Invul or EA for Claws

Yea, Energy Drain is one of the MAIN powers of EA. It does wonders.

I'm having a hard time getting to 28. At 25 now and I almost deleted her again. Instead, I'll bite the bullet and lower her diff back to +0/x4. Apparently I can't handle +0/x6 without dying at least twice a mission now.

She's getting nuked at 29 if ED doesn't let her handle +0/x6 without issue.

I feel stuck with EA at this point. I know SR and WP will work wonderfully, but I wanted something new on the brute side.

FA and DA are out. Stone and Shields aren't allowed. I've already got a claws/inv hero side. That leaves ElA and EA but I found that ElA's dependence on end drains doesn't work for me since I like fighting +4s late game.

I dunno. Are you fighting with your Brute any differently?

I recently got lvl 22 and SOs. I turned my xp off and am quite comfortable with +0lvl/4x missions. Mind you, I'm no Brute of experience but it's actually quite easy most of the time. I say I'm comfortable because there are a few times in every mission that's kind of a close one but overall that just makes playing interesting. I'll probably leave him on that difficulty until he gets any more defense/resists.

Now that I got Energy Cloak, there's no way I'd switch to another secondary.

Hit 26. Never left +0/x6 diff. Now have eviscerate. Spin + Evis makes things considerably easier.

I think in the early game it's still rather softer than SR.

with IOs in the late game... it's plenty tough "enough" for most things... but again, still softer than SR... even if those SR builds were breathed on somewhat less heavily by the IO gods.

Now... sure you get end management with EA... but where you get protection from IOs, they get end management from IOs... potentially a lot of it.

Where I see EA as having a role is in builds that require such obscene quantities of endurance that even IOs don't quite fit the bill, and even WP is marginal. /EA or /Ele will still get you there.

SS/EA/Mako cone chaining, AoE spamming blast brutes come first to mind... though if we ever get physical perfection, wp with 3X performance shifters could probably pull it off too. [edit: provided it comes in a set that has enough AoE to make it worthwhile!]

Hit 28 and 29 tonight. Energy Drain helps. At 29 I put two more recharges in it. Eventually I'll slot it with some heal IOs.

As I've been playing at +0/x6, jumping into large spawns, firing off spin and eviscerate and then being able to heal back the damage from the alpha strike made considerable difference.

While I'm glad I stuck with it, getting here really did suck.

Hit 29 myself...
Got nergy drain slotted with 2 recharge and a heal. Gonna go run a few mish and see if I need manauvers at 30 or pick up focus.

The ride here was indeed a bit harsh...



Edit:
note to self...
Energy Drain cost 13 endurance to use... waiting to use it with just 13 endurance left could drop all your toggles... ;-)

No focus? Iggy, I know you have a masochism streak like all good scrappers, but DAMN, MAN! That's madness.

My Claws/EA is 25 and I haven't had many problems at all but then I run with an MA/Nin stalker and an earth/earth dom quite a bit. Getting SO's in was a bit of a relief though! Planning to grab evis at 26 and ED at 28 and so far I am having a blast =)

As is he had to be EA for his concept so even if I died every 5 seconds I would stick it out. =)

Thanks tons for the advice on power picks for the early levels Iggy, I swapped to that build at 10 and it worked much better than what I had been running previously. I still have to rework my power picks in Mids (as far as order) but using a couple Oblit sets along with the Kin Combats I managed to rework him enough to get to 46.7 S/L defense.

Concept was a push for me as well. Her name is Singularity's Edge and she does look the part with black/deep-red auras and the cloak running.

I wanted to fit in tough and weave as early as possible, so it was either spin or focus. I went with spin for the aoe it offers, though I did miss focus just last night on a mish full of tsoo. Those darn sorcs are a pain, put me down like 5 times on that mish. Probably gonna follow my plan on picking up manauvers at 30 as I don't see any problems with my endurance. Gonna see how far I could push EA with just SO's and regular IO's I find along the way (no sets not even the +3 defense).

side note:
Energy Drain takes so frickin long... I needs my heal now!!!

Why are you picking up maneuvers again...? I doubt it's gonna be worth the slots or the trouble.

Well just hit 30. Picked up Maneuvers, and been running 1/6.
3 bars from 31 and a fully slotted Energy Drain... ;-)



Edit: Though I find myself needing a bit more accuracy against +2's

well got side tracked and joined a team...

Just finished fully IOing my 48 Claws/Invul and it rocks. Spin is amazing, btw.. if y'all haven't heard, lol.

Edit: Can't solo +1 Rikti outlined to 6. Gonna try 2x2.

No idea, thb. I could be lacking on the ranged defense, maybe?

EDIT: yeah, I just tried running a couple RWZ mishes at +1/6 and there's no way I can do them without Inspirs. I need more Ranged or Energy defense, I think.

Each mob's about 50% Drones.

Alright.. spent awhile on Mid's and I think I came up with a way to make him stronger. 40% E/N Defense + 26% Ranged and all I lost was 25% Regen and 10% Recov. I did trade out Shockwave for Evis, though. Gonna see if I like it.

woot!!! hit 34

with defenses 35+ and ED fully slotted, bumbed the slider up to +1/8. Ran a few mish with councils and freaks and I don't see much of a problem. I know, I know... cherry pickin ... ;-)