I like my Fire/fire/Mu, espeacially in fire offencive enemies. Go AOE. Takes a bit of slotting for end use, but it works well. If you get a end buffer you do amazingly well.
I'd say your best bet would be either Fire/Fire or Elec/Fire. I'd say Fire/Fire for theme and general effectiveness (mainly because electricity doesn't have great AoE outside of LR).
TW/Elec Optimization
I was actually thinking Elec/FA myself. Does electric really have that terrible of AoE power? Seems like a pretty pointless set then since basically all of it's attacks are AoE based. :/
So fiery embrace combined with the fire primary dish out some good AoE? I rarely see any fire melee toons so I'm just kind of surprised you guys said fire melee.
I do Freaks with my Elec/Elec/Mu. I can get 1500 tickets in about 8 minutes.
Like others said, Elec/Fire or Fire/Fire. Niether of them will be as fast as the SS/SD though.
Electric/Shield farms pretty well.
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Originally Posted by Fury_Flechette
Electric/Shield farms pretty well.
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Originally Posted by OblivionX
Farming brute that isn't SS/ or /SD.
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In that case, I say go with SS/SD. It isn't SS/ or /SD, it's SS/ and /SD! 
I wasn't using exclusive or, so SS/SD still doesn't count. :P
For some reason I keep leaning towards Elec/Elec. After reading all the posts about electric armor sucking I can't help but think I can be the one that proves them wrong. :P Eh, I'll probably end up hating myself around the 30s and roll a Fire/Fire anyway. :P
I got an Elec/Energy Aura brute that is pretty fun. Once you get your patron pool AOE it makes for nice farming.
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Electric Armor should be a great farming set, actually. Just pick enemies who use energy attacks and you'll be unstoppable.
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Originally Posted by dudeman1298
I wasn't using exclusive or, so SS/SD still doesn't count. :P
For some reason I keep leaning towards Elec/Elec. After reading all the posts about electric armor sucking I can't help but think I can be the one that proves them wrong. :P Eh, I'll probably end up hating myself around the 30s and roll a Fire/Fire anyway. :P |
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Go War Mace, it has very good AoE. Mine is WM/EA, but that isn't for everybody so pick a different secondary. Maybe /FA
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Originally Posted by dudeman1298
I'm an alt-o-holic, even on my farming toons. :P I have a SS/SD toon and even though he's godly I can't stand the rage crash (especially when it crashes JUST before you use shield charge) and defense sets are kind of Jekyll and Hyde for me (for a while you don't take a single hit, and then suddenly you die out of nowhere). I have an idea of what the next "best" farming combo would be, but I wanted to hear some discussion on it first before throwing in my opinion.
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My energy/elec/mu brute has a farming mish with all pb and bots from PPD that deal only energy and s/l. He's just about untouchable in there. And if you do go with fiery aura, a patron aoe immob power will allow you to use burn as an actual damage dealer.
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Originally Posted by Ahmon
Electric Armor should be a great farming set, actually. Just pick enemies who use energy attacks and you'll be unstoppable.
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Elec/Inv/Mu Nuff said.
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For farming I would rather have a secondary with a damage aura or some other damage utility power like /DA, /FA, /ELA, and /SD. I wouldn't go /SA because of the penalties it has.
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Originally Posted by Spectralis
Elec/Inv/Mu Nuff said.
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I would try Fire/Dark or Elec/Dark. Fire Sword Circle is yummy even if it doesn't have the flash of Elec.
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I have a Fire/Dark and he is good if you have a kin around to keep him going. Even with IO's I still find I have to hold back some or I run out of endurance. If I could afford some purples and the proc for dark regen those problems would probably go away.
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Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I would try Fire/Dark or Elec/Dark. Fire Sword Circle is yummy even if it doesn't have the flash of Elec.
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Elec/Dark isn't that bad for farming, I have one myself, but it can be quite the end hog at times even with all the uniques and theft of essence proc in Dark Regen.
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Originally Posted by EvilGeko
I would try Fire/Dark or Elec/Dark. Fire Sword Circle is yummy even if it doesn't have the flash of Elec.
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Well I've been playing around in Mids with an Elec/Elec build and a Fire/Fire build, and it looks like with the Elec/Elec I'll be able to get an insane amount of recharge due to lightning reflexes and the FF +rech proc in lightning strike (or is it thunder strike? gah, that one attack where you jump up and knock stuff down). Assuming the proc hits most of the time, that's 120% recharge without even trying. I'm wondering if that alone would trump the Fire/Fire or if fiery embrace and burn would put out more damage. Ack, the choices!
the FF +recharge proc CANNOT be held up constantly. And it actually supresses if you use it to fast making it rather difficult to keep it up as much as possible. I have it in fault and have to time it to attempt to keep it up as much as possible.
I don't understand it supresses? In what way exactly? I just made a fraps video showing the proc firing 3 times in a row each time I used Foot Stomp.
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What he's saying is that the proc is set to not self-stack. This is why you'll never see the proc activate twice on one footstomp for a 200% bonus to recharge. If you use it in a power that recharges in faster than 5 seconds, you have to make sure not to use it before 5 seconds. Otherwise you'll have wasted the proc, because even if it would have procced the lack of self-stacking will make it wasted.
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Originally Posted by OblivionX
I don't understand it supresses? In what way exactly? I just made a fraps video showing the proc firing 3 times in a row each time I used Foot Stomp.
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TW/Elec Optimization
Wow, I did not know about the suppression. So basically if I make sure I use the attack after 5 seconds it will continue to proc? Either way it still boosts my recharge tremendously, where as with fire melee I wouldn't get any nice recharge boosts. Ah well, I will probably be trying out both anyway. :P
I'm an alt-o-holic, even on my farming toons. :P I have a SS/SD toon and even though he's godly I can't stand the rage crash (especially when it crashes JUST before you use shield charge) and defense sets are kind of Jekyll and Hyde for me (for a while you don't take a single hit, and then suddenly you die out of nowhere). I have an idea of what the next "best" farming combo would be, but I wanted to hear some discussion on it first before throwing in my opinion.