Warsuit X-5

Or perhaps Musculature would be better. 30% more damage can make fights 30% shorter.

Thanks, I'd been a bit undecided about taking Build Up as a power, but I figured, having it as a random freebie wouldn't hurt. Though I replaced that with a End/Rech/ToHit. Now I'm gonna replace that with Red Fortune, except for the global recharge on LotG

The reason I'd slotted Gaussian and was considering FA, though is I've had trouble with certain mobs while soloing, and if I ramp up the difficulty, they'll be even harder to hit (I've run through my entire regular attack chain on a Rikti Drone same level and got nothing but DEFLECTED and MISS...which is fine unless there's seven others all hovering outside your Invincibility aura). But the main reason I was holding off on FA was the same reason you hate it.

Gotcha, stripping the brawl slots out (didn't know there was a 5 set bonus limit), moving them to Stamina and other stuff on my toggles.

Also moved the extra resist mods from the passives to set pieces for my toggles.

Last, I removed the third IO recharge from hasten and unstoppable to give me more slots for the toggles, and moved all the unique IOs without a full set to auto-powers.

I know its expensive, that's why I'm saving my tix, awards, and villain merits and planning. This isn't what its going to look like when I hit 50, this is a LONG way down the road (of course, by that time, I may have found the Well of the Furies and all this planning will be useless).

And yeah, I know Gladiator especially is stupidly expensive. But it does give me 3% to anything, even Psi, which is my main weakness. It is farmable, given enough time and alignment missions (I'm a crafter/gatherer in another game...I'm familiar with grinding ^_^). I chose that one because I'd already slotted my offense heavily, and not so heavy on my defenses.

However, removing slots from my low-power passives and moving them to my toggles seems to have resulted in a noticeable, but not critical drop in resist/defense, and a considerable reduction in end/sec usage for non-click powers.

Though, so far, I've rarely noticed issues with endurance, but when I start running up the difficulty ladder, and adding global recharge bonuses, I expect I will.

Thanks for critiquing this one so quickly and thoroughly.

They DO scale since they use the invasion code, but they do seem to be considerably harder than a similar minion/lieutenant.

I'm a 43, and I can fight them for a bit, and have to retreat (I can hit unstoppable, but if the invasion is still on when it goes off...). With normal mobs, I can fight them almost constantly (or even just stand in the middle of a few and pop "whirling hands" on auto while eating a sandwich).

It was a very good day for me, I was robbing a bank in Founders Falls, its not that I need the money, I was programmed to enjoy people being afraid of me, and a random bank robbery is as good a method of scaring people as any.

My plan started to go to hell when I heard a familiar voice, at least it was familiar to me. But the sound of the voice didn't show the stress I heard from her at the end of our first meeting. Bah...Time Travel confuses me, but I'll beat Ms. Liberty now, and then I'll beat her in the past, in the future, heh.

And then the fight begins as I'm trying to leave with my loot. A simple stand up brawl with me pounding away at her, no problem. That's when all hell broke loose, the sky turned black, with a red glow. A glow provided by rocks and chunks of metal through the sky, right at the city. It really was...pretty in a strange way, and we both looked around, confused. Ms. Liberty of course, assumes its my doing, and I start to scream back "Fool...this isn't anything like what I'd do!", but my suit's AI stops me from replying, beyond an unintelligible growl as I strike back at her, she's standing and fighting well...but she's not my equal.

The smallest rocks start to pelt us as she continues to pound away at me, and I return as good as I get, and more. Then larger and larger rocks smash into buildings and the ground around us, we took little heed of them, until we started being buffeted by shockwaves from the impacts. As I look behind her, I see a large asteroid coming straight at me, through her. I'm not a hero, I'm not even a villain, I'm a monster, but, I'll be damned if some random rock will defeat her instead of me. I pass megawatts of energy into my gauntlets and strike her with all I have, she's stunned...helpless against the asteroid, or myself. I shove her aside like she's rubbish, and brace myself against the impact. My internal readings go mad, pain suppressors deactivate, while the adrenaline boosters stop functioning. And I wobble around for a moment and then shout to the universe, and anyone nearby "Is that ALL!". It really is more about acting scary than being scary, but, I AM scary, exactly as my creator programmed me.

The blast left Ms. Liberty flat on the ground, but I recover quickly. When she looks up, I've pinned her under a concrete wall, and I'm holding a steel beam. If I'd wanted I could have used the beam to finish the job, but, since I'm programmed to enjoy being feared, I don't want to. After all, if I were to kill, they will not fear me. I loom over her, and my AI lets me speak "Pathetic, not worth the trouble" my voice box growls out, she looks more angry than frightened as I toss the beam aside. In a way, I like doing this to heroes, because I can do it again another time, and if I develop a reputation for being able to take down heros...or villains, that's more useful among the population than killing all of the Arachnos moro...minions.

By this point, the storm has ended, and we start to hear other sounds, I can look around and survey the damage, but Ms. Liberty can't...she can hear screaming from civilians trapped under the wreckage, I can see them, they're not harmed, just trapped and scared, not much different than my first few hours in this suit.

I look down at her for a moment, now I have some fear. She wants to save them, but I could easily leave her under there, helpless until some others come along to save her. But by then it might be too late for the other civilians, and of course, dead people can't fear me, I walk over the concrete wall trapping Ms. Liberty...which conveniently shifts it enough to let her wriggle free.

She shouts at me as I pick up a few gold bars "It's not over", to which I calmly reply "It is for now, I think you have work to do" and then I leap away. Most people think I am an almost unthinking monster, but at least I, the AI in the suit, and...maybe my creator knows the truth.

Not just you...I dunno what I did wrong there, I'll try to figure it out...I thought I just hit the export and paste there .

Hehehe...I'm a brute, I don't plan. Seriously, this is my first character, and I'm not enough of a gearhead to know the ins and outs to get the perfect DPS. That's why I'm here wondering if I'm doing it right.

I'll freely admit that I'm clueless...but at least I know that I'm clueless.