darkSpyro

Due to being out of town, I've yet to be able to try out some of the new Skylanders I've recently purchased. I've been looking over the two upgrade paths for Eruptor trying to figure out which one is better...

Magmantor lets your lava bombs bounce, travel farther, explode, and (?) turn into some sort of fiery beast.
Volcanor makes your eruption quicker and more powerful, including the addition of volcanoes.

Any suggestions as to which one is better?

I haven't tried the second path but I can tell you the first one is pretty amazing.

It makes his attacks vicious, they end up bouncing everywhere and leaving trails of lava that damage people if they step on it.

His eruption ability is nice but it wasn't something I really wanted to upgrade; its for the most part close-range and just didn't seem to do as much damage as throwing lava-balls everywhere!

i did go for the Magmantor because the Volcanor was slow. and i dont regret that choice, it is the best i think. because eruptor is a slow character so you will want the fastest attacks for him. if your gonna continue develop his skills, heroic challenge of speed and critical hit is necessary and that +9 speed hat....

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His eruption ability becomes much better when you go along the Volcanor path, it's pretty much instant which gets rid of the irritation of being interrupted trying to start it.

the character still gotta do that game animation to get that eruption going, it is still slower than the game animation of Magmantor(that is throwing)... when you have the Volcanor and there is a lot of enemies, you need to be fast and seconds count, it is live or die. to get in the middle and then erupt, it can be the end of you.. anyway with the +9 speed hat on it is not going to erupt any faster...

so... with the Magmantor it give your character a distance so you can be more strategic with your attacks(this is of great help to a slow character). and if you build up the critical hit. the character will do more damage faster with the Magmantor.

important build is these(level 10 and bought all upgrades max)...
Speed - 35 (max. 75) + 9 with hat (i dont have all speed heroic challenges yet, so dont know the totally max)
Critical Hit - 30 (max. 80) (i dont have all critical hit heroic challenges yet, so dont know the totally max)

it dont hurt to do the armor heroic challenges either... but if you do the Magmantor right you will kill every thing before it get close to you.. only in desperate times when you get bombed by enemies you will need to erupt...

this is my experience so far with this character....

I personally went with the Volcanor path myself; my mentality was to go with the attacks I used the most!