Bruiser and Shadow AA's discussion

[Pnaxx]

<p>Like to know what you all have put in each line so far. Brawler line has been discussed, but no so much the other 2.</p>

[Quicksilver74]

<p>General line is pretty cut and dry.  Get max HP, and the rest is up to you.  Diety pet can give you extra stats, run speed is nice, doubel harvest is pretty sweet if you harvest alot, or are working on the harvest questline from Isle of Mara.  Max power is also popular.  Personally I use run speed atm.  being a kerra, bruiser, and general with the bogstrutter item gives me permanent 50% run speed so thats pretty nice. </p><p>  Fighter line I have the points currently Hammer (the red melee attack) because it's a Master 2 choice and one of the most commonly used CAs with a quick recast, so a very high parsing ability.  I also have 5 points in the damage reduction.  The stances are also possible good choices, but I didn't choose them for now.  I also have the extra rescue ability which has proven to be quite usefull, considering TSO raid mobs are immune to target lock abilities. </p><p>  Brawler line I have the raid buff and both avoidance abilities.  I also have Inner Focus, the end line ability which works great for raiding, but I don't think would be usefull to the bruiser who doesn't raid. </p><p> Bruiser line, I'm working on it now, at the time of this post I'm only at 172 AA, and I'm working on the mitigation.  It's not a whole lot but I like it,  as mitigation is always useful.  I also plan on getting the passive stoneskin proc, which shoudl be of paramount importance to a raiding bruiser, but less important to those who don't raid.  The upgrade to Savage Assault will be nice also.  I noticed that they reduced the amount of de-hate on our raidwide in the bruiser line to 1% per point.  It WAS 2% per point in Beta, so now if you take it it's only half as good. </p><p>  And of course the 100% deflection from the bruiser line will be amazing.  The extra rescue, I dunno maybe. </p>

[Aull]

<p>I have 150 aa atm. My question is should I take the 20 aa's out of the bruiser attention line and use those points toward my shadow tree?</p><p>Any advise would be helpful.</p>

[Sprin]

<p><cite>Aull wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>I have 150 aa atm. My question is should I take the 20 aa's out of the bruiser attention line and use those points toward my shadow tree?</p><p>Any advise would be helpful.</p></blockquote><p>What i did is keep enough in there for the increase to heal, and enough for drag, and quicker FD, and then started going down shadow tree to get a bit more on my DEF stance, and that absorb physical attacks and the extra taunt, which helps out alot... I really like the 2 separate increases to deflection in the brawler portion of the shadow tree, so that will trump anything else in the Bruiser tree until i get max aa i think... my main goal in life is to get the near chain mit and the 12 second deflect all, which will be killer in PVP... which is what i do on my bruiser</p>

[Pnaxx]

<p>I too took some AA's from Bruiser Tree and put in Shadow. I think I have about 30 in there now. In Bruiser I maxed Heal, put 3-4 in each CA, 5 into KO combo, 3 into each taunt, and maybe a scattering of elsewhere in there. But I figured that our hate is gained from damage, so the CA's should be given some love.</p>

[Pnaxx]

<p>Edit my last comment   <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" /></p><p>It appears we get hate from other places now, so does that make a case against putting the extra AA's into the CA's on the Bruiser Tree and movin them to TSO?</p>

[Rayche]

<p>The changes to give us hate from things besides DPS (Like our stances) hasn't gone live yet right?</p><p>What do you mean by "Other places"?</p>

[Sprin]

<p><cite>Rayche@Antonia Bayle wrote:</cite></p><blockquote><p>The changes to give us hate from things besides DPS (Like our stances) hasn't gone live yet right?</p><p>What do you mean by "Other places"?</p></blockquote><p>There are a few attacks in the shadow tree that increase hate gain in the form of increasing threat positions by certain ammounts... which is what i think he means... and remember... Drag forces target for 4 seconds... which essentially is a rescue that lasts 4 seconds long... which is sometimes more effective then a real rescue as someone who has built so much hate might just continue to do so even after you rescue and immediately pull it back... whereas you use drag, you have 4 seconds of forced target, all the while you can spam your taunts and even rescue, so at least it gives you time to tell that Wizzy.. yes i said it, wizzy's cant control their aggro <img src="/smilies/3b63d1616c5dfcf29f8a7a031aaa7cad.gif" border="0" alt="SMILEY" />  to stop DPS a bit while you get aggro</p>

[Chris14]

<p>I am sure it has been posted before numerous times, but I can't find an updated version.</p><p>Could someone state the most common used brawler AA lines.</p><p>Tank spec as well as a Solo one as I am guessing it varies.</p>

[Chris14]

<p>excuse my dumbness, I found some information haha.</p>

[Thantoes]

<p>My quick comment that might get me yelled at.. Don't worry too much about the cookie cutter AA setup, /chuckle - if someone looked at my setup they might scream 'WHAT THE HE double hockey sticks are you thinking?!?!?!'</p><p>PS ignore my sig if it shows up - switched from my necro to bruiser to post. Didn't want someone to say if you don't play a bruiser you shouldn't comment.</p>

[Lethe5683]

<p>Generally go for the HP+, any deflection+ and additions to the raid buff.  I also like the enhanced AoE ones.</p>