Another "Which AT for X/X" thread
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Posted on: 2011-10-20 24:46 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
I would go Kin/Sonic. The buff/debuff values for Kinetics will be better, giving you more damage, but the -Res effects from the Sonic attacks will be better as well, allowing you to pile up even more damage over time.
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Sonic is commonly said to be the only blast set where it's better to be a defender than a corr. The -res from sonic is much bigger. It's really the only set where pretty much everybody will suggest to be a defender.
Tricky.
Normally I'd say the go-to answer for Kinetics is a Corruptor, due to their higher damage cap.
I'd also say a Defender for Sonic Blast.
For this combo, I'd give the nod to the Defender. You may not be doing massive damage yourself, but Kinetics combined with the Sonic -res means the team will.
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That was about my initial thought process as well, but I've never played Kin on a Defender, so I have no idea if the damage cap would actually be an issue without other buffers.
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Originally Posted by Silas
Tricky.
Normally I'd say the go-to answer for Kinetics is a Corruptor, due to their higher damage cap. I'd also say a Defender for Sonic Blast. For this combo, I'd give the nod to the Defender. You may not be doing massive damage yourself, but Kinetics combined with the Sonic -res means the team will. |
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Having played a /Sonic Defender. You'll do enough damage solo, as to not matter. No really...solo wise, I havent seen much of a difference between Defenders/Corrs to really make it that big of a difference in who you solo with.|
Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
That was about my initial thought process as well, but I've never played Kin on a Defender, so I have no idea if the damage cap would actually be an issue without other buffers.
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Personally, I'd say Defender with this combo. Why? Because the important blasts can be gotten by lvl 28 at the latest. The nuke isn't important (imo) enough to worry about getting it at lvl 32.
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I have Kin/Son def w/o IO sets and I can hit dam cap solo
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Originally Posted by Draeth Darkstar
That was about my initial thought process as well, but I've never played Kin on a Defender, so I have no idea if the damage cap would actually be an issue without other buffers.
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I see a lot of threads like this, understandably, because some sets favor one AT that gets them over another, and this is a great place to learn about that conventional wisdom.
So, Powers Forum, what would you do if you wanted to make a set pairing where one set favored one AT and the other, the opposite one?
The specific instance I've been thinking about making is Sonic/Kinetics Corruptor versus Kinetics/Sonic Defender. My initial gut response was to go for Kin/Sonic, but the more I think about it the more I wonder if I'll regret the lower damage cap on a Defender, even though I don't think a single /Kin Corruptor is that likely to damage cap themselves.
I'm sure there's other combinations like this, but I can't actually think of any off the top of my head.
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