A good Lore for an Elec/Elec brute?


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My Elec/Elec Brute is at this point just in the 'topping up his build and basking in glory' phase of his character building, but there is a major flaw in it that I want to solve; I don't know what to do with his Lore slot.

I took Vanguard Radial for him, mainly for roleplay reasoning - he's a member of the Vanguard, so it makes sense they would back him up. But a fact slowly managed to pierce my denial: Vanguard is a pretty much universally terrible choice, because they are bad at everything. The boss doesn't really deal any notable amount of damage, the debuffs are too varied to be noteworthy, and I'm pretty sure the intangible pet's AI is unable to reliably use either of his powers.

So I'm looking for a real Lore to invest in, and I'm thinking that this time I'll be putting practicality ahead of roleplaying. What tree, and which Core or Radial, would complement his powers? His role has always been an AoE machine that mostly excels against Energy-wielding targets like Rikti, so I'm looking for something that either helps him achieve that or covers his weaknesses in fighting single foes or ones that use damage types he isn't particularly solid against. He's a technology-based villain, so I'll have to turn down choices that are completely adverse to that, like Cimerorans and Carnival.

If it's relevant, and it probably is, his other Incarnate powers are Musculature Radial, Ionic Radial, Barrier Core, and one of the Diamagnetics I can't remember off the top of my head.

Can someone suggest to me a better Lore?


 

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Seers(at a later tier, one of them hands out Fort like candy) or Warworks(Mk-II Victoria is like a scrapper-stalker combo on steroids)


 

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I have a few of the lore pets on my elec/elec Brute for different situations. I think the best is Cimerorans match up the best. They have the highest single target damage of the Lore pets that will help out on electric melee's poor single target damage.

I went with the 2 that just do damage, but the support is nice as well since they have 2 heals.

I usually just bring them out for AV fights for the extra damage.


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I was directed to Storm Elementals when I asked a friend of mine, based on one of the pets having a Short Circuit power to aid with the endurance draining. I don't know firsthand how effective that will be, I'm still at t1.


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Originally Posted by Deacon_NA View Post
I was directed to Storm Elementals when I asked a friend of mine, based on one of the pets having a Short Circuit power to aid with the endurance draining. I don't know firsthand how effective that will be, I'm still at t1.

I would stay away from Storm Elementals especially the support one, it has hurricane not a great power to have on a brute.

Also the extra end drain that they have isn't needed power sink and lightning field will pretty much keep most mobs drained with ease.


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Originally Posted by monkey0707 View Post
I would stay away from Storm Elementals especially the support one, it has hurricane not a great power to have on a brute.

Also the extra end drain that they have isn't needed power sink and lightning field will pretty much keep most mobs drained with ease.
Apparently one of the paths for the elements doesn't include the storm user. I see no problem accelerating the end drain, as Power Sink and LF still takes some time to drain to 0.


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I picked Storm Elementals for character reasons only and will admit that it's not the greatest, but before those were released Warworks Victoria was the way to go. She's a DPS machine.


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Thanks for all this, guys. I should have mentioned that I already excluded Cimerorans and Storm Elementals, though - Cimerorans don't fit my character concept, and I don't need Storm Elementals to help with end drain because I've already got enough to wipe out an AV's end bar in a prolonged fight.

WarWorks has come up in my own readings, and they do make a top three I've decided on - Clockwork, Phantoms and WarWorks. With all three I'm likely to go Core, because my Brute's already pretty much set on support and doesn't really need any more. I already have a Clockwork t3 from before the rest of them came out, so I'm inclined to go that way, but would the bosses from either of the other two sets outclass the Dismantler enough to drop that too?


 

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i took phantoms for my yummy a.b. goodness..you get it twice in the 5 minutes their out.cant go wrong with a.b.!