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I mean, yes, I ALSO want Whip Assault and Chain Control for Doms.

Wanting to play an armored ranged attacker is totally valid. Sentinels, Arachnos, and Kheldians are there for you.

The absorb powers, which come with Slows and/or Minus Damage, actually prevent damage. The regen powers do not. No they don’t completely prevent damage, but they are correctly balanced against the regen powers which heal you up but do nothing to prevent damage in the first place. You are incorrect in your analysis.

Heals do nothing when you’re at full. Absorb is a kind of heal.

You seem to think these are supposed to be Armor. They’re not. It’s minor constant heal. It takes a little off of each attack unless you’re taking heavy fire.

These are unsupported claims.

I’m unconvinced of the accuracy of this analysis.

This does not reflect my experience, which is that the Absorb powers are quite powerful. Note that they all come with significant debuffs as well which the Regen powers do not get.

There’s no need to state the importance of that since in fact, with the exception of Energy Manipulation which gets a very potent endurance discount, every Blaster secondary DOES get free very potent recovery.

Really?

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.