Silas

Oh ho ho, look chaps! He's saying something inflammatory deliberately to elicit a response! How droll.

Because you can build a controller or scrapper or brute or whatever to be tough enough so they're never spending any time on their back, any superfluous toughness paid for in lower damage is a bad bargain.

Do you really use Taunt when solo farming?

RoA is pretty awesome, but I'd still give the nod to fire. Higher ST damage and better AoEs in conjunction with /kin.

I say that because RoA uses the pet damage cap which is lower than yours, whereas Fireball and Breath use your damage cap. RoF uses the pet damage cap but has double Scourge damage so it's all good.

For a kin having huge amounts of AoE is great but the best AoEs in Archery are Fistful and RoA. Fistful is easily one of my favourite cones, but you'll have to run out of spawns to use it (same for Breath, though). On a character as fast moving and twitchy as kins are, the RoA animation would get on my nerves. I'd rather hurl a Fireball and keep zooming around.

Insanity is the only sane response to an insane world :3

Like Benumb which also works as a reverse Powerboost:

Hit the healing Nictus with it on the ITF and it'll heal Rom for much less.

Hit any AV with a +def godmode with it before they pop the godmode and it'll give them much less defense.

Hit a green Mito with it and they'll heal for much less.

It won't affect resistances, inherent or otherwise. Hitting Statesman with it before he hits Unstoppable won't make him get less resistance from it, hitting Mynx with it before she hits Elude will reduce the defense she gets from it.

As for Silver Mantis, it'll reduce the +tohit she gets from Build Up, but not the +damage.

Bear in mind it doesn't work retroactively. For example, if you hit Mynx with it after she hits Elude, she'll still get the full benefit of Elude. Hitting Rikti Drones with it won't make them any easier to hit because their defenses are inherent, you've got to hit them with -def.

This. I should be able to attend most, bringing my pain and then DCing on the last wave and relogging into Abyss 2 :3

You're forgetting accuracy. Doesn't matter how procced out the power is if it doesn't hit.

If you've got decent global accuracy from sets its fine, but otherwise untenable.

Emphasis on almost. Ninjitsu has noticeably lower defense and defense debuff resistance numbers than SR.

This. Many PBAoEs are not nearly as tall as they are wide. Unfortunately you've just gotta get a feel for it. At least for Shadowfall you can see whether or not its reaching your allies because they'll have the little black cloud-ring by their feet.

Liberate Television. It's Nemesis, which is why a lot of people don't like it due to the stacking Veng.

Easily the most farmed non-AE mission villainside though. A SS/FA brutes paradise.