Klein

Yeah nice, notice you didnt mention anything about Energy Drain, which also comes with the set, kinda a tradeoff for some holes.

Point of the matter is I can get very good mitigation out of EA on my brute, AND have limitless endurance. Helps to keep the fury going, and NEVER have to sacrifice attacks to "manage" it better.

So yeah, no scaling resists, no recharge bonus(to help use your non endless endurance up faster, yay), and a psi hole.

Seems like a good trade to me.

And once these buffs go thru, heh, my softcap to 6 types of defense combined with a 30 second heal/end filler, and unsupressed stealth? Yeah you can keep your SR.

What I have found about EA is despite its appearance of the shields early on it really is a late blooming set much like SR.
Ask any SR whats its like usually before the mid 30s, it isnt that great. Also to get softcap EA defenses it is nearly identical to SR, your standard CJ/Weave/Steadfast/Maneuvers. For SR they get a couple perks like Gaussians 6 set bonus, and easier stacking, but EA can get into the 40's for smash lethal fire cold negative and energy defense types with that setup.

You also get endless endurance, which depending on yoru primary could be a huge boon. Combined with unsupressed stealth and wham you got a beast.

Now I had a few different builds with my EM/EA concept brute(singularity), aidself/air sup builds. All the builds I tried prior to the CJ/Weave/Steadfast/Maneuvers were terribly squishy.By treating my EA like I would an SR, I got near softcap to 6 types of defense(41+to smash/lethal, 46ish fire cold, 50 energy, 39 negative), and traded a 20% recharge auto for a resist auto to stack with tough givin me 28% smash/lethal resist at all times to boot. Throw in a end drain clicky to fuel the insane end costs of EM, and a hp boost in my t9 and you have a winner.

Try to play an SR with just its autos and toggles, see how awesome that is. That is what most people do to EA.