Miladys_Knight

I prefer HO nucs......

There is a lot, the problem is that it isn't any one kind of debuff. There is -to hit, -damage, -resist, slow move, defense debuff, etc. The problem is that none of the numbers are stellar and most of them (if not all of them) won't self stack. Additionally if you keep your debuffs applied you'll spend ~25% of your animation time applying/reapplying them and won't be doing much damage.

Factor in purple patch and mob rank and you are more of a flea bite (sorry Flea!) than anything else.

The short answer is, no it doesn't. An Earth/TA controller would though especially if you slot Achilles Heel proc in Earth's AoEs.

My usual Debuff order (assuming standard spawns) is: Target the boss, Flash Arrow > (OSA if recharged) > Glue Arrow > Acid Arrow > Disruption Arrow, target OSA, > Blazing Arrow

Yes the Sandman set has range in it. A level 50 set will give you just enough range to have you out of mob perception by a couple of feet.

Technically its not weaker. The real problem with devices is the time/utility trade off. Devices is some where in the sub-basement there. Its a substantial outlier by a magnitude or 2.

It's probably why there is little to none on the market.....

and if so did you talk to him again after the final mission?

This is not really the case anymore. When the game first came out it was true. Blasters had primary power sets with much longer animations and the animation times were unbalanced (Flares with a 3.3 second cast time for instance and less than 80 range) and AR and later Arch with most powers having cast time averaging 2 seconds.

At the start blasters had lower hit points and did roughly the same damage as scrappers but had vastly lower survivability. We were told at that time that range = defense and the fact that blasters did damage from range was supposed to compensate for all the weaknesses and it did.....

Until the devs realized that some people were hovering out af range and never taking any damage so they fixed it so that the mobs out ranged the blasters and blasters started dropping like flies (a poor choice on the devs part since the speed at which you could do that vastly outweighed the safety provided ie: the time for safety trade off was far too high especially when compared to all the other ATs. This is currently the case with devices its an outlier in the time/safety trade off and not by a small margin.)

So Blasters were given defiance to compensate for that nerf but it didn't compensate for it. Animation times were too long and you were defeated long before you could get a reasonable amount of damage output going.

Since blasters were consistantly the lowest rewarding arch types the devs once again changed defiance. The tier 1 and 2 primary powers were all standardized for range and animation time and while this was going on animation times for sets like AR and Archery got tweaked to lower values.

These changes make blasters the "damage archtype" (a mis-nomer in most cases since the mobs still out range blasters, many scrappers and brutes can still out damage a blaster and they out survive them too, and brutes and scrappers are "designed" to be in melee and have real mez protection a lack that still results in more blaster defeats than any other single issue).

All blaster secondaries do damage but not all of them provide significant mitigation (/energy and /fire as examples), its not always melee damage but today's blasters are the damage/damage archtype not a damage/support archtype. Damage/support is the corruptor's role in the game.

One thing to note is that you can use stealth+SS and set up Spirit Tree prior to opening. Spirit Tree doesn't notify or break stealth even if cast inside mob perception range.

I agree. Mind/Ice/Fire is a very fun combination to play.

Most sniper ranged powers get a longish interrupt and a longer animation. This would defeat the purpose....

From playing TA as both a defender and controller the thing the devs have to do is make sure that any change that they make to TA for defenders doesn't unduly overpower the set as a secondary for controllers.

Trick Arrow's biggest problem is that it has a LOT of small and medium sized debuffs. In order to get an average amount of benefit from the set you need to use most of them each spawn. TA has fairly fast animations but even with that considered, to lay down Flash Arrow > Glue Arrow > PGA > Acid Arrow > Disruption Arrow > Ice Arrow takes 7.98 seconds. Once you've done that you have to reapply, PGA every 20 seconds, Acid Arrow every 20 seconds, Glue Arrow every 30 seconds, and Disruption arrow every 30 seconds.

There are 2 states the defender will find him or herself in. Teamed and solo. On fast moving teams many spawns won't last the 8 seconds it takes to layer all the every spawn debuffs, which means that much of the benefit of playing a TA defender is moot. All you will contribute is one or 2 debuffs and a couple of anemic attacks before it is time to move on. Further, when you get to the next spawn those debuffs may not even be recharged with out slotting sets that provide recharge bonuses.

Solo you have a similar problem. You have to spend too much of your time debuffing and you don't get enough time to attack. It can take you 2 - 3 minutes to solo a spawn and 25% of your animation time is going to be (re)applying debuffs.

Increasing durations (and in the case of some powers, radius) will solve the solo problem. Reducing animation times will provide the same amount of relief to both cases (I see absolutely no reason that any of the primary powers should have differing animation times. You are, after all, pulling a single arrow, of identical size, out of exactly the same place and firing for each and every power)

The problem I see with most of your suggestions is that they are "power non-sequitors" from my point of view.

Most of your proposed solutions don't really solve the set's problems nor do they really fit the theme of the set.

A more thematic solution for this problem would be to make the net bigger. A radius 10, 5 target cap for this power would be a better fit. This wouldn't over power the controller version since the majority of controller sets have an AoE immob as their tier 2 primary.

The real problem with Flash Arrow on teams is that you rarely can get it applied before the team has aggroed the next spawn. This renders the -perception part moot and provides no Alpha strike mitigation. A 30% increase on the base range of this power would make a difference as you could then potentially get it fired before the next spawn is aggroed (and you would still be out of perception range when it hits rather than in perception range with any stealth you may have supressed). This change doesn't make it any better for the controller and has no real effect on the solo game.

Again this isn't really thematic. The biggest problem with Glue arrow is that it is a targetted AoE with a 60' range. If you fire it on the mob in the front of the spawn it only has to wade through 1/2 of the power's diameter before it's free. Even at the -run speed cap 1/2 of the spawn can be out of the area of the glue before it has expired let alone before it's recharged again. This power should be changed to a non-targeted AoE so that the entire diameter of the debuff patch can be used rather than 1/2 of it. If you really want to buff it you could make it web evelope-ish and have any targets that are in the area of effect at the moment the glue hits be affected by a 10 second mag 3 immobilize. Making those 2 changes would keep the spawn in the other debuffs from TA's primary for most, if not all, of their durations.

Not all that thematic and while it is a decent buff for the defender it's likely too much for the controller. Ice Arrow should be a scale 1 damage power in addition to it's being a hold (it is an arrow after all, and isn't that the reason there is no "healing arrow"?).

Changing any of the mez magnitudes and durations of any of the TA powers makes the controller version "too good" once the controller modifiers are applied.

I've never understood the logic behind sleep in PGA. Yes I get that they are standing there choking but I don't understand why hitting them suddenly makes them stop choking. The -damage component makes sense but I've always thought that PGA should be a larger radius, toxic DoT power. Making that change would improve things more for the defender version and not benefit the controller version as much.

I agree mostly with this. Increasing the duration for the defender while keeping the lower version for the controller would be thematic and keep the controller version from being better than the defender version. It would also have the advantage of reducing the amount of animation time a solo TA defender needs to use.

I don't believe this needs to be done either. A slight decrease to the recharge time and slight increase to the duration coupled with making the target cap 16 is all this power really needs and again benefits the defender more than the controller (since the controller version should keep it's current recharge, duration, and target caps to compensate for having the same debuff values)

I still think this is too much. There is no reason to remove the self -Recovery since the defender "should" be benefitting from vigilence while the controller does not. I will agree that the recharge is too long and should be reduced to 4 minutes (but only for the defender version)