DanZero

Originally Posted by Pixal

*joins forum*

Well, for what it's worth. Here's some results from my own little testing after slotting my new alpha boost and getting the mapserver disconnect slapped in my face countless times.

As already reported, slotting down and it worked fine, going back up to the new alpha and map disconnects were back again.

So I begun to test all my powers, this being on a Plant / Earth Dominator.
And it didn't take long to notice that everytime I casted Carrion Creepers, mapserver greeted me seconds afterwards.

Logging back in, cleared two spawns without creepers. Third, tossed CC again and boom, disconnected.
Tried again, same result.
Third time I slotted back down and casted CC. This time no disconnect and kept running the map with CC constantly out. Few minutes after that I decided to slotted back into my alpha (creepers still out mind you), and right away I got disconnected.

So yeah, it's in my experience definatly some powers that are the culprint behind it. Since as long as I don't use my Creepers, I can run missions without any issue. But as soon as the power is used, I'm off the server.

Originally Posted by gec72

I have mine 6-slotted for Force Feedback, but Kinetic Crash is good too.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Damn right you better duck. A team full of controllers is insanely powerful.

A team full of stalkers... not so much.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison

Same with recharge bonuses.

Originally Posted by StrykerX

A lot depends on whether you solo much. Decent defense (25-35% or so, don't need to softcap) makes a huge difference for soloing on medium difficulties (+1/x4 or so). If you have a crashless nuke then recharge can also help a lot since if you use the nuke every spawn you can generally fight larger crowds, but if you don't have a crashless nuke recharge does almost nothing beyond a certain point.

Once you have a good single target chain, more recharge will do little to help you improve DPS on hard targets since you're probably still using the same chain. Only if you add so much recharge that you can move up to a better chain does it help, for instance going from Flares -> Fire Blast -> Flares -> Blaze to Flares -> Fire Blast -> Blaze. And once you hit that higher chain you're done... you aren't getting Blaze -> Fire Blast even at the recharge cap.

Likewise, once you have your AoEs up every fight and maybe your targeted AoE up twice, do you really need more recharge? You're already wiping out the minions with AoE blasts... finishing off the Lts and bosses is more a job for your single target attacks.

Of course that's only while solo. In large teams there are generally more than enough bad guys to go around... the faster you can toss out AoEs the more you add to the team. But solo you just aren't going to need three fireballs on one spawn, unless for some reason you play at +4. What you do need is to stay alive long enough to take out a full spawn with no tank or controller mitigating their return fire... so unless you can wipe them out before they shoot (have I mentioned how much I love Rain of Arrows ) you are going to want some defense if you plan to up your difficulty much.

Originally Posted by Starjammer

This.

Kinda this. I won't say "shun" defense so much as, you need not pay it mind. I built for perma-Hasten and defense but I didn't sweat the softcap. There's always Force of Nature and Eye of the Magus and PFF and insps for when I need them and the biggies are always ready by the time I need them again.

But yes, first and foremost, your blaster is a weapon and your creed is DPS.

Originally Posted by _Elektro_

It's funny you mention almost 5 sets of purples.

Here I am thinking that if I did go recharge Alpha, I might skip the purples, because the downside of purples is you can end up giving up a lot of defense. Right now my attacks are loaded with positional defense. To give those up means I get squishier, but faster. Not lots faster, because in some cases we are talking about replacing 6.25% recharge, with 10 %.

So what's the verdict? Are you keeping him this way? My thought was to keep the bonus to defense sets, and bonus to damage sets, and forgo the Purple sets. (as said in my previous post my recharge is really decent already.)

Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight

* Two enhancements improves your Run Speed by 3%.
* Three enhancements increases Smashing Resistance by 2.5%.
* Four enhancements provides 3 points of protection against Knockback effects on you.
* Five enhancements improves your Regeneration by 6%.
* Six enhancements improves the Recharge of all your powers by 7.5%.

All of which are quite useful set bonuses. My Energy/Elec/Fire blaster has 5 set of kin crash slotted. Most amusing and quite survivable.

Originally Posted by Santorican

Soft cap defense is for soloing at x8 as well. Which I do a lot of

Originally Posted by Miladys_Knight

I 6 slot Kinetic Crash.

Originally Posted by plainguy

Hrm I see what your saying.. I will have to really try to test this out then. Though for 1 slotted if I could have just bonfire up much more its a pretty great power to keep mobs away from me. But I'm going to have to do some testing for sure to see. I have it on my AR Device so my longest recharge power is Full Auto so I will have to do some timing and see. In hindsight I have Buck shot 1 slotted with one of these procs also.. SO I could have been noticing that instead. Bah, could be giving out misinformation here.. But I will check and make sure what the heck I am talking about.

Originally Posted by LastPhantomZoner

How would 60% recharge help?
Maybe this a dumb question but I just ask because with my toon I currently only have like 5% recharge but I'm still able to use a attack chain without having to wait.
So aside from reaching perma-hasten and blizzard recharge faster are their any other benefits to trying to get recharge up that high?
Thanks, Zoner

Originally Posted by _Elektro_

I agree. I don't have any purples in my blaster but even I can see the simple idea of having a Nuke up more often, is better than having it up less.... but hitting for 30% more damage (for example).

I am going that route as well with my blaster. I thought about it and the idea of saving endurance is even more appealing that the damage aspect, because most of our powers aren't even close to the ED on endurance.

Think about that. Not only would you have very little endurance sucking issues, this would also allow you to run far more toggles.... toggles that allow damage, defense, and resistance. I think that's pretty powerful in itself.

The recharge means most to me. Faster build up, faster heal (aid self), faster Nuke, faster St attacks.... it's all cumulative. I can only imagine what it would be like with purple sets.