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I'm not too sure about Kinetic Melee. It seems like just another damage set, overall. Its special effect doesn't seem that great to me.

Between Willpower and Regen, I would pick Willpower for PvE. I don't PvP and don't know anything about it. Regeneration can only heal, and by iteself, it isn't enough to keep you alive when fighting groups of enemies. Willpower reduces the damage you take so that the healing can keep up. It is ultimately up to you, though.

There are only a few debuffs that ignore defense debuff resistance. Lady Winter's is the only one that I can think of right now.

Stealth procs are exclusive. Once you slot one, you can't slot more in your build (ex. one in hover/fly and one in sprint).

Combining a stealth proc with a stealth-granting power is good enough to never be noticed by all NPCs who don't have perception buffs. Devices' Cloaking Device power does not add much stealth, so I would doubt its effectiveness for obtaining complete invisibility to critters. Super Speed is a popular choice for combining with a stealth proc because most people get Hasten.

Both Super Strength and Stone Melee have AoE knockdowns. That will be your biggest advantage when in defensive armors instead of Granite Armor. They both lack AoE damage, though. Super Strength is the obvious winner at single-target damage.

If you want shards, it is best to team up. You get a chance for a shard for each enemy killed, and that chance does not change when you add people to your team, unlike other drops. A team of players can kill MUCH faster than a solo player.

Char can hold some nice sets. Basilisk's Gaze is nice for recharge, and Lockdown is nice for defense.

The tier 4 45% recharge Alpha puts you .013 seconds away from doing FU->Focus->Slash, which does 188.56 DPS (possibly more if FU can be triple-stacked) with the new proc.

FU->Focus->Eviscerate is not possible. It requires a 2.376s recharge which would require 405% recharge bonus on the power. You would literally have to get 100% more global recharge. I suppose if you had 2 SB's or 3 AM's, you could do it with a slight pause in the chain.

The influence cap is 2 billion. These days, that won't get you more than 2-3 damage set purples from the AH. Don't worry, though. It isn't hard to make enough INF in this game to buy those. It just takes time. Spending Hero Merits will allow you to sell expensive IOs on the AH so you can buy purples if that is your goal.

Right now, you have only SO's. Planning a build around IOs almost always results in more endurance, recharge, and survivability. You have to choose which one you want to focus on, though.

With Electric Melee, you won't really do much more DPS than you're doing now. A little global recharge would help get Lightning Strike to recharge faster, but don't expect big damage from your build. Figuring out an attack chain would help you optimize your attacks that you take and use. Search these forums for threads on attack chains.

Increasing resistance through IOs is a futile effort and results in a poor build, usually. Damage bonus is also a futile effort because you can reduce your recharge more to make build-up recharge faster for more overall damage.

Increasing defense to worthwhile levels is much easier and will make your character feel invincible if done right. The key points to reach are 20%, 32.5%, or 45%. The "soft cap" is 45%, and having 32.5% or 20% puts you in range of hitting the soft cap with 1 or 2 small inspirations, respectively. The categories of defense depend on how much offense you want in your build. Going for S/L and E/N gets you the bare minimum coverage, while melee + ranged + AoE covers almost everything. Those aren't the only options, but you should know that gaining defense through sets usually means sacrificing global recharge bonus because most sets don't have both.


My suggestion is to aim for enough recharge for a decent attack chain and get one of those defense levels I mentioned so you can survive almost anything. A dead Scrapper does no damage, but a well-built Scrapper can solo AVs.

I did some calculations on your build. Using Jab -> KO Blow -> Burn -> Haymaker -> Foot Stomp as an attack chain, I came out with an average of 262 DPS. That was averaged with Fiery Embrace's uptime vs downtime. It also assumed Rage would be double-stacked at all times, which isn't quite the case with your build. Still, it compares well to my DM/SD Scrapper's 313 potential DPS attack chain with Soul Drain and AAO fully saturated.

I think I may make a FA/SS Tanker now. It doesn't depend on any conditions (10 enemies in range) for doing Scrapper-level DPS. With only one enemy in range, my Scrapper only does 221 DPS and a lot of AV fights end up like that.

Edit: Jab -> KO Blow -> Gloom -> Burn -> Haymaker -> Foot Stomp came out to 273 DPS
Edit again: Replacing the foot stomp with a second Gloom came out to 306 DPS

Vigilantes count as Heroes. Rogues count as Villains. If your SG is Hero, you can use the base as a Vigilante. There are other restrictions on Hero/Villain that use those rules, like Ouroboros and certain missions.

You can remove the slots, but you may not want to. The higher you go up the tiers of the Alpha slot, the more of its bonus bypasses ED. For some builds, this could make the difference. My DM/SD Scrapper went from a 6-second downtime on Hasten to less than 1 second when I upgraded to the tier 4. It would be bad to take a slot out of Hasten after that.

I think you should get rid of Follow-Up in your attack chain. As a Brute, your damage bonus from Fury makes Follow-Up's damage bonus almost a negligible damage increase.

Without FU:
100 damage attack X (150% fury damage + 95% enhanced damage + 100% base) = 345 damage

With FU:
100 damage attack X (150% fury damage + 95% enhanced damage + 60% double-FU 100% base) = 405 damage = 17.4% increased damage


The best single target attack chain for you would start with Focus, then include 2-3 of Shockwave, Strike, and Slash because they are basically the same DPA.

All calculations were done with 75% fury.
Your current attack chain, FU -> Focus -> Slash -> Strike is 137.13 DPS with FU double-stacked
Focus -> Strike -> Slash would be 185.72 DPS in your build

Follow-Up is definitely LOWERING your DPS.

I'm not sure how you got 180 DPS out of your attack chain. Did you include the -res proc? Did you use Arcanatime or the listed animation times?

I ALWAYS go to Firebase Zulu. They are level 37-38. You can get a group of lowbies to help you if you advertise in channels. If one person on the team kills one, it counts for everyone on the team, so tell them to spread out to the different islands.

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Care to share your build? I'm just wondering what it takes for a Tanker to put out that much DPS,

It depends on what you want to do with the character.

I wanted my character to be the ultimate tank for any situation. The only secondary that has any real impact in an AV fight is Dark Melee because of the heal.

Is this a worthy use of the Cardiac Ultra-Rare?

I soloed the rikti AV at the end of LGTF the other day. I think I made some people in my group mad at me for not working as a team. I was just testing the limits of my build and nobody had stealth + teleport, so I figured it wouldn't hurt to get the mission objective going.

Your build seems to be more focused on damage than tanking on teams in Granite form. While in Granite form, your F/C/E/N defenses are horrible compared to what they should be. Even without Granite, you aren't set up very well.. You hit the S/L soft cap but fall short on E/N with only 28.6%. I strongly reccomend making two builds. One can be for doing DPS and staying out of Granite. The other can be for tanking on teams. Look at my other post on a Stone Armor build recently if you want to see some example builds for Granite tanking.