Dominators and Blasters are an actual threat.
Widows and Fortuna's may be hard to hit sometimes for some builds but their damage is low and avoidable. Their best bet is to web you and hope there is someone else around so they can KS while the target is perma travel suppressed because zones are good.
what he said, while in PvE forts are great, and are generally always on demand for Trials, Taskforces, and Strikeforces, there not so great for PvP.
Defense - it can help, SOMETIMES, but no where near as reliable as in PvE. I'm not sure of how a Forts defense compares to a SR Scrapper with similar PvE Defense Values.
Control - a strong componant for PvE, its of marginal utility in PvP, your best control power available is the Web thingie in the Patron Power pool, and that more to ground things than anything else
Damage - you just don't have enough damage in PvP, your best damage power is the sharks power in the Patron Pool, and this isn't helped by everyone having hibernate when you do manage to wittle someone down.
In team PvP, they can be somewhat effective
Their biggest Pro's is having fairly good stealth values for anyone who isn't a stalker, and having the highest perception along with Soldiers, that is being able to detect stalkers better than other toons( note just being able to see a stalker won't mean you immune to his stalker critical, even when not placated)
In PvP 1.0 they were fairly decent, and even in the very early days of PvP 2.0, before the dev's nerfed both their damage AND defense( in all fairness one or the other should've been nerfed, but not both)
I recently was looking into spending a load of cashish on a toon for World PvP.
the toon in mind was my Widow (Fortunata spec) as I have noticed on the server I play (Freedom) there are a lot of pure ranged battles with lots of blasters and corruptors.
Seeing is how I already have a 50 Widow that has soft capped defense and some nice psonic dmg, I was wondering if anyone has experience with there high end PvP toon fighting a fortunata, and how it would compare against a Dominator or Blaster?
Or should I start working on something more viable for World PvP
Thanks in advance