Yes and no. Fire has an excellent heal available at a very low level while electric doesn't get it's heal until 20 and it's a longer recharge.
Power Sink drains endurance from foes so you're basically a sapper after level 36 (and slots in it). It's tier 9 is a "God Mode". I'm looking at my brute, but with tough it caps everything but toxic, psi and neg. The scrapper lower cap means that neg should cap.
I understand your feelings on fire/fire as mine is parked around 37 and has been for a while. Personally I've taken a em/elec and a dm/elec to 50 as brutes and am considering a spines/elec. I take a great deal of joy in draining the endurance from anything below an Elite Boss as lightning field tears the minions up.
I think if you dislike FA you might dislike ELA, as there's lots of similarities between both... Then again I don't do the end drain thing and for all I know it might change the experience significantly.
End draining is a key part of Electric Armor's survivability. If you lead off with a power sink and try to slot lightning field with mixed set IOs for damage as well as end mod, most enemies within a couple levels of you will stay drained the whole fight.
Doesn't it usually take two applications of power sink + LF to drain enemies though?
While it's great that you can keep most every mob around you drained, my concern is whether you can live through the alpha for that to happen.
i liked Elec armor, i didnt think it was too weak- it has alot of good toys
power sink is awsome , get all the toggles you can squeze in there and you will still never have end issuses
lightning reflexes should not be overlooked, it with sprint can get runspeed to around 35 mph - , i think what im saying is, if your not hung up on being abile to solo purples you will like it because its fun. on the negative side the set has no defence, and your gonna get hit with everything unless you add some by way of Pools or IOs
Electric armor has higher resist values on it's shields then most of the other resist sets. While this isn't enough in an of itself, it's something to keep in mind. On a brute for example, Electric shields are a base 26% while most shields are 22%. Not a ton, but is an extra 6% or so with slotting. Electric also has nice end drain resistance, and has slow resist in LR. And once you get power sink you will never have and end issues.
However I had an electric brute, and it did seem a bit squishy to me. Butthis was before the change from Conserve Power to Energize. Energize is on a long timer, but with LR and slotting and some global recharge it shouldn't be too bad. I just did a quick calc, and with LR, 95% from slotting and 25% global, your at 50 seconds recharge, which isn't bad, especially since the buff is 30 seconds. It's not Healing Flames, but better then nothing. Kinda tempted to try an /Elec myself.
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In that situation, it will be like FA. The difference is Ela has a higher res to s,l,e,and psi. Neg is about the same. Fire is lower, of course. Toxic res can be gotten with healing flames on FA but can only be gotten with power surge with ela. So, in theory, with the higher res to most dmg, you have a little more time to hit energize on ELA then you would have to hit healing flames with FA. |
Originally Posted by Negescape
While it's great that you can keep most every mob around you drained, my concern is whether you can live through the alpha for that to happen.
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The question is, is your heal and added regen with energize going to be enough for you to take the next onslaught of attacks? Personaly, I'd make sure they all be dead before I find out the answer. Or drained of all their end.
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I believe when slotted up, power sink can drain 80% of an end bar from even level targets. And two or three ticks of a slotted lightning field will finish it off. Surviving the alpha is, of course, always a concern. With tough and other shields, as well as a heal, you should be able to survive. However, like someone else said, you probably won't be able to solo +4/x8. Having some sort of CC would help, maybe a stun or knockdown effect such as shockwave from claws.
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Building for defence from IO sets and throwing in the parry from katana I would expect to be able to build a very survivable toon.
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Originally Posted by SevereCalamity
I believe when slotted up, power sink can drain 80% of an end bar from even level targets. And two or three ticks of a slotted lightning field will finish it off. Surviving the alpha is, of course, always a concern. With tough and other shields, as well as a heal, you should be able to survive. However, like someone else said, you probably won't be able to solo +4/x8. Having some sort of CC would help, maybe a stun or knockdown effect such as shockwave from claws.
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Agreed. Def + res + heal/regen + ability to drain end and cause -rec screams all kinds of win. If I wasn't so gun ho about defying the odds with DB/ela, I'd roll a BS/ela. Or maybe a kat/ela since I don't have any kat scrappers. |
Originally Posted by Minotaur
Building for defence from IO sets and throwing in the parry from katana I would expect to be able to build a very survivable toon.
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Dang it! Must... Not... Roll... Another... Scrapper...
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Originally Posted by Minotaur
Building for defence from IO sets and throwing in the parry from katana I would expect to be able to build a very survivable toon.
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Ya I think I'd probably do a kat/elec myself for a scrapper and probably a elec/stone melee for tanks.
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Yeah, I keep seeing people say DA for Board Sword and Parry for Katana. It's like they're taunting me O.O
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Originally Posted by Imaheroe
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Having played this one up to 22 over the course of the last 2 nights (and having gone through both a Posi and a Synapse as the aggro magnet), I can honestly say it's a great combination.
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Originally Posted by Frosticus
elec/stone melee for tanks.
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I just did a Synapse TF with my spines/elec Scrapper and it was awesome. Granted with all the energy damage Clockwork does I was set up for success already being at the resist cap(at level 22), but it was a blast. I think I'm gonna farm Rikti and Carnies when I reach 50 with my Scrapper.
I am interested in the new electric armor, but in looking over the power choices it looks like a recycled fire armor with different effects. I consider fire armor to be a pretty weak choice, since my experience with fire armor is that one loses hp at a pretty fast pace. I played a fire/fire to the late teens but deleted her mostly for that reason. Is electric a carbon copy of fire armor, or is it better? I will make an electric melee character, but I may want to consider another armor type. What say you all?