IO trouble

[Darkone519]

Haven't played my brute Street justice/Dark Armor for awhile and have some IO'S sets slotted but he weak and defense is terrible please help. Thanks

[WuTang]

You might want to look at all the damage you've slotted in your attacks. IIRC, beyond 2 or 3 you get diminishing returns, maybe slot some recharge reduction and some endurance reduction, at least one or each. Assault same thing, two 50s boosted +5 is better than 3 endurance reductions. I would slot Physical Perfection for the 3-piece set bonus, but then that only gives you 10% speed/recharge resist in total, but I guess that is better than 0%. And surely you could spring for a few PS: Chance for +End procs for your endurance boosters? I would only 1 slot Soul Transfer, dealer's choice, but mine is recharge reduction.

 

Somebody else would need to chime in, I've not played /DA, but I believe it's considered a resistance set.

[Without_Pause]

- SO/Common IO slotting as a general rule. Single Target: 1 Acc, 1 End, 3 Damage, 1 Recharge(Optional). AoE attacks: Bump Acc to 2 and skip on the recharge,

- 4-slotting or higher any power with the same SO or common IO type is losing out due to Enhancement Diversification(ED). 

- I would stick a Gaussian's : Chance For Build Up in Combat Readiness and leave it at that until you can see if you want to spare more into it.

- I would rather see Adjusted Targeting in Focused Accuracy. More so if you can 6-slot it.  

- System Shock is doing so little for you. Performance Shifter: +Chance for End and the Performance Shifter: End Mod should the first two things you slot in Stamina and Super Conditioning.

- You have plenty of spots for the Health related procs.

- Assault needs 1 End at most. I would debate even taking this.

- Dark Regeneration needs to hit.

- The Theft of Essence: +Chance for End is a god send for a Dark Armor build.

- I really don't get using the Presence pool when you are already a /dark Brute.

- I would rather look into something like the Sorcery pool to get RoP in spots to help further stack your Res,

- I'm guessing you need some KB protection in there as well. 

 

Worth a read.

 

[Sovera]

Good answers in the thread but I feel that they missed the most important: get Mids, the planner program we all use for our builds. This allows to share builds and also see what numbers a build has to reach certain thresholds.

 

At first glance your build has some glaring problems but this is normal if you're not yet used to the under-the-hood mechanics of the game. It's also easy to fix so don't be bothered by it. We all started there.

 

But first get Mids: https://midsreborn.com/