-Regen
Whoa. Got caught up in Dragon Age: Origins and forgot the rest of the world existed. My apologies for the necromancy, but I needed to say that I was wrong.
I was wrong about Poison Trap. I have it, I've had ample opportunity to test it, but I never actually bothered because I used it so infrequently. Having recently done so, I'll have tartar sauce with my crow, please.
I was wrong about the Chem nuke. I would have sworn that it had a 5m duration, because I checked it when I was working on the Rocketman badge for my TA/Dark and again when I was experimenting with soloing GMs on that same character, but after checking it once more, I was clearly mistaken.
I was also wrong in the very foundation of my arguments. I took a corner case example, */Sonic, specifically TA/Sonic, and attempted to use it to prove a point, all the while disregarding the fact that any of the powersets with -Regen can be paired with any of the blast sets with -Res, allowing a much wider range of combinations and offering potentially superior options.
I was wrong. I was irritated by the comment "-Regen dwarfs -Res" and went to ridiculous extremes to dispute it. I still don't agree with that statement, but I overreacted and blew this entire discussion out of proportion.
I was wrong, and I apologize.
EDIT: Sorry OP for going Offtopic but it seems you go the answers you were looking for
Thanks again all.