Adeon Hawkwood

While I would love to have Wide Area Web Grenade for my Blaster I really don't see it happening. Basically you're proposing adding an AoE control as the Tier 1 power in a Blaster secondary and I just don't see the devs doing that, considering that Controllers and Dominators don't get an AoE Immob until Tier 3 in thier Primary. While there are Blaster AoE controls they all come much later in powersets, except for AoEs with a chance to Knockback and those are all in Primaries not secondaries.

I don't particularly want damage on Web Grenade either, but an AoE immobolize, even with the wimpy radius WAWG has seems a bit to good for a Blaster secondaries Tier 1.

I don't think it's the most popular, but for Farming Archery/MM is generally considered the fastest set (with Fire a close second). As Biospark suggested it's largely because RoA does about 50% of the damage of most nukes without having a crash and being on a short enough recharge that with IOs you have do it on pretty much every spawn.

Actually since the I15 revamp Corruptors have a lower damage modifier than Dominators.

I can't offer a lot of advice (blind leading the blind and all that). But a couple of comments. First off you're overslotted on Ranged Defense. There's a bug in Mids where Phalanx Fighting does not add the static 3.75% to Ranged so you can reduce Ranged defense to 41.25% per Mids and still be softcapped.

Secondly, I don't think you do need PP. When I opened your build up I noticed that you had True Grit turned off which meant that the Numina Proc was not getting counted. Turning True Grit on and PP off gives you a net recovery of 3.04 end/sec. Additionally, since Endurance recovery is based on max Endurace I then turned on Atlas Medallion and Portal Jockey which raised endurance to 3.34 end/sec without PP. Also as Fury Flechette mentioned above, Obliteration has horrible End reduction so it might be worth swapping your Swipe slotting with either Headsplitter or Whirling Sword.

Personally I wouldn't bother with the Red Fortune in Phalanx Fighting. Phalanx Fighting doesn't really benefit from heavy slotting and the nice set bonuses of Red Fortune are the fifth and sixth ones. Yes, you'll lose the minor damage boost but you could then use those slots to boost your global recharge instead either by increasing the other red fortune sets to 5 slots or going all out and getting some LotGs.

Finally, I'd try and put a Kismet proc in their somewhere. It's one of those little things that can help a lot when the going gets tough. Since Accuracy and To Hit are multiplicative it's much better for countering debuffs or defense than accuracy alone.

I think that Paradigm_Shift has a point. The problem is that canonically Incarnates are just plain better than ordinary heroes. I don't really see a way to make incarnate player characters without changing the lore to make them at the same power level as regular heroes.

Additionally, I don't really see the devs making a new origin that actually has a significant impact on the character. Even if it's a case of it gives some and takes some actually balancing it across all possible power set combinations would be a nightmare. Making them as their own AT would be a lot easier to balance.

Out of curiosity, how would you implement an Incarnate origin? I don't really see a way to give it both good and bad that works with all powersets without making something that is either pathetically useless or horribly overpowered.

Defenders have a 0.65 damage modifier, Corrupters have 0.75 (so a little bit more even discounting Scourge), Dominators have 1.05 Melee and 0.95 Ranged.

Cold only has more -Res while Heat Loss is up, whereas Rad has +Dmg through AM so overall I'd consider the two to be about the same on that front (people tend to faff around for long enough before the AV that AM has time to recharge). I agree that mitigation is better for Cold, but how useful that is depends a lot on your team makeup. If you've already got someone who can tank the AV or you've got a FF on the team then you don't need the mitigation.

Cold/Ice might be a bit better for the AV (although personally I'd rate them about the same), but in general Rad/Rad will make the rest of the TF go faster.

Finally as a note, I don't really pay attention to a Defenders Secondary when building teams. I expect them to have one and I expect them to use the attacks but for the most part their Primary has a larger impact on the overall team capability than their Secondary.

Yeah, unfortunately your only real option at this point is to boost resistance and health. Resistance boosts through IOs are minimal at best although Blaster APPs have shield powers so make sure the enemies that you're fighting match your chosen shield as much as possible. For health there are a few more options. Blasters have a maximum health of 33.3% over their baseline. You get 20% of this from Accolades and you should be able to get some from sets. You don't want to hurt your defense to much, but if you always play with a pocket emp then you can afford to neglect your baseline defense (60% is as you noted overkill). For example, when softcapping a blaster Thunderstrikes are popular for the Ranged Defense, but you may find Devastations better (or franken slot with some of each) since Devastation has both Regen and Health.

No worries we all do it from time to time. When I16 came out I was surprised to see that the Defender Acid Mortar and Seeker Drones do the same damage as the Corruptor ones. Since the devs re-did the pets to rebalance the debuffs I expected them to rebalance the damage as well. I guess they figured the damage was trivial so it wasn't worth it. Caltrops is also interesting since it's the only Traps power that didn't get rebalanced for Defenders (the run speed modifier should be 96% for defenders). My guess there is that since run speed debuffs are capped at 90% they left Caltrops as is so that Defenders don't cap run speed debuffs without slotting.

Did you just seriously claim that the Vigilance is overpowered? It is probably the worst inherent in the game. As a Defender I would happily trade Vigilance for the ability to Scourge on my Secondary attacks only.

From a Blaster viewpoint Archery is generally considered to be better than AR (although personally I love AR). In general RoA is easier to hit the entire spawn with than Full Auto. AR does have an extra AoE in Flamethrower but the fact that it's a DoT makes it less popular with many players. AR also suffers because one of it's ST attacks is Ignite which suffers from a long cast time and the need to prep the enemy with an immobilize. Finally Archery has Aim which is a nice damage bonus (assuming you're one of those people who actually remember to use it).

AR does have better knockback than Archery but for a TA knockback is a double edged sword. Unless you've got a convenient wall to knock enemies into you run the risk of knocking enemies out of range of your Oil Slick or Disruption Arrow (also your Glue Arrow, but the debuff persists for 30 seconds so that's not a big deal). Playing as a Traps/AR I've noticed that my knockback is significantly more noticeable than it is on my AR/Dev Blaster and I'd much rather have a Ragnarok Knockdown Proc in Fistful and just have to be careful with Explosive Arrow than have to worry about Knockback of Slug, Buckshot and M60

You should read this page:
http://wiki.cohtitan.com/wiki/Attack_Mechanics

To summarize though, critters don't get a To Hit modifier unless they're +6 above you (unless they have a specific power that grants ones). They do however get an accuracy modifier which you can't defend against.

Actually it is pretty reliable. The higher priced ones can be a bit tricky but for most low and mid ranged ones you can easily turn a profit buying the recipe and salvage, crafting the IO and selling it. You can't do it for every IO, but there are plenty of sets where it is profitable.

Oh definitely, I'm way to lazy to actually go out and look for specific defender powersets when making a TF, it's more fun to just grab whomever wants to come. Although if I can't fill the team through globals and have to resort to the search function, well I'm going to try asking the Rad/Rad or FF/Elec defenders before the Emp/Psi (of course this assumes that they all have their powersets as their search comment).

No they do not, please check your facts before posting. From the game here are the unbuffed level 50 numbers.

For Corrupters, Blasters and Masterminds Trip Mine deals 111.22 lethal damage, 55.61 fire damage and has a 50% chance of dealing an additional 55.61 lethal damage. Time Bomb does 166.83 lethal and 111.21 fire damage. It doesn't say how much damage Detonation does although for our purposes this isn't really important.

For Defenders Trip Mine deals 72.29 lethal damage, 36.15 fire damage and has a 50% chance of dealing an additional 36.15 lethal damage. Time Bomb does 108.44 lethal and 72.29 fire damage.

The reason for this is very simple, when the devs port sets or individual powers that involve a pet or pseudo pet they tend not to rebalance them for the new AT until and unless it becomes a problem (since in general this means the power is better than it should be they rarely get complaints). A good example would be Fulcrum Shift. For a long, long time Controllers get a version of the power that was identical to the Defender version which made it overpowered. Eventually the devs decided to fix this and made a new pseudo pet thereby reducing the damage bonus for controllers to where it should be.

In the case of Traps when the devs originally made the set they kept the Blaster pseudo pets for Caltrops, Trip Mine and Time Bomb rather than making AT specific versions. In the case for Caltrops this wasn't a big deal, the damage that they do is trivial and all three ATs that had access to them at the time used the same slow modifier. Trip Mine and Time Bomb are significantly more powerful than they should be for Corruptors and Masterminds. When Traps was ported to Defenders the devs made new versions of all the pseudo-pets in the set because without that Traps Defenders would be very weak since they would be using Corrupter values for their buffs and debuffs while only having Defender level damage in their secondary.

Now I did make a minor error above when I stated that the Corrupter version should do 66.6% of the damage of the Blaster ones. Assuming that we take the relative difference between the Blaster and Defender values as canonical (this is justified since these two classes had pseudo-pets made specifically for them) these powers use the Melee Damage modifiers and not Ranged Damage so the Corruptor version should do 75% of the Blaster damage.

If the devs decided to make a new version of the pseudo-pet that scourged and had Blaster levels of damage they would effectively be giving the Traps versions of Trip Mine and Time Bomb a higher base level damage than the Blaster versions. To be fair they would then need to buff the Defender version to the equivalent base line damage, so Defender versions would do 86.6% of the current Blaster values rather than the 65% that they currently do.

As a final note I will say that this is a pet peeve of mine. I realize that the devs do not have infinite resources but I would really like to see them redo all pets and pseudo pets so that their abilities are based on the AT modifiers. Of course this would no doubt kick up a firestorm from all the people who would no doubt see it as a nerf.

I have no real feelings either way on this as long as the damage done by those damage dealing powers in their secondaries that use pseudo pets (i.e. most of them) is rebalanced for the corrupter damage modifiers at the same time.

EDIT: Just to make one thing clear, I am not advocating nerfing the damage of damage dealing powers in corrupter secondaries. Yes in some cases it would lower the damage but in others the damage dealt is based on Defender modifiers so it would actually be increased if the devs remade the pseudo pets (Oil Slick Arrow is a good example of this).

Yay!