SS/FA vs Storm defender for farming

Discuss.

lol?

Check out last patch.

... not seeing it.

Im confused, dont see any nerf for ss/fire or some epic buff for storm

I think he's talking about how pets now apply interface procs. So all of your rain powers should be awesome now?

This might be awesome for my Fire/Cold corr....

Edit: I don't think its going to out pace a ss/fire.

DoT still only stacks up to 6 i believe. And SS/fire has burn anyway :P

Winner!

I suppose that particular change affects Burn too, although it only hits 5 targets. SS/Fire might remain on top. Just wanted a cool headline.

Storm/Ice with Freezing Rain / Ice Storm >> SS/FA

My Fire/Cold corr is tearing up mobs faster than statesman on FS.

EDIT: For some reason Sleet is doing higher DoT than Rain of Fire. I thought it was the -resist that's raising the DoT. But even if I use RoF right after sleet, it still does less DoT than Sleet. A little intriguing.
P.S: Yes. -resist does seem to raise the DoT. With Heatloss I'm getting about 25 ticks of damage with SLeet rather than 17. And 20 with RoF rather than 13.
I wonder how the Musculature Alpha affects that. I don't have a toon with both a rain power and musculature to test ATM.

Definately going to go play with this when I get off work!

It also gives me a reason to dust off my Ice/storm Corr who has been sitting in the late 30's for a while now. Ice storm, Freezing Rain, and blizzard.

Basically what this patch has done is turned every Rain type power into a fully Fulcrum Shifted Blizzard.

Interface procs seem to be bugged for pseudopets. I watched my combat log carefully as Burn ticked away on a Pylon. I did not see more than a few ticks of the Reactive proc. It should have been going off for almost every tick of the burn patch.

it works just fine for rain powers and regular pets. I just don't know about how would Burn work out with it's somewhat unique "target checking" attributes.

Finally. After seven years, a bug that affects my favorite toon in a positive manner. <wipes tear>

Well then, this is amazing. I’ll have to take a look on my dom, only toon with a rain power and reactive.

It is very likely they might put out more AoE dmg. But im not sure how practical it will be, considering a storm def might have some trouble surviving in the middle of a huge mob (best form of farming)

I cap ranged def with a S/L resistance shield and Tough on my squishies - on defenders/controllers that gives you 65-70% S/L res. By itself it's not enough to take on +4/x8 ambush with bosses, but popping green insps as needed I can handle it. I'm thinking with Destiny Rebirth +regen it should work just fine (don't have it yet on the character I was using, which for reference was a fire/cold controller).

Storm particulary, I just named that one for bait/fun. Storm is usually considered the bane of AoE minmaxers, what with LS, Tornado and Hurricane scattering those mobs we love to keep tightly bunched up together (unless one spends time herding stuff to corners, but... that's time spent) ; but with Freezing Rain and a blast set like Ice (as Wanted suggested) it should probably be competitive with the best farmers, the way things are right now. I think a fire/cold corruptor would be much more interesting to farm with.

Brutes could earn 3 millions in raw influence from kills per minute before I20. It is in my opinion the best metric, as it evaluates defeat speed and doesn't tie you to a specific build, map, or earning goal. What mission you use, what settings you use should be entirely up to you ; find what works best for your character as to get the best numbers possible.

Okay, I clearly know absolutely nothing about farming or farms. I think I've heard the term 'ambush farm' before, but I've never seen such a beast. The best I could do after some slight tweaking of my difficulty settings was a bit under 1 million inf/min, but clearly this wasn't farming, it was running a bog-standard CoH mission quickly. I would be interested to see what someone who had a clue could do though.

Ranged softcap, 65% S/L res (epic shield + Tough) and green insps were enough for me to farm +4/x8 S/L ambush farms, with bosses on, on my fire/cold controller. She has about 1200hp IIRC.

On a corruptor, I'd go with the same plan - except I'd probably use a temp jetpack to fly slightly over their head (the controller can AoE immobilize stuff forcing them to be at range, I assume more mobs would get to melee and be a threat on a corruptor). Another option would be to go Leviathan for the AoE immobilize, I suppose - it animates slowly, but the lion's share of the damage is done by the reactive procs from your rains and you're bound to have downtime with the only two fast recharging AoEs you have being fire ball and fire breath. The corruptor only gets to about 50% S/L res, so it might be needed to either use both green and orange insps, or get the Rebirth +regen destiny and some orange insps.

The above paragraph being, of course, complete theorycraft. I don't have a fire/cold corruptor.

... Yet.