Is SS/EnA a good combo?

[Menelruin]

I'd been thinking about different sets are restricted by AT, and Brute gets almost EVERYTHING it could want. 

 

Super Strength is a DPS set that doesn't go to the melee DPS specialist because it would be too good, supposedly. 

 

Energy Aura is a defensive set that doesn't go to the defensive specialist because it would be too good, supposedly. 

 

Does combining both on the dps/defensive hybrid class just become insane?  Or is it diluting the different strong points too much? 

Edited March 21, 2020 by Menelruin

[Snarky]

I been playing a long time.  SS/EnA is not something I see a lot of.  Either from Tanky Tank builders or Farmy Farm builders.  Maybe it is the perfect niche.  But I think we would have noticed by now if it was OMFG good

[dzyp2]

11 hours ago, Snarky said:

I been playing a long time.  SS/EnA is not something I see a lot of.  Either from Tanky Tank builders or Farmy Farm builders.  Maybe it is the perfect niche.  But I think we would have noticed by now if it was OMFG good

I think the problem is EnA. I have a 50 psi/ena scrapper that I IO'd out. It was ok, but the problem is anything that got through the defense really hurt. And with the current meta, it's a lot easier to add def than it is to add res which means it's easier to take well rounded or res heavy sets and make them godlike via IOs than it is to do with def sets. I have high level /bio, /rad, /shield, and /elec toons as well and they are just tougher.

Edited March 22, 2020 by dzyp2

[Sgt. Terminus]

SS/EA was my original COV main  back in the day but with the -DEF now with the rage crash seems like the exact opposite thing you want with EA.

Edited March 22, 2020 by Sgt. Terminus

[KelvinKole]

It's a lot like fruit cake. 

 

Fruit by itself, is awesome.

 

Cake too. Super awesome. 

 

Fruit Cake. Terrible, don't insult me with it.