Martial Arts / Super Reflexes question and build help.

[Nintova]

 Hello and thanks for reading!

 

 I have built a Brute with the idea that it's a group oriented build. I imagine it can solo ( I hope? ) but it's main purpose is to group. To that end I thought I could go a little less hard on maxed defenses and add a touch of other bit's and bob's.

 

 I suppose my question is, Am I on the right track? My funds aren't spectacular so I tried my best to keep the sets manageable with a single purple set to make me commit to a bit of a grind.

 

I was hoping ( counting ) on team buffs to get my defenses to where they need to be. Is this flawed thinking?

 

Any advice is greatly appreciated.

 

Edit: I just noticed I had forgot to put the knock back protection into Super jump. It's supposed to be there. 🙂

 

 

 

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Edited March 10 by Nintova

[PLVRIZR]

17 hours ago, Nintova said:

 My funds aren't spectacular so I tried my best to keep the sets manageable with a single purple set to make me commit to a bit of a grind.

My advice is that funds should never be a problem.  With a little effort, you can make $1B (see Yomo Kimyata's thread about his journey there).  Also check out @Sovera's signature, for super quick money-making strategies.  With enough Infamy, you will be able to maximize your toon, with as many purple sets as you need.  If you want to grind, then go with what you've got 😆

[Thraxen]

Few suggestions/tips:

 

1.  Shield Wall and Fury of the Gladiator sets are pvp.  They basically half the price of a purple.  Those sets will be expensive.

2.  Don't need to build for s/l defense, like with kinetic combat.  SR is about positional defense, don't need to build for both.

3.  You absolutely want practiced brawler.  One end reduction is all the slots it needs.  It is your mez protection and also kb, so won't need to slot for kb at all.  Also eliminates need/want for acrobatics.  That power is for squishies really.  

4.  Defenses are plenty high so won't need to buff them later either.  

5.  Winter's Gift can go in super jump and save you a slot from combat jumping.

6.  Focus Chi is a great spot to 6 slot gaussian's set.  It ads 2.5% defense to m/r/a.  Don't really need the extra defense but could change other slotting up.

 

[Nintova]

1 hour ago, Thraxen said:

Few suggestions/tips:

 

1.  Shield Wall and Fury of the Gladiator sets are pvp.  They basically half the price of a purple.  Those sets will be expensive.

2.  Don't need to build for s/l defense, like with kinetic combat.  SR is about positional defense, don't need to build for both.

3.  You absolutely want practiced brawler.  One end reduction is all the slots it needs.  It is your mez protection and also kb, so won't need to slot for kb at all.  Also eliminates need/want for acrobatics.  That power is for squishies really.  

4.  Defenses are plenty high so won't need to buff them later either.  

5.  Winter's Gift can go in super jump and save you a slot from combat jumping.

6.  Focus Chi is a great spot to 6 slot gaussian's set.  It ads 2.5% defense to m/r/a.  Don't really need the extra defense but could change other slotting up.

 

Thank you kindly for the info and explanations. I've tweaked the build. I didn't know the two you mentioned were expensive sets. I definitely want to keep this on the cheap at first ( in as much as possible, of course )

 

I know some folks find it odd I don't have a farmer or obsess on gaining influence. Play your way, I say, and I'll play mine. I read the text, I do the story arcs. I enjoy that aspect of the game. The break neck pace task force for merits hi-jinx? Not so much.

 

 

[Thraxen]

I’ll check it out. Can always use cheap set then replace with shield walls. They are great but expensive. 

[Thraxen]

Also, if you drag and drop the mids file that seems to be the easiest way to share and others to pull it up. 

[Nintova]

I need to remake it. The Mids crashed when I tried to share the chunk. Damned inconvenient, that.

 

I appreciate the advice!

[Thraxen]

I don't even bother trying to export or anything from mids anymore.  I can't seem to get it to work or it does same thing and just closes it after error.

[Nintova]

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[Nintova]

MMA Hole - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

[Nintova]

Ahh there we go! Thanks again. I didn't know I could share it that way!

[Nintova]

I just noticed Javelin Volley is a PvP set too. Drat, need to get that out of there too I guess.

 

[Frozen Burn]

HI @Nintova

 

Good job so far!  Some additional things you may want to consider.

• Get rid of all Kin Combats in Eagle's Claw and just go for 6 straight Touch Of Death's.  That will get you more Melee Def.
• Combat Jumping - missed opportunities:
  • Move your Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist to Focused Fighting for 5-slot set bonus (more End Discount)
  • Move your Shield Wall +Resist (PVP) to Evasion to get 5-slot set bonus there (more damage) - since this is a PVP set, if you just do more Reactive Defenses in Evasion, then just leave the Shield Wall Special where it is.
• Agile - doesn't need 5 slots.  Just use:  LoTG Def/Global Rech + 3 from Reactive Def (D, DE, DR)
  • Move that extra slot to Cobra Strike for 6 Death Of Touches and more Melee Def
• Dragon's Tail - does not need 6-slots of Purple set.  The Toxic/Psi resist in is negligible to your build and thus, useless.  That's pretty much a rule-of-thumb for most (not all) purlple sets.
• Tough - with the extra slot from Dragon's Tail, 6-slot Tough.
  • Change Aegis to 4 Unbreakable Guard:  R, RE, RER, +Max HP (more Melee Def)
  • Slot your Gladiator's Armor (PVP) +3% Def
  • Add in Steadfast Protection:  Resist/+3% Def
• Stalagmites - FYI... JAvelin's Volley is another PVP set.  Perhaps slot 5 Posi's Blast instead, or if you can come up with a 6th slot, use Artillery for more ranged Def.

 

Hope this helps!

 

Edited March 12 by Frozen Burn

[Nintova]

Ok, last time!

 

 

MMA Hole - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

[Frozen Burn]

1 minute ago, Nintova said:

Ok, last time!    

 

 

 

Lol - there is NEVER a "Last Time" for a build!  ....and you haven't seen my other post yet, huh?

 

 

[Nintova]

16 minutes ago, Frozen Burn said:

 

Lol - there is NEVER a "Last Time" for a build!  ....and you haven't seen my other post yet, huh?

 

 

QFT!! I decided to take out Arma and add two expensive single defensive enhancements.

 

Mids is addicting 🙂 

 

 

MMA Hole - Cheap - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

[Nintova]

21 minutes ago, Frozen Burn said:

 

Lol - there is NEVER a "Last Time" for a build!  ....and you haven't seen my other post yet, huh?

 

Umm.. no.

 

 

Damn . . .

21 minutes ago, Frozen Burn said:

 

 

[Nintova]

Ok, with a little more advice - mostly taken, as I want to keep this cheaper. I think I can settle with this. Thanks very much everyone. You all rock!

 

 

MMA Hole - Cheap - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

Edited March 12 by Nintova

[Frozen Burn]

2 hours ago, Nintova said:

Ok, with a little more advice - mostly taken, as I want to keep this cheaper. I think I can settle with this. Thanks very much everyone. You all rock!

 

 

MMA Hole - Cheap - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd 45.61 kB · 0 downloads

 

 

Why are you slotting for specifically Resistances?  SR is a defensive set and you should be slotting for that over resistance.  Yes, having SOME resistance is good for when attacks may get through, but with high enough Def and SR's built in scaling resistance as you get lower on health, + the Reactive Defenses Scaling Resist IO - slotting specifically FOR resistances is not needed. 

 

Additionally, you are over capped on a lot of your set bonuses, you have a lot IOs that provide no bonus to you whatsoever - so they are wasted.  Click your "View Active Sets" button and look at all the things in red - you're not getting those bonuses.  🙂  

 

I tweaked your build some.  Take a look at it attached here.

• Slotting KB set in Dragon's Tail and a KB>KD proc in it is just wasteful.  Dragon's Tail already KDs, just put in a full set of Scirocco's in for the extra defense. 
• Slotting Kismet set is useless - use those slots to 6-slot Cobra Strike and Eagles Claw for more Def.
• Switched Cobra Strike to all Mako's to get you more ranged Def and even out your defenses overall.
• Weave is over slotted - moved the slot to Tough.....
• Again, use Unbreakable Guards in Tough for Def and the +Max HP special (this gives you more end discount, def, and HPs), and add in the Steadfast Protection +3% defense.
• Stalagmites - use Posi's instead of Detonation, which does nothing for you.  The extra recovery will help you more and Posi's are cheap.
• Switched a lot of your Reactive Defenses to Luck of the Gambler since you are over capped on React Def bonuses. and they were doing nothing for you.  Now, you at least get something.
• The 3rd performance Shifter was useless as you are capped on that +HP bonus, so just put in a 2nd Power Transfer (End Mod) so you at least, and you'll ekje out s tiny bit more end recovery too.

With this build, you are well over the soft cap for normal content, and right at the soft cap for Incarnate content.

 

These are all still cheap sets and IOs in the build (except maybe some of the PVP specials).  Defense sets are expensive in general - even Red Fortunes and lower level sets that go to 4-5 mill each.  Sometimes, you can buy cheap PVP IOs for 4.5-5 mill, and then convert them into Shield Walls.  

 

 

MMA Hole - Cheap - Brute (Martial Arts - Super Reflexes).mbd

 

 

 

[Nintova]

Appreciate that. I misunderstood which to go for. I was getting resists as high as I could. I thought Defense was a buffer, of sorts to ward against spike damage. Thanks for clearing that up. I also misunderstood the enhancements in regards to knock down. I thought those would increase it's chance to happen. I see that was faulty.

 

Again, thanks very much.