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Do you mean for yourself or others. If it for yourself, then traps is a batter choice. You get a better selection of debuffs with traps.

That is one of the problems with sonic, it is so focused on a couple of things. It does res and status protection well, with -res being OK. As pointed out earlier sonic doesn't stand on it's own as well as other sets. Well when you add two sets that are strong on their own, they don't usually get any weaker. They get even stronger just like sonic gets stronger.



Now you did mention the waste of time buffs combined with kin, and that is only one small part the + damage. The recharge is great until you reach the cap, as is the heals combining since kin requires a tohit check. Speaking of tohit check time adds both +tohit and -defense, making it much easier for kin powers to hit. Then it has -tohit, def, regen, slows, and controls, which add more survivability then sonic from my experience. Time also may not add much -regen, but it does have some. I see similar things with everything all the little things add up to beat specialist sets.



Now I am not saying sonic is bad to team with, I just got in this conversation because someone said if sonic was buffed it would be too strong combined with another support set. Which I disagree with, I see sonic, FF, and TA all being able to get buffs without being to strong when teamed with other support sets.

Now lets add time to rad or kin, would it be any more over the top. Whenever you add multiple force magnifiers you get way over the top. So when you want to balance like you say you also need to compare it to other combinations, and even with the suggestions I don't see sonic blowing rad or kin out of the water.

I must ask do you even play thermal? You do know it only has 2 debuffs with long recharges. Thermal is far from superior debuffing compared to sonic, it is a better balanced set. Now compare sonic to cold, then you will really see a superior debuffing set.

I don't see this working well. Being so click heavy people won't have a chance to attack. Maybe if you had a basic armor set with one power working like swap ammo. It gives you 3 boosts to strengthen either smash/lethal, ice/fire/, or eng/n eng to way you suggest.

You are forgetting most weapon sets have additional acc as well.

Trust me Thanksgiving is not ignored, and provides a lot of money. It is just how people shop for it, they will buy some napkins and small decorations for the table, but overall the focus is on food and football games. Christmas people tend to go all out on decoration as well as food.


As far as the OP, yeah way to early for Christmas, they should be more focused on Halloween sales, and put Christmas up the first of November. If they are out of Halloween items this early they are losing sales.

I had a similar thought. Except it had protection primary and a pet/assault/debuff secondary.

This is already in game for one set, quills will keep your spines out when you activate your secondary. They don't really change anything. The only way that would help is outside of battle to redraw, which anyone can do as they run into the mob by hitting any attack. In battle you will have to pause to redraw even when the toggle is on. You don't notice it as much but it is still there.

No it is not. On beta they rate both scrappers and stalkers the same for damage and survivability. Since the lack of aoe compared to scrappers usually means stalkers do less damage, and lower HP and HP cap means survivability is much lower. So they could match the scrapper HP and cap without breaking the balance. I also think the could give AS a one second uninterruptable cast for PvE without breaking the balance as well.

That would be pretty weak IMO. Without any shields/mez protection you would die just as quick as a defender would, while having to be in melee. Then scrapper crits would also be better since being attacked is the easiest way to build fury, while crits are always at full strength and go over the damage cap.

Plus lightning rod has the pet damage cap.


On the OP I wouldn't mind it,but doubt it would happen

Where did I say you needed a license to remember something. I have only talked about what the netflix licensing says. It says you can not download, not that you can not experience something.


So do you have a guilty conscience? You are trying really hard to justify pirating. There is a difference between remembering and watching.

That is not watching that is remembering.

Actually you said in the OP, and I assumed you meant getting it from them. Though the netflix licenses wouldn't allow for downloading so it would not apply to any downloaded movies you have.

Now if you are are getting it from another source then your contract with them does not apply. You have a pirated copy no ifs ands or buts about it. Your license would be to get it through them not another source. I have several DVDs it doesn't mean that netflix has to stream them to me for free, they are two different licenses.

It would be like getting food poisoning from a drive thru, and suing my car maker because it was the car that took me through the drive trough. They have nothing to do with one another

So aoe -tohit and aoe +def wouldn't stack with the heal? Yeah + recharge is a waste, but looking at the icons the set has more then +recharge.

Since a contract is usually considered a legal document enforceable in court, I would say breaking a contract is illegal. Which is different then criminal. Also by breaking a contract you are breaking your word, and considered unethical. Basically lying for personal gain. Neither may be large things, but it doesn't change it from being both illegal or immoral.

That doesn't apply to your netflix account. You are altering the use. They make available a live stream, you then use a third party software to copy. I also would like to know how you delete your copy when they no longer have a license to stream, which can change at any moment.

You left off acid mortar that scatters just as bad. The OP just has a high run build, try and get the lockdown proc in PGT, and team with others that have aoe immobs until you get your own.

That was common for one of my trappers. We even had one rage quit because he couldn't get any fury . We just laughed though, since the rest of the team was trappers with capped defense, massive debuffs, and plenty of damage.

It was the city traveler reward that let us pick a travel power without picking the first or second power. I know the change is for the better for everyone, but...

I see the first point, it makes sense that if your team is dying it makes more sense to shrug of mezzes to protect them. The second I don't see a need for a solo discount, if defenders get them then everyone should since everyone needs end.

The increase to -res doesn't make sense, most -res primary powers already do more -res then their counterparts. There are just a few pets that are outliers and should have a different version for defenders. For example Sleet uses the same pet for defenders and corruptors, but freezing rain uses different pets with the defender version having stronger debuffs.

I also do don't see the need for controller mods for controls. You say defenders have very few controls, but if that was true the change would have no effect. The truth is there are several controllerish sets available to defenders with dark leading the pack. I can see making sure all primaries have higher base numbers before AT mods come to play, but I do not see a need to increase the mod. It would be like saying corruptors should be better at debuffs then defenders since they are an AT based around corrupting others.

It kind of sucks that they are taking away a veteran reward, but it will be nice not having to take punch to get tough.

Agreed I have a 50 em/nin, and I prefer em on my brute. It is not that the stalker is bad, it easily takes out hard single targets quick, it just spends most of the time completing animations, and that em is extra nerfed on stalkers. The 2 big guns get full use out of fury, but total focus gets the same crit as energy punch. The damage from ET is not that bad, especially when every secondary except one has a heal.

So what the heck were the devs thinking letting stalkers have spines. They're just walking vengeance/fallout bait, since they die as soon as they attack and their only means of survival is negated by spines special.