What are the best debuffs?
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Adeon Hawkwood,
Posted on: 2010-05-21 13:36 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
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Well, there is truth to what you say. Which why I was talking in general, all around terms. When you consider all of it's advantages, it's potency eairly, it's ease of use, it's covering the bases for all the debuffs you'd want, it's reletive ease to build. (it doesn't NEED a ton of recharge to keep it's debuffs applied perma. It benefits alot of great recharge don't get me wrong.)|
Originally Posted by Frosticus
They aren't though. It would be fair to say they are the easiest to play and leverage all around debuffers. That would easily explain their popularity even ignoring the legacy effect of rad.
But traps is a better debuffer (and a better buffer in many cases, but AM+rad aura and FFgen+triage are both pretty desirable, so which ever you prefer is fine) Cold under decent recharge is a better debuffer than rad as well and it is definitely a better buffer. However, rad matures very early, is very easy to play, and has been around much longer than cold and traps. So taking away its throne is probably not going to happen. |
It's got very high markes in all the different catogories, so as a whole in general i consider it the best. (the total sum of it's parts) And of coure it's IMO. YMMV.
Now i haven't played traps. I've tried but i just don't like it's relience on stationary objects and it's randomness. But i've played Cold and LOVE it. it's my go to debuffer over on the red side. And again, i enjoy TA. It's really underrated IMO.
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Both my Fire/Rad and Sonic/Cold Corr's are great debuffers. Although I do have to say Rad is a little better just for the fact that Lingering Radiation has a shorter recharge than Benumb. Having a perma -regen debuff is very important to me while soloing.
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Just throwing in my 2 inf that it's Traps, then a sizable gap to Rad and Cold, which are pretty close together with Dark just a smidge behind those two (maybe).
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-Rech and slow are very different things. -Rech reduces the rate at which enemies power's recharge while slow just reduces the speed at which they move. Slow is mostly only useful if you're a ranged character fighting melee enemies. Additionally Slow enhancements only work on speed debuffs, not recharge. That being said most powers that debuff speed also debuff recharge (there are some exceptions such as Caltrops).
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Originally Posted by Postagulous
I'd rather have -Rech, which functions like slow, but slow is more prevalent.
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But traps is a better debuffer (and a better buffer in many cases, but AM+rad aura and FFgen+triage are both pretty desirable, so which ever you prefer is fine)
Cold under decent recharge is a better debuffer than rad as well and it is definitely a better buffer.
However, rad matures very early, is very easy to play, and has been around much longer than cold and traps. So taking away its throne is probably not going to happen.