AoE on some melee sets... what do you do?

[Maelwys]

19 hours ago, Uun said:

It has more than one. Martial Arts has 1 PBAoE and 0 cones. 

 

Funnily enough, despite having only a single AoE MA has long been considered one of the better active Farming powersets (due to Dragon's Tail's reasonable DPA and ability to use a FF +recharge proc).

[ZeeHero]

15 hours ago, arcane said:

Every one of my active Brute/Scrapper/Tanker builds has Char/Melt Armor/Fire Ball to supplement their offense. My Stalkers have Snipes tho. And then you’re often getting a little help from your armor set. And then there’s Judgement, and… reds and… even teammates. That is generally sufficient for me.

If they all have fireball, don't you think that just means there needs to be better options? Considering all of them resort to the same one.

[Uun]

2 hours ago, ZeeHero said:

If they all have fireball, don't you think that just means there needs to be better options? Considering all of them resort to the same one.

Dark Obliteration (Soul Mastery), Ball Lightning (Mu Mastery), Psionic Tornado (Psionic Mastery, Water Spout (Leviathan Mastery), 

[ZeeHero]

wish you didn't have to take 1-2 powers you wont even use and dont want just to get access to those

[Uun]

2 minutes ago, ZeeHero said:

wish you didn't have to take 1-2 powers you wont even use and dont want just to get access to those

Gloom, Zapp, Electrifying Fences, Dominate and Harmonic Mind are all excellent powers. Water Spout doesn't require any power picks.

[VPrime]

On my Super Strength/Willpower main, I add both Cross Punch and Spring Attack for added AoE.

[arcane]

4 hours ago, ZeeHero said:

If they all have fireball, don't you think that just means there needs to be better options? Considering all of them resort to the same one.

Not really. I used to care about diversifying my experience with epics and would have plenty of success with others. Gloom/Dark Obliteration is famously good, many like Electrifying Fences/Ball Lightning, and Energy has many uses too. I’ve just streamlined my stuff around the best of the best in the last couple of years. My Tankers all use Fire, my Doms all use Fire, my Blasters all use Fire with one exception, my Corrs/Defs all use Psy or Soul. There are plenty of good options, I’m just no longer interested in experimenting that way. 4 star building syndrome I guess.

[ZeeHero]

3 hours ago, arcane said:

Not really. I used to care about diversifying my experience with epics and would have plenty of success with others. Gloom/Dark Obliteration is famously good, many like Electrifying Fences/Ball Lightning, and Energy has many uses too. I’ve just streamlined my stuff around the best of the best in the last couple of years. My Tankers all use Fire, my Doms all use Fire, my Blasters all use Fire with one exception, my Corrs/Defs all use Psy or Soul. There are plenty of good options, I’m just no longer interested in experimenting that way. 4 star building syndrome I guess.

is gloom the PBAOE dark thing? I have something similar on my defender but melee ATs get different options.

[Uun]

3 minutes ago, ZeeHero said:

is gloom the PBAOE dark thing? I have something similar on my defender but melee ATs get different options.

Gloom is ST ranged DoT, Dark Obliteration is targeted AoE, both in tank/brute Soul Mastery. 

[ZeeHero]

Ok you've given me some good suggestions, any suggestions for Scrappers/stalkers?

[Uun]

4 hours ago, ZeeHero said:

Ok you've given me some good suggestions, any suggestions for Scrappers/stalkers?

Zapp plus Ball Lightning