet was not active. Only Blaze needs more acc. Now with /DM you don't really need high defenses as the toHit debuffs make up for the mid 20% defenses you really have. But you'll need to reslot some stuff to get the accuracy up to minimum. Now I'm curious if you are hard set on Dark Mastery? I would suggest going Soul and just picking up Dark Embrace and then pickup Howling Twilight. HT is an OP rez and an OP debuff. It really is a must have for me. But in Soul, if you could pick up Soul Storm it's good for procs and a hilarious hold. It floats the bad guy up and rotates him in midair, great for laughs. I do absolutely applaud the work you did for your resistances! With a few more tweaks your build will be damn good. An absolute beast! Also....love your name!

Ugh!! This makes a build of mine completely useless now...

Is it possible to turn off the sound the game makes when you attempt to activate a power that is still on recharge? What I've done is bind Hasten to W, which works great at keeping Hasten up without putting it on auto but the sound W makes when Hasten is still recharging is annoying.

I think anything Corruptor is great, at least so far. My new fav is EB/Kin AOE wise, Storm/Storm is super nasty and extremely safe, Storm Summoning is end-heavy though so be aware. BUT EB/Storm would also be thematically cool and fun to play as well!

See, for me, Dark melee was dookie DPS. I struggled to make it work and had to proc out everything just to make it feel somewhat okay. But you'll never hear me say it's the power set that is garbage, because I know (unlike others) that it's most likely only because it didn't jive with me or maybe it needed a better pairing to shine or maybe my build isn't perfect...who knows. But I too recommend DM if you need a built in heal and it does make a set like Inv or SR perform much better. Very tough!

Doesn't mean you played it well. You be you... peace out

Just a heads up, but the floating runes can be removed with min FX. Translocation is still performed by casting though,

I guess you CANNOT play Spines as well as my son then. Sounds like a you have a skill problem that you mask by only using the strongest sets. Learn to play better??

Another is Spine/Stone/Psi. My son runs this combo and it's great DPS and dang hard to kill. I've got one up and coming with the same build. Slow rolling (sort of) and thus far it's proven to be everything my boy has shown me.

So great! I too am working on a theme character and wanted a set that was like a bareknuckle, in their face fighter, and I didn't want any auras or anything that made him look too "super." So StJ/WP look to fit the bill. This is my build... Forum Share (Street Justice - Willpower)1.2.mbd

I have found, on my Tanker, that I can pull a huge room on a +4 ITF if I can maintain +75% resists. On my Brute that is a bit harder and I have to lean in on the clickies. But also, my Brute and Tank are variants of Betty's builds. My Brute occasionally eats floor because I occasionally Brute too hard. But yes, Regen is an active mitigation and you are an integral part of that system, or at least most of the time I am :). There is room for more mitigation, but you'll lose out on DPS. I have Brutes and Tankers where I pull a group, walk away from the keyboard, and have no worry, but that's not gonna be the case with my Regens. Personally, I like the fact that I have to watch my HP. But now I will say that if you built it exactly the way Betty did, you should be able to cycle between RoP, MoG, Melee Core, and the first 30 seconds of Barrier Core to maintain very high resists. I believe there is a very small window where they may all be on recharge (15 sec or so) but I haven't found that to be a prob. BTW my Brute doesn't have RoP, I just pop an orange and call it a day.