what about a traps/ defender?

anyone have any experience with a traps/ defender?

Does it handle any differently than it does on red side?

What secondaries do you like for it?

I haven't played one redside, but I recently started up a Traps/Psi Defender and have been enjoying it so far. It seems to be a decent set gameplay-wise thus far, though I can't say I like the look of it. And three of the powers seem pretty skippable to me.

And there was another Traps thread around here wherein the patrons were claiming that every secondary goes well with Traps.

It's hard to go wrong with Traps/ on a defender choosing a secondary. On my traps defender, I went with /dark to help with -tohit. It's a real BEAST on teams, and not bad solo either.

My Traps Defender is AR .

As Psy says pretty much any secondary goes well with Traps. The nice thing about Traps is that it has a little bit of everything so whatever secondary you take you can stack the secondary effects with something from Traps. The only two I'd avoid are Rad and Energy, they'll both work but neither really plays to the strength of Traps. In the case of Rad Acid Mortar provides a lot of -def so the extra is pretty much overkill. In the case of Energy it's to much kb for my liking, Traps does benefit from having some kb to get enemies out of your face and into your caltrops (I use Buckshot and Thunderstrike) but if all of your attacks do kb it makes it harder to keep enemies bunched up in a beneficial way.

Traps anything is fine. I think I like traps/dark the most. You're a tank starting the minute you can stack FFG, Seekers, TT, and NF. By the time you add Triage, Aid Self, or Drain Life it just starts getting silly. Add in Vengeance and Force of Nature and ...

Iv got a Traps/Rad and a Traps/Sonic.Both good fun.

I personally like Traps/ far more for a defender than a corruptor. Having it as a primary instead of a secondary means you can get all of the cornerstone powers by level 18... and Traps being Traps, that basically means you're prepared to deal with anything the game can throw at you. I'm going to add my support for Traps/Dark being an excellent team character. Soloing, it doesn't do the greatest damage, but there are some definite benefits to being able to combine FFG's +defense, and the -ToHit on your attacks to essentially softcap yourself.

My Traps/DP is 36 now. So far I'm using Toxic for -dmg on teams, Fire for my own +dmg solo. Hella fun, I have to say.

My first Trap Def was /Elec, which is nothing special with Traps.

Ice is nice. That was a Corr I made, not Def, but with the holds and slows, I'd say it's one of the better pairings for Traps.

Your style does dictate a secondary. Like to just drop acid mortar in the middle or in front of the spawn? Dp for middle and Dark for front.....aoes vs cones. just something to consider.

I play occasionally on a Traps/AR superteam. Stacking three or four defense drones is godly and a bunch of acid mortars decimate mobs and bosses alike. Solo, it's not as fun, but surely doable.

I've got a Traps/Ice that I ran to 50, soloing much of the way. I solo on +1/8 and can go to +2/8 against some enemies. My standard sequence is:

- Seekers to grab aggro
- Jump in and set Acid Mortar
- Fire off Dark epic Soul Drain
- Set Poison Gas Trap

At this point, usually much of the spawn is held by either the PGT, the +2 Mag proc in PGT or the Devastation Chance for Hold in Acid Mortar

- Throw out Caltrops
- Fire off Ice Storm

At this point, anything that isn't still held is running (very slowly).

- Drop down a Trip Mine

Now all minions are down and I work on Bosses. Most Lts are way down on health and die quickly.

I am surprised only one mentioned sonic. Put them all to sleep with sonic blast and lay your mines/poison and then the mortar when you are ready, etc.

I have traps/dark and it works well on teams. TT is quite synergistic with all of Traps Debuffs. Traps/Sonic isn't bad. But the AoE Sleep trick doesn't work to well with teams that want to move quickly. Traps/Dark brings a lot to team play (not that Sonic's -RES is anything to sneeze at...).

Leveling a Traps/DP now and he is a ball! I am runnning him at level 8 (eight) -1 x 6.

I drop calthrops in front of a group, drop back and use Acid Mortar and then open up with the bullets! I don't even have Triage yet and haven't been close to defeated.