What would you guys have instead of Posi Blast?

Inspired by the debate in the Kheld forum and my own dislike for Posi Blast when I can avoid it, what enhancement set for targeted AoE would you create to be the "Obliteration" to Posi Blast's "Scurocco's Dervish". And what, in your opinion, makes Posi Blast meh?

To me, it is the range increase with some lackluster bonuses. I only tend to slot it because out of all the TAoE's, it is the lesser of all the evils and cheaper than the purple set with the useless (to me) knockback.

And as for my idea, it would be this.

War Walker's Blast:

Acc/Dam
Dam/End
Dam/Recharge
Acc/Dam/End
End/Acc/Recharge
Proc chance for a 10% radius increase

Have it give a small amount of recovery, ranged defence, protection to stun or hold and 7.5% recharge, I think that would work.

I use ATOs if it is a targeted AoE. If it is a ranged cone, I prefer to use 2 parts Javelin Volley (Acc/End/Rech, Acc/Dam/End/Rech) and 2 Synthetic Centrioles at level 52+. Regarding cones, targeting geometry on this type of attack is far more important than set bonuses, and having +46% range, 95% damage, Acc, End, and Recharge at a greater value than one 50 IO each for just 4 slots is about as good as it gets.

Well I wouldn't normally suggest something like this because I would call it too good, but then again the AT sets are also too good in much the same way so maybe at this point the devs are more interested in just adding whatever they think people want than sticking to some rigid definition of set balance. So, having said that, I would remove the acc/dam piece from posi's blast and add a dam/end/rech/range piece. That's all. Sets that give large global accuracy bonuses do not, in my opinion, need to themselves contain a large amount of accuracy. If they wanted to go really crazy though they could additionally change the dam/rech into an acc/dam/rech.

The problem with AoE sets.

~ Posi's gives up recharge enhancement for range. There are many builds where I would much rather have the power recharging faster than giving it extra range. Like Fireball.

~ We have no good set that adds to mitigation. I would love an alternate targetted AoE set with some defense for example.

I doubt +Range is the first thing that comes to mind when most people consider mitigation, but I would definitely consider it *A* form of mitigation. Having played a perma-Boost Range blaster in the past I can definitely appreciate using range as a form of defense. I realize that "zomg soft-cap" is what this game has turned in to, but being able to take out enemies before they can come in to range and even attack is nice also.

i personally like the posi blast set because it has global rech set bonus, i use that if i have a lot of target aoe powers but already have the purp set, IMO all of the other target aoe sets are kind of meh and i usually avoid them

They just need to create more Target AoE sets so we have more variety to choose from.

I think Posi Blast set is great for "cone" attacks. The +range does help quite a bit.

Honestly? I think we're long overdue for some new invention sets (of all types) to be added to the game. We've never had a wide selection of targeted aoe sets and what we have is meh outside of posi-blast and ONLY because of the recharge set bonus it has... if it didnt have that it would be about as meh as the rest.

I don't honestly know what I'd like to see for set bonuses but I'd love to see a TAOE proc that has a 5% (or 10) chance to summon a pet at the target point, 8' radius 5 target AOE that does your damage again (think critical)

Positron's Blast is an OK set - not exactly horrible, but it would annoy me much less if there were other useful options (besides Ragnarok, which is very expensive). After all, as a set it's not much worse than Crushing Impact or Decimation, and I don't complain about using either of those when I want a recharge bonus. But unlike CI or Decimation, there's nothing else in the TAoE category I can use if I want a defense bonus instead of recharge, and the TAoE category as a whole has very few good options even if I abandon set bonuses and try to frankenslot to get good recharge values (of the 7 triples/quads in the set category, three don't enhance recharge at all, one is unique and costs hundreds of millions, and the last 3 belong to a PvP set, although thankfully not a prohibitively expensive one).

I would probably still use Positron's Blast frequently (although obviously less frequently than now), and be annoyed by it much less, if at least one of those problems was addressed.

Positron's Blast is a good set. The problem with it is that it's the ONLY (non-Unique) good set in its category, and its bonuses aren't what every build needs, not are its enhancement values.

If more TAoE sets were added, I'd still use Posi's Blast. I just wouldn't ALWAYS use ONLY Posi's Blast.

Castle's Turret

Acc/Dam/Rech
Acc/Dam/End
Dam/End/Rech
End/Rech/Range
Acc/Dam/Range
Proc 2% chance per target hit to cast a 10 second break free effect on the caster

set bonuses

2 - 2.5% recovery
3 - mag 3 KB protection
4 - 5% global range increase
5 - 5% global recharge
6 - 3.5% defense to ranged, 1.75% defense to energy

Done and done. Let's get it created devs.

Well not to intentionally sound like a broken record, but AT sets are better than purple sets and they've just been unleashed with reckless abandon. However, yes, five triples? No. The best you're going to see in a dev-produced set, in my unprofessional opinion, is two doubles, two triples and a quad. They could prove me wrong by developing the quintuple enhancement that gives ~15% to five stats at level 50.

Detonation has it covered in terms of the actual enhancement values.

http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Detonation

Positron's (like Decimation and Touch of Death/Makos) is the expensive set with the proc and some very good set bonuses.

Detonation is the cheap set with no proc but very nice frankenslotting values, like Thunderstrike and Crushing Impact. The difference is, Thunderstrike and CI have good set bonuses too, and Detonation doesn't.

Detonation gets a Debt Protection (lol!) and sleep reduction (equally worthless), two minor resistance bonuses (1 star out of 5) and the least popular positional defence: AoE (2 stars maybe?)

If Detonation had something like:

2 +1.65% Sleep resistance (as is)
3 +1.88% Energy Resistance (as is)
4 +2% Damage (anything but debt protection!)
5 + 2.5% AoE Def (Two nice final bonuses, copied from Razzle Dazzle)
6 + 2.5% Melee Def

it would be popular. Against Posi's, it then offers the usuaal recharge vs defence option, and would balance nicely against Thunderstrikes in your single target attacks in terms of covering positional defences.

It is greater than the sum of its parts, that makes it OP.

They really should go through and gut debt protection out of all the sets. It comes in such small, meaningless amounts even before you consider things like patrol XP offsetting any debt.

How about you replace it with Inf gain? :P They have it on the new pet and it it then badge helper?