Comparison of Unarmed Melee sets

I love EM on my solo EM/EA stalker, he is stuck a bit unloved at level 34 due to altitis issues of mine! But I can almost one shot minions wth three different attacks (one hiddden As, and transfer and ficus with build up up out of hidden). He works better solo though. I can imagine he doesn't do so well in large groups, but as a solo stalker Em is fine in my very humble opinion.

I like the concept of street justice and i find the combo's easier to use than the combo's of Dual Blades. I do have some issues with Kinetic Melee and electric melee for some reasons. Just cannot put my finger on the problem why that is. They just play a bit weak to me. Love Superstrength and dark. And martial arts improved with the latest change. I also like fire melee on my Fire tanker. Some powersets just work better with a certain Archetype i guess.

Street justice is going to be good. On brutes it should be the top DPS set, and a Stj/Fire should deal more single target damage than a SS/Fire. It's AoEs are powerful, but tiny. I'm sure some farmers will actually like it if they can get the two AoEs to hit their max targets every time, because they actually deal better damage than equivalent powers.

Oh, and KM can be good as well. It is so-so on tankers, decent on brutes, and fairly good on stalkers/scrappers. I actually think a KM/Fire scrapper can deal VERY high DPS, combining power siphon with FE.

I don't know what you guys are all talking about. I've got Energy Melee on a rather enjoyable Brute, and the only complaint I have is that I wish it looked more like a boxing powerset instead of all the crazy jumping and pushing attacks.

Energy Transfer, before the change, was simply monstrous. I could clear an entire map of Freakshow with just that power. It was like a damn sucker punch that could rip heads off! Here's the kicker: That wasn't a good thing. Everybody's acting like because it was balanced with similar hard-hitting powers in other sets, it's been completely gutted. It's still hard-hitting. It and Total Focus are still monstrously devastating when paired together. You hit just about ANYTHING with both of those powers, and they are very likely to be sore in the morning.

Each powerset has its strengths and its drawbacks. Not a one of them is meant to be "THE MOST AWESOMESAUCE POWER! ROFLOLZ!"

If you've found that you disliked the powerset, then perhaps that style really isn't for you! It's that simple!

i wasnt around for old ET, but i will say one thing, from my own perspective. the power as it is now, specifically the sight/sound of it, helps my stalker feel "super", and thats what i really like about it. as long as new animation isnt touched, i'll be personally happy with whatever they do to help the set, if it happens.

ET change was PvP driven, then Castle destroyed PvP and made the change even more irrelevent. It hit hard, and took away 10% of your life and defined the set, as indeed many individual powers define many sets, Castle, the number nerd then made up formulas after the event and started to factor in animation times, (something that was never done originally) and retro fitted it to ET, the upshot is a set that WAS at the top is now firmly sat at the bottom of the heap. Oh Im sure it looks average on a spreadsheet but there is no flow to the set, 6 seconds of animation for 2 attacks just destroys it. The only place ET was overpowered was in PvP and we all know how much Castle seemed to hate that, how can anyone be so stupid as to think people would like to have their characters play in a completely different manner would be a good thing, and ignoring primary attacks and going for pool power attacks was the way to go....

For Stalker, the two worst unarmed are Energy Melee and Martial Arts because both sets have ZERO aoe. Between EM and MA, I say MA is better.

Dark Melee can compete with them for ST damage especially having good utilities and DM at least has Shadow Maul.

PS: Oh, Kinetic Melee is VERY GOOD on Stalker and Scrapper.

ET was overpowered, deal with it.

They really should go make a numbers pass at the old sets. Need to change Rage, lower Foot Stomp's damage, take a hard look at Lightning Rod (probably doesn't need to deal quite that much damage), buff Electric Blast, and a host of smaller things to affect general set balance, so that player A isn't mocked by his peers for taking set A or B.

Won't happen, though; no money in it.