Don't know about brutes,but i have a elec tanker and an /elec scrapper. The tanker is very tough with energize,the scrapper obviously a lot less. Nonetheless the self heal does its job very well. Also,i cannot think of a situation where aid self would save me if emergize where not enough to begin with. Anything that can kill me after having used energize could kill me even if i had aid self. I never liked interruptible heals,too
No, Aid Self is no longer needed.
Your character does not have capped defense. Depending on your AT the cap is between 175% - 225%. Your defense is not teal in the combat window, it can go higher. STOP SAYING IT IS CAPPED! The correct term is Soft Cap.
I enjoy playing in Mids. I specialize in Melee Characters, other AT's usually bore me.
Energyize *should* be enough. If you really feel you need more healing pick up Rebirth (or Barrier to reduce your incoming damage so Energize can do it's job), but I wouldn't take Aid Self.
I had it on my SM/Elec Brute and don't need it anymore (she's close to 50 but frankenslotted so no defenses, 40%ish global recharge counting L.Reflexes, so not exactly a top build).
The thing is, SM is very good at mitigation and Energize recharges slowish. So in the case of my Brute the mitigation may play a bigger part than say, a Fire Melee/ELA Brute.
Yeah I just fired up a very old character with EM/EL and Energize's recharge seems slower than it should be for a set that has zero defense, even when running fully slotted Tough. The character is only level 40 with vanilla IOs so maybe I am missing something.
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Maybe you aren't. I consider my SM/Elec Brute my toughest non-decked out toon but she was tanking SFs at SO level mostly because of Fault, plus the KDs/Holds from seismic and the mallets helped. It was also never a problem to fire up Aid Self because of that, my only struggle was with endurance till power sink.|
Originally Posted by JayboH
Yeah I just fired up a very old character with EM/EL and Energize's recharge seems slower than it should be for a set that has zero defense, even when running fully slotted Tough. The character is only level 40 with vanilla IOs so maybe I am missing something.
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I like elec armor a lot, and I have a db/elec scrapper at 32 but she only teamed and usually with buffers so I can't say if she's really tough (very fun toon tho).
EM/ELA was kinda FOTM for Brutes but that was before the EM nerfs and all the AoE centric content (imo, since the ITF, tons like my EM/Nin Stalker kinda started to be less beneficial to a team because most content after the itf and the new difficulty options favoured AoE).
But anyway after IOs (like, 40-50% global rech, easy to get since you have L. Reflexes) Energize should be enough.
I haven't rolled my /Elec Brute out in quite a few years, back then Energize didn't exist and it was Conserve Power. It was almost mandatory then you take Aid Self.
Do you still need it or does Energize do the job?