SS/elec. SS/fire is good with a mini-buildup in it to stack with rage, and their damage aura is slightly more base damage than /Elecs, as well as Fiery Embrace boosting it to double. SS/elec is far more survivable in a majority of content in the game because of larger resists and a psionic resist, but SS/fire edges it out in farming damage/speed. Not to mention the self-rez it has that, with enough global recharge will be ready often enough (and if not then you're probably in over your head). SS/fire has far more healing consistency considering 120s recharge on energize vs 40sec recharge on Healing Flames. SS/elec has its God Mode.
Fire Melee primary seems lacking in mitigation which is great for resist defense sets. SS is kind of endurance heavy and /Elec handles that.
Comparing AoE's and DMG Boosts:
Footstomp has a 15' radius, KB, 59.23 Smashing DMG @50, 1.42 DMG scale, 20s Rech, 2.1s Cast Time. (Less damage, more radius, KB)
Rage lasts much longer than buildup and is permanant dmg boost when IO'd rech for all but 10s gaps (in which DMG is SET to -300% from the -9000% DMG debuff)
FSC has 10' radius, 32.32 lethal and 32.32 fire DMG @50 and 80% chance of 4 X 4.7 DoT DMG @50, 1.87 DMG scale, 20s Rech, 2.67 Cast Time. (More damage, less radius, no KB)
Build-Up won't be up all the time so damage drops to normal.
For farming, SS/FA will do much better than SS/Elec. Where SS/Elec will shine is leveling up, where you'll fight a variety of stuff with exotic damage types and debuffs that /elec protects against.
I wouldn't recommend Fire/Elec, for farming or uh, otherwise, really. Fire does huge damage but has zero mitigation. /Elec is not as squishy as /FA, but it still needs mitigation help from the primary. SS/Elec works great because SS is end heavy and you can knock stuff down every 5-10 seconds with Footstomp. Fire/Elec will kill fast but be squishy as all hell.
You can of course build a pretty tough Fire/Elec by going for some defense, (melee for example), but you'd get better returns with a SS/FA or SS/Elec.
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Thanks for the replies, some thoughts to chew on. I really dislike /fire at this point though, my dark/elec chainsaw build is a monster, I think i'll go ss/elec though.
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Just deleted a 41 ss/fire 'cause i realized fire sucks compared to /elec. (and I have the slots on my main server maxed out)
Want a farmer, but which primary of these two?
any thoughts?
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