I'd rather get Thermal and Fire Blast, but I suppose AR/Traps will have to do for now. 
Hazel Black - Mind/Psi D
Stephanie Winters - Nightwidow
Jacqui Frost - Cold/Ice D
Jacqui Embers - Fire/Kin C
Simone Templar - Fire/MM B
Mallory Woods - Kin/Rad D
Sanguine Melody - Grav/Sonic C
Fumina Hara - Plant/Storm C
Nutmeg - Warshade
Lauren Wu - SS/WP B
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Well, somebody's got to start it.
Assault Rifle and Traps to be proliferated to defenders in issue 16, announcement here.
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D'oh! Beat me to it! I am so looking forward to AR for Defenders.
It's...true...
That means
Sonic/AR! here I come!
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I'd rather get Thermal and Fire Blast, but I suppose AR/Traps will have to do for now.
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Traps/AR, actually 
lol. Good point! Traps/AR it is....
Hazel Black - Mind/Psi D
Stephanie Winters - Nightwidow
Jacqui Frost - Cold/Ice D
Jacqui Embers - Fire/Kin C
Simone Templar - Fire/MM B
Mallory Woods - Kin/Rad D
Sanguine Melody - Grav/Sonic C
Fumina Hara - Plant/Storm C
Nutmeg - Warshade
Lauren Wu - SS/WP B
Woo, traps/AR!
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I am a bit disappointed in this as well.
Ooo, I can finally reroll my FF/NRG as the FF/AR she was meant to be!
The only thing we don't know is if Defender's Trap debuff/buff values are the same as MM and Corrs. If that's the case, then I don't think /Trap will be a popular Defender set, the same reason why Corr/Trap is kinda rare (it was awesome until they nerfed Poison Trap).
What's left is to normalize all Assassin Strikes and improve Stalker's old sets (Claw, MA and EM)! You don't need to bring back the missing PbAoE attack. You just need to make the existing ones better! For example, make Slice a WIDER and LONGER cone.
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I would've wanted Thermal/Fire as well, instead of lolAR.
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I'm honestly a bit surprised that we're getting Traps. It's a VERY pleasant surprise, nonetheless.
I agree with Jib though. Trapfenders will likely be pretty rare once the "Oooh, shiny!" novelty passes.
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
The statistical correlation between defender primary popularity and healing can't be overstated. It's ginormous. So unless there are Healing Bombs we don't know about, we won't see much Traps after the first week of Issue 16.
Still, if it's just a handful of forum people playing Traps in the long run, that's A-O-K with me.
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So unless there are Healing Bombs we don't know about, we won't see much Traps after the first week of Issue 16.
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What about Triage Beacon? - Especially if it's regen value is greater for defenders say 200% base?
If Traps buff/debuff values are greater than for corruptor/mm's then it will be an awesome set, even with the nerfed poison trap. If not, then people will complain until it gets a buff.
PRTECTR4EVR
regen bonus will be the same, since that's not affected by AT modifiers
however, forget traps (I know I'll play one at some point)
TA/AR here I come! about time!
No
Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo
I think you underestimate our fools, sir.
Why /duel is a bad idea
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TA/AR here I come! about time!
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yep, that too.
I have been wanting a traps/AR ever since proliferation was first mentioned.
SQUEEEEEE
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I've got some figgerin' to do. Will do one of
Traps/Arch Def
Arch/TA Corr
TA/AR Def
Actually it depends on the numbers key Traps powers get. If they get a nice Defender boost to Acid and FFG, I'll go that way, otherwise Arch/Traps Corr.
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So unless there are Healing Bombs we don't know about, we won't see much Traps after the first week of Issue 16.
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What about Triage Beacon? - Especially if it's regen value is greater for defenders say 200% base?
If Traps buff/debuff values are greater than for corruptor/mm's then it will be an awesome set, even with the nerfed poison trap. If not, then people will complain until it gets a buff.
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My ( wholly unsubstantiated ) hope is that they'll decide to make Triage Beacon mobile, for Defenders and everyone else. Fully slotted, it's a pretty good power for Masterminds with ranged pets who all stay in the aura. The real weakness of TB is that unless you sit in one spot, you don't get much from it.
Arc #40529 : The Furies of the Earth
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toe bombing at lvl 26 is nice. It will definitely be a very solo friendly defender primary, which is always nice to be able to toss around when people gripe about not being able to solo their defenders well.
I hope they actually bothered to redo some of the pseudo pets to use more AT appropriate numbers and while they are at it Corrs could use a review on some of the powers as well.
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The only thing we don't know is if Defender's Trap debuff/buff values are the same as MM and Corrs. If that's the case, then I don't think /Trap will be a popular Defender set, the same reason why Corr/Trap is kinda rare (it was awesome until they nerfed Poison Trap).
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Well considering most of Traps effects come in the form of pets (and not just pseudopets, but actual targetable pets that show up in a pet window) they'll probably have the same effects.
Unless of course a new set of "pets" is created specifically for Defender Traps, with higher values
Lol traps on defenders.
You all should pray that Castle makes you new pseudo pets. Otherwise you'll be doing Corr level debuffs with half the damage and no Scourge.
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Traps and TA will go together very nicely though. It'll be interesting to see how things might change.
Head of TRICK, the all Trick Arrow and Traps SG
Part of the Repeat Offenders
Still waiting for his Official BackAlleyBrawler No-Prize
FF generator!!!! 
Poison trap!!!!
Two of my most favourite powers ingame now heroside!!!!
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Traps and TA will go together very nicely though. It'll be interesting to see how things might change.
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I look pleasantly forward to lighting OSA with Ignite on some poor immobilized schmuck.
Well, somebody's got to start it.
Assault Rifle and Traps to be proliferated to defenders in issue 16, announcement here.