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Hi all,

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CAREFUL. 

 

I mixed up the powersets in the beginning, dont get confused as well. 

 

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i am playing around with some ideas for my Rad Ice brute, but so far didn't find anything that 'clicked' and felt right for me. 

 

One build i found you see below, but there is a travel power missing, what i definetly would want to have. 

 

Has anyone any suggestions what would be a good build?

 

This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.4.7
https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn

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Eisheilige: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Radiation Melee
Secondary Power Set: Ice Armor
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leaping
Ancillary Pool: Pyre Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Radioactive Smash

  • (A) Hecatomb - Chance of Damage(Negative)
  • (3) Hecatomb - Damage/Endurance
  • (3) Hecatomb - Recharge/Accuracy

Level 1: Frozen Armor

  • (A) Reactive Defenses - Scaling Resist Damage
  • (5) Reactive Defenses - Defense/Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (5) Reactive Defenses - Defense/RechargeTime
  • (7) Reactive Defenses - Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (7) Reactive Defenses - Defense/Endurance
  • (9) Reactive Defenses - Defense

Level 2: Hoarfrost

  • (A) Aegis - Psionic/Status Resistance
  • (9) Aegis - Resistance
  • (11) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  • (11) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
  • (13) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
  • (13) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance

Level 4: Chilling Embrace

  • (A) Pacing of the Turtle - Chance of -Recharge

Level 6: Boxing

  • (A) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff
  • (15) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Endurance
  • (17) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge/Accuracy

Level 8: Maneuvers

  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

Level 10: Wet Ice

  • (A) Endurance Reduction IO

Level 12: Hasten

  • (A) Recharge Reduction IO

Level 14: Combat Jumping

  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  • (17) Winter's Gift - Slow Resistance (20%)
  • (19) Winter's Gift - Run Speed, Jump, Flight Speed, Range/Endurance

Level 16: Glacial Armor

  • (A) Kismet - Accuracy +6%
  • (19) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  • (21) Shield Wall - +Res (Teleportation), +5% Res (All)

Level 18: Irradiated Ground

  • (A) Fury of the Gladiator - Chance for Res Debuff
  • (21) Armageddon - Chance for Fire Damage
  • (23) Fury of the Gladiator - Accuracy/Damage/End/Rech
  • (23) Armageddon - Recharge/Accuracy
  • (25) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge/Accuracy
  • (25) Armageddon - Damage/Recharge

Level 20: Taunt

  • (A) Mocking Beratement - Recharge
  • (27) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Range
  • (27) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (29) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Recharge/Range
  • (29) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Recharge
  • (31) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate

Level 22: Tough

  • (A) Aegis - Resistance
  • (31) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  • (31) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
  • (33) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
  • (33) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (33) Gladiator's Armor - TP Protection +3% Def (All)

Level 24: Weave

  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

Level 26: Tactics

  • (A) Rectified Reticle - Increased Perception

Level 28: Devastating Blow

  • (A) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime
  • (34) Superior Blistering Cold - Recharge/Chance for Hold
  • (34) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (34) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (36) Superior Blistering Cold - Damage/Endurance
  • (36) Superior Blistering Cold - Accuracy/Damage

Level 30: Permafrost

  • (A) Aegis - Resistance
  • (36) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance/Recharge
  • (37) Aegis - Endurance/Recharge
  • (37) Aegis - Resistance/Recharge
  • (37) Aegis - Resistance/Endurance
  • (39) Steadfast Protection - Resistance/+Def 3%

Level 32: Atom Smasher

  • (A) Superior Unrelenting Fury - RechargeTime/+Regen/+End
  • (39) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (39) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage/RechargeTime
  • (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Damage/RechargeTime
  • (40) Superior Unrelenting Fury - Accuracy/Damage

Level 35: Icicles

  • (A) Superior Brute's Fury - Recharge/Fury Bonus
  • (42) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (42) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Endurance/RechargeTime
  • (42) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage/Recharge
  • (43) Superior Brute's Fury - Accuracy/Damage
  • (43) Superior Brute's Fury - Damage/Recharge

Level 38: Proton Sweep

  • (A) Mocking Beratement - Recharge
  • (43) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Range
  • (45) Mocking Beratement - Accuracy/Recharge
  • (45) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Recharge/Range
  • (45) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate/Recharge
  • (46) Mocking Beratement - Threat/Placate

Level 41: Char

  • (A) Salvo - Accuracy/Damage
  • (46) Salvo - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (46) Salvo - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Range
  • (48) Entropic Chaos - Chance of Heal Self
  • (48) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Endurance/Recharge
  • (48) Entropic Chaos - Damage/Endurance

Level 44: Fire Blast

  • (A) Winter's Bite - Recharge/Chance for -Speed & -Recharge
  • (50) Winter's Bite - Damage/Endurance/Accuracy/RechargeTime

Level 47: Fire Ball

  • (A) Positron's Blast - Chance of Damage(Energy)
  • (50) Positron's Blast - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  • (50) Positron's Blast - Damage/Range

Level 49: Energy Absorption

  • (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed

Level 1: Fury 


Level 1: Brawl

 

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Proton Sweep is barely tolerable on a Tanker because of the increased area. Feel free to drop it on a Brute. And it's filled with Mocking Beratement? (Not that it gets hurt overly much that way.)

 

Do take Radiation Siphon. OMG, take Radiation Siphon. Why is Radiation Siphon not in the build? It is your heal.

 

Is the goal to be a Tanker? Damage does not seem to be the build's raisons d'être. Sure, Irradiated Ground is proc bombed to hell and back.... Hey, is this meant to be an afk farmer?

 

If it weren't 1:00am I might try to put something together. Maybe tomorrow morning depending on my mood.

 

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13 hours ago, Erratic1 said:

Is the goal to be a Tanker? Damage does not seem to be the build's raisons d'être. Sure, Irradiated Ground is proc bombed to hell and back.... Hey, is this meant to be an afk farmer?

No, i am not farming at all.. It just was the only build i found in the forum,. 

13 hours ago, Erratic1 said:

If it weren't 1:00am I might try to put something together. Maybe tomorrow morning depending on my mood.

 

I would really appreciate your ideas 🙂

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7 hours ago, Radeon said:

No, i am not farming at all.. It just was the only build i found in the forum,. 

I would really appreciate your ideas 🙂

 

Sorry, the day got busy and got to this late.

 

What follows is not God's gift to brute builds but it is hopefully a useful first pass. Issues it has are:

  • Gap between endurance consumption and recovery is low so relies on Performance Shifter procs and Energy Absorption. Agility Core Paragon is probably the only sane Alpha choice.
  • Hoarfrost does not recycle in 120s or less
  • Would like an extra slot in both Frozen Armor and Tough for 6.75% more S/L Resistance
  • Global Recharge could be higher.
  • Relies on 3 Winter sets (though may not be an issue for you depending on budge).

You can tweak slots around to reach different goals. As always, I suggest testing a build on the test server before committing to it.

 

 

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Thats a quite expensive one, but you are right, budget it not my biggest issue 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to not only give some advice but also create a meaningful build !

 

Why are there 5 powers without any enhancement? Are they not worth any?

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5 hours ago, Radeon said:

Thats a quite expensive one, but you are right, budget it not my biggest issue 🙂 Thank you for taking the time to not only give some advice but also create a meaningful build !

 

Why are there 5 powers without any enhancement? Are they not worth any?

 

You can put what you want in them.  Certainly you probably want to reduce the endurance cost on Focused Accuracy. 

 

As for cost, you can replace the slotting of Winter sets as follows until you have the influence for them:

  • Devastating Blow: Shield Breaker (2/3/5/6) + 2 basic damage IOs
  • Laser Beam Eyes: Shield Breaker  (2/3/5/6) + 2 basic damage IOs
  • Icicles: Mocking Beratement

You will lose 5% S/L/E/N Def and 9% F/C Def. For most game content you will not notice the first and the impact of the second will be minimal.

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OMG...i bought almost all of it already and JUST NOW realized, that i mixed up the powersets. 

 

It's not RAD / ICE but ICE Melee / RAD Armor..oO. How can someone be so stupid?...yeez.

 

Would you have some advice/build for this combination as well?  🙂

 

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