DreadShinobi

That same player base that wouldn't want a taunt aura is also the same ones that usually run around with fly thinking its awesomesauce and are constantly dieing trying to get past enemies because they don't understand how valuable the -threat and stealth is in super speed. =/

Oppressive Gloom
OG? >_>

wb slacker! and yup yup cant wait to start chipping away at these times!

The thing is Blaze takes 1 second to activate, and Shout takes 2.67 seconds to activate (not using arcanatime). The activation time on Shout makes it terrible for dps.

The thing is you don't need provoke to keep your team safe or keep the enemies off the other "squishies"

Depending on situation drop tar patch, darkest night, fearsome stare, or HT, use that to take the alpha. Follow up with another debuff (1 of the 2 being tar patch). Then drop your aoes on them, or possibly another debuff if necessary.

At the point the mob is ready to attack again after the alpha that you've taken, it should be debuffed enough and on its way to dieing. Fire in and of itself generates alot of aggro, even past taking the alpha you should still be able to hold alot of the hate if you are playing aggressively enough, and the hate that you lose doesn't matter alot because the enemies should be feared, stunned, or tohit debuffed to where it doesnt matter if they attack or not. On hard targets (AVs) you should be pumping out tons of -dmg and -tohit with darkest night, twilight grasp, fearsome stare, and your dark servant.

On a corr, the only reason you should need a taunt to hold aggro (if that is really what you want to do >_>) is if A) the fight is prolonged (and a normal mob to mob fight shouldn't take that long being a fire/ corr) or B) The mobs are a threat other teammates (and they shouldn't be a threat because they should be neutered or dead being that you are a fire/dark). Which makes me think something else is going wrong if fights are taking that long or your team is that fragile with a fire/dark.

This part is pretty significant.

yes, mag 12 kb protection, and 15.5% dmg buff + assault and can run the top FM attack chain. The build's only weakness is endurance but I've still got consume+conserve power.

*sighs*

Yes, it gets quite a bit better if you know how to build it. My /fire scrapper runs on 45% S/L defense and 65% rchg, which makes it /very/ survivable. I don't feel the squishyness of fire that most other people complain about.



FA is better on a brute because it gets a taunt aura in blazing aura, whereas the scrapper version does not have a taunt aura.


There isn't alot of point in getting mag 8 -KB, the amount of powers that will KB you that have between mag 4 and mag 8 are far and few between. Getting to mag 12 will protect you from /alot/ more powers.

Yeah, this. I have it in Healing Flames (simply because I couldn't get my hands on the pan: heal), and it definitely doesnt go off enough to be worth it.

3 Fire/Cold corrs, a fire/kin corr, a scrapper/brute, and 3 other ranged dps would easily out perform 8 fire/rad trollers, especially on Apex.

Yeah heh I got most of my toons, having to turn those things off on every single toon is really annoying, at least they arent all up in your face.

Just a group of friends that regularily run TFs together.

The run was in no way a pre-planned dream team (although everyone on the team is really great ), I sent tells out about 10 mins before we actually started saying that we were finally going to go for a sub20 after figuring out what the key to doing it was a few days earlier. (ie why I am on my controller instead of my fire/cold)

Epics cant have powers that are already in the primary or secondary sets.

If using a single power is worth a team slot now, pug teams must be even more pathetic than ever before.

You will really only notice the -dmg when fighting AVs. For regular mob to mob pve content the -dmg isn't going to make much of a difference. Slotting the Fortunatas in it will keep your debuffs recharging faster for the mob to mob pve content when the power itself isnt very beneficial.

Slotting the proc over the acc/dmg in fire breath will net higher average damage. Same with slotting the proc over the dmg/range in your other aoes. The proc damage is also boosted by your -res powers.

Recharge helps TA alot. Getting Disruption Arrow/Acid Arrow/OSA/Emp Arrow out faster and all your attacks from fire recharging faster too. Just because the goal is S/L defense doesn't mean you have to sacrifice all your recharge to get it. For example, my fire/kin corr has 90% global recharge AND soft capped S/L defense. Super speed for travel, stealth, and -threat (which alot of people forget about). As with 99% of builds, Hasten is definitely worth it.

CJ really only needs 1 slot, (lotg rchg+) unless you are slotting a kismet proc or -kb proc in it also.

The thing is the Kinetic Combats give you +3.75 S/L defense for 4 slots, not much can compete with that. Now when you start using those you can slot your other powers better. For example now that you have the extra defense coming from Kinetic Combats you can ditch both sets off Curtail Swiftness and get those Posis in OSA and trim off slots from Glue Arrow, you can also ditch the +def set in PGA and go for the cheap purple set.