Wooden_Replica

exactly what he said, this is what dual builds are for. Just to explain a little at what Lith was getting at, with DR( say thank you issue 13), a lot of powers that might be fairly useful in PvE, are not so in PvP.

still a bit lost on the 'poor' soloing ability, I think a good argument can be made that the set works better for corrupters and defenders than for blasters. Both in beta and live, DP has seemed overall ok. Being critical of the set, I do think they should've swapped the tier 3 attack and Bullet Rain, and their is a slight pause between the tier 3's animation and its effect( maybe 1 sec). One thing I have noticed with the set, I really haven't ran into a mob I really dreaded facing with the set( try dark melee or dark blasts vs. ghosts, or psi vs. robots)

My view on this. yes the player was being an idiot, but like others I don't like kicking people especially on the last mission of a SF/TF, unless their idioicy actively causes deaths. At the very least I would've given them a warning

In terms of expectations,
Buff/ Healer type defender, I expect them to do the buff/ heal thing

Controllers/ Corrupters, I don't expect it, but would hope in critical situations they would buff/ heal

Masterminds, just a warning to blueside for when MM's head that way after GR, never invite a MM with the idea that they will heal or buff you

thats easy empathy, I don't mind being team friendly as the next guy, but I do like being able to solo, and furthermore, I'm the very last guy you want playing a emp( or bubbler), in that I don't enjoy spaming buffs/ heals

-Dimension Shift
-Black Hole
-Serem
-Repel
-World of Confusion
-Flash Arrow (given its in a buff/debuff set, it really should be closer to RI or DN in strength than Smoke Grenade)

two things( and I don't know when you last played)
-Issue 13, which gave us PvP 2.0, which most would give two thumbs down overall

-Combined with server transfers, currently you can only find any sort of pvp on freedom or virtue, with pvp being pretty much dead on other servers

only DP and Demon Summoning have been confirmed, there have been hints of Electric Control, but no confirmation. My take is that any additional sets above and beyond those two are stretch goals.

I don't think this has been really addressed( and may be part of their stretch goals), above logic does indicate we may eventually see new Patron and Epic Pools, or they may just go the easy route and make the available epics and patrons based on equivilent ATs

At this time I wouldn't bother with a Fort in PvP,

in PvP 1.0 they weren't half bad, maybe not the greatest, but could still be ok to PvP with

When PvP 2.0 first appeared, for a breif time with Elusivity, forts were one of the better pvp builds out there, even though control powers were minimized in effectiveness. However Elusivity was rolled back, which combined with DR made defense even worse than it was in PvP 1.0. Unfortunately at the same time, their damage was seriously rolled back as well in PvP. They would've been fine if only their defense or damage was reduced, but not both. Now, they just can't get enough damage in

Was working on a Earth/Earth dom until other stuff came up, have him at 42.

At higher levels, it is a highly effective

It actually plays more like a melee, I will say I like the animation of Stone Shars the tier 1 Earth Assault power much better than stone fist( I have no I idea how they compare in animation time, but the tier 1 earth assault power just looks cooler).

If you want a more blaster like assault set, I'd recommend either Energy Assault or Psi Assault

for what its worth, Flytrap used to be much worse, and was only really good for absorbing alpha's( I firmly believe it took given Plant Control to controllers, who generally depend on their pets more, for them to realize how bad Flytrap was), now its not bad, maybe not the best pet out their, but not bad for some extra damage( formerly you could be dying while your flytrap did nothing but watch)

still needed? No it isn't not like before( I think the damage changes were one of the best changes they made to doms)

However I'd still say its a good goal for a Dom,
-AE controls have long recharges
-mez protection
-those AE's being extra strength
-the end aspect of it

But by no means, it is a most

IMO Flash Arrow is the only power that needs to be buffed, when you compare this set to Rad or Dark( also primarily debuff/ control sets), two huge difference are
-No healing, and to be honest here, it wouldn't make much sense here

-TA has a very super weak acc debuff in flash arrow, which is closer to smoke grenade than it is to either RI or DN.

I think a decent argument could be made to give Flash Arrow a DN or RI Acc Debuff component

I've always enjoyed dom's, but with the last round of major dom changes their pretty much exactly where they need to be, and are my most favorite AT, of course I admit I wouldn't mind seeing more power sets, ie Electric Control, Dark Control, Dark Assault, Illusion...

i have a number of defense based toons, and for all intents, defense doesn't work on them, much less a mom-defense toon. Based on some of the stuff I've seen in the combat windows, I suspect there's a little more going on than to-hit +acc overpowering defense

that can easily be fixed

my view on this is that based on how they built the game in the very beginning, short of making a CoX 2.0, how PvP works will always be a problem, it will be interesting to see what decisions States will make over on CO that will impact PvP.

honestly i always thought the best means of distributing these recipes would be just use bounty to pruchase the recipes.

in my mind here is what needed,
1) defense vs. Acc/to-hit, I could maybe understand some of the complaints about forts IF defense was actually worth anything in pvp. go figure that IOed out various defense builds can get to maybe 60% defense w/o elude which may sound great, but aim has a 50% to-hit, and build up 20% unslotted, which is more than enough to neutralize most defense, and thats before Acc is factored in and not counting outside buffs, yellow inspirations or tactics. To me, max defense vs. max acc/to-hit should have a 50/50 chance, but thats clearly not the case.
2) uneven numbers, I really can't think of a good mechanic to handle this, maybe cross server pvp zones would help, or maybe make NPC's more hostile to whichever side has the lopsidded numbers when the numbers really get bad( this would be combined with zero debt in pvp zones)
3)the arena getting a major overhaul, combined with arena access from the pvp zones
4) remove mez suppression, and introduce unique low mag status protection IO's for each status type as well as TP and end drain
5) introduce IO recipes as bounty rewards, lets be honest here, SO's aren't even worth it anymore
6) Grant XP/ Inf when bounty/ rep is granted, given the period of time where bounty/ rep can't be awarded, I can't really see this being easily abused