Advice on Fire Melee?

Hi, i'm a returning player. I'd like to start a FM toon. I'm leaning towards scrapper, but if brute is better with the set please tell me.

I don't want to have major endurance issues, so I'm not sure which secondary to pick. On top of that, most other primaries have some kind of mitigation... fire seems to have none. When going FM/ am i going to be a lot more squishy then Super Strength for example?

What would you recommend as a secondary under these conditions (i.e. not too squishy and not bad with endurance)? I don't really want to do willpower as I already have a few /WP toons... unless its really really good.

I was thinking maybe FM/SD Scrapper.

Thanks

Both are good choices.

If anything, I'd let your secondary decide it. As a personal rule I have, if I'm rolling a resistance based set I'll go Brute (higher resistance cap). If I'm rolling a defense based set I'll roll a Scrapper (defense softcap is the same as Brutes, while requiring less foreplay to function at optimal capacity).

So if brute or scrapper are valid, will I find a FM/SD too end heavy? I don't want it to be a pain to play until I can properly IO at 50.

i found Fire/SD quite playable at the lower levels.
Just plain deadly at the higher levels as well.

Tankers get Combustion (PBAOE) instead of Cremate (ST) in Fiery Melee. So if I'm thinking about Fiery Melee, then I tend to lean toward */Fire Tankers instead of Scrappers or Brutes. You won't do more damage than either Scrappers or Brutes, but your survivability will be much higher and you'll get to enjoy an extra AOE. If you go with WP as a Tanker primary, then the extra AOE is a godsend for managing aggro. If you go with Elec/Fire or Shield/Fire, then you get another AOE.

Fire/SD makes a great Scrapper; I have one I'm working on as a project when I have time. Fire melee offers the most single target DPS, extremely high AOE DPS and because it's secondary effect is DOT it deals that damage for less endurance.

My Fire/SD is only in the low 30's but endurance hasn't been a problem since level 22 and durability is coming along nicely. Heck, I've a BS/SD at 50 that runs 8 toggles full time with infinite endurance sustainability... the Gift of the Ancients set is quite underrated IMO.