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Making an elemental fighter

American_Knight

By American_Knight,
Posted on: 2011-03-04 18:22 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

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Coming late to the party (as always), I just watch the Last Air Bender and now want to make a character (doesn't matter red or blueside in that I have GR) that fights using the elements.

My playstyle is more along the lines of PvE, teaming often, not farming, melee fighter. Although I have 50's in most AT's, I am finding myself playing scrappers and brutes more. Kinda wish they had Ice melee and armor for scrappers and brutes in that not in a mood for another tank right now.

Elemental sets I can draw from for scrappers are:
Fire/
/Fire
Kinectic Melee/ (air control)
Elect/
/Elect (already have a lvl 40 dark/elect scrapper so shying away from this set)

Sets from Brutes
Fire/
/Fire
Kinectic Melee/ (air control)
Elect/
/Elect
SM/
/Stone (may be too slow for me; or expensive to make fast)

(Also know i can make Dark fire-ish with proper coloring)


Leaning towards the following builds:

KM/Fire Scrapper
KM/Fire Brute
SM/Fire

Two questions:
1) Am I missing any combinations, and two

2) Of the three I am leaning towards, what would you recommend?

Thanks for your comments and hve a great weekend

 

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Coming late to the party (as always), I just watch the Last Air Bender and now want to make a character (doesn't matter red or blueside in that I have GR) that fights using the elements.

My playstyle is more along the lines of PvE, teaming often, not farming, melee fighter. Although I have 50's in most AT's, I am finding myself playing scrappers and brutes more. Kinda wish they had Ice melee and armor for scrappers and brutes in that not in a mood for another tank right now.

Elemental sets I can draw from for scrappers are:
Fire/
/Fire
Kinectic Melee/ (air control)
Elect/
/Elect (already have a lvl 40 dark/elect scrapper so shying away from this set)

Sets from Brutes
Fire/
/Fire
Kinectic Melee/ (air control)
Elect/
/Elect
SM/
/Stone (may be too slow for me; or expensive to make fast)

(Also know i can make Dark fire-ish with proper coloring)


Leaning towards the following builds:

KM/Fire Scrapper
KM/Fire Brute
SM/Fire

Two questions:
1) Am I missing any combinations, and two

2) Of the three I am leaning towards, what would you recommend?

Thanks for your comments and hve a great weekend
I know it's not on your list but I'd probably go with Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes or /Willpower.

My reasoning behind this is because in Avatar they don't usually use their elements has shields. The one example I can think of where they do is Aang and Toff doing it with stones.

On my list is still a KM (Colored as fire)/SR. Of the ones you suggested I'd say the scrapper because I hear that KM gets more milege outta power siphon on a scrapper than a Brute.

-Ice_Storm

 

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Fire/earth dominator with waterspout from mako, and fly. Whirlwind helps concept, but is a really bad power in practice.

I know it isn't of the AT you asked for, but it still focuses in melee, but plays differently than normal "melee archetypes."

 

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Originally Posted by American_Knight View Post
1) Am I missing any combinations?
/Shield. It has 'Elemental' customizations:



A Fire/ or Electric/ Shield scrapper would be both very nasty and fit an 'elemental warrior' them perfectly with the right customization. So would a Stone/Shield Brute, although the endurance consumption would be pretty impressive I'd think; and Brutes don't get as much from Shield Charge.

Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth

 

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If you want to use as many elements as possible on a melee character, I'd suggest a Brute with some combination of Stone, Electric, Kinetic, or Fire for the primary and Stone, Fire, or Electric for the secondary. Add in an elemental themed patron / epic and you've got three different elements. My personal pick would be Kinetic Melee because the moves look so much like waterbending (both are based off of Tai Chi), though the actual effects are more like airbending.

Some non-melee options you may want to consider:

Earth/Storm/Fire Controller (all four elements)

Fire/Fire/Flame Blaster (pure Firebender, and a lot of fun to play)

Earth/Fire/Ice Dominator (or Fire/Earth/Ice)

Cascade, level 50 Blaster (NRG/NRG since before it was cool)
Mechmeister, level 50 Bots / Traps MM
FAR too many non-50 alts to name

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