Worst of the Worst

The only good things about Time Bomb and Gun Drone happen to be I can pick other powers that are infinitely more useful. Like whirlwind and flurry. And I am a devout AR/Dev player...that is how bad those two powers suck. I am still hoping that someday we get the 007 Trip Mines with no interrupt. Devices has a good set of mitigation powers, but unless you are competent enough to deploy them properly on a team, you will probably be laughed at.

If you avoid things with -def, psychic attacks, or toxic attacks softcapped EA *is* better than SR - it does everything SR does plus gives you a better tier 9, endurance recovery, and a stealth power. The only thing it misses out on is the (significant to some builds) recharge bonus.

However, -def is available to many (perhaps most) enemy groups in the game, psychic attacks are no longer rare even blueside due to tip missions, and even toxic in the late game has seen some more proliferation. Really, it's been like taking a hammer to the hands of a guy hanging from the edge of a cliff.

I wonder if giving EA the same defense debuff resistance of SR would lead to 'sr sucks' threads?

As it stands as far as worst of the worst goes my least enjoyed brute primary has been dual blades, neck in neck with battleaxe, and my least favorite secondary has been energy armor, followed closely by shield defense. Yeah, yeah... shield defense is a beast when IOed out... but I IO as a hobby for level 50s, not a goal in and of itself so I judge what I like and don't around SOs while leveling, not what mids says will happen once I get there if I slot 5 sets of this and that. I've never slotted a set of kinetic combat, and likely never will.

Most of the MM level 18 powers are kinda worthless. I mean, Gang War is kind of funny but it doesn't do much except get in everyone's way, and maybe eat an alpha strike. And serum and repair are beyond worthless. The only lvl 18 power that's any good is in Necro.

The pool powers have a lot of doozies. Someone mentioned flurry and whirlwind before. The entire presence pool sucks hard except maybe for tankerminds, and jump kick is so worthless it makes Propel look like a good attack power.

For APP/PPP's, I don't get the point of armors that don't protect against all. Temp Invuln from field mastery gives the best resistance and the detailed info says it protects against *all* forms of damage. Or is that a bug?

I hate EA' energy cloak!! ewwwww a stealthy brute. they need to port that secondary to scrappers where a little stealth would be useful.
its brute smash! not brute hide !

I pick dual pistols it looks cool but the damage is horrid. Maybe this changes at later levels, but I cant get it past 16 to find out.


As for wasted bad powers how about any snipe and in particular that snipe/hold in ice blast (forgot the name) thats a real lemon of a power too.

Seeing as my Dark/Dark Brute has gotten frequent flier miles from the hospital due to how often she faceplants, and the fact that I utterly loathe the way she plays, I'm going to say DM/DA for worst set.

I await the ensuing mass of people telling me that I need to learn to play or some such.

Haven't tried it on a brute, but my DA/DM tanker has a blast, and is adequately-indestructible. Meaning on the very rare occasions when things manage to take me down, I just get up and whack 'em more.

Having the trip mines lay out a mine field would be great, but they would set eachother off and most of the damage would be wasted... But it would be a hell of a lot faster than the way they work now. Time bomb seems to pair well with Siren's call, but utterly useless otherwise... how would you fix that?