Adeon Hawkwood

The AVs seem to run a lot if a Cold Dominator or Storm Summoner uses their debuff toggle on them as well.

This is completely and utterly untrue. The nature of defense and Defense debuffs means that Defense gets more valuable the more you have of it but at the same time even non-softcapped defense is better than no defense. For non-incarnate content I find that even 20% defense makes a huge difference.

To answer the OP's question I find that Domiantors are a very tactical AT. Power order becomes important in terms of selecting the order in which you use your powers. For Plant/Ice/Dark you've got a few interesting options. Seeds of Confusion is a popular opener for Plant since it tends to make enemies waste their alpha stroke on each other rather than you. At that point the question becomes whether to use Roots or not? On the one hand it will help keep enemies clustered up but on the other hand it grants them knockback protection which will negate the Knockdown effect in Sleet (which you should have if you're going Ice Mastery). Also, remember that you can double stack Strangler on a boss to hold him even without Domination.

Roughly speaking I would expect your opening on enemies to look something like this:
Seed of Confusion
Strangler on Boss
Sleet
Strangler on Boss again (to hold him)

I think it's the other way around.

Kill the heretic!

Of course. NCSoft is a business and has a lot of expenses so if they don't get income then they will go bankrupt. Therefore logically EVERYTHING that they sell has the goal of stopping them from going Bankrupt.

Actually it's the other way around. Regeneration ALWAYS ticks for 55 of your maximum health. Having improved Regeneration makes those 5% ticks happen more frequently.

Yep. Actually I find it amusing that Dominators got left off of both lists (so did MMs, but that's because they ARE a team). They do kind of occupy a middle ground don't they? They bring more to a team than the pure damage ATs but not quite as much as the actual support ATs. That being said a Domiantor is still a very useful character to have along for pretty much any content so I tend to rank them with the support ATs in terms of "characters I want to have along".

As for the population imbalance I think it's pretty much a given in most MMOs. People tend to, first and foremost, pick characters that they can solo easily which means that the majority of characters are those classes. In games with more limited options for team compositions and a required Tank-Healer-DPS ratio this leads to situations where it's hard for DPSers to find teams which tends to lead to more people rolling Tanks and Healers (or at least using a dual spec to have both on one character). In this game we are, in general, overpowered for most PvE content which tends to mitigate against the need for Support ATs. However Support ATs are even more overpowered than the others in a team setting.

But at the end of the day is there any difference between a Rad Defender being able to keep his toggles up and (for example) a Devices Blaster keeping Targeting Drone up to ensure that his follow on attacks hit? Both Blasters and Defenders have Toggle powers that they want to re-toggle after using their nuke before they resume attacking in fact I did some counting and my Blasters actually have about the same number of toggles as my Defenders.

Oh yeah, I missed that. Well, in any case it still supports my actual point which was that Crashless Nukes DO NOT benefit Defenders and Corruptors more than Blasters.

Actually I'd disagree there. The situation I was positing is the "no external buffs/debuffs" situation which assumes a solo character so I do think including Vigilance is valid.

Seriously, THAT's your counter-argument? What would you have said if I'd used Corruptors instead of Defenders in there? Or why not point out that Defenders can take Soul Drain or Power Build Up? Or that Trick Arrow Defenders have a 40% resistance debuff? Or that not all Blasters have Build Up?

You can find plenty of theoretical situations where a Defender or Corruptor will deal more damage as a percentage of their base damage than a Blaster but the point of the post you quoted was to show that resistance debuffs still result in a situation where Blasters deal about the same amount of damage as a percentage of their base damage as Corruptors and Defenders (with the actual winner depending on the situation). In any case my original point was that Blasters:
A) Deal more absolute damage (due to higher damage modifiers)
B) Can deal it with self buffs and therefore don't alert the enemy until they start nuking

So why don't you answer my original question, why do you believe that crashless nukes favor Defenders and Corruptors over Blasters?

Alrighty, I'm starting to get sarcastic, time for a break.

EDIT: In case anyone actually cares adding in Vigilance would increase the Defender's damage to 186.875% of their base Damage.

Currently yes but that doesn't mean it will remain that way. The devs are presumably planning to adjust the damage based on the new recharge anyway so they may well decide to change the Corruptor version of it to deal Corruptor level damage and create a new copy of it for Defenders so that they can scale the Blaster and Defender versions separately.

Except that resistance debuffs don't work that way. Since resistance debuffs are resisted by the target's resistance a (for example) 30% resistance debuff will effectively increase your damage by 30% after you apply the target's resistance.

Example. Let's compare the following:
A Blaster with Enhancement Slotting (95%), Aim (62.5%) and Build Up (100%)
A Defender with Enhancement Slotting (95%), Aim (62.5%) and a 30% Resistance debuff.

Let's say that the target has 50% resistance. The defender will reduce that to 35% (50% - 30% + [50% * 30%]).

Ignoring the AT damage scales the final damage as a percentage of base damage will be:
Blaster: (100% + 95% + 62.5% + 100%) * (100% - 50%) = 178.75%
Defender: (100% + 95% + 62.5%) * (100% - 35%) = 167.375%

So the Blaster has higher base damage AND will deal a larger portion of that base damage.

EDIT: Scooped by Garent. Oh well, I have MATH!

Ok, I'll bite. HOW do Defenders and Corruptors benefit more? Blaster nukes do more raw damage and since the main methods Blasters have for increasing their damage are self buffs (Aim and Build Up) they can maximize it for use in an Alpha Strike whereas Defenders and Corruptors are more reliant on resistance debuffs to boost damage which means giving up the first strike.

Well they did announce that they would be giving out a freespec with I24. Also I'm sure some people will complain that the crashless nuke and other Blast set changes makes things to easy. Finally, historical evidence shows that someone will complain that any given issue is "boring" and doesn't contain anything they care about.

So given all that I am entirely confident that someone will say that I24 "is boring, makes things too easy, and comes with a respec"

Well even with the change they still won't be flying all over, they just won't get knocked down as much. The proc still cancels out the knockback it just also reduces the chance to knockdown form 100% to a more reasonable 40%.

It's more like a guideline than an actual rule.

My Defender already uses Thunderous Blast against groups pretty much whenever it's up (TB + Small Blue + Power Sink = I have a full End bar, they don't) but now I won't have to re-toggle every time so I'm very, very happy.

My Beam/Dev Blaster and my Cold/Ice Defender are also looking forward to the changes.

Overall I think the change to Crashless Nukes will do a LOT to help restore Blasters as the kings (and queens) of AoE damage.

Roll out the Dual Pistols/Devices/Fighting Blasters .

It's actually a pity. While using the Fighting Pool on a Blaster does sound fun the sets that it's most thematically appropriate for will all have redraw .