Frogfather

Im not knocking the build because I have little experience in WM. I dont know if its good or not...

But just looking at things youre overslotted on the 22.5HP bonus (Rule of 5 and all that). You get it in Steadfast Razzle Dazzle and Titanium Coating. With that in mind you should probably shelve the Titanium Coating/Impervium Armor combo you have going. Im hesitant to recommend 4 slotting Reactive armor in the three Resistance powers you have slotted....so between the three you would gain 3.75% more defense to S/L and E/N but lose your recovery bonus from Impervium Armor...but gain three slots. Your call...just seems like youre wasting those three TC slots in each power....

Find a way to put the Force Feedback +Rech proc into an AOE that you use often. I love that thing. Maybe crowd control.

Id pull that Crushing Impact you have with all your Kinetic COmbats and Frankenslot with something thats Acc/End or even just a straight Acc IO. Thats just me though....entirely optional but half the damage portion of that A/D/E is getting eaten by ED. Entirely up to you.

Thats all I got...Im sure someone more knowledgable of the particulars could critique more.

Yup...what Supernumiphone said is correct. You wont find much in the way of +Resistance as bonuses from Sets.

As a rule of thumb on resistance sets I work for +Rech, +HP and +Regen. Those three seem to help to make those sets the most survivable. Then I throw in other forms of mitigation to help lessen the defensive burden, Ragnarok chance for Knockdown, Darkest Night, etc....

Occasionally Ill strive for the defensive s/l softcap but thats only fun until I hit some thing that has -def and then I might as well have done something else. Others experiences may vary

Hope that helps

Without going too far into it because Im not a WP expert by any means, youre not going to hit anything (much less +3s) with the 22%acc in 4 pieces of Kinetic Combat....find a way to fix your ST attacks.

Two questions...what does your budget look like and are you sure you want to build a brute that has little aoe and no damage aura?

I think we need more information. What are you fighting? What difficulty? and how are you slotted? Are you making use of RTTC, or are you fighting with things at range. At level 27 are your SOs expired? I have a WM/WP brute at level 39 and never noticed that particular canyon but need more information to comment.

Well purple and black on blue background doesnt look too good...

But I digress...

Youre overslotted on 9% Accuracy bonus so you could take the fourth LotG spot out of any 2 defensive powers and do something else with it. Just removing the slots keeps you over softcap...if you like the buffer to avoid cascading defense failure, just slot a defense IO and call it a day...or a Def/End. Anyhow, its your call...theres just no reason to have that Def/End/Recharge in there doing nothing.

Also...Scirocco is really only needed to 5 slots....unless you really like 3% def to Psi....Why not swap the Oblits in Thunderstrike with the Sciroccos in Jacobs Ladder and use the 6th slot for a Force Feedback Proc?

Other than that, it looks great.

Your build does look good but it will be expensive. Red side certain things are more expensive...its just the way it is. But this will take a long way to get to...

I made some changes but tried to keep two things in mind...

Softcap and DDR are paramount....but I tried to keep the integrity of your build intact

Went over the soft cap so you could tweak and pull things back later....

1. Removed those Hami O Enzymes in Battle Agility. Dont need em
2. Thunderstrike is designed for 5 Sciroccos and the Force Feedback proc. Sciroccos are great because you get the big defense bonus from that set at 5.
3. Added Miracle Heal to health for the 2 set bonus. Recovery is never bad
4. Left Taunt but Id consider taking it at 50. Brutes arent tanks....red side we take aggro by punching things in the face. You have enough aoe to get everythings attention.
5. Took Grant Cover at 28. Slotted with Gift of the Ancients because you already had 5 Lotg sets. You could put the run from Gift in Phalanx Fighting and two slot Grant Cover with LotG. Your call
6. Added a Blessing of the Zephyr to CJ. Its expensive, Id put a Defense IO in it as I level and forget about that slot until i had lots of inf.
7. Changed both Lightning ROd and Shield Charge to Oblits. Again...expensive. Slot two sets of Multistrike (which are cheap and avaialable at all levels) until you can afford it.
8. Changed Electrifying Fences to Trap of the Hunter because you were over on Melee Defense. Consider changing the Power out for Gloom and 6 slotting Thunderstrike.
9 Ball Lightning. Just frankenslot it and be done with it. Posi doesnt really do you any good at this point....

Thats just what I got...your call on changes

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Personally I love posts that get me both pos and neg rep. Those crack me up to no end for some reason.

Ive done so twice now and havent regretted it.

I stopped for LotRO when it came out. I played for a bit and came back....I stopped when CO came out and came back.

The key is to never burn your bridges so you dont want to come back. For me that would mean dont jettison my 300 or so IOs I have stored or give away all my influence or delete my 50s....

When I come back its always with fresh eyes and a fresh zeal for the game.

I think the OP was being a trifle tongue-in-cheek with the request...

The title alone should suggest it....its the original title of a sartirical essay from 1727 that suggests a solution to Irelands economic problems....

"Swift appears to suggest in his essay that the impoverished Irish might ease their economic troubles by selling children as food for rich gentlemen and ladies. By doing this he mocks the authority of the British officials. This is when Britain had taken over Ireland and put heavy restrictions on their trade, stifling their economy. The essay has been noted by historians as being the first documented satirical essay"

Heres the wikipedia link

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Modest_Proposal

And now you know....and knowing is half the battle.....

Darkest Night looks like your best bet. Do you need hasten? Thats for you to decide when you get nearly done slotting. Are your powers up fast enough to make you happy. But Im gonna say it would probably be nice to have

Now I know you didnt ask for general build advice....but....

Your SR defensive toggles and passives are overslotted. You could remove that second Def/End in each of them and still be over the cap. Personally I like LotG +7.5%/LotG Def (or Def/End if its a toggle) and a Def IO in each until I hit the rule of 5....But thats expensive. So Set IO Def, Def/End and Def IO would probably work for you. At least dont 2 slot Red Fortune...even doing that youre still over the softcap.

Siphon Life has no accuracy or damage associated. May I recommend one of the Accurate healing sets with a damage IO added or not...

Health is Numina Unique, Miracle Unique and 2 Heal IOs. Might as well substitute the heal IOs for Miracle Heal and Numina Heal for the small set bonuses.

Something similar for Stamina would seem to be in order....

You dont need either BotZ set you have slotted. You can pull those as well...

But as always...your mileage may vary

In the villain tutorial, you can skip the contacts and activities inside the prison and go directly to the first contact outside who will give you the two hunt missions. Complete those, then proceed to Arachnos Pilot and drop his mission to exit in about 3 mins.

Sept 15 _Patch Notes

Electric Melee - Chain Induction correctly jumps to additional targets when slotted with proc IOs.

http://www.cityofheroes.com/news/pat...rum_patch.html

I like it. Its a really nice build at or near the soft cap that has good recovery and good recharge.

Some changes I would make....

1. Find a way to slot Thunderstrike with 5 Sciroccos and the Force Feedback Proc. When I play mine on X8 difficulty the proc is something like 80% to fire off every time I use it due to the number of mobs around me. The 5-slot of Scirrocos is due to the fact it gets an AoE defense bonus at the 5th slot, unlike most sets which take 6.

2. Remove one of those Blessing of the Zephyr -kb then because you dont need the AoE defense

3 Convert Chain Induction from 5-slotted Crushing Impact (a wonderfully underused IO set) to 6 slot Touch of Death for the missing melee def

4 Remove the second slot from Phalanx Fighting unless you really like the Regen bonus. Its just not worth slotting up in my opinion to gain a meager defensive bonus when someone else is standing on your butt.

5 Add one of the 2 extra slots you now have to Battle Agility to shore up the hole I just made in your ranged defense

6 Still have one free slot, same regen and recov, soft capped defenses and the chance for 100% recharge.

Its pretty neccessary. You could do without it, but why?

A single -Kb IO isnt enough for what a brute does. So youd have to slot at least 2, and youd still get knocked around more than youd like. But a single -kb is perfect for those odd times when clipping issues tell the server youre not actually on the ground....

End Drain Resist, -KB, and Immob protection all in a nice little package.

I dont know what you guys did, but Ive had several bids out for Zephyr -KB and LotG +Rech in the high 20s low 30s range for the better part of a month redside. One of each hit last night within 2 mins of each other.

Thanks

Ive been on many...many...many PuGs and stuff happens all the time.

Ive never kicked someone when theyve taken two seconds to explain the situation. Even something like "brb gotta mow the lawn" or "afk for a sex" (turned out that one was a typo)....but...

If someone establishes a pattern of inactivity then they get a polite tell asking if everything is okay....no response gets them kicked with a polite tell again "let me know when youre back at the keyboard and Ill reinvite. Ill save a spot for you.". But 30 seconds is not a pattern....heck I dont even call that being inactive.

A few minutes after leaving a mission Ill kick someone if they havent exited (greater good and all that) but again...polite tell.

The key I guess is communication. Its a two way street. If I expect you to let me know about extended afk, then I should be responsible enough to let you know whats going on on my end.

Not this years Baby New Year mission but last years I joined a team of seven heroes with my namesake (Frogfather: Level 50 Brute, green skinned frog wearing a suit and fedora). I made a joke "Just so we're clear, are we eating the baby or saving it this time?"....then we run the mission and the baby gets lost (before the handy little arrow on the map). We search but are having problems re-finding him. I comment that Im "So full"....."so what are you guys searching for?" After a few minutes I get kicked....I had to send a tell to the leader to get reinvited explaining that you cant actually eat Baby New Year. Good times.

Its really hard to not make a "viable" brute. So yes, youre build is viable. Youve slotted your resists, and have stamina...

What you need to decide is what your trying to do with him....are you trying to get your defenses built? Or maybe trying to go recharge intensive to get Footstomp and Energize up more often? Or trying to get your hp and regen up so you can survive more.

Really, once you prioritize what youre trying to do, picking IOs becomes a lot easier.

I think if you answer those questions I can help you put something more viable together.

A couple of points
1) With Elec Armor, Ive always liked to slot one kb protection somewhere for the times Im not touching the ground and get hit with KB. Grounded as a power is a pain sometimes with when it decides youre not on the ground. Large groups and uneven terrain make for unhappiness.

2) Get that HO out of boxing...Its silly and expensive.

3) I would recommend changing the order around on your powers. Swift at 6, Health at 14 and Stamina at 20. Movement power precursor at 8, movement power at 16. Fit everything else around that. For exemplaring purposes only but its a headache if you ever want to do the Shark TF ouro some arcs or what not

4) With defense, unless your focusing on defense and plan on taking it into the 30% range. Dont bother. It wont be a noticable difference. Softcap is at 45%

5) Obliterations are a wonderful set, but they are recharge heavy and endurance reduction light....perfect for footstomp, horrible for lightning field

Hope that helps...