Thoughts Concerning Electric Armor for Brutes.
By
Eisenzahn,
Posted on: 2009-05-25 21:21 in Player Questions
Resistance isn't Electric Armor's only line of defense. Drain endurance with Power Sink and Lightning Field. Use Power Sink and Conserve Power to keep your endurance eternally full, and use Lightning Reflexes to cycle through any mitigation in your primary at a rate that few other sets can keep going without stopping every few minutes to rest. Play like a Scrapper, not like a Tanker. Electric Armor is made for Striker-style brutes, who hit hard and fast, and kill things too quickly for them to retaliate quickly. And if you really truly must be "tanking" to feel strong, go to the RWZ and laugh at all the Energy damage from 35-50.
As a side note... if you also honestly think Dark Armor is weak, you really need to meet a player running one. The high endurance cost is the only thing keeping that set from being game-breakingly overpowered.
@Eisenzahn
GW2 - Melchior.2135
AIM - Euroclydon23
Email - scorpany@yahoo.com or <sameasmyAIM>@aol.com (for the sheer novelty of an almost 20 year old email address that hasn't been overwhelmed by spambots yet)
my gfs elec/elec brute lives in the rwz pretty much. with /elec you have your energy resist capped so she owns with fightin anything to do with energy.
she picked up hand clap to help her give her the few secs she needs to use aid self. it is a very weak build but, u trade really good resistance for endur drain and heavy pboe damage on badies.
it is a good set you just cant really be "the main" brute.
RED CAP DAGGERS: if you want them red side on infinity, send a pm i have the mission to get them for dual blades.
I was running a few missions with my newly slotted DM/EA brute (level 50) with another 50 which was EM/Stone and another brute DB/WP, and some healers and such..my problem is this..
Why is it that electric armor is so so weak in comparison to ALL other armors (with DA being the exception because its just as bad with horrible endurance problems.) I understand that its all +RES and no +DEF..I even took tough and Weave to hopefully "help" with my situation but it seems that he still gets 3 or 4 shotted when it comes to 54 bosses and all around me I see Willpower/Stone/Shield/Invul brutes not even getting nicked. Why is this armor so incredibly imbalanced? and for what reason could all +RES be good? anyone care to shed some light on this i'm very interested in learning how this armor set could be beneficial to me.
P.S. even with power surge I can still be almost killed by these bosses all around me..plus why have the health/end drop when it wears off? other sheilds dont have that extreme of a drop besides Invul which basically doesnt even need unstoppable if you slot your toon right.