What to pair with a /Electric Armor brute?

[Kabuki]

Heya all, trying to decide what to do for my next brute.

 

I will be using Electric Armor for the defense set, and am kinda torn as to what to use as the primary between the following options:

 

Psi... I haven't used it yet but hear good things.

 

Rad... same with Psi, not sure how well it does against AVs.

 

Fire... always fun and some AOE potential.

 

Ice Ice maybe?

 

Street Justice is also on the table as a slightly less flashy option.

 

 

Which would synergize best with /Elec, and would be the most overall efficient for high end content, solo and group?

 

Thanks for any help!

[Chance Jackson]

I tend to pair resistance based protection sets with +def granting attack sets like MA, Kat, BS, TW, Staff the first one can't double stack but Grant's def to all, while the other 4 help you get lots of melee def early 

[Sakai]

Made myself a Kat/Elec tonight. At lvl 3 he's awesome. 

[oOStaticOo]

Titan Weapons, Katana, or Elec Melee are all good choices.  Although I tend to stay away from Titan Weapons on a Brute as it takes a lot of +rech to help build up the Fury with your attacks.  Katana is really fast and Elec Melee with Mu Mastery has a lot of AoE capability.  I haven't tried Rad Melee much either to have any kind of an opinion on it.  I do hear good things about it, but so far it feels underwhelming to me.

[Hyperstrike]

If you haven't ever done CEBR (Claws Electric Brute), try that.

Pimped out, it's a monster.

[Outrider_01]

Mace, solid heavy hitting single targets and several cones.  Has a hefty, satifying feeling when you slug baddies with it.

[Heraclea]

I havw a radiation melee/electric armor brute that I quite enjoy.  Kills mobs and builds fury just by standing there thanks to two damage auras.  Was an end hog and somewhat hard to level.

[Kabuki]

Wow, this kinda got necroed!

 

I had done a Mace/Electric, but it just didn't grab me and it has languished at level 30-is.

 

I ended up making a Psi/Electric and I have enjoyed it more, though I don't play it as much as my main.

[Nightmarer 2]

Anything with active dmg mitigation should work, Stone Melee and Mace are first to come to mind, also Psi would be awesome with /Elec.

[Coyote]

On 11/17/2019 at 11:54 AM, Chance Jackson said:

I tend to pair resistance based protection sets with +def granting attack sets like MA, Kat, BS, TW, Staff the first one can't double stack but Grant's def to all, while the other 4 help you get lots of melee def early 

 

Exactly my thinking and argument. Add a set with a Parry effect that helps you softcap Melee, to a Resistance set. Also, Electric Armor helps a lot with Titan Weapons' Endurance consumption.

[NemeanLion]

On 1/19/2020 at 12:41 AM, Hyperstrike said:

If you haven't ever done CEBR (Claws Electric Brute), try that.

Pimped out, it's a monster.

What about Savage Melee? I imagine it's speed would also lend itself well to /Elec

[Ninjaboy]

SS/Elec is amazing (Black Adam/Shazam would be this imho) 

 

I would highly recommend avoiding Elec melee for Brute. Not enough damage imho.

 

It Electric melee is a lot better on a Stalker. 

Edited February 18, 2020 by Ninjaboy

[oldskool]

On 11/16/2019 at 4:38 PM, CosmicDreamShade said:

Ice Ice maybe?

Nah, too cold, too cold.

[Kinvesu]

I know you already picked but, I did MA/Electric and so far at 12 it is pretty good. I went hero and for a super saiyan 2 theme. So far I haven't dropped past 90% hp.

[mbre2006]

I made a Elec/SS tank thats a monster. I'm sure the reverse will pair with a brute.

[Without_Pause]

On 11/16/2019 at 4:38 PM, CosmicDreamShade said:

Rad... same with Psi, not sure how well it does against AVs.

 

For future reference. I'm not sure I would go soloing AVs with it partly because I don't think it's ST chain is that strong, but I don't know the numbers either. I think it does work will with /elec since you get an additional heal and another damage aura so if you want more orange numbers versus soloing AVs, this is were I would look.

 

I loved my Dark/elec I had on Live and was one of the builds I was going to recreate if CoH ever came back, but oddly enough it never stuck around this time. I may have to create it again some day. Others I would look at are Stone and SS. +recharge and end recovery would be helpful for either.

[Without_Pause]

Well, here's a reason to go Dark/elec again.

 

 

[Gauntlet_Prime]

The dark buffs on test are pretty gross.  Consumption does some RIDICULOUS damage and maul is a very solid cone now.

[Bopper]

14 minutes ago, Gauntlet_Prime said:

The dark buffs on test are pretty gross.  Consumption does some RIDICULOUS damage and maul is a very solid cone now.

Keep in mind, the testing is in an infant state. There will be fixes and balances, much like what we saw with tanker testing. Initially Tankers got a base 120 endurance, +100% arc increases, and more I dont recall but basically made them OP. Until a beta patch update becomes a release candidate, take the changes with a grain of salt (at least the expectations of the changes).

[Gauntlet_Prime]

On 2/26/2020 at 12:29 PM, Bopper said:

Keep in mind, the testing is in an infant state. There will be fixes and balances, much like what we saw with tanker testing. Initially Tankers got a base 120 endurance, +100% arc increases, and more I dont recall but basically made them OP. Until a beta patch update becomes a release candidate, take the changes with a grain of salt (at least the expectations of the changes).

I agree but I think at the very least we should expect the set to be a better performer for AOE as that is the purpose of this pass.  I 100% expect the enormous damage of consumption to be cut back but I doubt the recharge will be modified too much.  And the maul cone just feels great now so I don't think that would be touched.  There isn't much else that happened though.  It is just a matter of balancing those 2 changes.  It is not nearly as all encompassing as the huge tanker bomb that was dropped.

[Kabuki]

On 2/25/2020 at 4:22 PM, Without_Pause said:

 

For future reference. I'm not sure I would go soloing AVs with it partly because I don't think it's ST chain is that strong, but I don't know the numbers either. I think it does work will with /elec since you get an additional heal and another damage aura so if you want more orange numbers versus soloing AVs, this is were I would look.

 

I loved my Dark/elec I had on Live and was one of the builds I was going to recreate if CoH ever came back, but oddly enough it never stuck around this time. I may have to create it again some day. Others I would look at are Stone and SS. +recharge and end recovery would be helpful for either.

I ended up going with Psi/Electric. The damage is not overwhelming, but it is fast... against some enemies it is better, some it is worse, especially at the endgame levels.

 

I already have a DM/SR scrapper, DM/Bio scrapper and a SD/DM tanker, so I am definitely looking forward to the changes.

[JackDaniels]

On 1/19/2020 at 2:41 AM, Hyperstrike said:

If you haven't ever done CEBR (Claws Electric Brute), try that.

Pimped out, it's a monster.

do you have any builds for this? i have been looking for a killer one.

 

[Hyperstrike]

14 minutes ago, JackDaniels said:

do you have any builds for this? i have been looking for a killer one.

 

 

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CEBR2: Level 50 Magic Brute
Primary Power Set: Claws
Secondary Power Set: Electric Armor
Power Pool: Fighting
Power Pool: Leaping
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Mu Mastery

Villain Profile:
Level 1: Strike -- CrsImp-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(A), CrsImp-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(3), CrsImp-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(3), Hct-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(5)
Level 1: Charged Armor -- UnbGrd-ResDam:50(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx:50(5), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam:50(7), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:50(7), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+:30(9)
Level 2: Lightning Field -- FuroftheG-Acc/Dmg:50(A), FuroftheG-Dam/Rech:50(9), FuroftheG-Dam/End/Rech:50(11), FuroftheG-Acc/End/Rech:50(11), FuroftheG-Acc/Dmg/End/Rech:50(13), FuroftheG-ResDeb%:50(13)
Level 4: Conductive Shield -- UnbGrd-ResDam:50(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx:50(19), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam:50(19), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:50(21), GldArm-3defTpProc:50(21)
Level 6: Slash -- SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx:50(23), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(23), SprBlsCol-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(25), SprBlsCol-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg:50(25)
Level 8: Kick -- FrcFdb-Rechg%:50(A)
Level 10: Static Shield -- UnbGrd-ResDam:50(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx:50(27), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam:50(27), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:50(29)
Level 12: Spin -- SprAvl-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprAvl-Dmg/EndRdx:50(29), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(31), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(31), SprAvl-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(31)
Level 14: Tough -- UnbGrd-ResDam:50(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx:50(33), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam:50(33), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx/Rchg:50(33)
Level 16: Grounded -- UnbGrd-ResDam:50(A), UnbGrd-ResDam/EndRdx:50(34), UnbGrd-Rchg/ResDam:50(34), UnbGrd-Max HP%:50(34)
Level 18: Follow Up -- AdjTrg-ToHit:50(A), AdjTrg-ToHit/Rchg:50(36), AdjTrg-ToHit/EndRdx/Rchg:50(36), AdjTrg-EndRdx/Rchg:50(36), AdjTrg-ToHit/EndRdx:50(37), AdjTrg-Rchg:50(37)
Level 20: Lightning Reflexes -- Run-I:50(A)
Level 22: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Rchg+:50(A), LucoftheG-Def:50(37)
Level 24: Super Jump -- BlsoftheZ-ResKB:50(A)
Level 26: Weave -- ShlWal-ResDam/Re TP:50(A), Rct-Def:50(39), Rct-Def/EndRdx:50(39), Rct-Def/EndRdx/Rchg:50(50), Rct-ResDam%:50(50)
Level 28: Energize -- NmnCnv-Heal/Rchg:50(A)
Level 30: Eviscerate -- SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprUnrFur-Dmg/Rchg:50(39), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(40), SprUnrFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(40), SprUnrFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(40), SprUnrFur-Rchg/+Regen/+End:50(42)
Level 32: Shockwave -- SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprBrtFur-Dmg/Rchg:50(42), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(42), SprBrtFur-Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(43), SprBrtFur-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx/Rchg:50(43), SprBrtFur-Rech/Fury:50(43)
Level 35: Power Sink -- PrfShf-Acc/Rchg:50(A), EffAdp-Acc/Rchg:50(45)
Level 38: Mu Lightning -- SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprWntBit-Dmg/Rchg:50(45), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(45), SprWntBit-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(46), SprWntBit-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg:50(46)
Level 41: Ball Lightning -- SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg:50(A), SprFrzBls-Dmg/EndRdx:50(46), SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx:50(48), SprFrzBls-Acc/Dmg/Rchg:50(48), SprFrzBls-Dmg/EndRdx/Acc/Rchg:50(48)
Level 44: Hasten -- RechRdx-I:50(A), RechRdx-I:50(50)
Level 47: Maneuvers -- LucoftheG-Rchg+:50(A)
Level 49: Assault -- EndRdx-I:50(A)
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Level 1: Prestige Power Dash -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Slide -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Quick -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Rush -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Prestige Power Surge -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Fury
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
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Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- PrfShf-End%:50(A), PrfShf-EndMod:50(17), PrfShf-EndMod/Rchg:50(17)
Level 50: Cardiac Core Paragon
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