Amy_Amp

For soloing, Sonic/dark runs circles around a Dark/sonic.

It suffers from a damage stand point due to the extra mitigation it does, but the extra mitigation(end drain) is near pointless in the game depending on the situation. In a handful of situations it great, but outside of that it's not even noticeable since a dom, or controller already has the mob mezzed.

If you are waiting for EM to be a scrapper set, be glad you are sitting. My guess KM is the devs giving scrappers EM without doing so. Both will be ST heavy with low AoE. Energy is more burst based as where KM is going to be more DPS based. I think a happy middle ground is KM on a stalker since BU replaces PS and CS can recharge BU just like it recharges PS on a scrapper. While my highest KM is 12 so my opinion is narrow on the feel of the animations, I can't stand TF's animation and KM so far flows rather well. I will say both sets have a throw away power, but I can at least on some level see taking Repulsing Torrent to be used how I tend to use Shockwave on my Claws/regen. Stun? Meh.

I don't need numbers from a website. Virtue and Freedom go red every night even during normal gaming time. The last time I think I could say that was when Cov/i6 hit. Expansion packs = a good thing.

Let. it. die. There's no need to keep bumping this thread.

Something that has KB might not play as well with Elec compared to other sets due to things being KBed out of the PBAoE aura. Since Elec is lower damage(yes, I know they are a dom) you might want to go something that is more higher in terms of damage. I was raking my brain and nothing was coming up, but I think a Mind/ta would be sick with Elec. Mass Hyp, debuff, debuff, debuff, dom runs in and goes to town on the mob. End drain added to /ta's debuffs and that much control and mobs will be rendered useless.

I have a Kin/rad defender and it's a total flying by the seat of your pants playstyle. Because of that, a number of people will write it off. the -def helps you hit, but as mentioned I don't see -def being that valuable of a debuff in the end. The AoEs do help out the set, but I only take two of them and the nuke. I skip the one with some KB mostly due to the long animation. One good thing about Rad is that it takes the -res proc.

Ice/kin. What little bad I can say about Ice, Kin pretty much covers it. The AoEs have longer recharges(Hello Kin), but they do blaster level damage. Let that sink in. It's probably the only Kin combo I haven't played to a decent level that I probably should have.

Sonic/kin. Stuff just dies. I got a level 50 Kin/sonic and it works rather well. Shout's animation feels long and I loath the sound effects for it, but that's about the only bad I can say about it. Of the 7? Kins I'm currently playing, it's most likely the best/most fun one I'll have at 50 outside of my Fire/kin corr and controller. This considering all of them being 50. So far only two of them are.

Dark/kin. Defensive with fast recharging AoEs, which only get made faster. The issue? Dark is so DoT based it really takes away the oomph that Kin tends to give sets. Look at it this way. T.T. has a DoT time of 7.1 seconds. It recharges in 10. With slotting and Kin you would be using T.T. again before the first one does it's full amount of damage. Nightfall is at least better due to the 2.8 DoT second time. If you want something outside of the box in terms of Dark blast, pair it with something that does -res and abuse damage procs. Damage procs are not buffed by +dmg. Something like a Traps/dark defender is just begging for proc abuse.

I'm probably missing one, but those would be my best picks outside of the OMGWFTBBQ!!! of Fire/kin.

More has changed in slotting due to ED and IOs vs. anything else. If Emp was good for you back then, it works now. Emp is still the number one in demand set in terms of the common player base(in vast part due to "healers" being the ideal).

From my own personal stand point, only the end game stuff could be considered hard and that's vastly because it's new. Anything outside of that has been dumbed down to where you really have to have some major malfunction to go on for a team to fail. TFs at least had the potential to be hard. Now, it's "Let's do this as fast as possible while facing even level mobs." Yes, I miss the days of starting a Posi TF and being actually level 10, or being on teams while facing +4s and it not being a farm. It's like the devs think the player base needs it's hand held from 1-50. And yes, if you get on one of my teams the diff setting gets bumped as high as the team can handle. I get far more compliments on the exp than complaints about how difficult the missions are. I do believe I ran a team at +4 that was under level 20, so nobody was even using SOs and that was a gloriously fun team to be on.