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If anyone wants to justify using those two powers while skipping on AS I would accuse them of negligence to put it mildly. AoE Containment with Tanker cap targets versus the two worst cast times in the set and both being ST? You're a Tank. Take the AoE.

AS is huge for gaining Containment. I can't imagine not having that in the build.

Rad is better AoE. Dark has more utility. I feel like some of Dark's utility, Dark Consumption, is lessened in the end when IOs and Incarnates are factored in. We'll know Dark has over taken Rad when Dark/fire Brutes are the ones showing up in numbers on farms.

+1. First time doing it was on my Kin/elec and failed horribly. Came back looking for revenge with an Earth/storm and I think we might have let out 3. I also knew what mission was going to be talked about based on the title alone.

I've used sleep powers on teams rather successfully. They can be used to mitigate alpha strike or prevent additional mobs from coming in. They might be situational, but I don't think they are bad.

My suggestion would be to advertise something like this, "Level 25 Newbie group in Talos. No Vet level characters please. LF4M." The only sub level 50 +4 content I feel like doing on a repeatable level is Frostfire with the lead using 2x XP boosters. I've only done it once without the 2x XP booster and it was a slog. The other times were an absolute death fest. Part of the issue as pointed out is player knowledge. CoH in general isn't being played by newbies. Many people have played this game for years. A level 100+ character has been played a bunch so the player should have a solid grasp of the character and likely in that situation already. Hell, I tend to play red side as a default just so I'm not doing the blue side TFs for whatever time I'm at them for each one.

Nope. It was like a month ago.

Nope.

Plus at 50 you get purples and superior versions of IOs.

Kin should get a mention as being good with it. I think anything with a PBAoE toggle would as well.

I feel like at 29 I've one hunt outside of Mercy.

Going from level 1, there is minimal traveling between zones for quite some time. There are some contacts who might ping you back and forth early on, but it doesn't feel that bad. Sure, anything level 50 is going to be all over, but that's a number of contacts blue side which aren't doing portal missions. With all of the ways to travel between zones it is honestly easy as ever to get to missions regardless of where they are at.

I don't think either are honestly fighting each other unless they are the only ones remaining.

This assumes your target is willing to stand there letting the Brute to build Fury. A Tank could pop in and out to counter that and make it a stalemate as other characters hang out and beat on them from a distance. In PvP, Psy damage at range is a problem.

Guessing my Fort or Stalker. Fort has Confuse in ST and AoE form, AoE Hold, Psy damage, Hidden, and can fly. I don't have a level 50 Dom which could lock down any and everything, or a level 50 Tank, but again, that Fort is an issue.

I've run it to 50 on a Scrapper on live. You are looking at the Fighting pool, some other power pool and epics. We are talking S/L Resists and what+5% def all when slotted? Being shoe horned into other power pools? And that's until epics which which further forces players to take specific powers. There's no protection against debuffs and specifically -regen. Granted, any Regen set should have protection against -regen debuffs. How about when it gets hit with -recharge? I can't even say "What about the Psy hole?" because Swiss cheese has fewer holes. But yes, a dump truck of HP, regen, and clicks for the constant "oh crap" factor. "But IOs." You mean the thing which every other powerset has access to? Its telling how Regen is essentially the default worst defense set for any AT which uses it outside of maybe Sents.

Since a pet is used in both sets, those pets aren't impacted by Fury. It me that's the biggest con for the pairing on a Brute.

What about incoming damage? I honestly hardly see Regen Brutes on PuGs and TFs.

I need to get back to my Savage/rad Brute as using Ice with Rad Armor feels like a cheat code on my Tank. I'll have to check what diff settings they are going on. The Tank is 7 levels higher(22 vs. 29).

Since -res procs of the same one can't stack, is using two of the same -res proc in the listed faster farmer Rad/fire ideal slotting or would a damage proc be better?

If I do non level 50 PuG teams, I meet newer or those returning players all the time.

Level 40 would be difficult for various build with the lack of slots and epic powers. The game's intent to me was to hit 50, so I see no reason to stop at 40 even if that was the ultimately temporary cap.

It matters if you are on a team. It also matters that it is a ST attack which again, can be an issue on a team. You are also talking to someone who doesn't think 3 second animations should exist in the game and sub 2 second ones, see Kat, should be the ideal. 2.244 arcanetime in a ST Confuse isn't that great when Ice Patch can be done in 1.567. To clarify, the ST nature of the Boggle tag is the issue. The Confuse part is fine. The greater problem is how poorly Insight is done so they hamstrung in Boggle with it so now two aspects of Psionic are underwhelming. Boggle is a slow animating pseudo BU with a ST Confuse aspect and it's a T7. Yay?

The issue is cast time.

None of the lights in the Carnival war mace are able to be colorized. (shakes fist)