Spines or Street Justice?

[ceto555]

Hello,

 

I'm looking to make a Brute with either Spines or Street Justice to pair with Radiation secondary. Which of the 2 is better for pure solo leveling and lvl 50 activities?

 

Thanks!

 

[marcussmythe]

Preface:  Ive not played street justice.

 

Spines is very efficient for AOE, and thus solo leveling - Spine Burst comes early, and is a great place to put the free IOs you get from the P2W vendor.

 

Street Justice, from the looks, has more single target punch than Spines, but less AOE power. 

 

As your planning on going elec, its a question of whether you want to double-down on the AOE power of Elec with a second strong AOE Primary, or get more single target punch.

 

Gut take is that Spines/Elec will see you 50 sooner and farm better.  Street/Elec will still be a solid performer at AOE duties (maybe double down with Leap Attack from Jumping Pool for even more teleport-AOE goodness!), but will be -less- good at it than Spines, in exchange for single target ability.

 

So - it comes down to flexibility vs specialization.  Normally Im a fan of flexibility, but AOE is king in city.  So in part it depends on ‘how many 50s do i want?’  If this is your One True Character that you plan on IO setting into deep purple and doing all the Incarnate mods, Id go for flexible.  If your planning on having a stable of 50s with a tool for every task, Id go specialized.

[FUBARczar]

I've had SJ on a Stalker (SJ/Ice), and Spines on a Scrapper (Dark armor), Stalker (WP) and a Tank (Bio armor) all to 50

 

That said, SJ will be noticeably better for soloing Bosses and EBs.

 

But if you want to solo +3 without bosses set to a team of 8, then go Spines.