Morning!
My global handle is @Thilenium and my ingame characters start with or contain 'Thile' in their name - no exception. So far I have played and equipped about 20 characters. ten of which I took through the incarnate stuff. Others I 'swiped left'.
I liked the sound of this build because of its hard-hitting single target damage. But... the activation time on those skills is too high to build up Fury above like 50-60%. That somehow annoys me. maybe this whole build would be better as a Stalker who does not care about that. This is the reason why I only put Builds here (with one exception) that I tested for an extensive time period. This is also the reason why i keep posting builds as of now, since i have been testing and not posting for one year now.
The build represents the current status of my gear and also my zillion hours of experience in improving and reviewing on character builds (tailored to my tastes - sure. and that is where we might not find common ground. but see for yourself).
all the best, Thilenium
Summary Brute (Energy Melee - Willpower)
+ ok starting character
+ performs good during any stage of the game
+ great bursty damage, single target
+ good sustained damage, area of effect
+ can take a beating
+ can be damage dealer and tank for parties (all powers taunt) at the same time
+ chill and smooth to play (5 buttons for about 95% - using macros, see below)
+ utility for situational content
- Does not get Fury to or above 75% with single target attacks, like my other Brutes can.
- Build comes online in the endgame and requires some gear to get the cooldowns needed.
- not so suited for tanking very specialized endgame content: some final bosses in trials or tanking SMO's. that is only 5% of the game content, if that. As you do those things with other players, there is a good chance for there being someone specialized in tanking anyway and this is not a problem at all.
Contents
a) The role of a Brute
b) Willpower as Secondary
c) Energy Melee as Primary
d) Utility through Power Pools
e) Attack chains, single target and area of effect
f) Genesis Incarnate Power and helpful keybinds and macros
g) Mids DataChunk for the build
a) The role of a Brute
The Brute used to be the Damage Dealer and Tanker in vanilla. Now that both sides can pick Tankers and both sides can traverse to each others side, the Tanker role is less pronounced. Also the attuned Brute IOs do not have as many tanky stats as the Tankers IOs. In my case I save one slot by not choosing 'Taunt'. That being said: all attacks still taunt. That combined with the many area of effect skills make tanking for parties very viable.
Brutes have the unique mechanic 'Fury' where repeated attacks increase your overall damage. The faster the activation of any skill, the lesser pauses in between skills, the faster you increase 'Fury'. Of course this build manages this perfectly.
Brutes are masters of sustained damage. But since it is sustained melee damage, you also have to have some defenses to actually live long enough for a few attack cycles.
b) Will Power as Secondary
A fire-and-forget Secondary for every Archetype who has access to it. Very solid all around.
c) Energy Melee as Primary
I liked the sound of this build because of its hard-hitting single target damage. But... the activation time on those skills is too high to build up Fury above like 50-60%. That somehow annoys me. maybe this whole build would be better as a Scrapper who does not care about that. Also please note that the attacks only come together in the endgame, with some gear.
d) Utility through Power Pools
In the beginning I mentioned that there is also a lot of utility in this build.
+ You taunt all mobs around you which helps keeping the enemy off of your squishies.
+ 'Blink Blitz' is a great area of effect and utility power for starting any fight and while fighting. This skill sometimes lands you in obstacles. with enough cooldown you can use it on a mob to get out of it again. or you can use the command /stuck.
+ 'Recall' moves your teammates to your position.
+ 'Super Jump' lacks vertical movement. Say hello to 'Hover'. Where does 'Hover' come in handy? some missions have literally no bottom, some are fought in the air (Hamidon). and they will be extremely annoying to anyone without flight powers. Activating 'Hover' does not cancel any other toggles.
+ As it buffs the whole party Leadership powers are never wrong.
- This build lacks a ranged attack.
e) Attack chains for single target and area of effect
I use only five keyboard keys with macros. '1' and '2' for single target, '3' and '4' for area of effects. 'Build up' when i require it.
f) Genesis Incarnate Power and helpful keybinds and macros
Genesis Incarnate Power:
Socket Core Flawless Genesis
Helpful macros and keybinds:
/bind f "target_enemy_near$$follow"
>> autofollow nearest enemy
/macro INC "windowtoggle Incarnate"
>> Open the Incarnate window
/macro M1 "powexec_name Bone Smasher$$powexec_auto Staggering Burst$$powexec_auto Total Focus"
>> Use the two skills in succession.
/macro M2 "powexec_name Barrage$$powexec_auto Staggering Burst$$powexec_auto Energy Transfer"
>> Use the two skills in succession.
/macro TAoE1 "powexec_name Blink Blitz$$powexec_auto Barrage$$powexec_auto Ball Lightning"
>> Use the two skills in succession.
/macro TAoE2 "powexec_name Staggering Burst$$powexec_auto Barrage$$powexec_auto Electrifying Fences"
>> Use the two skills in succession.
g) Mids DataChunk for the build
Using Mids import the following using Menu: Build Sharing/Import DataChunk
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