Which Archtype for Titan/Energy

Looking forward to titan weapon, i just finished lvling a StJ/WP Brute and decided that i should switch up the secondary for a titan weapon toon.

after looking at the animations, I got the idea that i should go scrapper so i wouldnt be held down by questionable rage generation.

but after looking at the epic pool choices for scrappers, i became really disapointed.

due to /energy not having any -def res, i was planning on using soul mastery's darkest night to keep me soft capped even through -def. Not only do scrappers not have that, they dont get anything that makes me go "ohhh, that'd be nice".

My questions are:
should i got brute for darkest night? or will scrapper crits out weight that ability.
will i have soft cap issues as a scrapper?
is rage generation noticably bad with Titan?

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I'm not sure if it's a preconception or a misunderstanding of the mechanic, but TW is not actually a slow set*. You use one moderately slow attack for Momentum, then up to 4 fast attacks. In practice this means it's faster than Super Strength or Dark Melee, neither of which are considered slow or difficult to build Fury with.

Also, /EA has DDR - a little over 50% by level 50, which isn't stellar, but on the other hand you can easily pad yourself against debuffs with Energy Drain, so it doesn't need as much DDR as /Shield or /SR can obtain. Scrappers don't have Darkest Night, but they can get Shadow Meld, which helps prevent or reverse cascade failure.

All in all I don't see a compelling reason to pick one AT over the other for this powerset combination, beyond the normal Scrapper vs Brute comparison. Although, brutes would have a better reason to take the taunt, which does have an awesome animation...

*I haven't gotten to try TW yet, but this is what I've read.

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with EA, I'd go with a scrapper and take Musculature.

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its not so much that their attacks are slow on average, its just the style does not look condusive to building fury with light/fast attacks, then blowing your aoes for maximum damages.

with what ive seen, you have to use a full combo of high end attacks to get a decent spam of powers to help build fury.

while it doesnt look detrimental to Brutes, it does LOOK inconvenient. perhaps im wrong and fury is a non issue with the set.

but now that Hopeling pointed out shadow meld, and taking a closer look at things, i think i like shadow meld over darkest night anyway. darkest night i would pretty much have to know in advance if i will need it, and deal with not killing the anchor(though i will miss the -dam). and shadow meld is a nice ability that i can use when ever as a clutch ability. its a shame both of the cast times are 3 sec.

Over all, i think i wont regret making titan/energy a scrapper.
after making half a dozen brutes i really need to change it up a bit.

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