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I don't know. Powering up with Burn...

But also, he said homage, not 100% ripoff...sooo...Fire works imo.

I'd rather of had Shadow Meld or Dark Obliteration myself.

Not at all. I knew what CoD did BEFORE I made my Spines/DA.

Why get upset about something you knew was going to happen when you took the power

See, I found Elec Melee's damage and recharge not to be that great.

ST damage chain (with SOs) wasn't all that. And with just SOs, the AOEs didn't come up often either.

Now, when LR, TS, and JL where all ready to go, it was very nice, for AOE But again, when all attacks where slotted 2 ACC/3 DMG/1 RCH...I was always waiting on an attack to recharge.

And the single target damage wasn't "Oooo wow!" not that I was expecting it too, but I was hoping the attacks would recharge faster.

That said, I still love the set It's just in need of work imo.

Me personally...already have an Elec/Elec Brute...except for respecing her and possibly changing the electricity to purple...not much going to change for me.

My plan for i16, is reroll my main as a Elec/Fire Scrapper. I decided on this for 3 reasons...1) Concept (could of went Fire/Elec, Fire/Fire, Elec/Elec or Elec/Fire) 2) I'm hoping it won't be a much used combo I know...probably a terrible reason to roll it, but hoping none the less. 3) It's become my goal to make that combo, based on concept, to something OMG UBER!

Will that last happen? Possibly not. But I'm going to try.

Slotting Assault is easy...base slot, put in an ENDRED. Done.

Agreed. SHadow Meld would of been more useful as well. The cone is lacking. :/

As for CoD. It's a stealth power, it'd obscure you costume pretty much anyways. Admittedly, if it was a bit more like Shadowfall, you'd see your costume a bit more.

Actually...my favorite Fire/Rad to play with, doesn't seem to need a tank to keep her standing in a 52 Boss farm.

Are you sure a tank is needed as much as you think?

Don't get me wrong, she's glad to have a tank/brute/scrapper to take the alpha and keep aggro off her, and make it even easier for her...but she can solo them on her own.

Though truthfully, her and I both find the LT maps faster and the bigger xp gain. But *shrug*...to each their own I guess.

Their no tolerance for team deaths would be the biggest problem imo.

Not that I encourage or try to have many team deaths.

But it's like when running an ITF, and people leave because the first 3 times didn't work on Romi, then the rest of the team gets it to work after they left.

Just took some time to get everything right.

That said, I still say anytime my teams haven't completed that TF (Id say I have a 99% success rate)...is because of people not being slotted even with normal SOs. :/

Personally, I wouldnt have kicked them, but then...I'm okay with the team strategy being "runamok"

This is all in my opinion so you know...

Electric Melee...it's a nice AOE set that lacks in the Single Target department. I say only nice for AOE, because it's real AOE attack is on a LONG recharge. But it does LOTS of damage when you do get to use it.

Thunderstrike is more like a heavy hitting single target attack with a little AOE damage thrown in (why it doesn't get to use regular melee IO sets, I don't know...as the added AOE is nothing more than a perk. Not a AOE in the since of Whirling Sword, that all targets get the same amount of damage done to them)

JL is a cone, not to hard to get at least 2 in the attack, imo. If not more.

Chain Induction is much like TS. Single Target attack with a form of AOE added into it. If it went back and forth like it did before, might not be to bad, but it won't jump back and forth between two targets anymore.

Do I love Electric Melee? YES! But I love flashy sets, so I'm GLAD the devs ported this set. It gives the elemental damage I've been wanting, without being tied to darkness or giving me elemental blades.


Electric Armor. Well, on my Brute, I wouldn't call it a tanker's choice. Not without serious IO set investment, and power pool picks.

The Heal for it will be nice for sure. As Aid Self was easily interrupted. Now we'll be getting a heal (if it goes through on test) that won't suffer from being interrupted.

What this will do imo, is free up the two powers from the Medicine Pool, so Electric Armor whatevers, can pick one other power to help shore up the defenses.

IMO, you don't really need KB resist IOs. Grounded will cover you enough. At least in PvE. While I do PvP, I have never PvPed with my Electric Armor (so it might very well be useful there).

I think you'll still want Tough/Weave on Electic Armor, and to try for some Defense set bonuses for Electric Armor.

This is all just going on theory from my playing an Electric/Electric Brute from lvl 1-50 on live.

I see the heal as being useful, and will help in the survival I'm sure, I just don't think it'll be as much as I would hope. :/ And therefore still see the need to IO out ELA whatevers towards survival.

Oh, and yes, Power Sink helps with survival. But it doesn't drain everything the first round. :/ Electric Melee helps with the draining, which helps with the survival, if you can stand long enough to hit the spawn twice with the PS.

The single target is nothing spectacular, because without IOs for +RCH, you're still waiting on Single Target attacks to recharge.

The AOE is great, you know, when it's ready...but LR isn't up every group. :/

The best ST DPS chain, which you go for when AV soloing (it would seem anyways) is 130 DPS...so it would lack against some resistant AVs.

Id just be happy to either have the recharge decreased so I don't wait on an atack to recharge or more damage so I hit alittle harder since I do have to wait.

I hope they change that. I don't want Tanker's Fire Epic. I want a new scrapper version of it.

More like a Brutes PPP. A blast at lvl 41. Not a hold or immobilize. I also want flashiness. Char and Ring of Fire isn't flashy.

My take on them...

Darkness Mastery is sucky! The graphics are just horrid! Soul Mastery redside looks alot better than the attacks Darkness Mastery gets.

Another problem with the Epics is...they don't give you want you want at lvl 41 (for some of us anyways).

Don't need a utility power...I want a ranged attack that looks cool and adds to the concept.

I want to shoot a blast of Darkness at someone. Not grab a place holder first, then grab the long range attack.

I'm not even looking for DPS greatness like Gloom. I just want "Oooo...so pretty"

This.

I find it funny. Those who say the normal content is repetitive, I usually find to be the same people who run AE farms over and over.

Note: I'm not against AE farms or farming in general. Just saying...repetitiveness isn't what's keeping people from "official" content and a bunch of people looking for AE teams.

Probably the same reason they didn't make the same change to Scrappers Evasion.

For Brutes, they get it at lvl 20, for Scrappers still have to wait till lvl 35.

So, you can make a GunFu (Dual Pistols + Martial Arts), with super reflexes, regeneration, the ability to bubble people, and throw them up in the air, and let out a blast of fire?

Because I've looked at the builds, and I still can't. :P

Well it wasn't my main. I actually got nothing but compliments on my bio. Though a few did mention it was quite dark.

Hmmm...might of actually got one person saying "It was to dark"

My main however (and namesake) was created in a lab as a mixture of science & magic to be a living weapon...sooo...no loss of parents, even if she thought she did for awhile.

I didn't find it terrible at all. Personally I think it would be a great set to pair with Dark Armor.