VooDooMan

Ok, so back on live, I managed a Melee mastermind, leveraging Fighting and KO Blow from Mako's power pool. I'd like to try and recreate that, with some new powersets. Running Necro/Nature. But I don't even know/remember where to start with building it. Things have changed so much I'm totally lost. And I haven't found any melee MM builds to use as a jumping off point. Do any of you people smarter than me have any advice/framework/examples as a jumping off point? Not asking for a full build, just something to get started. Nature seems like it wants to be in the mix, with the aura and the healing patch, so being able to throw hands while supporting sounds fun. Humbly requesting any and all assistance with getting this off the ground. Im not too worried about price, since even basic SOs make an MM able to contribute to team content, so I can treat it like a long term project. Thanks in advance.

Specifically, the chance for heal self and the chance for placate. Do these work in Static Field?

If you do dig up that build, I would love to see it. Thank you for the honesty about Regen.

Ive never done regen before, and I am curious about it. I think Im scared of it because it requires a little more brain than I have. Maybe after I run SR up Ill do Savage/Regen. Savage is proving -crazy- fun, and I like that SR really doesnt require any maintenance or babysitting. When I knock more of the dust off the old bones, I'll have to give Regen a try and see how it compares. As for savage melee, any powers that were wholly skippable? Or replaceable with Fighting or something to feel better? While its crazy fun, I find the animations on the 1st attack and the cone a little slap-fighty, less so on Huge body, but still. Wondering if its worth doings some juggling on a respec to replace with fighting, if anyone has done it, cause Mids just does numbers, not feelings.

Oh, I usually pop into Basic IOs at 35 cause the upkeep on SOs is ridiculous. But I dont really mess with sets until 50. But I wanted to very clear I was asking about the powersets playing with 0 set bonuses, so SOs is the shortest way to convey that intent. I wanted something that I can enjoy playing on the way to getting time/money to actually put together a full build. I just see alot of powerset advice talking about powers under the assumption that its in a fully kitted out build with sets. I wanted to remove that part of the thinking about the powersets and go on the powers themselves not how good they independent of the invention system altogether. I really appreciate the help people have been lending to this. This community is, and always was, great.

Thank you so much 🙂

Ok, so I love brutes. I loved them on live, I think I understood them on live? But this isnt live. Things are different. I don't know anything, and I have 0 budget. I want to make a Savage Melee brute to rampage around with. I've narrowed the secondary choices down to Regen and Super Reflexes. I've done SR before, on live, and it was beautifully brainless. Even on SO's it was cruise control. Though that was with Staff Melee, so I dont know how much heavy lifting spin-to-win was doing. I've heard Regen is amazing on Brutes due to higher health pool and def/res being "easy" to get ($$$). Now, if we take budget away, and farming, cause I actually want to play the game, not sit around while some violent sugar daddy (or mommy) does all the work, which secondary would be the "easiest" to make work? Lets assume SO's only. Playing mostly solo as I bounce AFK to deal with kids and stuff alot. I do love my x8 when I can do it, because rampaging through a dozen mooks is way more fun than rampaging through 2 or 3. And the XP bar actually moving over the course of a mission is nice too. Gotta chase those dopamine dings. So, in any world does Regen or SR, with SOs only, let me feel like a proper rampaging brute, at least until I have enough $$$ to start iterating on IO builds?