Jonas1974

Originally Posted by seebs

What makes you think that it will become desired? I would be shocked if I couldn't find three other things I wanted more than the attack powers in most MM sets.

For them to be desired, they have to be better than your other choices including pool powers and PPP/APP. While the DS whips are sorta likeable for the resistance debuff, some of the other sets, well... I don't see them becoming popular unless we get about ten more power choices. Until it comes down to "either I take Flurry from speed or I take this attack power", they're mostly going to continue to languish.

Originally Posted by doomrider

And your "out of the box" answer would then be no, not really. Especially considering that dark blast being mainly dot will not benefit from scourge nearly as much as other primaries. I suggest fire/dark for out of the box farming on a corr. Fire supplements enough aoe dmg, tar patch increases that damage and keeps your spawn where you want them while all the -tohit that comes loaded in dark miasma will keep you in relative safety. enjoy!

Originally Posted by Werner

Both are good. Willpower is probably easier to make good. It can also depend on your primary. Dark Melee/Invuln, for instance, is extremely survivable.

Originally Posted by Neogumbercules

How 'bout Claws/WP?

Get your AoE at level 6 as opposed to 32 for SS, plus you get the buzzsaw feel of Claws, Shockwave (which is awesome) and all those cool "SHINK" sound effects.

Originally Posted by Bill Z Bubba

If you move, they'll follow, but yea, jumping into a spawn that's already pretty tight and dropping burn will cause all of those within its aoe radius to light up. Following it up with spin is gravy on top.

Now get really silly. Dive it, hit followup, fiery embrace, burn, spin, eviscerate and have blazing aura running while you're running at x8 difficulty.

It's so beautiful I'm almost tempted to make a claws/fa.

Edit... well, hit eviscerate if everything hasn't already died from burn/spin, that is.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Read up on Burn changes.

When you cast Burn, it does a large amount of Fire damage and then ticks away for a ton of smaller ticks, usually 6-15 depending on damage buff/Fury. So Spin and Burn would literally eat entire groups alive.

Originally Posted by Negate

/fire...fragile but amazing. Spin + Burn is amazing.

Originally Posted by Candlestick

Agreed.

But don't play it villain side. Take it heroside and farm the Behemoth mish. It's pretty much the best farm mish a SS/Fire can get, outside of AE.

Originally Posted by Nightmarer

You can make either /Fire, /Elec and /DA very survivable by softcapping any of them to S/L dmg, however, in every case it will be VERY expensive. On /Elec you won't have to worry about end and rchg is better than the other two due to Lightning Reflexes but it's the most difficult to get to S/L softcap though. DA is the easiest to softcap because of Cloak of Darkness but sorting out the endurance management is expensive. Prolly the cheapest one would be Fiery Aura, but it's also the squishiest one and you'll mainly rely on killing everything asap before they kill you.

I'd say it's down to budget and playstyle to decide which one would be the easiest one to handle. For what is worth, with zero defense and just regular IO's, I'd say Claws/Elec would be the most survivable.

Originally Posted by Exxar

I'd say /dark hands down. It has the best heal, covers exotic resistances the best, has built-in defense and an aura that prevents the mobs from attacking.

Fire and ElA don't have such an aura, have worse heals, and each of them has a resistance hole - Fire has psi, ElA has toxic.

Originally Posted by joebartender

You can slot level 50 common and Set IO's at level 47

You can slot Purple IO's and level 50

You can slot level 30's at level 27

I highly recomend frankenslotting starting at level 17 if your in Primal Earth and as early as level 10 in Praetoria.