anonymoose

It was every bit as awesome as you'd expect.

1 /therm
1 /stormie
1 /cold
1 /sonic
1 /kin
1 /rad
2 /dark

The -res was ridiculous, my rain of fire sometimes hit for 7 or 8 damage per tick... without scourge.

Anyway, if you're looking to make the weekly TF a little more interesting I highly recommend all corr.

A 1 page summary wouldn't be a bad idea. Here's something quick and incomplete, is this the kind of info you're chasing?

Robots
pros: great AOE, defence for pets and MM
cons: late bloomer, some KB

pets attacks: mostly ranged
pets heal each other: protector bots heal after 1st upgrade
defence based pets
pet stupidity alert: protector bots like to charge into melee

Necro
pros:
cons:
pets attacks: mostly melee except Lich
pets heal each other: Lich has pbaoe heal
??? based pets
pet stupidity alert: pretty good with current AI

Demons
pros:
cons:
pets attacks:
pets heal each other:
resist based pets
pet stupidity alert: pretty good with current AI

Thugs
pros:
cons:
pets attacks: mostly ranged except for bruiser
pets heal each other: no
defence based pets
pet stupidity alert: Arsonist constantly gets himself killed

Mercs
pros:
cons:
pets attacks:
pets heal each other:
??? based pets
pet stupidity alert:

Ninjas
pros: brutal ST damage
cons: extremely fragile
pets attacks:
pets heal each other:
??? based pets
pet stupidity alert:

Holy smokes! Field crafter here I come!

Cardiac is amazingly ridiculously awesome, stick with it.

My crab's attack chain is now 4 AoEs, 2 of them are patron AoEs.

Oh and I run 8 toggles.

Before cardiac I could run that attack chain once before switching to ST attacks and maybe even stop attacking altogether for a second or 2. Now I can roll that attack chain for a very long time, long enough to defeat the Freedom Phalanx anyway.

My brute picked up maneuvers and Darkest Night since cardiac, and has no end problems.

Cardiac is like a whole new toon, stick with it! A couple of shard-intensive ITFs should get you enough to craft it.

Let's put it this way, the devs once balanced great powers by giving them high end costs so that we'd have to cautiously use those great powers. Cardiac blows that out of the water and lets you spam terrific powers like they're free.

Mids doesn't give the stats for pets, and it doesn't count the bubble from your protector bot, so it's more reliable to check your own defences in-game.

For your pets, right-click on them and choose properties (I think?)

Just a quick playstyle comment, if I get a chance I'll look at the build and comment again.

Most importantly, are you running in bodyguard mode?

Second most importantly, toebomb is superior to pull tactics.

Opening with seeker drones is the best technique for a trapper, you summon them on the edge of the crowd and they take the alpha and debuff.

While the crowd is distracted, run into the middle and plant poison gas trap. The mobs will be stuck in the puking animation and suffer a regen debuff.

By this time your pets will start to realise there's a fight brewin' and they'll attack.

Plant acid mortar, toss some caltrops, plant a trip mine. By this time half the crowd will be down.

Super quick build comments - what's your defence when all your toggles are up and the protbots have shielded you? What defences do your bots have?

Aid other/aid self are great once you're softcapped, you hardly ever get interrupted.

I personally find that crowds melt quickly enough that I don't need the aoe web grenade, especially now that the bots' burn patches don't cause mobs to flee. The traps' web 'nade is enough to deal with a couple of stragglers.

Some comments from a trapper:

Acid mortar will take the achilles heel -res proc.

I'd personally want a lot more recharge in acid mortar, it's one of the core trapper powers and I like to have 2 down at once.

Poison gas trap accepts the lockdown %chance to hold proc, which is spectacular.

Are you planning to use time bomb or is it just a set mule?

You're probably going for a set bonus in caltrops but the ragnorok KD proc works very well there, also a good spot for damage procs.

I'll try to sell traps a bit by describing the typical fight. Let's say you're soloing at +1x8, you might not need all these tools for easier fights.

You've got your forcefield generator summoned of course.

Summon seeker drones to the edge of the group. They'll draw aggro and completely absorb the alpha strike, while debuffing the enemies.

Meanwhile you run into the middle of the crowd and plant a poison gas trap. Now the crowd has their regen debuffed and are stuck in the puking animation.

BTW, running into the middle of the crowd was perfectly safe because of the distracting seeker drones and your high defences. On teams you'll be right on the heels of the brute/tank into the middle of the crowd.

Plant acid mortar. This pet spams AOEs that debuff defence and resists.

At this point you'll probably throw caltrops and hop out of the group and TT them to keep everyone rooted in the damage patches. Now blast dark attacks on your debuffed, immobilized victims.

Caltrops, acid mortar and poison gas traps all take a few procs for extra damage and control.

Anyway it's a fun set and a safe one, and I don't want you to think it's all about setting up traps and then pulling things into them.