How about Cold Domination?
- Ice Shield and Glacial Shield (much needed +def for the Elec Armor Brute)
- Frostwork (to help the Brute hit his HP cap)
- Sleet, Heat Loss, and Snow Storm (with a Brute holding aggro and/or herding, you can really leverage these AoE debuffs)
- Infrigidate and Benumb (if you guys fight AVs, these single-target debuffs will be very helpful)
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ELA is a resist set. Combine that with something self sufficient but defense enhancing.
Traps/Dark Blast
Traps/Ice Blast
Fire Blast/Dark Miasma
Fire Blast/Rad Emm
A Pair of Ice Blast/Cold Dom or Cold Dom/Ice Blast are very powerful if they buff each other, as is a pair of Emp/Ice or Emp/Sonic. A Pair of any combination of Veats would be great as well.
I agree that Cold Domination will fit /Elec Brute very well. There are no overlapping buffs. You can give him defense and +hp which /Elec lacks and /Elec has resistance to every type I believe including psionic.
If you want to add a 3rd, well, it never hurts to have two Cold Domination! You'll need defense and +hp too and the debuffs will be just crazy.
One of them may want to take Aid Other in case you need some immediate healing but it's not required. I rarely take Aid Other.
My twin brother and I ran a duo combo of Dark/Cold Domination to 50. Dark Blast, while not having high blast, does have good controls. Both of us would start the fight with tentacles to immb and then just blast away. The amount of tohit debuff is good too.
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
If you looking to stay on a theme, you could go with an elemental trio. I second the notion of cold domination. Perhaps a fire/dark corr to round out the trio?
After running things by my teammates and considering the replies herein, we ultimately went with the elec/elec brute as stated, with myself as a cold/elec defender, and our third as a fire/dark corrupter. Having played these three together for a few hours, I must admit they're nearly unstoppable in Praetorian content so far! I've never actually looked FORWARD to praetorian ghoul ambushes before, what an unusual experience! Everyone's been having a lot of fun with it, and we're all looking forward to getting together again for some more destruction.
Thanks for your input, everyone! We appreciate it!
A friend and myself (and possibly one other friend) are looking into making our own little personal duo/trio superteam. The one set character is an elec/elec brute, and I was thinking that a corrupter or defender would be the best thing to pair with that. Looking over the buff/debuff sets available to me, it LOOKS like pain or thermal would be the best way to make her that much more difficult to kill, but admittedly I'm better at personal synergy than team synergy! To this end, I'm looking for input on what might work best with said brute, and if we were to add a third character as part of the group, what should they be? Thanks!