I've never been a fan of SS, and it's all smashing damage which is one of the best resisted damage types in the game.
DM on the other hand has a good Cone attack in shadow maul, it's possible to get by with 4 attacks in your chain (Smite, Shadow Punch, Shadow maul and Air Sup) has a PBAoE +acc +dam opener and also has an immob later on which does good damage. Also the Self heal, while not huge can be very useful as a minor top up. It's also a 'dual' damage primary, and it's very rare you find a bad guy that has good resistances to both. The Acc debuff on everything as well is hugely useful, and you get a fear, which is not well resisted, has a huge acc debuff and can also act like a hold and take a bad guy basically ouy of the fight for a few seconds. The only thing counting against it is the fact it's not a huge single amount of damage set, unlike SS which does damage in one big BANG, DM is more chipping away at the bad guys health until they're arrested. I love DM, it's got alot of useful things in it, but it's not overloaded with actual attacks that do direct damage, but is still a great set.
No doubt someone will pop in with why SS is good, but that's the nice thing about the forums, conflicting points of view! I believe SS has Foot Stomp which is a good opener and has a mass PBAOE disorient, but apart from that I'm not too clued up on it.
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@Miss Chief
Ty for the input but im goin to anyoy everyone off here and turn 180 degrees in the oposite direction ive jus made my new brute as fire/elec do i need to remake or is that a gd build ?
Not a fan of low level Firey melee either, but you do get a big fire sword, then later on a HUGE fire sword, so it's not too bad. not many things have good fire resistance either.
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Many and varied!
@Miss Chief
fire is quite nice but does alot of its damage as dots. If your hitting things untill they die then a nice chunk of your damage will likely be wasted. As long as you keep this in mind fire is really nice. Most of the attacks are fast firing and the flames everywhere looks quite cool too.
You shoild ideally never kill anyhtign with your attacks, when somehting gets low switch targets to somehting else. With your dots, lighting field and fire sword circle theyir gonna die soon after and you won't be wasting damage.
Getting a nice flowing attack chain is kind of awkward, everyhitng seems to knock out of sink eventually but since you'll be target switchign alot it don't matter.
Greater fire sword and incinerate sort of have the same recharge so its often a good idea to swap to a fresh target, fire sword+incinerate(dot) then leave it burn to death while you attack somehting else.
Just switch targets alot and it'll work fine.
can you help me out here im in a real muddle i wanna make an /elec but cant pick weither to go DM/ or SS/ can anyone give me sum advice it would be realy apriciated (PvE)
