GedStonearth

Good read for the beginner starting a defender. My 2 cents - love being an offender with my storm/energy blast/electric.

I rush in now with the following attack chain:
Snow Storm
Freezing Rain
Thunderclap
Lightning Storm
Thunderstrike

I am picking up Electric Armor at 44 and Power Sink at 47 so the last attack in the chain will then be Power Sink to siphon endurance off of disoriented minons and fill my blue bar back up.

At 49 will be Nova so that will be interesting working that into a serious attack chain and leave Power Sink for last if there is anything left. Hahaha..

Interesting on the Storm Summon since I have a defender and looking at the Controller side you are usually running 80's% efficiency and some powers is a 1 to 1 ratio and the last few actually better on the controller side than the defener..i.e. Thunderclap.

Fascinating?

Want to laugh - my earth/empath Ged did not have Stamina or Hasten. There were a few times when I popped a blue inspiration here and there but mostly felt it was not necessary. The duration times of the earth powers are long enough that I hover and go into Medic mode. I had all the powers in the Earth and Empath except Adrenalin Boost. I heard early on that it was basically like Absorb Pain which I recommend but just gave out endurance. Later on I read the details as was like - whoh I should have picked it up. How did you like it? Did it drain all your endurance and left you disoriented?

My new toon has been my Dark Archer Ravens Knight. It is my first shot at dark and archery and so far I like it especially for the theme…cross hawkeye with the Crow. Hehehehe… Raven will need the Stamina though. After laying down the dark debuffing he would go into attack mode so yeah he gets stamina like my 41 Storm/Energy Blast defender Leoric.

Hey Life Guardian,

Finally, someone wrote a guide for us rare arch troll species. Thank you very much. Just to say that I thought you were right on with most of your comments in your guide. Sometimes you’re the bug (Earth) and sometimes you are the windshield (Empath). I think that we are primary earth trollers with a healer as our backup - our primary goal is all lockdown possible. In the earlier levels it is probably a 50/50 split and then as we progress higher it shifts to more 70/30 to earth and later on 80/20. There are times though depending the level of the mobs that you end up being a primary healer starting out buffing the team and then fall back on your earth primaries…that's my typcial attack strategy unless there is a dedicated healer.

One point I would like to make is Stone Prison. Believe it or not, you really should not skip this power. I played my Ged StoneEarth to level 50 and can't tell you how many times this power was used on bosses and AV's to keep them from running. How many compliments from tanks/scraps on the AV containment and also to take out the annoying freak or skyraider flyer. Plus, picking up Stone Prison is better on the aggro scale than using Stone Cages to compensate - don't want to bring on the extra aggro. I have been flagged by my SG a couple of times to bring out Ged to help with Bobcat and other runner Avs and it has been great fun.

I went with Teleport as my travel power but use Hover during battle and stealth on like almost 24/7. We are squishy type and this was my saving grace so many times when team wipes occurred and I was next on somebody's menu. Picked up the Psionics Mastery for 2 reasons- Magic Origin forever battling carnies and for the Indominable Will Mez protection and Mind over Body Armor. I picked Salt Crystals at 49 and really think it is good in the beginning levels but later in the game with all the rains from defenders or blasters to cancel the sleep it is very situational. I am tempted to go back and respec for the Fire Mastery though - I was on the fence picking those 2 for a while.

Cheers...

Hey Team,

I am looking for some stats by archtype and then by the power pool. I have a storm/energy blast defender and would like to look up the damage the energy blast as secondary compares with the blaster type.

thanks in advance...