Garent

I am glad that someone else has put this quote in their signature, because I am unable to.

I suggest it mostly because it adds a new dynamic to the set's playstyle. When you have power sink and the damage aura you gain the ability to automatically win any fight that lasts past a certain amount of time thanks to end drain.

The damage is nice, but I suggest it for the end drain.

I disagree, at least compared to corruptors. Kinetics is a superior set for corruptors, but there are other sets where this is not the case.

They have issues compared to controllers, but upcoming blast set changes will address that to some extent.

That's not an easy question to answer. They multiply each other in the accuracy formula, so you want both. To-hit is generally worth more.

Alternatively, you might want to put it in a power that you're likely to use while standing near people who need it.

Personally, I put the set in my steam spray area attack. I consider the set as a whole better than Positron's Blast, but not as good as the bonuses I can get from single target sets.

Okay, yeah, I see that now.

I'm just confused how anyone can consider fulcrum shift's damage buffing to be in line with other powers when it's more powerful than them by a factor of ten. Meanwhile, -resistance is extremely standardized, and most other buffing effects are as well.

You're basically making the argument that no amount of damage buffing is a lot because -resistance will always be better.

You aren't. I consider radiation emission to be pretty well rounded and average and its only weakness is that two of its best powers being anchor debuffs (which is a strength under certain circumstances).

Support sets are actually reasonably well balanced compared to other set types in my opinion. Cold, poison, and trick arrow are the only outliers and everything else occupies a pretty comfortable range between 'mediocre' and 'pretty darn good' and manages to do things in very different ways so they don't overshadow each other.

Luckily, I have more options available to me than just those two.

Just a bit.

I don't remember who did it, but there was a post where the person compared the effectiveness of various levels of IO builds on a shield defense character. The common IO only version was surprisingly effective.

Worst case scenario with fulcrum shift is your team is nowhere around and you give yourself a damage buff and debuff the enemies a bit. It's hardly a bad scenario, but when you compare it to the ideal scenario, which is fulcrum shift coming off cooldown at the exact moment you engage each fresh group and damage cap your whole team through the whole mission, there's a really big gap.

Be nice.