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Go Elec/Rad and find teams...going the Dominator route isnt going to help much |
Originally Posted by Dirtball
Thanks for all the tips gang, maybe I need to go Dominator or I will go Elec/Rad and try to find teams.
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Originally Posted by EvilRyu
I was having a hard time myself deciding how to pair this with a support set. I dont make kins anymore since speed boost no longer works on pets. I dont like rad due to not being able to control what the pets attack which makes archor management too hard to deal with. I cant use storm because it messes up the electric effects. Cant use cold because you get virtually no protection for youself aside from the weak toggle buff. Force Fields is not worth doing unless your a defender that can cap your teams defense. Empathy's been done to death. Trick Arrow means no support for yourself as well as the team, debuffs dont mean crap if it still takes forever to set them all up and forever to kill the mobs. Which pretty much means thermals is left and thats been done to death as well. I might wait till we get another support set before I do electric.
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You forgot to come up with a complaint about Sonic, but I'm sure you are up to the task.Still lovin' my Elec/Rad. "Anchor management" isn't much of a problem, since I put the debuffs on the guy under my control who is most likely to survive longest. With the Gremlins slotted for some damage, playing solo is more feasible but still not fast.
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I'm working on an electric/cold/ice right now...
the end sapping of that combo is breathtaking... the hold and lockdown of the trolling is astonishing as well.
I'd say the synergy is there for electric/cold dom to be a strong all round troller/team contributor.
rad and ta both go well with it as well...
I suspect you'll hate storm... storm pretty much clashes with everything electric is trying to do... as weird as it sounds there is almost no synergy between the two sets.
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I was going to write it but I thought it was understood how that set underperforms. I dont like the sound the set makes with sonic and I hate being butt booty naked for 20 levels. Thats way too long to go with no personal protection. And the final power is just a gloried version of earthquake. Way too long of a recharge for what it does. There hows that?
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Originally Posted by Local_Man
Wow, you're just a bundle of "Happy, happy, joy, joy," aren't you?
You forgot to come up with a complaint about Sonic, but I'm sure you are up to the task.Still lovin' my Elec/Rad. "Anchor management" isn't much of a problem, since I put the debuffs on the guy under my control who is most likely to survive longest. With the Gremlins slotted for some damage, playing solo is more feasible but still not fast. |
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I am firmly in the Electric/cold camp. I recently hit 50 with mine and even with just SOs he is awesome. What others have said is true, the damage is not mindboggling but you really have all the time in the world to defeat your foe. Everthing is slowed, slept, held, end drained, confused, held or falling on their ***. Benumb if a fantastic debuff and I like to ice shield my pets, it make them much more formidable. Heat loss is the bomb and and turns you into a sapper from hell. There are few things as satisfying as watching a boss just stand there because he has no end. Sadly you cant end drain actual sappers.
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Originally Posted by Sprite Fire
I'm working on an electric/cold/ice right now...
the end sapping of that combo is breathtaking... the hold and lockdown of the trolling is astonishing as well. I'd say the synergy is there for electric/cold dom to be a strong all round troller/team contributor. rad and ta both go well with it as well... I suspect you'll hate storm... storm pretty much clashes with everything electric is trying to do... as weird as it sounds there is almost no synergy between the two sets. |
I have an electric/storm troller, but I know I need to find a better way than "random" to slot her so she performs adequately. I usually team with folks who are so good at what they're doing that my suckiness doesn't matter to them, but I'm sick of being the weak link.
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I am in the same boat as you (OP). I just love /Rad and have a lot of Rad Chars so I forced myself to roll something else and went with Elec/TA. I am lvl 31 atm and loving every minute.
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The DoT from Acid Arrow doesn't interfere with the sleep from Static Field? That's my biggest worry with that combo.
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Originally Posted by Infernus_Hades
Electric/Archery - just like fight club - try not to talk about it too much.
Look through the powers and you can drain the endurance of even AVs  and you have endless endurance without Stamina. How would you like to open attacks with a sleep that KEEPS sleeping even after they are awoken, drain their endurance, disrupt their resistance and defense, Hold them all, slow them and confuse them all and all BEFORE you get pets?Yeah, it can be that good. |
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My electric control is a dominator, and I've been very happy with its play.|
Originally Posted by Dirtball
Thanks for all the tips gang, maybe I need to go Dominator or I will go Elec/Rad and try to find teams.
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Elec/elec FWIW
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Originally Posted by Tired Angel
... and remember with chain powers (e.g. Jolting Chain) the proc has a chance to go off on each person hit.
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Even if it does... then the sleep reapplies... and it interrupts again... and the sleep reapplies... and somewhere in there the mob lost all its endurance anyway... and the sleep reapplies... and your throw in a little knockdown just in case... |
Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
The DoT from Acid Arrow doesn't interfere with the sleep from Static Field? That's my biggest worry with that combo.
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The Sleep pulses that fast, that it doesn't matter.
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Originally Posted by Obscure Blade
The DoT from Acid Arrow doesn't interfere with the sleep from Static Field? That's my biggest worry with that combo.
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Originally Posted by Megajoule
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Lately I'm of the opinion that Electric Control as a set is in the weird position of being more capable solo than on teams but lacking the damage to really make total use of the situation. Some people will read that as "its better on Doms" but the Controller secondary is so useful to teams that I'd still call it about even regardless. It's my theory that any Elec troller that manages to get his or her damage under wraps should be able to solo at lvl 50 at +0x8 with absolutely no issues. Even my Elec/FF can do it pretty well at level 37 with no actual blasts yet.
Two months later and I still haven't decided... I am actually leaning towards the dark side and making an Elec/Elec Dominator, or just going with Elec/Rad. As soon as I get a couple of other "high priority" tasks done I will take a closer look at Electric Control.
Thanks for all the input.
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Doesn't liquefy have the same debuff value as RI from the rad set? You wouldn't tell someone to not take RI would ya? Granted it is a long recharge and I would prefer it acted like EF from rad to keep to the -res theme of the set but proc'ed out or with HOs I enjoy the power and set. Plus you could put the -res toggle on the gremlins. I had a fire/sonic controller at played that way and was pretty strong (plus it was nice to not have to re toggle every time a team mate ran off).|
Originally Posted by EvilRyu
I was going to write it but I thought it was understood how that set underperforms. I dont like the sound the set makes with sonic and I hate being butt booty naked for 20 levels. Thats way too long to go with no personal protection. And the final power is just a gloried version of earthquake. Way too long of a recharge for what it does. There hows that?
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I know this is an old post but to the OP, I have an elec/rad I'm leveling and really enjoy it so far. The biggest problem I'm having it trying to decide if I want EM Pulse and/or take Elec's AoE hold.
This will probably be the first rad I've made that will take choking cloud since he spends a good bit of time in melee.
I was having a hard time myself deciding how to pair this with a support set. I dont make kins anymore since speed boost no longer works on pets. I dont like rad due to not being able to control what the pets attack which makes archor management too hard to deal with. I cant use storm because it messes up the electric effects. Cant use cold because you get virtually no protection for youself aside from the weak toggle buff. Force Fields is not worth doing unless your a defender that can cap your teams defense. Empathy's been done to death. Trick Arrow means no support for yourself as well as the team, debuffs dont mean crap if it still takes forever to set them all up and forever to kill the mobs. Which pretty much means thermals is left and thats been done to death as well. I might wait till we get another support set before I do electric.
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