Mercuryflux

how does it rank doing what?
all the sets can be strong , but what are you asking ? vs AVs? Soloing +4 +8s? soloing +2 +8s? farming? Strike force play? becasue id say each of the things i just listed have a different number 1

i played a claws/elec brute in open beta to 50th, i had 5 attacks -strike , spin , focus , follow up and eviserate,
---- my attack chain was spin- eviserate-follow up and repeat
thats it, 3 attacks and done.

i have spin down to every 4.5 secs and Eviserate down to every 3.7,, id use my single target stuff in the gaps at times, but never "had too" . This guy does a TON of aoe damage

one thing to note about Claws- unlike most sets Claws high damage attacks are the AOEs -- its usealy the AoEs do less then your best single target attack, not the case with claws.
i loved my claws brute and with Lightning reflexs and a few sets( like a +to hit set in follow up) your recharge is easy to keep a 3-4 attack chain and do insane damage to 4-8 bad guys at a time----- skipped only power surge elec side. use lighining feild more as a way too keep end at zero after power sink over for DpS my2cents

i liked Elec armor, i didnt think it was too weak- it has alot of good toys
power sink is awsome , get all the toggles you can squeze in there and you will still never have end issuses
lightning reflexes should not be overlooked, it with sprint can get runspeed to around 35 mph - , i think what im saying is, if your not hung up on being abile to solo purples you will like it because its fun. on the negative side the set has no defence, and your gonna get hit with everything unless you add some by way of Pools or IOs

Myth: Scrappers can Tank
Truth: Tanking is more than be tough enough to take the alpha strike

( not trying to give off scrapper hate- but if your not holding agro and keeping it when the fire blaster goes nuts with AOEs your just "leading off" and provide no real protection after that)

the "next fire/kin" is gonna be Brutes in i16-- they will be abile to solo kill full mob spawns--- and with the AE in RwZ--- thats gonna be the hot spot---{pure speculation}----fire kins wont be abile to solo run for 8 aginst bosses--some brutes will

jezz-- i just cant play live right now---is everyone dealing with this right now?- i saw some other on the game, but im not sure if they are having the same problem as we are-