Tonality

Redside:

Snake Temple at 45+.

Then somewhere between lvl 20 and 40 there's some mission filled with only freakshow tanks. I love that mission, but I don't remember who gives it or the level.

While you can tweak the difficulty settings, there are a few all-boss missions in content, though they are extraordinarily rare.

I really think a lot of your slotting issues stems from not spending a lot of time playing that brute. For example, you really won't be running around with rooted on most of the time, so it's rather silly to slot those uniques there. You're also overslotting powers you'll never use!

You really should take a fresh look at the build. Here's a new build for you to compare with. It costs more, but is much more efficient. The recharge you get from multiple LOTG's can be earned over time doing strike forces, which you probably will be able to manage being a sturdy stone brute. I dropped a few things from your build. You don't need superspeed because it doesn't WORK in granite.

I would recommend increasing your survivability. If you're looking to run AE, then increasing your S/L def would be a very good thing, and that means looking at the Kinetic Combat Set. Recharge will come in time.

A stone brute would not be my brute of choice for TV, because when it comes to nemesis, what matters more is regen or healing, due to their stacking of vengeance. Now, this stone brute would be perfectly happy in AE, but you'll see that even granite can take a beating on TV.

The Differences:

1) I grabbed chain induction and dropped Jacob's Ladder. This let me slot in some kinetic combat sets to increase your S/L defense. If you can't afford those just yet, buy Focused Smite. It offers half the defense (or slot a crushing in the mean time).

2) I dropped Super Speed because you can't use it while in granite.

3) I reduced powers that were over-slotted. Tough doesn't need 6 slots. The only reason I have 5 slots is because of that steadfast 3% IO. It's a nice IO. Oh, and your rooted was waaaaay overslotted. I've reduced it to functional to focus on other sets. Same with stamina. I see what you were doing, but if you compare builds, this is only -2.5% recharge w/o hasten/FF proc, whereas yours is -21.2%.

4) Taunt - well, I really do like taunt sets personally, but I just couldn't sacrifice that many slots on that build. My mace/stone slotted both taunt and provoke, but had a lot of slots available to pull it off so I could hit some defense soft-caps and dig myself out of that negative recharge.

While I personally would spend a lot more time tweaking this build to be happy with it, it is a lot closer to what you want.

Notice these set bonus totals:

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I will chime in favor of slotting taunt in some cases on builds. The Taunt sets come in handy on certain builds that benefit a lot from S/L defense. Invuln can benefit significantly from this, but in the case of the OP's build, it is not necessary, as no significant numbers are being stacked.

I think what would help you the most is actually decide on a goal you want to aim for with your build, and then choose IO's to go around that build.

For example, if you were wanting S/L defense, I would expect to see kinetic combats in your melee attacks. If you were going for perma-dull pain, I would expect to see sets like crushing impact, LOTG 7.5, and a better slotting of dull pain.

Instead, I see odd set bonuses. A mix of AoE defense (which is silly to work on with a typed defense set), some HP bonuses, though a lack of concentration throughout for HP/regen.

Once I know exactly what you want to go for, I can critique your build a little more, but right now it's a little scattered for me to offer suggestions on which direction to go.

It's /petition, but there is a string that goes along with that I don't remember.

Instead, go to the menu, and click support. You'll find it a LOT easier to use.

The other thing to consider is that not every region has excellent snow removal equipment. Some areas don't even understand that pre-treating the roads and actively plowing throughout the storm will mean clean roads. Alas, not every place is used to how to deal with snow.

This is wonderful news! I was so eager to transfer a character over to Freedom to start establishing myself there and now I find that I can do it for free?!

Thank you, CoH Staff!

I think it would be fun to be a redcap. Jumping on shoulders whacking people on the head sounds fun, although on the other hand, being farmed doesn't.

Then I guess I'll be DJ Zero, just to see exactly what these powers are I'm supposed to have in pocket D. That and to err, crash my own party?

Full fury should be the least of your concern for an AV fight. If you have a decently quick attack chain, you can sustain full fury (around 90% fury) without any incoming attacks. I would expect at the worst case scenario, you would be at full fury in about a minute. Actually, I guess the worst case scenario is dead and needing to hosp.

How long did it take to kill Chimera? I don't read much about tanks soloing AV's like scrappers, so I'm a bit curious with the details. It's less about doubt and more about curiousity.

You can build full fury in about 5 second if you're solo. You can also potentially never reach full fury if you joined a team of only storm masterminds.

Building fury is relative to the team, your agro management skills, and your attack chain speed.

I wasn't aware that tanks could put out the DPS necessary to overcome an AV's regen. By soloing do you mean you actually killed an AV? How long did it take?

In any case, you'll find that you will have different goals on a brute, as a WP tank will have a significant edge in survivability over a WP brute. To begin with, the higher HP pool means that WP tanks have a higher base regen than a brute. Then the higher base resistances and defenses of tanks will mean that they take less damage.

Likely, a WP brute is going go need to herd up additional minions in the area to increase the regen rate to survive the AV onslought. It may also be that you need to build your SS/WP for defense over recharge, since you need to avoid getting consistently hit.