Worst of the Worst

I wouldn't at all mind trip mine getting a much shorter to nonexistent interruption period. I don't think I'd want it changed as much as "click button to scatter several". Placement matters, and I like to be careful with it.

Time bomb is actually useful if you can be invisible or have a long enough and reliable enough sleep. (You'd need a non-aggro sleep in case you missed too many targets with it and needed to try again...)

We're on the 3rd page and still no mention of Electric Blast?

I have a lvl 50 Elec/Dev blaster I consider my greatest achievement, or at least my most determined effort (no PLs while leveling up). Solo, end drain and caltrops made things moderately safe, but still... This was my first blaster. When I made my next blaster, I was amazed how quickly mobs could actually be killed.

I've come back to this thread, this time to make a serious response.

Peacebringers.

They're supposed to be a "jack of all trades" AT that does a little bit of everything. The problem is that they do too little of everything.

Peacebringers have resistance and heals which weaker than a scrapper's and far weaker than tanker's. But that's because they have ranged AoE attacks. Is it? Because I see scrappers and tankers throwing fireballs, tanks with gloom and dark obliteration. Many of them have either a ranged single target or a ranged cone attack in their primary/secondary as well. Scrappers are doing more ranged damage from behind larger amounts of mitigation. Who's the tankmage now?

Peacebringers have ranged AoE attacks that pale in comparison to that of blasters. Even switching into nova form and forsaking mitigation still leaves you behind the curve. Then again, peacebringers have more survival tools than blasters. Do they? Because I see blasters with defense and resistance shields that are of greater value than the PBs. They can get +max health or even a god mode.





Let's face it, people, everyone does everything better than a Peacebringer.

One of the worst Alts I've gotten to 50 is my Bots/FF mm. I know Bots is one of the better MM sets if not the best after 32. However, this alt took me forever to level up. It litteraly took all of the fun out of the game. You are now a buff bot for your pets and your team. After the changes to difficulty settings, soloing isn't as bad as it was when I level'd this monstrousity to 50.

Now after saying that, I'd have to say pairing soldiers with Force Fields... I can't even imagine how horrible that experience would be. Not only are the soldiers the worst (IMO) set for MM, the force fields are just horrible. In all seriousness Force Fields are for the most part useless and outshined by Cold domination in all reguards save for some mez protection. Not only are the defense values the same for the shields, Cold gets some damage resistance as well from the shields. Plus the debuffs and mitigation you get from slowing everything to a crawl.

My nomination for the worst designed powers in the game:

1. Time Bomb: Takes way too long to activate and it has 8s interruption. If you are pulling mobs into your traps, you are better off setting several Trip Mines.


2. Poison Trap under /Poison (not Trap). If I remember correctly, this power is just an AoE sleep but the real bad part is that it has 4s interruption when you set it up? I have a lvl 50 /Poison but I skipped the power based on the description. I've never taken it and I've never seen it in action either. Maybe there is reason why I've never seen in action?


3. Repel aura under Stalker Energy Aura: I have a lvl 50 /EA Stalker and I've tried that repel toggle. It seems neat at first but the endurance cost is just too high and it takes like 2s to activate. It may have a purpose in PvP since Repel and Knockback are different? Who knows. I just don't see much point of it in PvE. It may cause more harm than good if you are melee and trying to push everyone away.

In regards to Dark Armor, my Kin/Dark Stalker just hit 50. Dark Armor is "neat". It has some interesting powers.

I think the biggest problem is in Dark Regeneration (the aoe healing power) because you normally only need two targets to fuel your health back to full but you spend like 30+ endurance for it. If you are a tank and you usually have more than two targets, you are really "over-healing" yourself. My problem with Dark Armor is usually running out of endurance in the end. I would rather have Dark Regeneration give a tiny bit of +resistance boost from each target because "over-healing" yourself doesn't make you survive longer.


PS: I am surprised to hear that Dark Armor sucks on Tanker. It actually looks pretty good to me on paper.

I like threads like this because it usually turns out that the 'worst' combos are ones I'm playing. As it happens, I've got a Grav/Sonic and a Merc/FF. MA/Fire came up in the last thread like this while I was working on mine before the buffs.

That said, the Merc/FF is kinda bad, even with the synergy between the sets. Thankfully he's more of a concept/rp character, so effectiveness is a secondary concern.

My dual pistols/devices blaster is 49. I never thought of her as sucking, although obviously I don't get much out of more than half my devices powers on a team. And I've teamed almost all the way to 50; she's a part of a "static team" that meets every Monday, Tuesday, and Thursday night. (We also have an electric blaster, heh).

I like that dual pistols has 3 AoEs that recharge fast. I like that it also gives me a couple of good single-target options. I like the animations, whether they slow me down or not, they look cool. My toon is pretty well IO'd out so maybe I don't notice the suckitude as much.

I don't get to use trip mines very often on a team, but solo they're fun to play with, just very slow. As for time bomb... what I like about it is I can run ahead (invisible -- superspeed plus cloaking device), plant one in a large group, then back off. Usually it goes off just as everyone attacks. Solo, I'll lay my trip mines at a corner, place the time bomb in the group, hide around the corner, and wait for things to happen.

I mostly picked /devices because I wanted to avoid any "blapper" powers. I've done blapper-style blasters. And it sort of fits thematically, of course, for someone without any real super powers. But yeah, I get the most mileage out of cloaking device, targeting drone, and caltrops. I usually forget to even summon the stupid gun drone -- wouldn't be so bad if it lasted longer like a normal pet.

One thing that might be nice for a /devices set is a shield generator like the sky raiders summon. ^_^

I also have a sonic/sonic defender at 45... I don't find her that underpowered.

On the other hand, I absolutely agree that my level 41 Peacebringer just isn't good enough at anything. :/ Especially compared to what my Warshade can do.

Stealth doesn't make them move slow anymore. But it still doesn't really do anything for them.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

Effing time bomb sucks the most. It is horrible. Every power or type has a stupid white knight that will defend it or tell you it is fine and W.A I.

as for combinations: Find one with the most weapon redraw would be my guess.

Looks like Peacebringer is leading the poll now....