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SS/Fire is better, hands down.

Why? Because Brutes have a taunt inherent. Without the taunt inherent, the mobs don't cluster around you easily, and run much, much faster. This makes farming through mobs of enemies much slower, and less efficient.

Survivability on the two is roughly the same. The SS/Fire is a bit tougher due to the knockdown from Footstomp, and Brutes slightly higher HP, but overall its not a major difference.

Short answer. Yes.

Why not consider Hasten/Super Speed?

With the plethora of Raptor Packs around, Super Speed is no longer a terrible travel power for Villains, and Hasten is ALWAYS useful. Super Speed is a good in mission travel power, and of course, SS+Stealth IO=Invis.

Pros-
Large Amounts of holds. Has 3 single target holds available, 4 if you count the Epic.

Large Amounts of softcontrol. Has multiple slow effects, including Ice Storm, and Shiver. In addition, has Ice Patch for additional soft control. Frozen Aura is a fairly lackluster power, but it does bring an AoE Sleep.

High single target damage. Ice Bolt, Ice Blast, Bitter Ice Blast and Ice Sword is a very, very good single target damage chain.

Cons-

Medicore AoE damage. Frostbreath isn't a terrible Cone, but it's not that great either. Its primarily AoE damage is from Ice Storm, which is on a long timer, and is all DoT.

High Endurance Costs. Ice can very quickly drain your endurance bar, and /Ice Manipulation has no endurance management tools.

In the low levels you might notice it a little bit, but overall it's not especially noticeable.

Every bit helps though.

Well, I'll be picking up Acrobatics on most of my non-melee characters, which lets me save slots by not putting in Karmas and Steadfasts.

Impervium Armour.

Question:

Will we be receiving 2 Freespecs in 19, due to the fact that the vast majority of characters over 20 have Stamina, and most have Stamina on both builds, thus needing 2 respecs in order to fix their builds.

Not all that effective. By the time you would get them drained, they would be dead, or you would be dead. Conductive Aura is an *incredibly* important tool for Electric, as it drains by far the most endurance.

For secondaries, many work good. Stone and Psi are two very popular ones, since Electric is pretty melee based due to Conductive Aura. Psi also has the advantage of never needing to take Stamina with Static Field+Conductive Aura+Drain Psyche.

In the build posted about, the Damage/End in all of the purple slotted powers should be replaced with the Proc. Slotting the Damage/End is almost a complete waste, since the damage is already ED capped.

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Focus on Acc and End Mod. Those are the two most important. Conductive Aura is a big part of Electrics Control, via sapping. The +regen is pretty meh.

Eventually, just 6 slot with Efficiency Adapters.

Cold Domination Shields and Ice Armour shields definitely need sleeker animations for people who don't want to look, or make their teammates look, like ice blocks.

Slot it like a normal attack. New Burn is amazing.

Corrupters have a .75 modifier compared to defenders 1 modifier. So they are about 25% weaker on the secondaries.

Some powers however, are the same regardless, usually pets and psuedopets.

For instance, Tar Patch is -30% resistance regardless of class.

By /Kinetic I am assuming you mean /Energy Aura?

Generally speaking, you will want the Fitness pool, and a travel power. From the Fitness pool, you want Stamina, so pick either Hurdle or Swift, then pick Health and Stamina.

For a travel power, Super Jump is an excellent travel power that is good for newer players. Take Combat Jumping, and then Super Jump.