Shadey_NA

Too bad blasters won't use the power since Healz is not their department.

Yes it is. The only real trick to this build is to remember all the extra damage your team does due to all your -res is your damage. It shows up on their damage ticks but really you did all that damage. You are the most powerful member of any team!... that no one really knows... or notices...

Seriously, it was the fastest trip to 50 I ever took. All my teams looked like pro's when I got em buffed and the bad guys debuffed.

The starkest difference, IMO, would be a Sonic/Sonic defender vs. corrupter. The beauty of the defender version can be easily seen with this combo. Better resistances and -resistances accross the board all stacking up to make you a very viable member of any group.
It's easy to compare as that's mostly all that type of char can do, resistance manipulation.
For instance, against an AV, the defender can add ~55% resistance while subtracting ~140% resist from the AV. The corrupter version is adding ~41% resist for the team while subtracting ~105% resist from the AV. When you think about the extra damage players must account for (either way) you can see why the defender version would be more powerful and useful for a team.
But as others have stated, it's a case by case situation.

Thx for the advice on the pets.

I was thinking of hoverblasting from above with the 3 cones. I should be able to keep a crowd kb'd into the ground or slept while debuffing em with howl and disruption field while my pet(s) go to town on the crowd... that was the thought anyway.

But never pull that rez directly from Hami... it was my first Hami run. On the other hand, Yellow Dawn was an experience to be remembered.

Most of what Tex says here is good advice. I just wanted to throw out a couple points about his lease favorite blast sets you might want to consider.
With Elec Blast you can play sapper (particularly if you get a BU type power) and it's quite effective.
Assault Rifle allows you to actually play at damage in the big groups as you have good cones and a particularly powerful single target power (Ignite) if you can keep your prey immob'd.
Energy Blast allows for some very nice single target damage and interesting slotting choices for a support char. Slotting Force Feedback chance for +rech into several powers will add a sizable recharge to your set allowing for the wonderful buffs you provide to be fired off more often (they cannot be made perm). If you went this route, I would suggest hoverblasting as you can position yourself to annoy as few teammates as possible with your kb.

Nice. Thx for the math. sounds like an impressive trick overall.

So, do you know the math for this? For instance if you are running a high end Cold/DP fender who has thrown out 2 sleets and a heat loss on an AV, he's got 90% -resists going on that AV. If he throws down chem rounded hail of bullets with a 25% -dam, what could he expect for an actual -dam number? Or for his effective resistance? For this example, lets assume the AV has 50% resistance to everything. That would mean the AV is running at -40% resistances when the hail of bullets was fired. That would mean... Gaaaah! my formula is useless... numbers mean nothing now... Algebra is extinct... Calculus is a fraud....

Also... Sweet! I got two ppl calling it a Banker.

I haven't seen any difference for AA when Dom is up, so I don't think it's affected by it.

In reality, my sonic/sonic fender can keep 140% consistantly on a single target. That's four blasts, sonic siphon and disruption field. To keep that up you can have only 0.16 seconds of lag/fat fingering/other interruptions or it goes down to 120%.

After looking at all the ideas around, the only advantage I can claim on a sonic/sonic is that the ramp up on -res is faster (~9.84 seconds), but only on a team (or with a pet).

And as to it's need for a fix, maybe. It should be the king of -res, but the devs probably think it's resistances make up for it... I'm sad now.

While I appreciate your input and no doubt you've played the combo much more than my paltry 24 levels, just a few points to cosider about my build.

Mud pots comes into play on larger spawns and those that take a while to whittle down. The idea is to go into the spawn and drain, then pots goes on while i'm killin the group. Dunno how it'll work, but I'll give it a go and see. I can see your point and it might have to go before my final final build.

Tremor is a knockdown power. Dunno if it used to be kb, but as long as you aren't killing blues or below, it's kdown. I have it now and it's very effective as it does the damage and I can combo my chain fenses right after. The mobs are asleep before they stand up again. I use it all the time.

Boxing, Tough and Weave are there mostly for the weave. With the recharges I have going, I should be able to have Pboost up about half the time. With the defenses I've accumulated, that gives 40.9% S/L and 36.2% E/N with some decent numbers on melee defense to boot. Not soft capped, but nothing to sneeze at either. And as you said, I should be Dominating so that should be good enough. That being said, I almost put in med pool in two of those slots as you are right, tough isn't adding much to this build and boxing is... well, boxing.

As to Elec/Stone not working together well, realize that all of the kb powers in them are 0.67. This means that as long as you are not fighting below your level, they kdown. This provides great mitigation while you are draining their Endo. To my experience, this is a very nice synergy.

Now to the tricky part of my build, Elec mastery. I went this way because of the extra end drain. I wanted it for GMs and dare I say it, AVs. Plus with the mud pots and overall end usage going, I didn't want to get to the point I was to tired to smash. Add to it, surge of power doesn't have the hp crash (at least mids doesn't list it) and can be handled easily with a blue/power sink.
The other huge advantage of this build is that I was able to get Force Feedback: chance for +rech into it in several places. Based upon my experiences with my rad/nrg fender, I can tell you that this is a significant means of rech as long as you keep smashing.

Overall, am I sold on this as a final build? No. But there are several different variants that can be done in addition to the standard ice Mastery build (yes, I know it's awesome but other things can be done). For instance, I worked out a high rech Psi Mastery version that adds 40.6% S/L and 45.9% E/N before Pboost.