Good primary for /FA... StJ? Claws? DB? Katana?
By
Angelxman81,
Posted on: 2011-10-29 03:27 in Brutes
Super Strength, Stone Melee, and Dark Melee all pair well with /FA.
SS brings Rage to push the damage and accuracy from Fire Aura up. Stone Melee brings control in the form of Seismic Smash and Fault, shoring up FA's defensive weakness.
Dark melee does both: Soul Drain pushes the secondary damage up while the -to hit in all it's attacks and second heal in siphon life shore up the defensive weaknesses. It even has a second recovery power in dark consumption.
To me those are the three standout /fire pairings, but this is CoX. Anything, ANYTHING, works. I love how fast the Street Justice animations are. It would work fine, though if you're unpleased with martial arts damage StJ might not be your thing. Pretty sure they rate about the same damage wise, with MA having more control. Then again as a /fire brute your primary is just something you do while waiting for burn to recharge.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
I know SS works too well with /FA. Looks like the ultimate combo...
Forgot to mention that my character is more ninja like...
Anyways I love /MA is just that I think MA/FA scrappers is not a good combo.
I like /FA but I think it works better for brutes.
It does work better with brutes, and ss/fa is only the ultimate combo of ultimate destiny when enough money is thrown at it. Before IOing it gets its effin' face stomped in by pretty much anything not a fire farm at x8.
Weight training: Because you'll never hear someone lament "If only I were weaker, I could have saved them."
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The problem with /FA scrappers is that there is no taunt aura AND made worse by having a high damage pbaoe with a fast pulsing dot called burn resulting in the 10 enemies you had neatly packed around you suddenly all running in 10 different directions, unless of course you defeat them outright or are fighting a single enemy like an EB or AV in which you can confront(taunt) and in this case /FA is great for scrappers (but really it's not). |
Originally Posted by Angelxman81
Im thinking about to re-roll my main scrapper MA/FA because is not effective enough, even with all 5 Incarnate rares and set bonuses.
I mean, do you notice a difference with /FA from scrapper to brute? Is much better on a brute, to justify the re-roll? Burn sucks for scrappers. Also cant wait to have a StJ, but not sure if is working better with /FA, /ElA or just with something like /Regen or /WP... Thanks! |
SS/Fire is the king of brutes, however that is not to say many other brute primaries wouldnt work also (though it doesn't work too well with weapon sets due to redraw due to the clicky nature of /fire). Burn and fiery embrace do amazing things to your dps and can turn pretty much any primary into an offensive monster.
Im thinking about to re-roll my main scrapper MA/FA because is not effective enough, even with all 5 Incarnate rares and set bonuses.
I mean, do you notice a difference with /FA from scrapper to brute? Is much better on a brute, to justify the re-roll? Burn sucks for scrappers.
Also cant wait to have a StJ, but not sure if is working better with /FA, /ElA or just with something like /Regen or /WP...
Thanks!