Miladys_Knight

The answer is no you don't need it for an Arch/Dev especially if you slot IO sets that give bonuses to accuracy.

Here's why:

First - Pets and powers that spawn psuedo pets NEED their own accuracy slotting. They do not benefit from Targeting Drone AT ALL.

That means that Rain of Arrows (spawns a pseudo pet), Trip Mine (spawns a pseudo pet), Time Bomb (spawns a pseudo pet), and Gun Drone (is a pet) all need their own accuracy slotting.

Second - When you are mezzed Targeting Drone is still active and all of your endurance that is gurgling away to run it is providing you no benefit at all since toggle powers are suppressed while you are mezzed. Blasters have an inherent power (Defiance) that allows them to fire their tier 1 and 2 primary attack and their tier 1 secondary attack even while they are mezzed. Since Targetting Drone will be suppressed in this case (a case that will occur more and more frequently as you fight in content at higher levels) you will also need standard accuracy slotting in these powers (Snap Shot, Aimed Shot, Web Grenade)

That's too many powers that get nothing substantial from Targeting Drone and require acc slotting for my taste. My Arch/Dev doesn't have it. If I need a to hit boost (and Aim is not recharged) I just pop a yellow inspiration (I can't ever remember not having one to use when I needed one and they are the most common suspect for converting into other insps).

Not only that but if you slot IO sets it's almost impossible to NOT slot some accuracy in your powers (it's built into the set IOs) and most of the sets that you are likely to slot give a global bonus to accuracy before you get the recharge or defense bonus that you are likely slotting for.

By the by. The Gaussians set belongs in AIM for an Arch/Dev not in Targeting Drone. If it is in Aim the +damage proc is much more likely to fire off before you unload your most powerful attacks rather than while you are standing in Wentworths, traveling to the mission location, between spawns while you are setting up, or just as you are firing that last snap shot to finish off the last mob in the spawn.

I just keep knocking them back until.

A) They are all dead.
B) The melee characters figure out that they should be near walls instead of in the middle of all the giant rooms.

Usually A happens much more often than B. Alot of n00bs I have run with over the years blame KB for their own self created woes. Team strategy runs 2 ways. Telling the energy blaster not to use KBing AoEs deprives your team of that damage output and is totally ridiculous. Learning to melee near obstacles saves everyone time and headaches.

The reason the complaint is so common is that an armored melee toon like a br00t, tank, or scrapper is easier to get your feet wet on. A larger proportion of n00bs are therefore found playing these ATs, playing them with poor tactics, and then complaining about/blaming other players for their own self created problems.

Communication is the key. Explaining how KB works and good tactics can actually turn a n00b into a newbie if they take and follow your advice.

/Energy of course. This is the only secondary that offers the Boost Range power. If you don't have enough global recharge and you actually need another AoE attack you may wish to pick up the Electric Epic for Static Discharge.

Better yet you could go with Mace or Mu and pick up an AoE immob AND another cone.

They could fix the problem I have with the power by making the initial attack 2 jolts instead of a single one. If the first jolt hits the initial target would be flagged as invisible to the second jolt.

It would make a huge difference in the power especially in the low levels where this is most of your mitigation, you have few enhancement slots, and the enhancements you can slot are of low value.

I'll take this moment to point out that Ice/Earth is probably a better combination to do this with.

The damage out put from -rech capped mobs is about the same as the damage output from sapped mobs since sapped mobs can fire off an attack as soon as they get a recovery tick.

You get a confuse in Arctic Air, both sets have a sleep, and an AoE KD. The main difference is that you won't have to worry about a total mitigation failure with Ice/ since none of the powers have the chaining "feature".

I've tried them both and much prefer the reliability of Ice/Earth to the new shiney of Elec/Earth.

For a new player damage mitigation (to keep you alive) will be the thing you want most.

The safest secondary is /Devices. It is also the slowest secondary in terms of dealing damage.

For decent mitigation and decent speed /Ice is your best bet.

I've played Ice/TA but Earth/TA or Plant/TA is a better combo for controllers. Fire/TA is fun but hard to get the hang of at first for most folks.

I have a hurricaneless Fire/Storm/Stone Controller that's lots of fun to play and solos or teams well.

Another extremely rare combo is Ice/Rad. It's not really good at soloing because the damage is extremely low. But it is excellent on a team for locks down and debuff.

If you are using the leadership pool, specifically the Tactics power, you'll want to rethink your build. Tactics gives the Imps additional perception and causes them to see (and attack) targets that are (much) farther away.

Also, if you are playing a Fire/Storm, and are using O2 boost to heal an imp you'll have the same problem. O2 boost does several things, heals, provides resistance to endurance drains, and boosts the target's perception. If you use this on an Imp you'll have the same situation and a single Imp will run off, get itself killed, and bring his new friends back home to play.

Fire/Storm/Stone tops my list

Scrappers or Brutes are good to get your feet wet with as a new player.

Plant is the easiest set for a starting Dom with Earth a close second. Fire is probably one of the hardest.

Differences to note between controllers and Doms is that Dom controls have significantly shorter duration than controllers (outside of domination) and have no chance to critical (overpower) the target (outside of domination once again).

Dom slotting of the controls is similar (the AoEs have reduced accuracy just like the controller versions) ie: slot intensive, so you don't really get up to speed as a Dom until much later in your career. On top of that to be effective the assault portion of the set is slot hungry too so the Dom doesn't really start getting good until late game (after level 31+ ) when you start getting 3 slots per level and there are 2 levels between new powers instead of just one.

The other big difference is the AoE immob. Many doms skip it. On controllers its useful for keeping mobs bunched in debuff patches or near toggle anchored mobs. For a Dom it just stops the mobs from moving, aggros them all, and makes you the alpha target.