Frosticus

Won't cut the duration, but rather how much it affects you.

I'm inclined to agree that slow/-rech protection added to oranges would be a nice addition. I've bounced the idea around before that they should be res to all, including the aforementioned debuffs, as well as such things as taunt, placate, end drain, tohit debuff and even mez reistance (not protection).

Basically anything that you can generate some resist value to should be covered under oranges. I will note one exception though, defense debuffs, I think purples should actually have a small DDR value attached to them.

Meh, runspeed cap, which your kin should be at already due to stacked siphon speeds. If I slotted SB beyond the base slot I'd consider runspeed so that people could keep up with me.

SB really isn't that fast. The runspeed buff is half as fast as unslotted superspeed runspeed buff
In fact base run speed+unslotted speedboost is slower running than 1 slotted swift+ninja jump... People that have issues controlling their toon with SB on them don't get a ton of sympathy from me unless it is lag/steampowered computer related.

the % chance of things occurring becomes consistent over time. Scrappers can have wildly varying damage output over a short analysis. So extreme the variance can be that I have a hard time taking people's comments about scrapper performance being consistent compared to the inconsistency of brutes seriously.

When you are facing something with 28k hp, that you will only be netting ~100 dps after regeneration so that the evaluation period takes at least 5 minutes to complete means the % chances of things occurring will even out to something fairly consistent. That isn't to say that one run you might have a significantly faster completion time than the next, but the degree of separation will be much less than against a boss for instance. Even something with Elite Boss lvl hp could produce large differences in results each run

That said, the attacks he has selected are even easier to calculate because incinerate nor cremate actually proc their dot, only scorch does. He has no Achilles to account for, no buildup proc, and damage procs are easy to calculate over time especially when no -res is present. Compared to accurately calculating expected damage of sonic blast chains with all of the above mentioned a fire/sr is pretty easy.

I use actual cast times, ingame numbers for damage, and then calculate each power based on his slotting and global values. Calculate crits based of the non-dot portion of the attack, then add the procs. Calculate the expected up time of buildup and the parasitic loss caused by the cast time of bu and pb. Then factor in a 95% hit rate. Not necessarily all in that order lol.

Ya I dunno, just that I've flow back a few times, but the only time it has happened is when I've been near my target/spawn point of the seekers.

IMO though I'm actually glad it targets me instead of the spawn with the kb. It would have the potential of causing pretty severe scatter and getting a set of cloud sense is a challenge redside.

You are right, but you have to be near them for it to happen. I've had a handful of times where I'd just fly back for no conceivable reason and my combat log wouldn't say anything about it. I just shrugged it off, but now that I think about it it happens when I'm near where I summon them. I only have 4pts kb protection.

So ya, I'd never notice it fighting spawns cause I always summon seekers from range to eat the alpha, but occasionally fighting an AV up close I call them up and I go for a short ride heh.

That's one mystery solved.

TF with a crit equals the damage of ET.

If bu>AS>placate>TF kills a boss you can sub out placate and tf and replace it with ET and it will do the same damage, but much faster.

I don't personally like ET on a set that can't heal, but it is what it is.

IIRC TF is part of an optimal EM attack chain, but optimal and what you enjoy or can fit into your build don't always coincide. Not to mention how often a stalker is or isn't in a position to just sit and wail on something to the point an optimal dps chain would matter.

I'm working on a few enemies that are confuse heavy right now with my trapper. I recently set up a bind to dismiss all pets cause when I get hit with confuse and my mortars turns against me I'll die about 5 seconds later lol. Dismiss all because if seekers and patron pet are active they also need to not be attacking me.

Actually I should change it so it dismisses everything that could hurt me but leaves FFGen up.

Your thoughts on Illusion wasn't all I saw while I was in there. Get some help, your obsession with Salma Hayek is bordering on disturbing...or was that while I was in my head?

Yep if blaze is ready to go and I'm doing something else, then I'm not doing it right. The exception is RoF when they are getting low, but at that point those two attacks need to be used every single time they are ready imo.
Triage is good. I'm at 30.xx hp/sec with it and jump up to 47 hp/sec when it stacks. If you get a bad string of like 3 hits landed in a row then it doesn't get the job done, but for how often they typically land an attack it is more than enough. 71 AV's and counting w/o aidself or insp and triage is a large part of the equation.

Aidself with the equivalent of 3 SO's healing and 3 SO's rech make it 27.76 hp/sec healing. Of course it provides burst healing, which is pretty valuable sometimes. But it is less powerful than triage and you only need to drop TB every 90 sec to get that performance compared to using aidself every 14.75 seconds. They both cast slowly, but aidself is a major parasitic loss on your dps.

Exactly. While an amazing toon, fire/traps isn't quite the ideal combo for every situation. Fortunately the times it isn't the answer are pretty rare. I more just letting you know as an FYI which ones will put up a big hurdle. It kind of bothered me at first that they are better at playing with fire than I am. Actually, it still bothers me lol.

I haven't extensively played around with trops on live, but I have looked closely at the numbers. It is worthwhile against a single target like an AV, procs only help to make it more so.

Against a group, it is hard to say from a damage perspective. If the group is alive by the time RoF ends I'm not happy. If you throw it out right away though you'd still be getting 20-25 secs worth of it even in the scenario I just described. And more damage is more damage.

Whether it is better than FB or could fill the role? I like FB because it bursts them down into range for RoF to start scourging faster. I hate the animation and the fact that I need to jump out of the spawn to use it. All I can say is ymmv and you'll probably have to play around to see if it works for you.

Further tweaks to the build? You may find you want Triage more heavily slotted at some point, or you may not. If you end up dieing a lot then that would be what I look to. It isn't going to net you a lot though. I don't think you need the end red in Blaze. What I'm bidding on right now is a full set of Apoc's. More damage and 5% psi def to help fill one of the only holes in the build. My current slotting simulates what it will be though with only 35% end red (33% w/ apocs).

Lastly if you don't have the cloud senses already bought then stay the hell away from bidding on them! I still am waiting for my bids to fill lol. The acc/end/rech one only fills like 4 per month and it cost 200 merits An acceptable substitution that I'm using right now is stupefy.

Coolio, fire/sr is a pretty good choice then. Should be fun.

Scorch has a total cast time of 1.188
Cremate has a total cast time of 1.716
So 1.188*2+1.716 = 4.092

Incinerate is recharging in 4.06

Should be good to go. I have him clocked in at 187.1734 dps w/ 10% crit chance after parasitic time of bu and pb casts (assuming the 2 slots as shown and it on auto) are eliminated and 95% tohit chance is factored in.

Use of aidself will of course lower that.

Everything in the mind control set, blind and deceive rolls against psi defense only. Attacks like subdue, willdom, tkblast, mental blast, psychic scream, Psi Shockwave, etc all roll against a position and psi.

Dominate isn't a huge concern because you have hold protection. Confuse will destroy you, but is very rare.
The problematic powers are mesmerize, mass hypnosis, and blind. They will all sleep you which will suppress a large portion of your defense. Luckily this isn't as severe for defenders as it is for corrs because the def from FFGen and IO's keep going. But it will soften you up for the next round off attacks before your weave/cj/manuevers etc kicks back in.

Traps can still get by against these mobs, but it is a weakness that is worth being aware of.