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I've paired Axe with Bio, Energy, Ice, Electricity, Dark, and now enjoying it most with Ninjitsu. Currently in the low-40's and soft-capped to all positions with a decent amount of +Rech bonuses. I have the +End power 6-slotted with Preemptive Optimization for the +Ranged Def bonus and it gives me just over 3/4 blue bar back. That's about two full attack rotations and it recharges by the time I need it again. It's fun! Sneak in, chop everything down, then sneak some more. I liked Nin the most because the +end doesn't need enemies. With Axe I've usually defeated nearly everyone by the time I'm running out of End and I can top myself up whether there aren't any foes or just a couple.

Why not try playing both and see what you enjoy more?

Bummers, I've been clicking it and getting a good placebo effect out of it.

What level is your Fire Dom? I feel like you need to read the power descriptions to learn what they actually do. https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Fire_Control Fire has three good AoE controls: Cinders - available at level 18 - PBAoE, Foe Hold. Holds all the foes around you. Flashfire - Big ol' stun. Should be using this first thing on every spawn. Bonfire - Big ol' knockback + damage field. Combine this with a +knockdown IO and/or Fire Cages to keep enemies from flying away and to maximize damage. Plus you can drop this in doorways or hallways to stop badguys from getting to you. Smoke is a light control: you control your enemy's toHit and Perception. The best uses are when two spawns are close to each other you can blind one spawn with Smoke while fighting the other. Or if you're stealthing a mission you can use Smoke to blind the enemies near a glowie and click it without triggering aggro. (Just make sure you've turned off Hot Feet.) You can also 4-slot it with Dark Watcher's Despair for +5% Global Recharge bonus https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Category:Sets_for_improving_To_Hit_Debuff A couple IOs in Hot Feet will minimize its endurance cost and solve that problem. Or if you get perma-dom you get to refill your endurance bar so fast you rarely run out of endurance.

it was fun enough that I re-rolled as a Savage/Bio Brute so I could focus on the Savage part.

I tried that once, but I'm super used to queuing an attack and then running at the target, and binding a power to W cancels the queued attack. It drove me nuts and I had to undo it. So now I keep Domination on auto and click Hasten when I notice it's up.

You could also do Street Justice, it has a mix of punches and kicks.

Savage/Bio is a hoot!

Or in this case, OP gave feedback on how much he loves Storm and then everyone ignored that in order to argue about Assault Rifle. 🙄

How does exiting helicopters (Like the 1st, 3rd, and 4th missions on Yin's TF) work? It appears to be like exiting a door mission, but facing into the helicopter, so the team runs into the belly of the chopper. Then everyone has to turn around and run out. If so, can the door be reversed to we run out of the helicopter rather than into it? Depending on how many players and pets are exiting the mission at the same time there's quite a bit of stacking and it's difficult to just run out. Even teleport, when I'm facing out the tail of the helicopter it sends me backwards into the chopper. Or today, sent me 100' backwards out the front of the chopper. But if the exit could be pointed so everyone runs out onto the boat, that would be fantastic and wonderful.

Yep -- it's a 120 degree arc with 10-target cap! You don't even have to aim it, it'll punch everything in front of you! I play my SR/DM when I want to relax. It's cruise control to awesome. Especially when compared to all the clickies in Bio.

Answering the title but not the Guyver part - My favorite combos with Bio have been Savage, Dark Melee, and most recently: Ice. Bio/Ice has been great for defeating mobs and exploiting their typical lack of Ice resistance. Ice Patch really helps when there's way too many Cimerorans poking me with swords and the giant ice foot stomp even sleeps some of 'em on the periphery. It doesn't have crunch but it smashes everything like a glacier coming through a mountain.

Is ET supposed to be Electrical Melee or Energy Melee? Don't think about Tanks like that. Tanks in CoH aren't low-damage meatshields. Think about it as "deciding which order you acquire your powers". Scrappers get attacks first and defense way later. Tanks get defense first and attacks later. Also, Tanks on Homecoming get higher target caps and by default they do more damage than Brutes without fury. How this shakes out is on a Scrapper you can ofen one-shot things ; on a Tank you'll kick it two or three times. Here's an example from Martial Arts (looking at the Info in the New Character screen): Scrapper's Dragon's Tail: 8' radius 10 targets, 12 damage Tank's Dragon's Tail: 8' radius, 16 targets, 11 damage Tank's Storm Kick: 13 damage and +10% Defense to every position and type (except vs Psi and Toxic) Scrapper Storm Kick: 13.5 damage, no +Def So with a Tank you can focus on attacking the boss with everything you have and all the minions in the spawn will be defeated as a side-effect of your AoEs. If you want easy-mode, make an Invulnerable/Dark Melee Tank, Super Reflexes/DM, or Invulnerable/Martial Arts since you like MA. Invuln/MA is super easy to cap everything, resists and defense. And you get a big self-heal in Dull Pain. Also you can take Stealth and pretend to be a Ninja. A big benefit to being a solo Tank is that you auto-taunt everything around you, and every enemy comes to you to fight. On a Scrapper you'll frequently be chasing down runners. But nearly any Scrapper combo can do well. Ninjutsu is a great set but the difference between 30% Def and 40% Def is huge, and going from 40% to 45% reduces the amount of damage you take by half. Post your build and maybe we can give some tips to be more survivable. Until you're soft-capped you'll take a lot of damage. And congrats on your Sec+! I'm in infosec too, great career when you get in. Edit: here's some peeps rejoicing in their SR/DM tanks:

Does Tidal Forces benefit from 6-slotting enough to put all the Gaussians there instead of in Tactics? I thought Tactics would proc the Build Up more frequently. Or is it to have the set bonus earlier in the build?

Water is nearly a clone of Fire, just swap in your AoEs and single target attacks. I'm going to port this build into Ice/Cold, it's exactly what I'm looking for.

I like it on my Scrappers. It's a 12' diameter, 10-target AoE that fears the main target.

Ice and Ninjitsu have really good end recovery too. And Fire Armor too I guess.

Oh, you're saying Shield doesn't have colorful auras like Dark Armor for you to color and changing the style and color of the shield doesn't count?

I want to do the fish tank head or the "crystal ball head" with googly eyes.

Why would you want your /Shield Stalker to to be rooted, slowed, and taunting all nearby enemies? I like having my Stalker running around critting bosses, not sitting around soaking up hits. Shield already has a taunt aura. Not sure what you mean... Shield Defense is unique in being the only powerset that adds a shield to the costume. It also gives the attack sets unique animations that go with the shield (and prohibits two-handed weapon sets like Staff, Claws, and Titan Weapons). Did you know that in the Costume Creator you get to pick from a bunch of different types of shields and you can customize its appearance?

Need to re-run this on the first mission of Mender Ramiel's arc where you go to the future in Ouroboros with all the AVs in there and all of your stats are capped. See how the sets perform vs the Titan and all the other AVs.

You're right that Bio adds a lot of lumps onto your character. It's difficult to replicate in the costume creator but I think the Omega pieces can get you close. If you're stealthy you can't see your costume anyway though. Dark can be super tough. @Hyperstrike's Omega Infinitum - Tanker (Dark Armor - Dark Melee) caps resist to everything except Toxic (76%) and Energy (80%). He's got good Bio builds too. Have you used the Test server? You can create the characters, boost 'em to any level up to 50, give them all the IOs for free, and test drive them in some missions to see how you like them. In the end your theme and how much fun you're having matters more than which set you chose. They both work great. Dark will have better Psi resist; Bio might have better healing.

Yep, I have a Titan/Nin Scrapper and it's totally lame to get all set up and then whiff. Happily, after getting momentum the follow up attacks are nice and speedy.

You still get crits from hide though!

That looks like a lot of fun!