Can a elec melee/fiery aura brute solo 52 nemesis?


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Hi all i made a elec/fiery aura brute to farm the lib farm and i was just wondering if it can and if so how expensive will the build be? A sample build is always welcome. Thanks you


 

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/fire is a fairly squishy defensive set unfortunately. It has a lot of holes, lacking KB protection, no immob protection (unless you take burn), and the resistance numbers are a little low. On the flip side you get a strong heal and a good end recovery power. With that many nem on you though, I don't think the heal will matter very much. I would say it'll be an expensive build to IO to come up to the performance level of /WP vs the nem farm map.


 

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Can you? That depends on how well you are built.
As far as the above post is concerned, FA's out of the box holes are largely irrelevant when talking about the high end of the game and farming specifically. I would assume at the very least that anyone at lvl 50 has the KB protection covered.
I wouldn't say that FA has "a lot" of holes, either. The main issue is kb, but that is easily covered with or without IOs.


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Originally Posted by magikwand View Post
Can you? That depends on how well you are built.
As far as the above post is concerned, FA's out of the box holes are largely irrelevant when talking about the high end of the game and farming specifically. I would assume at the very least that anyone at lvl 50 has the KB protection covered.
I wouldn't say that FA has "a lot" of holes, either. The main issue is kb, but that is easily covered with or without IOs.
My point was that it will take a lot to "god mode" a /FA set compared to other sets.


 

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What do you mean by God mode? Anyone farming with a brute at that likely invested a considerable sum of cash into an alt, regardless of the secondary chosen.


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This is highly debateable but imo the 'godmode' for FA is more and more and mroe and more recharge. If you can fit some def in there without scarificing recharge then great, otehrwise go for recharge as the thing that will keep you alive with FA is more damage, more burn, more helaing flames, more recharge and did I say more recharge? =)


 

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I have an elec/fire brute and find it much easier to farm CoT with him. CoT do a lot of fire damage and plays to your strength. I doubt I would try the Nem farm solo though I have run it as a non alpha taking brute.


 

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As an Arch-Villain? Probably not. Just last night I was facing Nemisis and steadily working him down with an endless stream of fire, dark attacks from Gloom and damage slotted lightning field. Nemisis has two forms of attack, melee and his nemisis staff. I don't know about fiery, but electric armor deals with his ranged damage better. He'll resort to using NS while you're still in melee range if you fall back just a little.

Two problems. Even with a fully slotted grounded, you'll get knocked back after the 4th or fifth hit. I'm sure it'll be much worse for fiery aura. The second, most frustrating, problem is when he's down to 1/4 health. He activates a force field that I spent close to a half hour trying to break through. During that brief moment, he regenerates enough health to retrigger force field when he hits 1/4 health again. I just gave up and left the mish. Now if you're able to obtain Rage-like to hit, you may have better luck than I did. Otherwise, you're gonna hit a similar wall.


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Don't think he was talking about the AV, but running the liberate tv farm against nemisis.


 

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Oh? Well then... Nevermind!


50 SM/WP Brute - D Block
50 FM/ELA Brute - Raging Daemon
50 Acher/MM Blaster - Dark Reiver
50 FM/SD - Firestorm Brigade

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i have seen SS/fire brutes run that farm but they are very "kin-Dependant" so if u are runin with a flock healers &buffers i think you can do it elec is loaded wit aoe's and if u can kill them b4 they pop veng you'll be ok


 

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I was running my 50 elec/fire brute against Nemesis just last night. I think I was doing +0/x8. It was fun. Nemesis aren't as big a threat to you as some of the other groups at high level (Longbow... went badly).

My namesake is somewhat haphazardly slotted with set IOs (using the "oo I have inf, let's buy something shiny!") method of slotting. I imagine a focus on defense and the end recovery to run Hasten could do much better. Honestly, extra recharge is mostly for Healing Flames, as I have so many AoEs recharge for powers is not a huge issue (Lightning Rod, Thunderstrike, CI, Ball Lightning, Electric Fences, Blazing Aura, Burn, the Mu pet, heck, even Consume).


 

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I use an SS/Fire to solo 52/53x6 Lib. It can definitely be done and in a timely manner. One thing to note, though, is that SS offers constant mitigation with Foot Stomp and rage to combat their Veng. Elec has some KD, but you'll be lacking extra to-hit.


 

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Originally Posted by SkylineGTR View Post
I use an SS/Fire to solo 52/53x6 Lib. It can definitely be done and in a timely manner. One thing to note, though, is that SS offers constant mitigation with Foot Stomp and rage to combat their Veng. Elec has some KD, but you'll be lacking extra to-hit.
Oh yea i forgot about rage thats prolly why a Ss/fire can run that farm