Amy_Amp

I think the issue here is that you are comparing a control heavy primary versus a rather lite one. Ill/rad still gets Blind, PA, Spectral Terror, Flash, and EM Pulse. This says nothing of the debuffs. You can rotate the AoE holds as need be. ST recharges fast enough to be perma. PA can with investment be made perma. I would say that's a decent amount of control considering the damage output Ill brings.

Really good since BS it lets you target other stuff when building around IOs due to Parry being so good at capping your melee def. Parry will help out a lot as you level since /sd is going to take it's time coming together as you level. It's a very good pairing and it works wonderfully in terms of style. I would make it 1b in your list of builds if you are looking at PvE content. I'm not sure how much of a difference there is between invul and /sd when it's all said and done, but both are going to be really good. Kat is better at DPS so it wins in that regard. Granted, DPS is something you figure out on paper and the actual game isn't played on paper. Headsplitter backed by AAO is going to do a ton of damage though.

I would want it to be much more of a straight dark melee port.

If you are really feeling lucky, have then work on bases too.

Kin/rad wins in terms of pure synergy. Kin/dark wins for the oil theme. I would just see about coloring /rad to be oil like enough to make it work.

I pretty much use BG mode all of the time due to my aggressive nature in how I play my Bots/traps, but I was just thinking making individual defensive mode binds for each pet might be a quick and dirty fix for this. It's by no means perfect since the pet would stop attacking and start running back to you versus just attacking from a distance, but at least it would alter it's current AI path.

Dear playerbase,

Reactive isn't the only option like you treat it as such.

Sincerely,

The Devs.

Saw it on another site. They said it looked true to the original movie, so here's hoping the rest pans out.

Dark would be my first pick if I rolled a def these days. I really like TA's atypical approach to being a defender, but I just feel like I have to pair it with /a and I would like options so I go Dark first. Traps is a pretty good set that you get to be left alone as well. Traps/dark filled with procs in both sets has potential.

MA/sr is more stylistic synergy versus actual synergy between the sets. It's as classic of a pairing as this game has though.

EDIT: For BS, BS/dark with be a tough scrapper due to a number of mitigation tools even if on the end heavy side. Getting IOs and being incarnate only adds to the build. BS/elec would be good as well. High resist, end management, and +recharge to help with BS's slower recharges.