Best fiery melee AT???

[Sipps]

Looking into creating a fiery melee character, was looking at tank but really have no preferences. Any input is much help  

[Uun]

According to this, tanks (they get Combustion instead of Cremate).

 

 

[GM Impervium]

Since this is a question about different ATs and not just Scrappers, I'm moving this thread to the general Archetype section.

[JJDrakken]

10 hours ago, Sipps said:

Looking into creating a fiery melee character, was looking at tank but really have no preferences. Any input is much help  

 

Here try this out, it's all damage you want with survival.

 

Tanker - Radiation Armor - Fiery Melee - Pyre Mastery.mxd

[Sipps]

2 hours ago, Uun said:

According to this, tanks (they get Combustion instead of Cremate).

 

 

A lot of good information here thanks for sharing this!

[Lazarillo]

3 hours ago, Uun said:

According to this, tanks (they get Combustion instead of Cremate).

Cremate has an extremely nice guaranteed knockdown, though, that's not really going to factor into Trapdoor times, but makes a hell of a difference when you're trying to deal with enemies that can pop problematic powers.

[Sovera]

I'd love to have Cremate on my Fire Melee tanker, but It's hard to say no to the new Combustion and be going around with two PbAoEs. So basically pick whether you want an extra AoE and then roll Tanker, or a better ST and then play Brute/Scrapper.

[electric_emu]

It is difficult to oversell how nice Combustion is on Tankers now.  If you want to maximize Fiery Melee's potential, I think Tanker is the way to go.  Tankers don't need Cremate's mitigation and have perfectly serviceable single target options later on.

 

However, despite the changes to power availability the leveling experience is noticeably less pleasant due to limited single target options at lower levels.  And it's not like Scrapper/Brute FM is bad.  

 

[InvaderStych]

Counterpoint:

 

Stalker. 😉

 

 

[Lazarillo]

42 minutes ago, InvaderStych said:

Counterpoint:

 

Stalker. 😉

I'd imagine few things quite ruin a Longbow Agent's day like standing around, minding one's own business, and all of a sudden your buddy bursts into flame.

[twozerofoxtrot]

Stone/Fire tankers are really something else. 

 

Bring recovery serum while leveling but that's about it. Nothing can hurt you but on the other hand everything dies too quickly to get a chance.