Kinetic Melee / Electric Armor


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I want to make a Kinetic Melee / Electric Armor toon. I love Electric Armor, and I've wanted to try Kinetic Melee. Because of the higher resistance cap on Brutes, that is what I normally play. However, I've heard and read that Kinetic Melee is so much better on Scrappers.

So, what would y'all recommend? Kinetic Melee / Electric Armor Brute or Scrapper?


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The brute would certainly get more out of electric armor than the scrapper, but power siphon shines more on a scrapper because of a scrapper's higher base damage. On a brute, PS tends to get a bit drowned out by fury, and you don't get as much out of it as a scrapper does. This coupled with the "crit" on Concentrated Strike instantly recharges Power Siphon.

That's not to say that KM on a brute is BAD...it's just far better on a scrapper.

Personally, i'm seriously considering rolling up a KM/FA scrapper for the combo of Power Siphon and Fiery Embrace.


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It's a difficult pick for sure, Elec Armor is FAR superior on a Brute due to the higher resist caps, more HP, and a taunt in Lightning Field. However as RaikenX said, PS is far better on a scrapper and the instant recharge on Power Siphon.

However, Brute KM tend to build fury very easily due to the blazing fast animations of the first three attacks. Still I scrapper (and even Tanks) get better performance out of Power Siphon due to higher base damage.

Bottom line, If you are dead set on KM/Elec, I would go brute or tank simply because I hate playing without a Taunt Aura.

I will say that KM/Energy Aura on a scrapper is an absolute BEAST though. It has the same end management tools that Elec has, a taunt/recharge aura, and being defense based favors scrappers as they have a smaller survival gap with a brute on Defense sets vs Resist sets.