Electrical Melee - anything skipable?

Charged Brawl you have to take, naturally not your best attack but you get bruising.

Havoc Punch, I like this attack, suitably slotted seems to deliver quite a wallop for both smashing and energy damage.

Jacobs Ladder, strictly energy, very short range, doesn't seem to do the cone thing very well, often seems to only hit the target you are shooting at. Im thinking this is a skipable one, doesn't seem to have much damage unless investing multiple slots.

Taunt, totally unskippable, its essential.

Thunder strike, amazing AoE very powerful wallop for the one receiving it, bowls multiple enemies onto their backsides, looks cool too with the Matrix Style rise into the air followed by the crashing Thud!

Build up, wouldn't say its skipable personally, best used before Thunder Strike or Lightning Rod. Kapow!!

Chain Induction, useful for a tank surely, as it hits multiple enemies. But does it really pack that good a punch on a tanker?

Lightning Clap, AoE, sends the baddies flying. Very similar to the handclap in super strength. Useful to buy you some breathing room to down a few insps if you are taking a beating. Disorients and taunts all who are hit.

Lightning Rod, how could anybody skip this beast? Wham bam, was that a truck just hit me? Kind of power is this! I love it.



What do you guys think? What are the skipable ones if any?

Havoc Punch is skippable. Its damage per activation(damage divided by activation time) is abysmal. Jacobs Ladder is better in that regard and has a bit of AoE.

Lightning Clap is skippable. PBAoE Knockbacks are rarely ever beneficial, and the stun magnitude is only enough to stun minions.

Mids' can display base damage per animation time if you go to powerset comparison. Take the fewest single-target attacks you need to form an attack chain and add some AoEs. Some attack chains may have AoEs in them.

I rarely take Build Up on tanks. My elec/elec tank skipped it. I took Jacob's Ladder late but it's not bad. I skipped Chain Induction based on the description. Didn't sound that impressive.

Lightning Clap is prolly most skippable. I have it on my brute but then she is more likely to power surge.

I took everything except Lightning Clap on my Shield/Elec--or more accurately, will take, she doesn't have Lightning Rod yet. I very strongly dislike KB powers, so that choice was a no-brainer for me. I agree that Havoc Punch is skippable, but I had room, so what the heck.

Jacob's Ladder and Chain Induction are both very good attacks and I wouldn't recommend skipping them. The only caveat with CI is to try not to use it as a finishing attack since it won't jump past the first mob if that mob if defeated.

On my Scrapper, I focused my AOE through Lightning Field, CI, JL and Lightning Rod. I skipped TS b/c of the long animation time and just use Charged Brawl & Havoc Punch with damage procs for fast activating attacks along with the others. TS is real sexy though, kept it on my Stalker.

Skip the Clap.

that sounds dirty.....

I skip Thunderclap on my tank. Adding Kinetic Combat - Chance for Knockdown to Chain Induction is very cool, if you can fit it in. Combined with Thunderstrike, most mobs stay on their butt.

I'm skipping Lightning Clap and Buildup on my Elec / WP