New to game. Katana/Lightning

[Unerring_Fool]

Howdy all.  I'm pretty new and thinking of rolling a Katana/electric AT.  I like the idea of Raiden with a sword essentially.  Am I hurting myself longterm with this combo? Is there a better AT to do this on? I picked scrapper because crits make the happy chemical, but knowing I could have been better off with something else makes the sad chemical.

[Thraxen]

Those will work well. Divine valance will help add defense to the resist based electric. 

[Unerring_Fool]

14 minutes ago, Thraxen said:

Those will work well. Divine valance will help add defense to the resist based electric. 

Awesome. Accidentally synergy still works for me :).  Is Scrapper a good base for this?

[Thraxen]

Yes. Or tank would be good too as resist cap is higher. Scraps get the lighting snipe though so I would stick with scrap 

[Unerring_Fool]

2 minutes ago, Thraxen said:

Yes. Or tank would be good too as resist cap is higher. Scraps get the lighting snipe though so I would stick with scrap 

Awesome thank you!

[Erratic1]

Arguably, you get more mileage out of Lightning Field on a Brute than either a Scrapper or Tanker due to Fury while retaining the higher resistance cap of a Scrapper.

 

But Lightning Field is hardly going to be your major source of damage.

[Unerring_Fool]

1 hour ago, Erratic1 said:

Arguably, you get more mileage out of Lightning Field on a Brute than either a Scrapper or Tanker due to Fury while retaining the higher resistance cap of a Scrapper.

 

But Lightning Field is hardly going to be your major source of damage.

I see. So a Brute is using lightning as one of their standard attacks while Scrapper is leaning heavily on Katana and the lightning is more of a nice to have instead?

[Erratic1]

1 hour ago, Unerring_Fool said:

I see. So a Brute is using lightning as one of their standard attacks while Scrapper is leaning heavily on Katana and the lightning is more of a nice to have instead?

 

Lightning Field is a damage effect surrounding your character so long as you leave it turned on. It periodically deals damage to things standing too close to you. But its damage from a secondary set, and your primary set is how any melee character--Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, or Tanker--is going to deal most of their damage.

[Unerring_Fool]

27 minutes ago, Erratic1 said:

 

Lightning Field is a damage effect surrounding your character so long as you leave it turned on. It periodically deals damage to things standing too close to you. But its damage from a secondary set, and your primary set is how any melee character--Scrapper, Stalker, Brute, or Tanker--is going to deal most of their damage.

Nice thank you!

[Onlyasandwich]

Anything electric armor I tend to prefer in a brute.

• Higher resist cap. Ela will be way over capped on several values, wasting some of its power budget.
• Taunt aura. Only certain armors retain their taunt aura in scrappers, and Ela is not one. Without it, runners are very annoying solo.
• Damage auras scale nicely with fury. 

Katana is off course outstanding on a scrapper, but great on a brute as well. 

 

Tanker is a worthy contender too of course. 

[Unerring_Fool]

4 hours ago, Onlyasandwich said:

Anything electric armor I tend to prefer in a brute.

• Higher resist cap. Ela will be way over capped on several values, wasting some of its power budget.
• Taunt aura. Only certain armors retain their taunt aura in scrappers, and Ela is not one. Without it, runners are very annoying solo.
• Damage auras scale nicely with fury. 

Katana is off course outstanding on a scrapper, but great on a brute as well. 

 

Tanker is a worthy contender too of course. 

Good information, thank you!

[Arcadio]

If you're not sold on an AT yet, maybe consider an Elec/Ninja blaster. They still get a katana and crits, but there's a lot more lightning flying around.

Edited February 17, 2024 by Arcadio

[Unerring_Fool]

11 hours ago, Arcadio said:

If you're not sold on an AT yet, maybe consider an Elec/Ninja blaster. They still get a katana and crits, but there's a lot more lightning flying around.

I didn't know blaster had crits.  That's an interesting idea!

[Wavicle]

17 minutes ago, Unerring_Fool said:

I didn't know blaster had crits.  That's an interesting idea!

 

Only the /Ninja Blaster gets crits