David_Yanakov

Originally Posted by Happy_Thoughts

It really, really doesn't.

Originally Posted by _Toxa_

My thoughts on TA:

I like this better as a Defender. Maybe I'm just allergic to Corruptors, but I when it comes to debuff sets, I strongly prefer the higher Defender values over Corruptors. And since the changes to Vigilance, the damage advantage of Corruptors just isn't as enticing as it once was.

Also, I found the weak offerings at start of TA are much more problematic on a Corruptor. TA doesn't bring a lot to the table in the early game, and TA Corruptors will be bringing a whole lot of nothing for quite some time compared to Defenders. That is the main reason that I started as a Corruptor, but around level 12 I re-rolled as a Defender. It's not fun when the only thing you can offer a team is a single target immobilize, a targeted AoE slow, and a silly, ineffective light-show. At least not when other Corruptors are throwing around things like Radiation Infection.

I think TA could still take some developer love, but for me only real problems with the set are Flash Arrow and the order of power progression. TA just needs some solid low-level AoE mitigation. I'd go for swapping Flash Arrow and Oil Slick, then buffing Flash Arrow to make it less laughable and worthy of a higher-tier power (actually it needs a buff just to make it less laughable as a low-tier power). Having Oil Slick early on would make TA pretty desirable for lower-level teams, offering good AoE mitigation and damage.

On the brighter side, I -really- like not being chained down with toggles. I'm a long-time vet of the original debuff sets (Rad, Dark, Storm), and it's feels pretty liberating to not worry about anchors and detoggling. It also feels pretty light on the blue bar which is a welcome change of pace.

Originally Posted by _Malk_

The second half of the second sentence is just blatantly wrong. Swap ammo + supressive fire + ice arrow = win. Look ma, I hold bosses with no hands!

Originally Posted by Luminara

Weapon redraw has, for years, been considered one of the ultimate banes of players. Entire guides, including my own previous TA guide, dedicated entire diatribes on the vileness of redraw and how critical or worthwhile it was to avoid it whenever possible. The truth was only revealed a short few months ago, though.

There is no redraw penalty.

Let me repeat that. There is no redraw penalty. Every power has a set animation time, and that animation time is synchronized to the activation time (usually. there are odd cases of asynchronous animation/activation times, but they tend to be either bugs or deliberate timing variations "baked" into powers for specific reasons). In the cases where a power requires a weapon or item to be drawn (both literally, in the sense of animation, and figuratively, in the sense of pulling something out of a holder), the activation time factors in both the standard animation and the drawing animation. What this means is, with or without a weapon or item drawn, when you activate a power like this, the total time it takes before you can activate another power is always exactly the same. If a weapon attack took 2 seconds, you would be incapable of activating any other power for 2 seconds, regardless of whether or not the weapon itself was drawn when you started the attack or already in your hand.

Observant players will notice (or have noticed) slight pauses at the end of weapon attack animations (though many have been reduced or removed as of Issue 11, leaving only a few sets and specific powers remaining with the extra draw time added to already drawn weapon animations). Those pauses are there precisely for the purpose of equalizing the activation times for drawn and undrawn states of these powers.

So, feel perfectly free to combine TA with any powerset available to you. You are not compromising your ability in doing so.