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Multistrike, Maelstrom's Fury and Detonation? 3 slot Aegis? You were clearly building wirh Fire Defense and Fire Resistance as your only priority. I'd say cost as well but you 3 slotted Armageddon in Burn soooo.... Bad news: You probably shouldn't chase Fire Resistance, you should be able to cap that with just Fire Armor Good news: Building for Fire Defense (on a Fire Farmer) is actually more viable now as Fire Attacks do -def, so stacking more defense is good. The caveat to that is outside of Fire Farms fire def is nowhere near as helpful as Melee defense (for Brutes) and other positional defenses.

What are you talking about? Nightwing is clearly a crossbow wielding DP/Invul Sentinel: https://m.webtoons.com/en/slice-of-life/batman-wayne-family-adventures/s2-ep-63-opposite-day/viewer?title_no=3180&episode_no=63

Speed Boost also helps your pets' endurance recovery, which can be extra helpful for pets that don't get in melee range for Transference

With Ninjas having lower resist values they tend to pair best with secondaries that buff their defense or debuff enemy to-hit. Forcefield, Cold, Dark, Storm, Traps, Time, Rad, and Trick Arrow. *and Empathy, but that's definitely a lot of Fortitude spam

Well reasoned and very true to my play experience as well. I appreciate your insight, @tidge

Instead of searching for the sets in the search bar there's the categories in the main AH window. You want Enhancements>IOs>Attuned IIRC It'll then list all the set types (Ranged, Taunt, Defense, etc) and each individual set under those. The Auction House automatically converts regular set IOs that are for sale into attuned IOs when you purchase this way, so when you put a bid in on an Attuned Force Feedback +Recharge IO you are bidding for the lowest price of all the FFR IOs listed no matter their level (which is nice as lower level IOs cost less to craft than level 50s and sellers are often willing to sell those for less)

Surely Blasters and Scrappers are higher in the list than Doms! Doms only just recently got access to Illusion/Flash the biggest suicide button in the game

The original design of Dominators was from when you couldn't be a controller on Redside, Brutes were more fragile and had less aggro management than Tankers, and Stalkers were only critting from Hide. So yes, they filled the role of keeping the Brute alive and supplemented the non-burst damage of Stalkers. Definitely a support role first, damage AT second. These days? Domination still gives you the strongest controls in the game, mez protection, and a free endurance refill. I'd agree that it's a similar support role to the team tank.

If someone accuses a Sonic Defender of "letting teammates die" they don't know anything and are talking out of their ass.

Power wise, my big wisdom would be to take at least one of the Invisibility powers. Getting in range to drop Phantom Army or use your Confuse is important! Confuse early, confuse often - get practiced at knowing the exact mob you want on your side. Having extra bubbles and Accelerate Metabolism from a Rikti Guardian is great! Your powers are Psychic damage so Confuse the guy *next* to the robot so he can deal the damage you can't!

This was my main on Live. Loved that character, but I have no desire to roll them again. Ill/FF doesn't have to be passive, but it can feel limited. Flash (your PBAoE hold) will get you killed, so Phantom Army and Spectral Terror are your only real multi-target controls. Blind is your only power that sets Containment (besides Flash) but you only have single target attacks anyway until Epic power pools and Incarnates, so that's okay. Basically your FF powers, Phantom Army, Spectral Terror, and Phantasm's Decoys will do great at keeping the team alive. Your Dispersion Bubble will keep everyone un-mezzed (except for Sleep) which is fantastic. But those are all Fire and Forget powers. So to keep active you need to invest in your single target attack chain and/or grab more buffs/debuffs from power pools. The good news is Homecoming has much more choice in Power pools than Live did, so you're not limited to just Air Superiority as I was.

Dark Blast has DoTs which pair well with Scourge. Also while Defenders get a slight increase in -tohit in Dark Blast, Corruptors are possibly blasting more and thus stacking those -tohit blasts

Now I wanna play a hair metal rocker named "Disco's Kryptonite" and be your nemesis!

Poison/Elec - be a Sapper!

Creepers are fire and forget, just let them do their thing. I'm curious what Fulcrum Shift does for them

Yup. I went with /Mu Mastery APP just for Power Sink, and that allows me to pump more damage in my Incarnates

I like this build! I don't know if I could ever play it as not doing damage with Plant control seems like heresy (my main is Plant/Storm) but I appreciate they way you focused on what you want to do and rigged the build to do it. I still haven't found a Kinetics build I like playing, but if I can get past the no damage part yours might actually let me enjoy being a Kineticist!

Trick Arrow is a strong debuffing set and it's been buffed on Homecoming. Definitely not garbo

Storm/Dark -to hit in Dark pairs well with Steamy Mist and Hurricane Thunderclap finally has a buddy to stack with in Dark Pit Tenebrous Tentacles can keep mobs from exiting your Freezing Rain Life Drain for a self heal And most important of all You aren't bothered by the Dark DoTs because everything you do is DoT

So I was just wondering about Proc builds today. In my mind the big trade-off to using procs is that you end up missing out on set bonuses, or the 3-5 slot set bonuses you do grab end up slotting recharge and lowering your proc rate. Now I know there are plenty of specific proc builds out there for different ATs/power combos, but that's not what I'm really after. What I want to know is what AT/powerset is most survivable without chasing set bonuses in your attacks? What gives you the best chance to actually use an Oops, All Procs! build?

My Ninja/Cold (pre Ninja update) was great fun, but Cold is very passive. I ended up taking the Fighting pool attacks and spending my time in melee letting my ninjas do their thing As for Ninjas/TA, the +crit seems to be the true incentive for the bow attacks. If you want personal damage try proccing out your /TA attacks like Ice Arrow

Focus, Eviscerate, and Shockwave aren't really necessary to use or enjoy Claws. The set operates just fine on 3 attacks, Follow Up, and Spin if that's what you want

You could try Sonic or Psychic blast, each has more Magneto-esqe power customizations Otherwise, Grav Control still seems closest

May be old biases but I have never thought of Shadow Maul as solid

MMs can pick up Bonfire in their Epic pool, so Bots/Storm/Pyre should be pretty great