Talionis

That's what I currently do, but I have heard that Conserve Energy and Power Sink will allow you to pop the Blue and then kinda go on.

I would guess that Conserve Energy lets you do a little with the energy you get from the Blue, but you still only have the Blue you pop.

With Powersink, you have to have critters left to drain. Of course if the nuke killed everything, then you could probably at the worst wait for the nuke to recover.

I did not realize that Drain Psyche was that strong. I may have to try that some.

I do play a lot of Tanks, but a lot of Defenders too. With Kin's it just seems like the Mez's are more danagerous. Often I'm in melee range to apply Fulcrem (I have a 45 Kin/Arch) or to get a benefit from Transfusion and Transference. Getting Mez'ed in melee range on a squishee equals death. I'm not the quickest at getting inspirations out of the tray either.

Part of the problem is that I use my insperations for big fights, occassional extra green, and a stash of wakies. I usually have the break frees I just forget or can't use them quick enough for the cascade of bad to kill the toon.

My 45 Trick Arrow/Dark doesn't have nearly the problem with getting mez'ed but I'd expect that since she has some defense so a lot of those mez's will miss. She's also can keep the damage at a distance where it doesn't cascade as quickly into a nose dive.

The lack of defense has long plagued Kinetic Defenders and has made the powerful set far more practicle a secondary for Controllers than for Defenders since the Controllers offer the defense in their primary. I've just never liked the playstyle of Controllers.

I haven't seen a build with over 30ish Defense even with Power Build Up and that's up like 1/12 the time.

Is 30 enough to be good? I guess you can go for Smashing Lethal Defense and that might be ok. But ranged defense, while normally enough for Defenders isn't for a Kinetic/Electric since so much of what they do requires they be in Melee area.

My first toon was a Kin/Electric he's sitting at 26 and I just don't play him because it seemed like he wouldn't be viable.

But to this day, this is the toon I really wish I could make good. I still keep coming back to him. I've always wanted a Kin/Melee toon.

Sometimes it is true but not helpful.

Like when he told everyone he tanked with his Cold/Cold Defender by killing the entire spawn with just Sleet, Blizzard, Snow Storm. He just forgot to mention he was level 40 and the spawn was level 1 in Atlas Park. LOL

Interesting that this can be perma. God Modes cannot be perma'ed. So I figured there was a chance.

I actually could care less about the resistances, with the crash I'm not sure if its worth it not to get mez protection. I just wanted the mez protection.

Thanks. I don't have singularity on my Gravity Storm yet. I actually hadn't liked the way it was playing so I sorta parked him. I was fairly certain, I had picked a bad combonation or that Gravity just stank. Its good to know there is something to look forward to and its a good combonation.

Amy,

I'd say that is most of the "God Mode" Powers.

Scrapper Power Surge
Scrapper Unstoppable
Scrapper Moment of Glory
Scrapper One with Shield
Scrapper Strength of Will

Tanker Power Surge
Tanker Unstoppable
Tanker One with Shield
Tanker Strength of Will

Agreed!

What makes Gravity Storm any stronger than any other controller with Storm as a secondary?

You are definately a villain!

That kind of tanking means you aren't fighting very difficult foes. One run of those attacks should not kill everything. Sorta sounds like 7 blasters and you. 7 Blasters means all you have to do is take the Alpha. Most Controllers could do that just as well or better. That sounds easy.

You really don't need a Tank to do easy stuff. Tanks are only required for toons that are incomplete or for doing really difficult stuff. And the game is built so that the larger the team, the less you need any one archetype anyway. Your combined synergy is enough to get you through most situations.

As toons get more mature, they should be able to handle most normal situations solo. The way in which Defenders handle situations is soft control which usually does things to affect large mobs of baddies, and it is far more helpful to the total defense of a team than say a Scrapper.

Pat yourself and Defenders on your back all you want. Defenders are good. But so are Tanks. Tanks do what you are saying you do a ton better. A good Defender should help him to Tank, not thru just heals. Not all Defenders have a heal. But all Defenders are supposed to help keep toons stay alive. Its your job. But you aren't replacing a Tank for tanking, at least not at really hard stuff.

This is what I meant. Everything unslotted Siphon and NR is faster than SS. I think.