Psylenz

I think they may be that good. Can you screw it up? It used to be the template PvP corruptor build. I have played Ice blast on my Ice/Cold and I have played Sonic/Kin. Right off the bat at lower levels I would play the slow game on tough targets. Someone correct me if I am wrong but the debuff in Siphon Speed is irresistible. It does have the accuracy check still. On defenders, you can hedge on getting stamina before transference. Taking stamina is almost required on a corruptor kinetic.

If it were me, take all the kinetics except maybe repel but again I am a freak that likes repel. Take a mix of single target ice and AoE attacks. For me, Aim isn't optional for the secondary powers. The ice storm/blizzard combo is nice since you can cast it from outside of line of sight. Kinetics should nuke at will since a blue inspy + transference puts you right back in the fight.

Hasten is good for recharging the clock. I wouldn't take leadership, but if you do, manuvers would be preferable to assault after fulcrum shift since you can hit the damage cap without assault.

Good luck!

Later after this post, you posted about a theme, a backstory, and roleplaying for your mercs. You have found your niche. Mercs definitely do things differently than bots, but it doesn't mean it's wrong. Which secondary are you going, did I miss that? I think Merc/traps is very valid. Enjoy the ride to level 50. From my limited experience, the mercs aren't nearly as flighty as the ninjas, who can get in a lot of trouble.

This sounds like a challenge, but I wouldn't try it on ninja, thugs, or necros. Protector bots do a lot more than shield and heal fellow robots. They chuck out a lot of damage. I would think the three attack drones would match the protector bots in damage. Then, there is the stream of stuns with seeker drones and the stun grenades that will sometimes, more than never less than always, stun lieutenants like Longbow nullifiers.

In short, keep your mastermind summons, and try the alternatives when you get bored for a challenge.

Note I said numerous not all. We got to the zones, there were broadcast mesages about progress on specific banners. There were subsequent big yellow zone announcements about finding the last GM. In other words, the fighting was still going on. It's a big, big bug.

I would rather play ding dong ditch myself.

you get in a power that also coincidentally heals you and your teammates and pets.

I am extra pleased with Bots/storm. The debuff focus is separate from the attack focus. In other words my mastermind is free to tackle situations from different positions from the bots attack position. It makes my storm defender very jealous. I can tp my mastermind in to a position to gale/hurricane foes to better strategic positions while the bots don't attack from Stay/Defensive until some guy gives my mastermind a dirty look.

Dark vs. Storm, the Dark mastermind doesn't have the position tools to corner, back up, blow away groups and get things in better burn patch position. Don't underestimate the tornado either. Bottled up conference rooms, kb resistant bosses bouncing in corners on a hurricane, small dead ends beg for the tornado treatment. Freezing Rain is better than Tar Patch. Freezing Rain knocks foes down. Freezing rain debuffs defense plus debuffing resistance along with the slow -- which of course gets stacked with snow storm to bring recharge way down on foes, too. Lightning Storm can used for positioning, too. On the other hand darkest night is such a solid power. Dark servant is a mobile debuffing machine who also happens to heal. Fearsome stare is a ranged fear/tohit debuff monster. I wouldn't ever say either build is gimp.

If you have played */dark, I would suggest */storm just to take a walk on the 'windy' side. In my experience, more 'well-played' knockback is better than less on a debuff/kb set like storm.

I won't band-wagon on the pure support comments other than to contrast your support opinion with your opinion that the 8 defender teams rock out. I started with Kleine Teufel an all defender supergroup on Triumph just to exploit the strengths of that premise.

I would submit ArticQuark's rule of 4: any team with any 4 defenders is unstoppable. Most of the defenders in the Triumphant Defender's would have at the very least 2 blasts plus a nuke. We liked the use of rolling nukes A LOT. (You might except 4 Forcefield bubblers, but when was the last time 4 bubblers were in a single zone at one time?)

In short, I think most folks could meet a compromise between all support defender and all 8 blasting defenders.

Thank you for the clarification. This was more of my experience. It's also very hard to get groups to understand the mechanics of heat loss, especially blue side. It's like fulcrum recovery aura folks, huddle with the tank or the defender.

And of course I throw Hasten on top of that, too.

Simple, it's dead dull boring for 4 minutes just wearing a dispersion bubble when my particular FF/psy would be rotating psy scream and repulsion bomb and other powers to further assist the team, waiting for the bubble refresh time.