Electric or Energy, that is the question

Hey folks, just dinged my first villain 50, a stone/stone Brute and LOVED it! I solo'ed most of my levels at rank 4 mission difficulty and was able to down Synapse, Positron, Recluse, etc without too much of a headache. Now I want to role a second brute and solo most of the way again. I really like the look of Elec armor and was thinking of going either EM or elec melee. Any suggestions, input as to the stronger set for solo'ing? Thanks!

You're asking someone to compare apples to oranges.

Energy Melee has good single target damage and horrible AoE damage. Electric Melee has abysmal* single target damage and good AoE damage.

In fact, I have a third recommendation for you: Dark Melee. DM has great synergy with electric armor as one of your main attacks is also a small heal - Siphon Life (don't slot it for healing, slot it for damage). You have very good single target damage.

If you are bent on one of those two, you will be happier with Energy Melee, since you seem to do more solo work. You will learn to make use of the abundant stuns available to mitigate the damage.

*And I was being nice in giving it that much.

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Energy Melee has good single target damage and horrible AoE damage. Electric Melee has abysmal* single target damage and good AoE damage.

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For soloing, I'd say Energy Melee of those two... although Dark Melee would be a very good set, it has very nice -ToHit, the self heal is nice, especially on a /res based set that lacks a self heal.

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Heh, that's a great word choice =P abysmal.

Hold on, I'll get back to you. I'm still trying to kill that EB with havoc punch and chain induction..