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It's workable but not optimal. Biggest problem is that lightning field causes mobs to run away which hurts electric armor as a farming build.|
Originally Posted by Imish
So I've been looking around at a couple of post, and for the most part people generally agree that Spines/Fire and Electric/SD dominate when it comes to AOE and farming....but i was wondering if you guys would consider Electric Armor a decent secondary for AOE farming. Thanks.
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I've seen one player run a spines/electric and he ended up deleting it.
Ahh didn't know that...thanks. :P
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While I can speak of farming specifically, I've never noticed this behavior while playing an /Electric Brute. Is this something unique to Scrappers?
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Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
Biggest problem is that lightning field causes mobs to run away which hurts electric armor as a farming build.
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I have a spines/elec that I use to farm, and I find that it works well.
The point about lightning field is greatly overstated. Here is a thread in which I debate the alleged problem with another poster whose arguments were based on hearsay. I discuss an experiment in which I ran the scrapper on the Battle Maiden farm without lightning field, and found that it really doesn't cause much scatter beyond what you see running just Quills.
Bottom line: spines/elec is comparable to spines/fire or spines/dark in effectiveness, but the bad press on it never goes away.
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It's not based on hearsay. I've seen the behavior in question. Mobs do run away. It could be a build issue or maybe you have a lot better tolerance for scatter.
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Originally Posted by Chaos_String
I have a spines/elec that I use to farm, and I find that it works well.
The point about lightning field is greatly overstated. Here is a thread in which I debate the alleged problem with another poster whose arguments were based on hearsay. I discuss an experiment in which I ran the scrapper on the Battle Maiden farm without lightning field, and found that it really doesn't cause much scatter beyond what you see running just Quills. Bottom line: spines/elec is comparable to spines/fire or spines/dark in effectiveness, but the bad press on it never goes away. |
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Well I've farmed entire maps without lightning field on, and the enemies still tried to run away. Obviously the key is not to let them, and in fact lightning field helps in this regard more than it hurts. Perhaps my damage output is sufficient to achieve this effectively where other builds fail; but in any case, running quills+lightning field doesn't cause much more scatter than just running quills.|
Originally Posted by Fury Flechette
It's not based on hearsay. I've seen the behavior in question. Mobs do run away. It could be a build issue or maybe you have a lot better tolerance for scatter.
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The issue is actually lack of gauntlet or taunt, not the pittance of -end in lightning field.
My observations are in the linked thread if you're actually interested.
So I've been looking around at a couple of post, and for the most part people generally agree that Spines/Fire and Electric/SD dominate when it comes to AOE and farming....but i was wondering if you guys would consider Electric Armor a decent secondary for AOE farming. Thanks.