CaptTastic

I think that what a lot of people miss about Sentinels is that they fill a playstyle hole in the game. Boil it down to just being all about DPS then, yes, you’re always going to see no benefit to playing a Sentinel over a blaster or scrapper. For me personally though, I hate playing melee toons in teams. I massively prefer ranged toons but get very frustrated sometimes by the squishyness of them. So, for me personally, having a robust ranged toon really opens up a different avenue to enjoy that I just didn’t have open to me before. Yeah, there are trade-offs, but there are with anything. Want the survivability of a tank? Don’t expect damage. Want damage of a scrapper? Don’t expect range Want the ranged damage of a blaster? Don’t expect survivability And so on...

Another in the Sentinel fan club here. I run an Energy/Invul and he is both incredible fun and incredibly strong, with soft capped types defences, hard capped S/L resist, and perma hasten. Yes, we lose damage to blasters but we gain survivability. Yes, we lose damage to scrappers and brutes but we gain in versatility. And don’t let anyone tell you we don’t have damage as I’ve solo’d AV’s on mine without any -regen, and I’m not tickling them. Plus, we get access to knockout blow in Patron Pool too, which immediately increases the awesome factor of any toon ten-fold. True story.

I don’t put KB>KD IOs in my single target NRG attacks. You tend to kill what you attack so it shouldn’t bother anyone.

I agree more people should play thermal, but disagree entirely that Rad is ‘not amazing at anything’. It’s the most powerful debuff set in the game and also has a great PBAOE team buff too. Personally, while thermal is a good set, I’d say Rad is a GREAT set.

I’d take Shockwave and slot a KB to KD enhancement in it. You’re a defender and mobs aren’t going to be attacking your team when they’re going between falling on their asses and getting up again.