StormyDarkness

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Psuedo because it only does Stuns and Sleeps. It also has Endurance Drain protection in there too. Great for people using wakies >.>

My poor boyfriend's Dark/Sonic Corruptor.

That's the thing, there's little that gets use out of Power Boost in both Kinetics and Dual Pistols.

That's Power Build Up from power mastery you're thinking of, not Power Boost from Soul Mastery.

Power Build Up = 10% To-hit, 80% damage, 98.34% specials. It's 240 second recharge for 12.5 second duration.

Power Boost = 98.34% specials. It's 120 second recharge for 15 seconds.

Edit: What Garent originally said is correct. Power Boost itself does squat. Power Build Up does the 10% To-hit, but otherwise does squat.

Maybe Mids is giving me incorrect numbers then. I'm getting trip mine's duration at 260 seconds with a recharge at 5.5 seconds and a cast of 5 seconds so the minimum is 5 seconds for recharge anyhow. Unless I'm missing something. It's been a long while since I've actually had a traps character.

Maybe I misread it, but I could of swore it said that team buff powers will only effect your team mates and not the entire league. If it's not the case, I have the feeling my Archery/Sonic Corruptor, Traps/Psi and FF/Archery Defenders, and my Mind/FF Controller will be very popular on the new trials.

I know that Scorpion Shield isn't perfect, however it is more useful that you're leading on at the moment with that. Yes, positional defense is ideal, but the next thing you'd want is Smash/Lethal defense if positional will take up too much of your resources. The reason is this:

Whenever you use a ranged power that does lethal and toxic damage, the attack will look at your ranged, lethal, and toxic (though non-existent on the latter) defense and roll against it taking the largest of the tagged positional and typed defense. This means that any power that has Lethal/Smash/Energy damage have a less chance of hitting. Perfect? Not really, but since Kinetics is starting with a base of zero defense, it's a lot of help towards keeping your character alive. Since I typically take fighting on most of my characters (defenders included), I got additional help from weave, a free spot for Steadfast +def (and kb protection), and a place I can 4 slot kinetic combat for even more smash/lethal defense if need be.

I see getting Scorpion Shield as a way to help diversify my set bonuses as instead of focusing solely on positional defense. Even then, with as gimped kinetics is on the defense side, you won't be able to get all positions high. You'll have to either do Melee, Ranged, or AoE when as a kinetics you'll have to worry about all three. Smash/Lethal/Energy will give you some defense to all three, but won't plug every hole. Granted, if you wanted to focus on one, maybe two positional, it'd be possible, but overall with how common those three typed are, it'll give you greater defense on a whole spectrum than having your one type and then being squished by anything else.

Also, as for your comment about toxic damage on the STF, it's one of the only places that you can get toxic resistance for a defender.

As for expensive, I'd like to point out the reward merits she'll be getting from task forces (with an actual pay off for doing them) and hero merits, which she can get 1 per weekend. She'll also find as she gets herself tricked out, soloing the latter on -1/x1 will become real quick. Having a stealth proc and/or super speed helps out a lot, assuming she doesn't want to take regular stealth from the power pool as even more defense measure. Remember, having 2 things that give some form of stealth (power pool + SS, etc) gives you invisibility to nearly everything in the game. Only things that *could* possibly see through is Snipers, KoA, and Eyeballs from Rularuu. I might of missed something on the stealth list, but those are the only things that come to mind, and I think if you have two forms of stealth, you still beat snipers.

Defense is useful and an effective way to go on a build, but so is recharge. Honestly, 3-4 LotG 7.5 (Scorpion Shield/Maneuvers/Weave/Stealth) get you a long way, then Basi's Gaze for 7.5% recharge, Oblits/Red Fortunes for 5%, and Posi's Blast/Decimation for 6.5% go a long way. Depends on how you want to build her character honestly. When building a character, I look for Damage/Defense/Recharge as focus points. Most sets I use for those points tend to give me accuracy it becomes kinda meh to me. As long as my powers have 120% at minimum for accuracy, then I am happy. Any extra is just bonus, though some powers I do try to be even more accurate, like Transfusion or Acid Arrow but tend to still be happy with 120% accuracy.

I'm not on my computer as my boyfriend is currently working on making it faster, so I don't have access to mids right this moment. Otherwise, I'd gladly give you some push to start.

Edit: As an aside to typed defense, if you're going against an enemy that you know you'll have a hole again (like a Fortunata who has psionic defense), you can focus your ST hold and efforts on that enemy first before going on to enemies that you have the high defense to. Tactics does help a lot in even more defense. In short on the edit, know your holes and minimize your enemy's ability to use it against you.

Yeah, I disliked that argument when it first came out.

"It's red side empathy." But why? *shrugs* Guess they'll do whatever they want.

or Pain.