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Titan Weapons. To a lesser extent, Katana, Street Justice, Ice Melee, Fiery Melee, War Mace, Radiation Melee, and Super Strength. If you can live with slightly lower damage but a lot of flexibility, Staff. (chuckles at Claws not being listed) The problem with /regen is that it has no initial way to mitigate damage. Considering a brute can at times be asked to be the meat-shield on a team, alpha strike can be unkind to /regen. It gets better in solo situations and once you start to factor in IO sets. /wp is an easier to get up and running and smoother ride to 50 with using basically the same concept. Dark is great, but poor at AoE. Savage is looking to be currently underwhelming. Those are likely the two biggest ones to avoid if you want balanced damage sets. I would easily roll Katana, Street Justice, SS, and Claws if I was making a /wp brute looking for what you are. Not to say the others are bad. Just what I have played on some level and really like. RE: /shield I would prefer going scrapper here as scrappers benefit more from the +dmg it offers. It does add an AoE attack to help fill in sets which are weaker in that area, ie Dark.

Elec control has a confuse and sleep powers. It pairs well with /kin. Thematic wise, you could go Elec/elec dom. Mind is another with sleep and confuse. If you want other ATs with control aspects, you can to a default pick an AT where Dark/dark is an option, and go from there.

People behind Homecoming are starting a non-profit company. Add in they are talking to NCSoft, and my guess is the compromise is they can't make money off of CoH. So, create a non-profit business and then cap off funding to just cover what is needed. It isn't being said officially, but it is technically being done. There's no real reason to start a LLC/non-profit if you think NCSoft is going to shut you down.

I got Witchfire, Malfeasance, Roughtrade and Psychic on the server I wanted, and I came to the game a week and a half late. I am really glad the early players were not jerks who would hammer out any and every name they could think of early on. I've gotten everything outside of three, Banner, Shutdown or even Lockdown, and Amp. Nobody has mentioned a name I would have gone for. In other words, even if I went and grabbed all I could, my impact would have been a sliver. Yes, missing out on a name you really want and might even have been a main on live really does suck, but when it is painfully obvious, you have to understand you are playing with fire in terms of always being able to get it. FYI, I got Waterpark. I feel like I have no clue how that wasn't taken. I checked and wasn't surprised to see Waterslide already was taken. Sometimes you get an obvious name, sometimes you don't.

Crafting badges can remove the need for the recipe, and I believe the badge gives a discount on the crafting cost as well. Since this can be done to farm the market, it isn't crazy to do it with level 50 commons. I certainly did it on my way to have near 2 billion on multiple characters on live.

I had 40+ characters on live. None of them had IOs outside of commons. Not everybody walks around in min/maxed builds. I think FF might be the easiest set to make a steamrolling team. It also adds the least amount to one that already is.

Pretty much every single obvious name I could think of has been taken. It might be a smaller player base, but obvious names are still going to be taken sooner rather than later. Note there was a good number of people playing this before it went public. I would have hammered out any and every name I could think of if I was there early on.

Correct. Good luck to a scrapper thinking they can pull a credible amount of aggro from my Spines/elec brute.

Since Earth has rather low damage, I wouldn't say that /kin is really a good match for it. It works well with a number of secondaries. I just happened to love my Earth/storm on live enough to not pick anything outside of that if I ever rerolled it again.

Brute: "Oh shit, there goes my Fury." Scrapper: "Look at THAT clump of bad guys!" To be fair, I prefer soloing brutes so there's little issue with the whole fury bar going away.

Caved and rerolled my main from live but went controller versus defender. Elec seems solid right now, and since I've done so much Kin, this feels quite natural to play. This might be one of the few rerolls which end up being the official versions for the character.

/wp brutes say "Hi."

Water has synergy how so if you do not mind me asking? If nothing else, Water has an attack/regen power. Since /storm doesn't have a self heal, it can help fill that hole.

First into a mob, sure. Actually managing aggro is vastly up to if they took their taunt power or not. Mobs flee scrappers. They don't with brutes or tanks. Part of the reason why I went Spines/elec as a brute.

Go scrapper if you do as scrappers benefit more from +dmg.

More so as a brute since they have a higher cap on resists, and they get a taunt aura so mobs stick.

Enhancement text is virtually impossible to read.

KB into a corner or against a near wall would be one way. KB as alpha strike can also work well depending the situation. I used KB on my Claws/regen scrapper quite a bit that way.

Fire/rad controller and corruptor. Kin/sonic defender. Stone/* tank. Could min/max maybe a bit more, but that's rather solid.

That's a player and not a build.

Now try that while mezzed.

The Ice Emp troller sounds fun, maybe I will try that out. Note Ice has low damage so soloing or on smaller teams speed can be slow(er) until later on. Most fun I had playing Emp was Ill/emp. It could give a MM like vibe. Dark/dark with its number of pets could be another gateway into a different AT. This isn't too say Ice is a bad primary. Far from it. I would just go with something else if I was doing smaller teams/duos.

Actually, Savage and Regen has a bit of synergy. Since Savage has an innate +recharge component, and regen is clicky heavy. Savage/regen brute. Actually in the game. Already a thread in the brute forums about how Savage is under performing. Synergy or not, Savage's damage is lacking. /regen for a brute only really comes into its own with IOs factored in and is going to have issues in various situations before that. /wp is a far better set on a brute.

Savage/regen brute. Actually in the game. Already a thread in the brute forums about how Savage is under performing.

Would make more sense if it was an actual Defender.