cross posted build critique request - rad/beam

i know i can probably drop vengeance and fallout and something else for tough and weave to be a little more sturdy, but the question is do i need to? cause i sure love fallout and vengeance, it makes me feel happy when people die!


http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showt...=1#post3963904

well.. Ill respond to my own post since noone gave me a build critique.

I am 25 now with my second namesake (first was a dark/rad defender). I have to say, radiation defenders on teams absolutely trivializes content, especially if you're grouped with another debuffing set. I teamed with a delightful archery/poison corrupter last night, Dryad Knight. Between the two of us, we had our team thinking they could just jump into piles of mobs on +4/8 before the green clouds appeared on the mobs and then they started splitting off into different directions.. basically, they became like a bunch of unruly hyperactive children due to our lended overconfidence. hearing things like "wow my attacks hit really hard!" "I feel like a regen scrapper!" "We ought to turn up the difficulty..." make my defendering little heart feel good, and reminded me why i like defendering in the first place all over again!

I usually see that as a good thing, since it gives me a chance to use fallout.

Solo, it is a difficult set to do anything higher than base difficulty due to the extreme costs of running choking cloud + toggles + attacking. However, this is likely because I only have one slot in my attacks so far, so i need to use them more often than i would had i balanced out my slotting better. I can solo with absolute safety, but then again, its base difficulty and that is to be expected.

I expect that once I get the slotting balanced out and start to slot in some IO's it will really shine.