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I only do about 66% enh buff on shields myself, seems fine when you combine it with sleet+storm and precision infrig+benumb. It's all 8 powers working great together that allows for some ease on the slotting.

People run basic Clarion all the time in UG even in PuGs where you face unavoidable mez A LOT. As for BAF AV holds and Anti-matter's beam, those are entirely avoidable with active positioning on the player's part.


15-20 players, it's crazy unlikely to not have at least 3 support ATs. Realistically you'll probably have at least 7 troller/fender/MM/corrs.

Nobody said it was useless, it just under performs significantly by comparison to other support sets end game. Sonic and TA also have the same problem, so it's not just solely FF.

I'm not trying to bash FF, but let's be realistic with our expectations on FF's performance in Incarnate Trials.

In an incarnate trial you have 20 something people having various versions of clarion and barrier, that are used at key events and tend to overlap the fading effect of the buff by accident. You also have additional DEF from all the stacks of Maneuvers and Stealth auras (Arctic Fog, Shadowfall, etc) folks get by proximity. Finally, when status effects do happen in trials they are almost always way more than Dispersion bubble can handle in magnitude. Dispersion is NOT FF's strong point in trials, Ally shields however are the strongest thing FF has going for it here.

If it's any consolation, TA does worse than FF in incarnate trials, as only Disruption Arrow and Oil Slick Arrow are useful and lack the impact that Def shields offer.

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Heat Lost, Transference, Accelerated Metabolism, Recovery Aura, etc...or gasp people slotting for end efficiency, like just about everyone at endgame does. Oh and Ageless Incarnate buff.

Sorry endurance consumption is rarely a problem and not primarily factor in dps. You might have a point if you were talking about attacks per minute though, since FF ends up doing a whole lotta nothing but blasting. Though I would have to counter that any AoE -Res in a trial environment heavily outweighs any extra attacks an FF defender has as an advantage.

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I think you misunderstand, I wasn't talking about defenders there. I was talking about Archery in general being low damage compared to other blast sets.

I think that is part of the reason right there. Thermal and Cold do so much more than Sonic and FF by comparison it makes the faults that Sonic and FF have look really really dumb. Most players right off Sonic entirely because of the Ally-based toggles, they are that simply that stupid of a design decision and no benefit whatsoever for such an annoying handicap.

It was a concept character.

I would feel more comfortable playing my lvl 50 TA/A defender, if you know the TA numbers for damage mitigation weren't pathetic coupled with the pathetic damage of archery. If they just fixed one of those it would be worth playing.

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Compared to what else TA does, I would say that is as specialized as TA gets since even OSA does -res if you slap an achilles heel proc on it. What else could you possibly even say it specializes in? There are only 4 powers that do anything well and that's EMPA, AA, OSA, and DA, half of those are -res (not counting you can make OSA a -res with a IO proc).