I'll toss another log on the fire of the SS/Fire/Mu Brute. There is rarely a time when there isn't some sort of AoE that's there to throw out between Burn, Foot Stomp, Electric Fences, Ball Lightning, and Static Discharge. And when there isn't, her damage aura and Burn patch are still going strong when I'm smacking things around with KO Blow.
Standard opperating proceedure is to hop into a spawn, hit Fiery Embrace, drop burn, wait a second or two for them to cluster, hit Footstomp. Now all the minions are dead. Chuck Ball Lightning, hit Electric Fences, most times the LT's are usually dead. If not, jump straight up into the air and hit Static Discharge at the peak (I think this works), smack a boss with KO blow, and if I don't have anything recharged yet, use my other two single target attacks in order of highest to lowest damage.
By that time Burn ought to be up again to toss out with its large front loaded damage.
Running short on endurance? Pop Consume, which has a very large area of effect and also deals even more damage.
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Originally Posted by reiella
Until I see something that states to the contrary, going to assume VK is right
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Fire/fire/fire doms..
AoE stun, AoE immbolize, with a side of hot feet, imps, fireball, rain of fire, fiery embrace, and just sheer death.
Oh, and you can do it all while perma-dom'ed so nothing really hits back.
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AGREED! I have one 50+1 SS/Fire brute. AWESOME! and very fun! |
Originally Posted by Von Krieger
I'll toss another log on the fire of the SS/Fire/Mu Brute. There is rarely a time when there isn't some sort of AoE that's there to throw out between Burn, Foot Stomp, Electric Fences, Ball Lightning, and Static Discharge. And when there isn't, her damage aura and Burn patch are still going strong when I'm smacking things around with KO Blow.
Standard opperating proceedure is to hop into a spawn, hit Fiery Embrace, drop burn, wait a second or two for them to cluster, hit Footstomp. Now all the minions are dead. Chuck Ball Lightning, hit Electric Fences, most times the LT's are usually dead. If not, jump straight up into the air and hit Static Discharge at the peak (I think this works), smack a boss with KO blow, and if I don't have anything recharged yet, use my other two single target attacks in order of highest to lowest damage. By that time Burn ought to be up again to toss out with its large front loaded damage. Running short on endurance? Pop Consume, which has a very large area of effect and also deals even more damage. |
It's not about how many AoEs you have. Its about killing as many baddies as fast as possible. SS/Fire does that as well as an Elec/SD scrapper. (thought not quite as durable) BUT, the ss/fire has powers that rech alot faster than the 2 charges from elec/sd.
I pop BU, run in hit FS, let the mobs gather then hit burn. Burns radious is smaller so the closer they are, the more you hit.
I didn't take Mu though. I did at first but found i like teh extra endurance from the energy pool to be better for me. My 2 AoEs are up so fast (twice per mob) that i can spam them and KO BLOW nonstop.
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It doesn't matter how close they are, you are only going to hit 5. Still awesomesauce though.
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Originally Posted by eryq2
I pop BU, run in hit FS, let the mobs gather then hit burn. Burns radious is smaller so the closer they are, the more you hit.
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AH, i forgot about that. I never noticed it with all the orange numbers popping up. lol.
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Originally Posted by SinisterDirge
It doesn't matter how close they are, you are only going to hit 5. Still awesomesauce though.
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PLus, its limit of 5 is per burn, so if you double stack burn.. you can hit 10.. And, as mobs die, burn will just hit another target, so surrounding yourself you could actually hit more then 5 mobs with it, you just can't hit more then 5 at a time...thats what i love about burn, burn patches, and rain powers. you can extended their target cap, but only because each DoT rolls on a target, and sometimes it can roll on different targets.
Rain of Arrows has the same things going for it, with its 3 different damage rolls.
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Even if the second application does hit a completely different set of 5 mobs, it is still only hitting 5 mobs. I am pretty sure the dot does not do a hit check for each tick, but I have been wrong before. Either way, since it is now frontloaded, even if half the dot hits a new target, that isnt much damage. Less than 3 ticks from blazing aura. With the amount of orange numbers floating up, it doesn't really matter to me. I take it, and love it for melting bosses.|
Originally Posted by Arbegla
PLus, its limit of 5 is per burn, so if you double stack burn.. you can hit 10.. And, as mobs die, burn will just hit another target, so surrounding yourself you could actually hit more then 5 mobs with it, you just can't hit more then 5 at a time...thats what i love about burn, burn patches, and rain powers. you can extended their target cap, but only because each DoT rolls on a target, and sometimes it can roll on different targets.
Rain of Arrows has the same things going for it, with its 3 different damage rolls. |
And of course surounding yourself is nice, you are an aoe.
Hate to sound like I'm marching to the drum beat, but Fire/Kin controllers and SS/Fire/Mu Brutes are the best AoE dealers I've played. The Brute is just amazing with the amount of sustained AoE he can unleash.
I've also got an Elec/Fire/Fire scrapper. While the burst AoE damage he can do is almost unmatched by anything in the game, he doesn't approach the SS/Fire/Mu in sustained AoE, and as a result, completes the same AE ambush missions several minutes slower than the Brute.
Fire/Kin controllers are stunningly high AoE dealers as well. Between Hot Feet and Fire Cages and the APP AoE all at the damage cap and under containment you can melt pretty much any spawn with a great deal of safety. The downside is you have to cherry pick your fights.