Silverado

We may have different definitions of "beast"

Also, it's not about DP being completely unable to do remotely well (not sure if I mentioned before that my lolDP/TA corr can clear +2/x8 spawns of S/L mobs by himself), it's about being comparatively weaker than (almost) every other set (meaning that, while a DP/Rad can do well, an Archery/Rad for instance, could do much better)

I think he meant, "any of us playing the game since CoH beta in 2004"

Aww, disapointing. I was wondering how long we could've kept the civilized discussion before you started nerdraging (and subsequently admitting none of your points were valid)

Triple stacking, while good, is still comparatively crappy when you have sets such as Ice Blast (as I mentioned earlier) that can stack their secondary effects up to 6x (using all 3 ST blasts) and Sonic Attacks (using the first two blasts), which when paired with a set like Cold, Rad or Traps is *MUCH* more effective. It's not a matter of building your toon right (as there are no enhancements that reduce animation time), it's a matter of DP being a comparatively crappy set with crappy damage and crappy secondary effects; crappiness accentuated by the long animations.

Both incapacitate the enemy and prevent them from retaliating, saying one is inferior to the other is simply absurd.

Some degree of versatility, yes. Amazing? no.

That's about the only advantage it has as a Blast set. Still, the set doesn't allow you to stack too much -dmg because of the long animations (compared to say, Ice Blast whose secondary effect can be stacked relavitely high)

Positron AV: Radiation Blasts that do massive -def, Lingering Radiation that kills your recharge and regen for 30 seconds and a godmode [Overcharge]. He deals energy damage only, thankfully, and my Electric Brute with 90% energy resistance was able to take him out in a 1on1 with no temps (and I don't remember using any insps, but I might've)

Now don't get me wrong, I do know the difference between being at the 75% resistance cap (on most ATs except Tankers and Brutes) and deflecting 90% of incoming damage on a defense softcapped toon. Both resistances and defense have their pros and cons and IMO neither is better or worse than the other, they're just two different methods of damage mitigation.

That's why I prefer, like I said a couple posts ago, to have a toon with decent levels of both defenses and resistances. Defense debuffs are very common ingame, which leads to cascading failure unless you're /SR or /SD, so it's always nice to have the resistance to fall back on.

All I'm saying is that the defense softcap is overrated, really. And that a build with only softcapped defenses alone won't be the unkillable toon of doom everyone makes it out to be (IMO). Thankfully this situation almost never happens ingame though, as toons with softcapped defenses usually have other means of mitigation (inspirations for example).

That being said, I wouldn't dare approach a dangerous situation without at least softcapped defenses.

Yeah, but where's the fun in that? I'm not going to bother building a softcapped toon to fight at +1/x1 with no AVs

It's a matter of personal experience, and I'm not expecting that every player should have the same standards as me. Like I mentioned before, it depends on how you play the game.

For the stuff I throw myself at, and the situations that I get into every time I play, getting two-shotted in a couple seconds is a very common ocurance :/

My most "squishy" toon is a Fire/Shield Scrapper with softcapped defenses, 90% DDR, 2k hitpoints, 35% S/L resistances and 300% regeneration. She is the most squishy because the situations she gets into are more extreme than those my Blaster faces (Scrapper being in the middle of the action while the Blaster hovers high above and shoots at leisure). While my Electric Tanker and Brute are far more survivable, having a healthy combination of resistance and defense which allows them to be main aggro-holders in the STF and RSF (respectively) with minimal-to-moderate support

AR can choose between super soaker, SMG, sniper and assault rifles

Yes, but Eclipse is overrated. I wouldn't call it a "God Mode"

Yes, monkeys with blades are high up there on the awesome scale

I completely agree, except that

They aren't