Rare tanker

[Tingglebells]

Hello so yesterday I was playing around in character creator and I liked the idea of elec armor/energy melee and it seems pretty cool idea now the question I have is it a good combo I never really seen anyone with this combo for certain just wondering what you guys think?

will it be a good combo to run all the way with

[nihilii]

Energy Melee has issues, no ifs or buts about it.

Regardless... you can *definitely* make it work.

 

It's not like it's broken to the point you couldn't do your job. It's just that virtually any other secondary will do a better job.

 

There may be buffs coming to Energy Melee at some point, but this is likely months away.

Elec Armor is a great, solid primary. It has strong resistances to near everything, a good heal, great endurance management, and a couple underrated extras (immunity to end drain, resistance to slows).

[Tingglebells]

Ok so I’ll need to go back in creator and re pick my secondary of energy isn’t doing quite well

[Snarky]

I ran an Elec/Elec scrapper back on live.  I normally Brute but ran him to 50 and piled on the I/o. He was a freaking beast 

 

i would pair elec/Elec. That is not broken 

[Tingglebells]

I honestly never liked elec melee Idk why though 😂

[Tingglebells]

How do you think elec/claws would do?

[Cutter]

Elec/Claws should work fine. Claws is light on end so you'll be able to attack for days, and as was said above, Elec's resists+extras package is really nice.

[Infinitum]

2 hours ago, Tingglebells said:

Hello so yesterday I was playing around in character creator and I liked the idea of elec armor/energy melee and it seems pretty cool idea now the question I have is it a good combo I never really seen anyone with this combo for certain just wondering what you guys think?

will it be a good combo to run all the way with

Well, I have an energy melee Elec armor brute.

 

It works pretty much the same as a tank would just with less HP and more damage basically.

 

Energy isn't horrible, it will still output the absolute most ST damage per click than any set in existance.  It's very slow with a weak AOE though. 

 

It needs a buff and I believe will fondle day get one.  So it's not a bad set to run with for now or the future.

 

If you want the capability to one or 2 shot some bosses energy is still the way to go albeit slowly.

[Infinitum]

Honestly you could aura street justice and it would feel similar and look similar to the old EM.

 

I think STJ is awesome myself.

[Heraclea]

The other set that has something of the feel of the old Energy Melee is Kinetic Melee.  Tried it on both tanker and scrapper, and I think it's a bit underrated.  Solid single target damage and a fast recharging PBAoE. 

[Infinitum]

15 minutes ago, Heraclea said:

The other set that has something of the feel of the old Energy Melee is Kinetic Melee.  Tried it on both tanker and scrapper, and I think it's a bit underrated.  Solid single target damage and a fast recharging PBAoE. 

Kinetic melee suffers from long feeling animations and less damage than EM.  It doesnt feel right to me, but thatd just personal preference, there really isnt anything wrong with it.

[ninja surprise]

On 11/13/2019 at 9:47 AM, Infinitum said:

Honestly you could aura street justice and it would feel similar and look similar to the old EM.

 

A person could roll street justice and in the costume creator give it the big pom poms.

[Bill Z Bubba]

On 11/23/2019 at 12:07 AM, ninja surprise said:

 

A person could roll street justice and in the costume creator give it the big pom poms.

wait wut? What aura gives the pompoms of doom?

[Bill Z Bubba]

On 11/13/2019 at 9:23 AM, Tingglebells said:

How do you think elec/claws would do?

In my opinion, claws is the most perfectly balanced melee attack set between ST and AoE damage output. It goes great with everything. Liked whipped cream or beer.

[markofantares]

Inv/SM

[Warboss]

I've always liked Electric/Fire, it was one of my mains on live.

[ninja surprise]

On 11/29/2019 at 7:30 AM, Bill Z Bubba said:

wait wut? What aura gives the pompoms of doom?

 

I have graphics turned down on my laptop but I think Alpha Fists gets closest.  I think it looks pretty cool with Street Justice.

 

[Erratic1]

On 11/30/2019 at 11:00 AM, Warboss said:

I've always liked Electric/Fire, it was one of my mains on live.

 

It is my third Tanker now that CoH is back and it works wonderfully.

[Force Redux]

Its rated # 136 on the power set combos in the Flavor of the Month report, but I really like my Shield Defense/Martial Arts tanker. Tough, decent AOE, looks great comboing MA attacks, and holds aggro like a champ. I never thought I'd like Shield, but I'm a convert. And Tanker MA just goes so well with it to boost Defenses/Damage. 

[HachiMan2015]

On 11/29/2019 at 6:32 AM, Bill Z Bubba said:

In my opinion, claws is the most perfectly balanced melee attack set between ST and AoE damage output. It goes great with everything. Liked whipped cream or beer.

Agreed!!! However, never together! They go with everything separately,

 

*Holds whipcream in left hand and beer in right, shakes head*

 

Never.... Together

 

😢