What pairs well with electric

Hello all, I am looking to make a controller as it is one of the few AT's that i have not played to 50. My highest controller is a lvl 39 ill/rad. I was wondering what pairs well with electric control as that set really interests me. I figured kin would but id like to avoid it if possible and see what else pairs well with it. Id also like to avoid /rad because i have too many rads. Thoughts?

The only other real choices (other than RadEm & Kinetics) would be Storm or Sonic so that you could debuff foes' damage resistance to make up a little (just a little) for Electric Control's biggest weakness: very low damage.

Trick Arrow's Oil Slick and Acid Arrow may give you a bit more damage and some nice granular control too.

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Thelonious Monk

/cold will make u a sapper from hell and provide some durability to your pets

I sometimes hate my self-imposed rule of not duplicating powersets within an AT. Because of it, I'm sorta *stuck* w/playing an Elec/Therm. Not a bad combo or anything, but no real synergy. If I had my druthers, I'd take Elec/Rad in a heartbeat, much for the same reasons Local describes above.

Elec/Cold... I don't use HL as a sapping tool much, esp since its recharge is so long. I do think HL is one of the best +recovery tools in the game (better than RA), but at least for personal use, Elec doesn't need much +recovery. Kin would work better, but then again, I think Elec/* by itself does a fine job on most mobs. Thematically, you can't beat Elec/Storm, though their powers clash something awful (no -KB in your AoE immob, lots of Storm powers breaking sleeps, etc).

/Storm isn't as bad as it seems at first glance, actually.

I rolled one up for thematic reasons and at first I was pretty worried about it for all the reasons stated above, but I've found that it works pretty well. Yes, many of the powers don't work well together, but they work very well by themselves. This means you have a lot more tools to work with for different situations, rather than always turning on the same powers in the same order and doing the same things.

Typically in normal missions I'll drop static field, chain fences, drop freezing rain and go to town. Yes, FR breaks the sleep but Static Field is feeding me and my team endurance. I think of it now as a team Endurance buff that can be used as a sleep sometimes as well.

Hurricane is for the mobs that I have a hard time mezzing. Push those Night Widows into a corner and put a static field on them. AVs are immune to sapping and holds, but hurricane and freezing rain still do wonderful things tot hem. Tornado comes out for AVs and EBs that are unmezzable as it is autohit and over time deals signifigant damage (great for Paragon Protectors as well). Lightning storm coems out for them too for some pretty big extra damage, and is also a great panic button when thigns get tricky.

Lots of tools for different situations. Be flexible. It's very rewarding.

I have a 39 Elec/Cold. The incompatibility between Sleet and Static Field isnt that bad. Really, its just two different tools to allow you to adapt to two different tactics.

On more cautious teams, Static Field allows you to sleep enough foes to pick your fights more carefully. On more batpoop AoE teams, Sleet helps mitigate damage with KD and it also has a ncie -res to it.

And since either power is relatively effective at controlling a mob, you can Sleet the first mob, and SF the mob some gung ho scrapper aggro'd. Also, elec's Immob has no -KD, so enemies will keep flopping even after you immobilize them.

I haven't tried Elec/Cold but I did try Elec/Storm when Elec Control was being tested. I only spent about an hour on that character but it was my least favorite pairing. The scatter mixed with the incredibly over-eager imps resulted in me having an aggro radius that rivals Force Bubble. It could have been better on teams but I didn't try it.

One thing about Static Field is that it is really, really, insanely good... as long as you don't put a patch on it. Local Man mentioned this already, but I wanted to add the "really, really, insanely" part.

For me personally, I paired Electric with Force Field. While Force Field probably isn't the best secondary for Electric, Elec is one of the better ones for Force Field. In part because neither set requires tons of recharge, but can still easily grab a bunch to make the set 'comfortable.' Good base defenses and mezz protection aren't so bad to have on a melee presence character either.

Elec/TA works very well for me. And this is coming from someone that has mostly /Rad Trollers, this is my first /TA and loving it.

Elec/ is an interesting set as, like ice/, a huge chunk of its mitigation comes from its aura. When I see a set like that, my first thought is to look for mez protection to keep the aura running. However, while ice/ is so endurance intensive already that you'd have to be nuts to pair it with something like /sonic, elec/'s aura actually *gives* you endurance.

Both FF and sonic will give mez protection to elec. However, only sonic will actually do anything to boost elec/'s lackluster damage. FF will keep both you and your pets safer, but it has very little offensive support and I think the KB wouldn't mesh very well with a location-based set like elec. Besides, pairing it with elec/ is the only way I've been able to think of to play sonic without being perpetually out of endurance, so if you've been wanting to play sonic somewhere, this would be a good place.

Is /sonic the best secondary for elec/? Probably not - even though it gives mez protection, it's just not as strong a secondary overall as something like /rad (which also has its own synergy with elec/ in overlapping auras). However, elec/ is almost certainly the best *primary* for *sonic*, and the mez protection will still be very nice. I haven't rolled her up yet, but elec/sonic is what my planned electric control character will be.

TA all the way. It's swiss army knife goodness is seriously going to give you controlls, a debuff, a stun, a Oil Slick, Possible fire damage, A -fly component, which will help you build mags along with ice arrow.

Elec would work wonders with it. It will litterally fill gaps that need filling. And the best part is that (Although micromanagy sometimes) it's cheap and easy, helps teams, and potentially eats AV armor.

By the nine hells even Flash Arrow can aid Elec. I don't use Flash arrow much but Elec would be a build I would use it in. Elec lacking in some of the departments that other controllers have going for them in early levels, the concept of breaking mobs into more manageable sizes is a great one for me.

Glue Arrow keeping them in a slow state with a Static field just seems right to me as well.

Can any of Elec's powers light the oil slick?

It appears that the damage from Electric Control is Energy damage, so it should be able to light Oil Slick: any energy or Fire damage should light it. Electric Fence, Tesla Cage, Chain Fences, Jolting Chain and the Gremlins should be able to light Oil Slick.

Dammit, you guys... just when I thought Shard hoarding had cured my altitus. Now I need to roll a Elec/TA :-|

Storm pairs nice visually :3 .