/kin advice?

Mainly i want to know about endurance. With a self +endurance power do I need stamina? Do I need to end reduce powers?

About Primaries:

Is Dual pistols any good? I would think about paying the money to get that early if it is not just a novelty set.

Fire? Best AoE primary?

ty!

I would still take stamina. My Fire/Kin burns through his blue bar pretty quickly once he gets the Siphon Speeds rolling (not to mention Hasten and set bonuses). While it is probably possible that you can go without, I think it is far too convient of a power to pass up.

Archery is best for AoE with Fire being second, though you may prefer Fire as it has faster casting times, especially for the 3rd tier blast.

Thanks guys.

Yeah, I would rather pay for GR later and if Fire is still a good choice I think I will go with that. TY also about Stamina. It stays in.

as mentioned, mitigation is a key missing from /kin. if you plan to do much soloing then i would recommend air superiority for mob juggling. it allows you to close in and utilize transfusion on a regular basis without nearly as much return fire, and it's available early. hover is also a good choice for a /kin using siphon speed. indoors this makes a huge difference in combat, allowing you to hover over a mob out of range of melee while firing off transfusion/transference/fulcrum while in a team with little return fire.

up until you get transference, stamina is definitely recommended and slotted. after that reduce the number of slots, and use io's to maximize it. you'll still cruise through endurance with the number of buffs everyone will be screaming for, and the attacks you'll still want to use ;p

Do siphons stack? I am having a hard time testing this. Are Siphon Speed and Siphon Power the same? If I have enough recharge can I have an overlap where I get double the bonus for a short while?

ty!

The buffs stacks with itself. I cannot confirm but I do not think the debuffs stack with itself though.

Ive never taken stamina with any /kin... that being said, I could see taking it until 35 and respecing out, after transference, Stamina is a ffa action, just hit the tap and fill up the cup. On a build with hasten and 2 50 recharge IOs, your looking at 10 second recharge, my current DP/kin can pop it every 7.27 without any siphon speeds stacked, drops to 6.35 with 3 stacked... minimal.. but the point being, 3 power picks to achieve what you could do with 1 power, and heck, miss every once in a while, its not that big a deal, you couldnt have blown all your END in 6 seconds.

I suppose it's nice to have that little bit of backup, but at a point its like wearing a parachute to go hang gliding.

Do tell, what other awesome kin stuff might you be doing that would interfere? And I say this in jest mostly. While transference isnt just youre friend, it's a groups friend, other than the heal and FS when up, the occassional ID.... most your time is spent outside the kin pool!

I have a DP Kin at 50 with S / L Defense cap and something else I think. Not home to give you a straight answer. But I can tell you I am soloing +1 +8 missions and AE missions. Again not that it means much, but its decent when I want to solo and get some tickets. The build is cheap also.

I will say sometimes the KB of DP is nice. especially with the Tier 3 attack which is Knock down at the end. Think it is called Hail of bullets. When stuff goes bad and many are getting hurt, I jump into the crowd and use to to knock many of the mobs down and then use a heal to hopefully get some players back up.

Though I use either the Fire for extra DPS that does not do KB or the Debuff one. I just find no use for the cold attack. Either I Debuff to help the team or help do damage.

I do not find the damage lacking of DP as some may say, but it could be because I am using FS before opening up with my AOE's having a 10 stack helps the dps.

I'm partial to Ice/ as one of the synergiest (I know that's not a real word, but it gets the idea across) primaries for a /kin. It's got decent AOE in the form of Ice Storm and if you have a second kin in ur team to speed boost and transference u, it will outshine all the other primaries with its T9 nuke. Also the -Recharge from Ice powers and Web Envelope from ur patron pool gives u some excellent mitigation for when ur soloing. Plus u get 2 holds for pesky bosses.

Softcapping Ice/Kin for S/L def is cheaper than dirt. Makes it quite easy to farm 0/8 if ur so inclined.

One of the issues I have with DP is the redraw, which gets especially annoying when recasting web envelope all the time. I like Fire too but it's not as cheap a softcapping build.

AR/Kin is nice.

Lot's of AoE (5 powers total, counting ignite) and mitigation in KB. I can keep enemies juggled with buckshot, slug, grenade. Plus, AR's snipe is the most gratifying especially when you get 1 shot kills with fulcrum. Also, if you pick up any immobilize patron powers, a fulcrum'd Ignite patch deals some insane damage.

I know Fire receives a lot of praise for being the AoE/Damage king, but I'm, personally, putting in my vote for AR.

One more thing, with all the KB in the set, you can cheaply 6-slot for Kinetic Crash which give +7.5% recharge and 3(4?, dont recall) points of KB reduction.