My guess would be Shield if you are farming bosses. Greater survivability (much greater with IOs) is the main reason.
For similiar levels of investment, I would say they would be about even for lts. and minions.
TW/Elec Optimization
Go with a defense set. Shields or Invuln are top for S/L boss farms in my experience.
Fire is just going to get pummeled unless you get it up near or past softcap levels, but if you really wanted to you probably could - the question is it worth the tradeoffs?
Shield can be a bad stamina drain. Fire armor has the self heal and consume to recharge with.
Both can work. If you are going to do all bosses in AE I'd choose Fire. It's AE and you can pick what you fight. I'd prefer a huge pile of resists to a defense based set. A 1 in 20 chance of being hit is going to last long against 10 Bosses.
My vote for /Shield, but /Fire can work too if built well. Both are really fun to play (/Fire may be a bit more fun overall, but a tad squishier too).
It's better to have a good IO build though if you want to solo boss maps, otherwise you may have to rely a bit too much on inspis.
SS/Fire can be a bit cheaper to build if you're looking at AE farming.
Well... I'd say go for /Shield for its survavility =x
I would have to vote /fire for boss spawns and focus on melée defense.
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I would have to vote /fire for boss spawns and focus on melée defense.
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D-D-D-Defense!?
/Fire has absolutely 0 defense why would you want to build towards Defense?
To help with the boss damage mitigation. I have a fully io'd out ss/sd and while I can defeat boss spawns it is not very safe.
IMO the resistances plus some melee defense would be good for boss spawns.
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I would have to vote /fire for boss spawns and focus on melée defense.
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D-D-D-Defense!?
/Fire has absolutely 0 defense why would you want to build towards Defense?
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Because it has zero defense.
I have a build with 33% def, plus the resistance, plus healing flames.
Willpower has more passive regen than Regen does. Who thought that was a good idea?
Can we get a fix for Energy Melee instead of more new sets?
.. but I can boss farm just fine without defense..
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.. but I can boss farm just fine without defense..
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k. Either way I answered your question.
It's hard to farm brutes. It takes alot of patience, constant watering, and thier seeds are really heavy...but when they bloom they emit the sweetest rosey aroma and it makes it all worth it. Just FYI, don't use mircale grow on your brute seeds. I did and it died.
Oh, and it helps to sing to your brute a little every morning before work. My last crop really responded well to Sinatra.
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It's hard to farm brutes. It takes alot of patience, constant watering, and thier seeds are really heavy...but when they bloom they emit the sweetest rosey aroma and it makes it all worth it. Just FYI, don't use mircale grow on your brute seeds. I did and it died.
Oh, and it helps to sing to your brute a little every morning before work. My last crop really responded well to Sinatra.
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Brutes might respond better to this.
119088 - Outcasts Overcharged. Heroic.
i can't believe you can't do it with ss/electric.. it's all I've been doing since the MA. It's so easy. Maybe because I do it so much though. I usually throw in max number AV boss fights too among the bosses. It's very easy for me. I couldn't do much with shield.
lol, love this thread,
Um why not go /Fire and make all the mobs custom and give them fire melee 
. 90% resist to that
Plus u get a heal, plus an end recovery power, plus burn
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Both can work. If you are going to do all bosses in AE I'd choose Fire. It's AE and you can pick what you fight. I'd prefer a huge pile of resists to a defense based set. A 1 in 20 chance of being hit is going to last long against 10 Bosses.
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Now where do I run into trouble is that THAT's all that I can do. If your solo farming then it's ok but don't expect your group to fully support you when you do your AE with all customs. They hit harder and most people are speced differently. Speaking more with teams you cannot aggro more then 10 Bosses with your Aura/FS. So small teams (like 3 people) are ok but anything bigger will cause problems.
I recently leveled a Bots/FF MM and I gotta say that with a couple of my 50's (SS/Fire, Bots/FF, and Kin) I can take on AVs in AE while loosing 0 HP. Everything gets resisted, it's simply amazing (now I just need to figure out how to kill them faster LOL).
Just my 2 cents I guess.
Haven completely given up on making my SS/Elec into a boss farmer...
Which of these two would be superior? I already have a level 50 FA and would have to give the nod to it for the heal, blazing aura, and burn.