Scrappers and brutes are pretty equivalent. If you like your brute, roll a scrapper. They will play much the same way, except that you don't have to build fury.
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First off, welcome to the forums!
Secondly, what do you mean when you say that "heroes seem to suffer in power as opposed to villains?" Do you mean less damage? Suffer how?
Secondly, do you want an Elec/Elec hero, or just the melee OR the armor set?
Secondly, what do you want to be able to do with this character? If you like to Tank, then make a Tanker. Sure, the set isn't necessarily the most Rugged set, but it's a good Tanker set, and once you get Power Sink, you'll never have endurance problems again. Pair it with a Heavy-hitting set, and you'll be just fine once you get to level 26. If you want to be more offensive, make a Scrapper!
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Originally Posted by Aett_Thorn
First off, welcome to the forums!
Secondly, what do you mean when you say that "heroes seem to suffer in power as opposed to villains?" Do you mean less damage? Suffer how? Secondly, do you want an Elec/Elec hero, or just the melee OR the armor set? Secondly, what do you want to be able to do with this character? If you like to Tank, then make a Tanker. Sure, the set isn't necessarily the most Rugged set, but it's a good Tanker set, and once you get Power Sink, you'll never have endurance problems again. Pair it with a Heavy-hitting set, and you'll be just fine once you get to level 26. If you want to be more offensive, make a Scrapper! |
and i mean seem to suffer as in tank vs brute, the brute seems to have an advantage in the damage apartment.
and yes i want a elec/elec hero. the brutes seem to have a good balance of defence and offence and i liked that, but im a hero at heart and need something equivalent.
and i guess thats the question, i love being a tanker, and love being able to hit hard. so i was just wondering if one was "better" then the other for electricity. and sorry if this sounds noobish (just getting used to this mmo) but what do you mean by "heavy-hitting set"?
An Elec/Elec Tanker will probably be more survivable, but gives up offensive punch to do so.
An Elec/Elec Scrapper will hit much harder, but gives up some survivability to do so.
Really, it's up to you and your playstyle which one is better. From the sounds of things, you'd probably be happier with a Scrapper.
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Well, yes, the Brute will out-damage the Tanker in the long run, but the Tanker will be more survivable. That's because of the focus of the ATs are different. Brutes are more akin to Scrappers than Tanks. That doesn't mean that Tankers at higher level won't do good damage, just that it will be lower than Brutes, mainly by design.|
Originally Posted by blarghonk
Thanks ^^
and i mean seem to suffer as in tank vs brute, the brute seems to have an advantage in the damage apartment. and yes i want a elec/elec hero. the brutes seem to have a good balance of defence and offence and i liked that, but im a hero at heart and need something equivalent. and i guess thats the question, i love being a tanker, and love being able to hit hard. so i was just wondering if one was "better" then the other for electricity. and sorry if this sounds noobish (just getting used to this mmo) but what do you mean by "heavy-hitting set"? |
If you're going for an Elec/Elec hero, I'd say go Scrapper. /Elec Melee takes a while to get going for Tankers.
By a heavy-hitting set, I mean a set like Super Strength or Stone Melee, which has endurance-intensive, recharge-heavy, but high-damage attacks. Electric Armor not only has an endurance-regain power, but it also has a passive power which improves Recharge. This alleviates a decent amount of the problems these attack sets have.
Compare those to a set like Dual Blades, which has mainly lower damage, faster recharging powers. Since they recharge quickly anyways, they don't benefit hugely from +Recharge, and their endurance costs aren't that huge in the first place, so it's not much of a concern there, either.
So, if you were going to make a Tanker, I'd go Elec/Stone, or some combination thereof, if you wanted to do a lot of damage.
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yea i just went into the scrapper forum and read up on some of the elec/elec stats and it seems that type gets alot better around 26-30 so ill create that and see how it goes. |
Originally Posted by SuckerPunch
An Elec/Elec Tanker will probably be more survivable, but gives up offensive punch to do so.
An Elec/Elec Scrapper will hit much harder, but gives up some survivability to do so. Really, it's up to you and your playstyle which one is better. From the sounds of things, you'd probably be happier with a Scrapper. |
Thanks all for helping my indecisiveness ^^
in all honesty as long as i use electricity ill be happy
Ok my alltime fav power is electricity, and i notice on hero side theres a tank and a scrapper, and for a while i had a brute electric user. So my question is what would be the best archetype for the electricity.
Usually im a tank type person, but i dont like the fact that heroes seem to suffer in power as opposed to villians. and i cant seem to make up my mind on what i want. so if any one can help me make up my mind thatd be greatly appreciated.
if worse comes to worse, maybe i can just wait till going rogue comes out and switch my brute, but i rather not.