What level are you now? Your defense will shine even more once you get synaptic overload and stand in a pile of angry guys beating on each other.
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Psylenz FF/Psi, ArticQuark Storm/Rad, Symon BarSisyphus Bots/psn, Max VanSydow Thugs/Dk, Cyclone Symon Bots/stm, Blue Loki Ice/Cd, Widow 46526
HelinCarnate:OMG it is so terrible. I have the option to take 3 more powers but no additional slots. Boo F'ing hoo.
Kinetic Combats (though freakishly expensive) will boost your S/L defense like crazy, and any PBAoE attacks you have that do damage can be six-slotted with three Multi-Strikes and three Eradications for a hefty, hefty E/N defense boost. Those are the best suggestions I have, apart from the usual "Pick up Weave and either Hover or CJ." The good thing about Elec/ is that you really do have a lot of soft controls. I would definitely grab Synaptic Overload. Anything waking out of Static Field's sleep should be beating on his comrades, not on you.
Actually, I'm 31. The confuse isn't up every spawn, with four Perplex in it for the slight accuracy bonus. I do pretty well when it is up, even in large groups it manages to confuse four or five guys at least, upwards of ten as long as no one hand-claps me out of effectiveness. I haven't been able to afford Kinetic Combats, so I've been using smashing Haymakers for defense, and offsetting the lower accuracy of the set with other 7% accuracy set bonuses and a 5% accuracy, giving me a bonus of around 19%. I've got CJ and Weave, and the 3% def IO in tough which I never really toggle on. I'm willing to bet my pets are really going to help in a level too. I'll do a writeup later and let people know how it works out.
I've got an elec/earth I've been soloing and teaming, and as an experiment I've been stacking sets that give a +defense boost to anything I can get my hands on. As it stands, I've got about an 18% defense to smashing, lethal, and 20% defense to energy/Negative, with 15% ranged. I mostly play by jumping into melee and controlling, what with my aura, standing in my own sleep pet, and applying liberal use of my knockdown abilities and holds. It helps, but I still of course faceplant from time to time. I estimate I can get to 30% defense to S/L/E/N by 50 without dropping too much inf, as I am not terribly wealthy.
My question is, is there anyone else out there who's tried this? Stacking defense on a dom to help survive? Especially in melee? Does it matter later on?