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The first step in creating a Sonic Assault secondary for Doms is making Sonic melee attacks, so this could get you there eventually.

Do WHAT now?!?

Well, I'm sure that's true, but personally I don't especially like having to rely on procs in that way. I feel very strongly that with SOs sets should be ROUGHLY balanced against one another. As an aside, on Blasters the Range buff that Sniper attacks give is VERY good for ranged cones.

Exactly. I've given this a lot of thought. The blast sets without Snipes are: Ice, Sonic, Water, and DP. Ice does great damage with no Snipe and has a ton of control. Sonic does ok damage and has great debuffs. Water is specifically designed to work fine with no Snipe. DP...does not get enough out of Swap Ammo to make up for the lack of a Snipe and Aim. I feel like the Sniper changes addressed ARs weakness sufficiently, but of course YMMV.

Maybe competitive on aoe, but with no sniper attack I don’t see how it could keep up on single target.

I sort of thought Dual Pistols and Dual Blades needed more help than AR, but sure.

Sonic Resonance and Force Field ought to top the list, but really we have little to no idea what’s coming next.

Unlikely. The primary and splash debuffs from poison stack, meaning it has some of the strongest debuffs available. It’sa little rough solo, but that’s true of many buff sets.

If the OP wants to supply that evidence, great.

Yea, it's a tough call, what would you rather have, hellish heatwave or sun blotted out by smoke clouds?

It's not yet 5pm, but the sky has been this color since morning. Keeping an eye out for Zombies.

You do it with Recharge. You can get Slow Resists if you want from Destiny and from Winter IOs.

This set looks an awful lot like Radiation Armor.

Fun idea.

Stalker is a stealth based or "rogue" type class, and tends to have a bit more single target damage. Scrapper is more of a swashbuckler, sometimes has a bit more AoE than the Stalker (not always), has more HP than the Stalker, and sometimes can draw a little aggro, while the Stalker tends to shed aggro. They both do excellent damage on teams and solo.

I figure Dwarf doesn't get a Taunt aura (and shouldn't have one, because we want to be able to temporarily switch to Dwarf for a Heal or a Mire without drawing aggro), so increasing the draw of its taunt could make up some of the difference.

So simple. Just increase the Target Cap on the Dwarf form Taunt powers to 10. Done. I figure Dwarf doesn't get a Taunt aura (and shouldn't have one, because we want to be able to temporarily switch to Dwarf for a Heal or a Mire without drawing aggro), so increasing the draw of its taunt could make up some of the difference and solidify the ATs presence as a tanking option alongside tankers and brutes.

By any chance is your scrapper strong, and pretty?

they're meant to lure dumb players to accidentally aggro that next spawn. and it works on pets sometimes

That is so weird. Ok, well thank you @Sir Myshkin for the detailed explanation, and sorry @ZorkNemesis if I came across as argumentative, I was just really confused. I went and checked my energy blaster and it turns out there I have it slotted in explosive blast, not nova, and now I don't even remember if I ever had it in nova. Now I have OF in photon seekers and SA in dawn strike, so there's my workaround. Thank you both for the help.

indeed, AT specific defense caps would have been a good idea, but that ship sailed a loooooooong time ago.

You’re making a claim that does not reflect our understanding of the game. You’ve presented no evidence to support your claims. This is why your claims are being dismissed.

I put the OF Proc in Solar Flare AND in Photon Seekers, both of which also have high kB chances and it correctly turns them into KD. Only Dawn Strike displays the behavior in question. Also on my Energy Blaster the OF Proc works correctly in all attacks. I understand what you’re saying, but it does not explain the behavior.

I'm not interested in the set, just the anti-knockback.

No, Dawn Strike with the OF proc consistently knocks back EVERY time on EVERY mob.