Silas

Heh, thanks. I've actually since respecced my Cold and changed my opinion on Infrigidate. Gotta update my guide now, it's all out of date and stale 'n stinky.

lol

This made my afternoon.

I think he meant it more as a comment on Sharks doing stupid amounts of damage rather than saying he can't AS.

Yeah, I really, really love Fire for Corrs. Main reason I'll still be using Corrs for soloing even if Defenders get Fire Blast.

Yup, gonna stick with Triage. Helps teams too. When I did a RSF with my Fire/Traps for Marshall double-stacked Triage was very noticeable for our survivability during the Vindicators and FP fights.

Clearly, they need a nerf and Fire Blast needs a buff I would settle for Fireball doing Blaze damage and the endurance/recharge costs on RoF being halved, kthx.

I think what I'm gonna do is copy my Fire/Traps and my Fire/Fire Dom both over to Test, since I want to try things out with both of them. I'll see how Trops is for damage with RoF. Breath bothers me for the same reasons it does you, so I'll have to see if I can get away with it.

The Fire/Fire Dom experiment is more sinister

I'm not sure I can slot Triage any more without losing recharge or defense. If I had slots spare, (maaaybe the end rdx from Blaze?), I'd probably put them in there. As it stands, every power has had to scrap and fight with tooth and nail for every slot it has

You're not the boss of me! brb, bidding on Cloud Senses a/e/r's.

Nah, seriously though, I might just go for Stupefys for the time being as you say. The KB proc would irritate me though. I do think merit prices on a lot of the non-super pricey recipes are pretty stupid.

200 merits for an obscure accurate tohit debuff triple or a LotG 7.5? lol wat

Expecting someone to have one of the core powers from their powersets is not the same as expecting someone to "build a character to your desires".

When I invite a Forcefielder to my team, I don't expect them to build exactly to my desires, but I expect them to have the force fields.

When I invite a Blaster or Scrapper to my team I don't expect them to build to my desires, but I do expect them to kill stuff.

When I invite a Kin to my team, I don't expect them to build to my desires. I do expect them to have the core Kinetic powers, (assuming appropriate level), namely Speed Boost, Fulcrum Shift and Transference.

Yeah, I think I'll go with the second build. Will tweak it some more. Seekers are fantastic and all, but I'd rather not be dependant on them for softcapping.

Alright, cool. My build has a touch more recovery and the same end use for shields. So it should be fine.

Yeah, I always aim to keep Blaze permanently recharging It's just such an absurdly good attack. Wanting to use it as often as possible is why I put the 6th slot with an end rdx in, if I'm using Blaze every 3ish seconds I'm saving 2 end every few seconds. It's how I've got the tier3 blasts slotted on almost all my Corrs that have Apocs, it adds up and is very noticeable.


Yeah, there's no way I can fit Aid Self into my build. I'll stick with Triage, especially since that also helps my traps. Being able to double stack it for some of the time is also a really nice bonus. Even though PGT will flatline the AVs regen, time spent using Aid Self is time not spent trowing fiyah. Laying the longish traps is already dead time, I'd rather have the regen constantly working for me.


Yeah. I'm not too fussed about not being able to solo all AVs or occasionally having to pop an insp.

Heh, while I could probably shift some stuff around to softcap my fire/cold defense, I'd rather not lose the recharge I've got. Especially not just for a few AVs.

Have you ever played around with Caltrops? I'm wondering how it is damage-wise. Looking at the enhanced numbers, it does about as much as RoF, albeit over 3x the time and without Scourge, (I think? Pretty sure Caltrops don't Scourge, but even if they do I highly doubt they double Scourge like RoF ), and over a smaller area.

I'm thinking for damage over time it'd be great in conjunction with RoF, especially since I can stack it. For normal spawns it'd help stuff stay in RoF too as well as stack with RoFs slow.

I ask mainly because Fire Breath does great damage, but doesn't really mesh well with how I tend to play my Trapper. Which is mostly in melee range for toebombing unless I'm fighting an AV or something. So hopping out to hit a spawn with Breaths slow animation would bug me. Hoping Ball+RoF+Caltrops will be enough to defeat a +2x8 spawn in decent time.

Any other tweaks/improvements you can think of for the build?

Cheers for the input

It looks like endurance could be a concern though, with almost no end rdx in RoF. Looking back at your posts you said you only really had end issues with Scirocco because of the sapping. What's your attack chain? Blaze-Blast-Flares with Web Nade in the mix?

Edit: one thing I could do to get a little more (still not softcapped though) ranged defense would be to drop Caltrops for Web Cocoon (put Basilisks in) and drop Triage for Blazing Bolt (put Thunderstrikes in. Downside is of course that I lose the Triage regen. On the one hand, 10-20hp/sec doesn't seem like much at all, especially given how hard AVs hit when they do.

Edit 2: I'm an idiot, not actually softcapped to s/l either in that build. Bah. Can be if I did the Caltrops/Cocoon and Triage/Blazing trade and put the extra slot in Scorpion Shield. Hrmm. I really don't want to drop Triage and Caltrops. Caltrops does as much damage as RoF, albeit without the double Scourge and over 3x the time.

Edit the Third: Here's a chunk where I've got softcapped s/l and ranged, only had to lose Caltrops.

Edit the **** I lost count: Disregard the above. Swapped the Stamina slotting for 2 generic end mods. Only lose a small bit of hp, gain better recovery. Another change: Swapped Fire Breath for Caltrops, took Provoke at 47, 2 slotted it with Mockings. Took Blazing at 44, 5 slotted it with Manticores. That gives the power itself decent slotting, I get more recharge and ranged def.

Here is the most recent draft:

Any and all input welcome

This is true, hitting only 1 or 2 enemies you should be sitting comfortably at 5 end/sec which is more than enough.

Capping your recovery is awesome for nuking though. Drop Heatloss, Sleet, Ice Storm and Blizzard on a huge spawn. As they're all being shredded, comfortably retoggle and keep blasting away while still recovering end.

Very easily, for Tankers.

Your SD toggles, Phalanx Fighting, Combat Jumping and Weave get you very close. Put a Steadfast +3% def in Tough or True Grit and you're only a few points off each position.

Multistrikes for cheap melee and AoE defense. Put them in Shield Charge and Footstomp. For ranged defense, Lockdowns or Thunderstrikes in an APP hold or Thunderstrikes in an APP ranged blast.

Getting softcap defense isn't expensive. Getting softcapped defense with really high levels of recharge/recovery is.

To elaborate, this is because Fissure can take Force Feedback +recharge proc which is almost guaranteed to fire in a farm-sized spawn. More importantly though, is Stone Armor granting smashing/lethal defense. With the Stone Epic and IOs you can easily softcap your smashing/lethal defense, vastly reducing the incoming damage.

If you're softcapped to s/l on a Fire/Kin you don't even need to bother using Flashfires, you can just zoom in and do your thing. Earth's Embrace caps your hp and you can use Transfusion for the rare hits that get in.

Claws is a fantastic Brute set, but for farming SS is still better. Spin has better numbers than FS except the radius is tiny in comparison. It's far easier to hit an entire spawn with FS.

Shockwave isn't really very workable while farming because of the KB, knocking them out of Spin/melee range.

Er was eens een vrouwtje uit Londen,
Die had een stuk rubber gevonden,
Ze zei tegen een knul,
"Doen om je lul,
Want weggooien dat is toch zonde"

Probably rife with spelling errors since I've not had Dutch lessons in like 5 years but :3 nonetheless