Crank up the recharge. It can push out some seriously crunchy goodness when you're rocking Clobber, Shatter, Jawbreaker, repeat as your ST chain and Shatter, CrowdControl, WhirlingMace, repeat as your AoE chain.
On mace, my mace/bio scrapper with her magic pipe wrench of doom is a hoot but I absolutely get why many avoid mace/axe/broadsword. I have zero axes and bs users.
Stone/Any. Far too many negatives for what little mitigation superiority it provides.
Edit: However, the stone/ma almost lived just due to the hilarity of granite feet to the face.
I don't grok the EA love. By the numbers it looks awesome but it's always felt so clunky to me. Or maybe I've got hold-over bias from back when it was released and REALLY sucked.
But I'm a devil. We don't even fear the creator. 🙂
I hear ya. I enjoy my squishies when I team. My blaster even made it through a TF without faceplanting the other night! Now taking her to DA for max diff stuff? Painful.
I've always stated that I love defense sets like SR partly because of how much nastiness there is heading our way that just never lands, so I can absolutely grok the benefits of the softcap, but even then, I wouldn't want to run any of my SRs without Practiced Brawler. Mez is absolutely LESS of an issue when softcapped but it still happens enough that it annoys heavily and does so for at least 50 levels since there is no way to perma RoP.
But there's the rub, I see a build without 5 LotG +recharges and 5 purple sets for another +50% recred and I think THAT is self-gimped.
But we don't get to make that call for other players.
Never underestimate a person's ability for the absurd. I get your point and agree but I could easily make a truly horrible character were the mood to strike.
That's precisely what I DON'T want to see. Make them harder with more team buffs and enemy debuffs. Make them harder with better AI. Making them "harder" by increasing their meatbaggedness is a nonstarter for me.
Claws/SR scrapper
Claws/SR Brute
SR/Claws Tank
Shield/EM Tank
Fire/Bio Sentinel
Fire/Time Blaster
Fire/Dark Corruptor
Dark/Time Controller
I wouldn't want to face that group.
/checks underwear.
Yes.
In all seriousness, I don't get why anyone ignores DA. There is no faster path to T4ing your incarnate powers and for those that want to avoid AE, fighting +4/x8 with 3 lvl shifts means you're getting +4 rewards for fighting +1s.
Say what? I hovered in the hollows! Point in the right direction, go eat lunch, pour a beer and have a smoke, come back to the computer and hit the forums for a while... eventually I'd get to the mission.