MayorOfAngrytown

If you use the less saturated colors available, the DA toggles become more transparent.

Somewhere I have a screen shot of my /DA scrapper where I used a bold color for the tenticly part of death shroud, and a very pale one for the other, resulting in a nice tenticle effect without so much of the cloud.

Works pretty well to thin out the rest of the effects as well. It's possible to render the CoF skulls translucent to the point of irrelevancy.

Just takes some playing around.

TLDR:

DA is awesome as it is, crusade for fixing something else plzkthxbai.

Anyone know how this proc works?

According to the wiki:

There's enough difference between lvl 50 SO's and common IO's that a great deal of your slotting is going to slap you into the ED cap pretty hard. Others with the numbers committed to memory will be able to help more specifically, but basically with Recharge you can get roughly similar numbers with 2 IOs as you can with 3 SOs. Lower to be sure, but since you aren't after bleeding edge performance, the difference is pretty minimal. I am certain though, that the 3rd IO is mostly wasted in most cases.

I don't think you need to worry about the to-hit enh in Rage, but since I have no experience with SS, I can't really speak to that, just a gut feeling.

Drop presence, consider Soul Mastery for Gloom and DN. Slot them both up. Since you don't have the option of taking shadow meld and aren't building defense bonuses rolling around with the -to-hit would be a nice bump in survivability.

Hypothetically speaking, nrg mastery might be overkill if you properly slot of endredux, which it looks like you've got under control. Max rechage as much as you can, especially in your secondary. You'll live and die by those.

Consider the following:

Tough and Weave.

Leadership pool if you keep energy mastery.

Burnout. Yes it has a stupidly long recharge. Yes it has a crazy endurance penalty. But it will allow you to do lots of interesting things with regen clicks, like back to back MOG or stacking Dull Pain.

Not on a Mids machine at the moment, but this idea is interesting to me so I'll probably take a deeper look. Finally, you'll get lots of nay-sayers telling you to skip regen, especially without sets. Meh to all that. If you're having fun with it, go for it.

Would be an interesting experiment to see this combo on pure commons or just SOs.

Late to the party as usual, but here's another vote *against* merging the AT forums. Likely lots of repetition from what's already been posted, but here's my train of thought:

Merging will increase bloat: People already post the same question over and over in the Brute forum, adding that to the Tanker forum will just lead to it being more difficult to find anything for *both* sets of players and increase question repetition.

Similarly, I'm not sure a dedicated "Builds & Discusson" forum is a good idea either. It would invite lots of duplication of info as builds will end up posted both in their AT (or playstyle) forum and in the build forum itself.

It won't improve usability: Honestly, I can't think of a simpler layout than by AT name, add the "playstyle" descriptor if you must, but I'm in the camp that doesn't really care for those catgories either. Which brings me to...

I was pretty happy with the level-bumped and half-IO'd bs/regen for the short amount of time I was able to spend fiddling with him. Recharge debuffs are still pretty killer if they get high enough. I didn't get close to capping HP in any normal way, but interestingly burn-out let me stack applications of DP and hitting the HP cap. Not that it lasted long. Of course no accolades and not full on +hp from sets and the like. Was running +2x4 (not a huge deal, I know) with pretty much no issues. Also with no DN running, so there is added potential there. I also didn't really see a noticable loss in fury from rolling through the click defenses. Maybe some numbers gurus could figure out the max potential HP for a regen brute?

I'm torn though as I'm a little too stoked on doing either kat/fire or bs/fire when i21 goes live. I might just wait for StJ before starting the regen brute. We'll see though. Pretty stoked on the idea of ss/regen just for kicks.

Either way, probably retiring the km/regen scrapper once I start /regen on a brute. Conversely probably redoing the wm/sd brute as a scrapper.

Heh. Go figure. I've gotten caught in the trap of shying away from secondaries that don't boost damage. :lol:

It remains the same though - got to be into the playstyle just like you do on a scrapper. Adding brute resists and hp doesn't change the reliance on timing and recharge that is just the way the set is.

I'd been holding off on doing a sword/fire scrappy, mostly out of having too many other toons as it is.

BS/Fire brute is very likely to happen ...


... depending on TW/

A few quick notes, bear in mind I just looked over the post not in MIDS.

-- 5 slot DW in healing flames. You want the recharge, and the heal value from that set is solid.

-- Consider using dmg sets instead of endmod in DC/Consume. Use pieces from MockingB to focus on recharge and I think it gets you close to the ed cap. Needs more Acc/Dmg though. You'll get plenty of end from it unslotted save for the rare instance you are only fighting one target. If that is going to be something you do a lot, then slot DC more like an attack and Consume for end mod.

-- You can probably drop the 3rd slot from stamina.

-- I'm not a fan of shadow maul, but you might be. If you aren't in the "I love this power" camp, I'd suggest dropping it.

-- 4 slot another reactive armor in tough

-- Consider 3 slotting Weave, End redux is the priority, although it doesn't hurt to add more def to it either.

-- 3 slotting Eradication and Cleaving Blow instead of Oblit will give you a nice energy/neg energy defense bonus. You'll want that, lots of pure energy attacks in post-50 stuff.

-- Get more slots in MG and SL - those are your two heavy hitters. Slot SL as an attack, you'll be using it in your main attack chain so it doesn't need +heal.

-- I'm not sold on Gaussian's in Soul Drain. I'd have to look at the numbers though, but Gaussian's is much better for positional defense than for typed. You want typed.

-- Gloom: Awesome. Darknest Night: I hear is also great. I was unimpressed with Dark Oblit. You'll be spamming burn and ripping through your attack chain with decent recharge (not even uber recharge). Dropping Dark Oblit for something that needs fewer slots will help you slot up other things. I might be wrong about that though, it could be a great attack that I've not used enough to realize it.

Also, FE+SD+Burn == Winning.

Can't really think of a reason they would change either set, save Confront --> Taunt.

TW/ definitely. Brute and Scrapper versions for certain. Not sure on secondaries, but likely not anything terribly clicky to avoid redraw (bothers me aesthetically). TW/SR, TW/Elec, or TW/Fire are brute combos I'm considering. TW/SR or TW/EA for the scrapper versions. Likely the latter since I want an /EA scrapper anyway.

/Regen Brute. Not the TW most likely (see above). SJ might be appealing, though likely to be either SS or SM.

I'm curious about /time so I'll give it a go. I don't tend to get very far with support/ranged toons, but I still want to check it out. Having said that, I was getting into my dark/elec defender recently so who knows. Maybe it's time for a diversion from melee.

Gotcha, er I think.

Or at least close enough to getting it for my purposes, thanks.