Neogumbercules3

I realize I'm a couple months late to this one but I have a few suggestions for a cheap and effective Kin defender. First up is Kin/Fire. Might seem basic, but Fire Ball and Inferno both work really well in melee range, which is where you'll be right after dropping Fulcrum Shift. You also get Fire Ball early so it's a win/win. Rain of Fire is also a great ability to keep on hand, especially if you team a lot and have controllers with you. If you want to immobilize the enemies yourself, Web Envelope from Mace Mastery will keep enemies in place while you melt them. It's a meta pick for the power pool anyway if you're going for a defense build, so it works nicely. Next is Kin/Elec for basically the same reason. Ball Lightning and Short Circuit can both be used in melee range, and the damage really adds up. The shocked mechanic is just more damage which technically allows you to exceed the damage cap beyond a maxed out FS buff. Thunderous Blast can also be used in melee range just as easily, so you get 3 really effective AoE attacks you can use up close and personal. Short Circuit synergizes really well with Soul Mastery's Power Boost. Fully slotted you could actually drain everything you hit in 1 shot with that combo, leading to lots of "Shocked!" procs. With lots of recharge, which is pretty much a given on a Kin, you'll have Power Boost up all the time. Finally, Kin/Sonic is a classic combo because -res debuffs are just extra juicy when you've damage capped your whole team. Keep damage procs in mind, as once you're damage is capped, the only real way to deal more damage is to either debuff enemy resistance or use damage procs/Elec Blast Shocks. You can get them pretty cheap for the most part, or if you're savvy enough just buy some cheaper enhancement and convert into the proc.

Unfortunately I can't even load my own Defender (Kinetics - Radiation Blast Self-45-fire-defense).mbdbuild into the current version of Mid's. I attached it here. Feel free to give it a shot.

Something I screwed up on the build is that I'm missing half of one of the Corr ATOs. I would put that in place of the set I have in Aimed Shot.

Okay finally got on my computer... if I was doing some crazy recharge focused build I would do something like shown below. Import the data chunk via mids. For some reason the other export options are still broken in my version, which is v3.6.6. Basically the whole build is focused around having as much +rech as possible via those procs and being able to keep freezing rain and rain of arrows flying nonstop. I personally hate Hurricane so I didn't have a problem underslotting it, but others might disagree. 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