Disruption arrow?

Is disruption arrow good?

Yes.

If you don't tak Disruption Arrow, the other TA players will laugh at you

It's Ok. It is a one-trick pony, and is far outshined by a lot of other -res powers. For one thing it only does half the -res of Tar Patch, Freezing Rain and Sleet, plus they all have other effects too. Ennervating Field also trumps in in the -Res department, and does -Damage as well.

For a TA it's basically a "must take", since more -res is always useful. But when you look at other, similiar powers in other sets the numbers will make you sad.

It could do with a bit of a buff, say adding some -regen to it as well.

I will say I use Disruption Arrow a lot on my Mind/TA 'troller.

With the non-agro mass sleep power you can sleep all the foes, fire oil slick arrow, fire disruption arrow (which won't wake them up like acid arrow will) at a leisurely pace and then BURN BABY BURN!

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Okay, here's the skinny on Disruption.

The endurance cost is too high for what it does, the target limit is too low for the type of power it is and it isn't a particularly impressive power. The recharge is too long, too, and since it's immobile, it can be wasted if you aren't getting foes into the AoE or have them secured in place before using it.

However, it comprises half of TA's native -Res, it's got a much larger radius than Acid and it lasts up to 5s after the enemy leaves the AoE. It has a total duration of 35s, due to the 5s long pulses. And it can even interrupt powers with interrupt periods (use it on a Sky Raider Engineer, for example, to stop him from summoning that pesky FFG). Something which is also noteworthy is that it can stack with itself, because it's a pet, so if you have enough +Recharge, you can use Disruption more than once and gain the effects of each use.

It has its benefits and drawbacks. Whether the benefits outweigh the drawbacks will be entirely determined by each individual's play style.

To really utilize Disruption properly, you have to set it up. You have to use Glue or OSA or Tenebrous Tentacles or something else to keep a spawn (or another player) in place before you pop Disruption. If you don't like setting up powers like that, if you prefer to just run and gun, then skip it. It'll just sit in your tray and wait for you to remember it's there once in a while, and annoy you.

If you're comfortable spending a few extra seconds making sure your foes can't wander out of the AoE freely, and you can manage the endurance cost, or you're determined to go for a high +Recharge build and stack -Res until spawns just give up and lie down out of realization of what will happen if you look at them funny with that much -Res on them, then take it and use it.

Different people are always going to play in different ways, and every power isn't going to fit everyone's preference. Heck, different characters are going to have different approaches. I find that I rarely use it on my TA/A or TA/Dark, but I fire it every chance I get when I'm playing my Fire/TA controller or Bots/TA mastermind, and I'm absolutely drooling at the prospect of getting it for my Fire/TA corruptor (just a few more levels... just a few more levels!). You don't have to take it, but it is useful and it does help. If the endurance cost, target limit and recharge time issues are ever addressed, then I'd recommend that everyone take it and even if they don't like using it, adapt and use it anyway, but until then, it's just not the end-all and be-all of TA and if you don't see a compelling need for it, don't fret over it.

For those who do want to use it, here are a couple of binds which can help make it a little less unwieldy.

/bind shift+lbutton "powexec_name Disruption Arrow"

With that bind, you hold down Shift and click the left mouse button, and Disruption will be fired wherever you clicked. Even straight up in the air.

/bind shift+rbutton "powexec_name Disruption Arrow"

With that bind, you hold down Shift and click the right mouse button, and the targeting ring for Disruption will come up on your pointer. This is for those who prefer to see the rings and target it more precisely. When you have your pointer where you want the arrow to fire, click the left button.

You can substitute ctrl or alt for shift, by the way, so those of you with multiple click targeted AoEs, like OSA, RoA, Disruption, Teleport, Recall Friend, etc., can do it all with just ctrl, alt and shift and the two mouse buttons.

Well, I think I've pretty well convinced myself to skip out on Ice Arrow. I like it, but the recharge just kills it for me. Even after it gets slotted and you get some good global recharge bonuses going you still have to be pretty proactive with it in order to get efficient use out of it. About the only really cool (no pun intended there) way to use it I can think of would be to stack it with EMP Arrow to hold a spawn + a boss, but that wouldn't be available every fight as I think at best EMP Arrow can be up every other fight.

*shrug*

I'm starting to think that either TA is a half-done set or it's one of the best designed sets, because as someone else mentioned a lot of the powers feel like half-powers when compared to similar powers in other sets, but at the same time deciding on which power to drop if you need to drop one is very difficult because pretty much every single power is useful to have.

In the context of the set, it's good. Considering I have a grudge against TA since I get frustrated whenever I try to finish my TA/Arch defender to 50 because of how little I feel like I'm adding to the team, whenever I'm not busy getting my *** kicked because I draw tons of aggro since everything I do is AoE... eh.