Fire and Electric are the two best AoE that goes with /Shields. As to which one is better...it is hard to say both are great for AoE. I like my Fire/Shields better than my Electric/shields because it feels like I'm doing the same amount of AoE damage but the ST damage for Fire is way better.
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Electric probably has better AoE, but Fire has satisfactory AoE IF you're running really high recharge and have Fire Sword Circle, Shield Charge and Fire Ball. My time was eclipsed by Iggy's Super Strength/Fire Brute, but here's my Fire/Shield doing the RWZ challenge in 1:40 without the level shift (only incarnate power is an uncommon cardiac). Sorry for the poor video quality, invisible sword, and lack of sound.
I'm guessing a good Electric/Shield would go faster, but I'm also guessing not a whole lot faster, and I think I could knock another 10 seconds off if I avoided mistakes. But at this point, I'd have to unslot the alpha, and then I'd run out of endurance, and I'm not going to bother picking up a lower level cardiac just to see. If someone wants to try it on an Electric/Shield without level shift for comparison, I think that might be interesting.
My memory might be poor on this one, but there was a thread about farm speed a long time ago on the market forum, and I think the Fire/Shields were keeping pace with the Electric/Shields. They were looking for top raw influence per hour, vendor value of all drops (not market value) as I recall.
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OK, I uploaded a video of my Fire/Shield farming +2 Council so that you can see the pace and rhythm of it.
"That's because Werner can't do maths." - BunnyAnomaly
"Four hours in, and I was no longer making mistakes, no longer detoggling. I was a machine." - Werner
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WarMace/Shield should be VERY nice, I am planning on making one with i21.
it is nice for a brute, but the END is a bit heavy until you can get the bigger IO's and some IO sets going. Meaning WM/SD.
Mine is sitting at 40 right now on Blueside, and I am debating on what EPP to take. Energy would solve END issues (2 more perf shifters plus a bit more recovery), but taking Cardiac Alpha would do it better most likely.
/ponder
Im wanting a good AoE set to go with Shields. Is Fire or Electric better? Is there a better AoE set that im not thinking of?