1) Grounded and Fly do not mix. However, since I'm assuming you aren't hovering, it won't be as big of a deal.
2) Can we have a general idea of the price tag you want?
3) Is there a good reason why you didn't want to go fire/fire? From a strictly gameplay standpoint, that would be the better choice.
edit: It's technically FM/ElA, not ElA/Fire.
Aid Self is of questionable use. You really can't use it as a combat heal in large teams, and it reqiuires another power choice as a pre-req. In mission with smaller mobs it's less critical as you can take your time between mobs. Sure, you can loss some fury, but you have to balance fury generation with what the character need to be effective.
If you want fly as a travel power park your character in Grandville and/or buy Jetpacks. Air Sup does help with with Mitigation, but you can also get the Kinetic Combat IO proc to help.
One thing I did do was get a Jump +stealth IO and put it in combat jumping. It helps you approach a mob and at least you can get Fire Sword circle off before they attack.
Also try to slant your enemies towards Energy users and away from S/L users. Clockwork, Mu, Circle of Thorns Air Casters, Rikti, Freakshow, a good chunk of Crey, Lost also work, Kheldan PPD are especially fun. You'll find in the 40s-50s you can get away with obscene things on Positron and similar energy-based Heroes.
"Steady as a mountain, attack like fire, still as a wood, swift as the wind.
In heaven and earth I alone am to be revered."
- Motto on the war banner of Takeda Shingen (1521-1573)
I mean, its what ever you guys think is best.. I'm also just looking for a build to basically build on til I hit 50, then I'll work on the big enhancements from there. I had a build a while back before they added the set bonuses and what not, which had Air Sup, and Fly for the mitigation, but I guess with the new set bonuses you can do knockdowns for back that up.
So I'm just looking for a build with normal SO enhancements or now, just until I hit 50 so I know what I'm looking at and what I should snag.
I made this brute 3 years ago.. and I do remember Fire/Fire being really good, but I just got this crazy idea of a "cookie-cutter" build, where it was nothing but damage.. and I made Fetric. I instantly fell in love with the damage outcome of this guy and how fast I dropped bosses while end draining to death.
If you are looking for single target damage, Dark/Elec is a very good match. Dark has a good heal, a long duration damage buff (which gets a little recharge bonus from lightning reflexes) and excellent single target damage.
You won't be an AoE monster, but you'll be fairly tough and you won't miss electric's lack of a heal as much with siphon life (which you slot for damage). If you do a lot of solo work, I really would recommend that combo for you if you want to keep electric armor.
My Ela shines when I layer 30% def on top of tough+Armors. If you can afford the IOs, layering 30% def on top of the solid resists that the set provides, along with the infinite blue bar, end drain protect and slow resist ela offers, gives a very mean brute.
Especially when facing large spawns the def+resist combo outlives and out performs any Air Sup and/or Aid Self based mitigation. I went from exactly the type of build you wanted (Air Sup + Aid Self) to none of those but 30% def, it was day and night. The only problem that remains will be def debuffs and accuracy buffs on enemies, which will basically put you on a fairly solid ground zero which is ElA Resists + Tough.
Probably here is... I got this guy already to 32 about 3 years ago.. I've just recently came back.. and from what I remember this guy was a beast in damage and tanking. I might try dark/elec btw, seems like it would be fun.
yeah, these guys pretty much summed it up. aid self is terrible now, and sir superiority unnecessary.
if you stack cj+weave+Kinetic Combat sets+the 2 +3%def IOs, you will get a hefty boost to your nonexistant defense. Toss in a steadfast protection KB resist to shore up grounded and get another set bonus.
My elec/elec was a beast a couple years ago, I came back and he seemed like a newborn kitten. Used to be able to drain the living crap out of everything, which made the lack of heal more than livable. Now it works great on minions and decent on LTs, but bosses and EBs, barely touches em.
Anywho, a quick respec with some defense tossed in, and a lot more livable.
Dark Armor is like that kid you knew in school that didn't know when to shut up, and no matter how bad he got beaten down, he got right back up again and kept on talking.
I'm looking for a decent EA/FM Build with Flying and Aid Self, since I know Fire Melee and Elec Armor doesn't have good mitigation nor a heal. So Air sup for knock down and Aid Self for heals. If you guys could help me, that would be great.