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for what it's worth....I struggled with certain AT's as well...blasters in particular....my energy/energy (vajazzler) hit 50 a while ago and the toon is super fun to play. add force feedback and knockback to knockdown to the AOE attacks and you'll be spamming damage

Yes yes....ice is terrible. You should all stay away from it. Dangerous. Keep away. /s if you want to see ice kicking ass against whatever....arachnos even....hit me on global. Always happy to break out my ice/spines.

blasters and scrappers already have damage coverered. Make sentinels buff/debuff harder. leave the damage as it is. Melee buffing/debuffing set.

My ice/spines. Locks aggro down hard. roughly 60% smashing def base + energy absorption when i hit the mobs. never runs out of end. Almost never dies (RNG still gets you sometimes). solid regen as a the second layer. Perma hoarfrost. My opinion/tactic to max out ice tanks....they want to be played fast....push the pace to stack EA. eff hibernate forever. Dances through content.

Trick arrow/fire is a ranged beast. Good solo...great on teams.

curious....why psy for ITF's?

necro sudden accel in hurricane...Hurricane repels. Use that somewhere else.

I paired it with storm and force feedback +rech in gale and levitate. It procs often and makes a noticeable difference with Mass confusion. Just hit 50 and love playing the toon.

When are we doing the all whirlwind ITF? I have 2 toons ready....staff/regen scrapper (Turbinado) and a staff/WP brute (Toilet of Justice)

Pain plays fast but generally isn't clicky. It doesn't have all the slow "setup" issues that some sets have. (i'm looking at you Rad toggles). Lots of buffs and heals (pbaoe heal and single target). A healing aura that doesn't detoggle if you get mezzed. a pbaoe enemy debuff. pbaoe team buff. a nice combat rez. It likes to play in melee and with a res armor it holds up reasonably well. nice damage boost for the team and a single teammate "murder buff" (+dam, +to hit ,+regen). A "clear mind" type buff that does more than just that. I feel like it's what empathy should have been. pair it with sonic for the stacking -res debuff on baddies. it's a little engine that drives teams. I'm frequently the only support toon on 8 man teams and we roll. IMHO it's quietly a little OP...not much...just enough to make it really fun. 🙂 Your mileage may vary.

yep (hey Psy!)

my first 50 on live was a rad/rad and have levelled multiple variations so with that in mind.... Consider Pain/Sonic. 1 of my 2 favorite defenders for end game. (The other is a stormy)

I have a 50 poison/dp that i was excited to roll and was reasonably fun to level but is a huge disappointment at end game due to all the mezzing. Not sure I would advise rolling one but your mileage may vary.

I'm levelling one now....lvl 17....not bad so far.

All time least team friendly toon A blast happy Storm/Energy def with hurricane on at all times, no kb/kd converters on anything and rushes into melee on every mob