Psyonico

just checked on Brainstorm, it does indeed proc from just Phantom Army.

I'm totally against this for the simple reason that it plays toward a meta of "You should only be using Plasmatic because its the best" and also "Anyone using Concussive gets kicked"

I'm sad that this thread didn't get any comments, as I'm now thinking about a Fire/TA but am having trouble with a build as well. I would go with Poison Gas Arrow over Smoke, the to-hit debuff in Smoke is resistable so it doesn't really do a whole lot of good. for Bonfire, I'd slot an Overwhelming Force Damage/Knockback-to-Knockdown instead of Sudden Acceleration for MOAR Damage Flash Arrow is auto-hit in PvE, so no need to slot accuracy in there. so, with those changes, the build would look more like this.

I can't tell if you're serious or not, but it would be highly amusing.

Both gravity and electric rely on knock for control... I don't see how adding -knock to them would be helpful.

No... Shhh! They're on to you

I'm going to *still* have to disagree with these ideas...

I'm late to the party... I give you my Illusion/TA build, with flash arrow's unresistable portion, capped S/L/E/N/Ranged defense, perma-PA, etc.

I give you... O K Boomer A Sonic/Beam defender who is a rogue Goldbricker gone hero. (This concept is even older than the ASF!) Very solid resists. I guess the only thing not entirely in concept is Mu mastery, but I wanted the extra S/L/E resist and Power Sink helps tremendously with the end usage.

I'm not going to be helpful here... Pick whatever primary sounds fun; pair it with whatever secondary sounds fun. The great thing about defenders as opposed to tanks/scrapers/brutes is that play style can be completely different. Electrical Affinity is an awesome set, but like kinetics, it can be very clicky. Dark is less clicky, but it has no end recovery, so it can seem a little end heavy. It is a beast of a power set though. One of my favorite defenders of all time is my Trick Arrow/Archery/Power

I'm surprised nobody mentioned storm yet. No -Regen but you put out enough extra damage and have enough -resist that it doesn't really matter.

huh, for some reason I was thinking they changed it the other way (ie: redraw used to affect cast time but now it doesn't)

I'm not against it, but just an FYI, the redraw time doesn't actually affect anything. Whether or not you redraw the weapon, the animation time is the same.

I knew you could do it, but I've never understood exactly how it works. Thanks to you and Linea for this.

Actually, Rooted still lowers movement speed inside Granite, just not outside of it.

Well, if you ever exemplar below 27 you're going to not have mez protection. But if your plan is to never go out of granite, then *technically* you don't need rooted. I don't think I'd skip it though.

/Dark or /Water are good. /Dark is particularly good because the tohit debuffs stack well with the resist buffs you give in Sonic Resonance. The reason I say /Dark and /Water is that both of these sets have a self heal.

to end speculation

hmm, new toon name

Just my two cents Water spout is amusing as another havoc causing power. The entire reason my illusion/storm went leviathan was water spout. Coralax is ok, but definitely squishy. Psi tornado is NOTHING like tornado. It is purely a ranged aoe dot attack that has a knock up component at the beginning. Compare it to ball lightning or fireball or fissure, not tornado

This topic amuses me.

Generally the rule of thumb is to have capped Res/Def to whatever you're farming... now, that's not necessary with Illusion if you have perma Phantom Army, however, your timing for getting PA off is going to be key, if you mess it up and your one expires before getting the next off, you're going to faceplant. Between this and the fact that OSA and Fireball are your only real AoE, I'd leave it at this: If you want to "Farm" to say you did it, go for it, but as Warpact said, if you're looking to actually farm, a Spines/Fire or Rad/Fire brute are going to be your better bet.

I really like my Ill/TA. In terms of how good it is, I guess that's in the eye of the beholder. With Perma PA you can solo AVs with it, but it's not going to be the fastest at doing so.

To be fair, my Stone/DM which has capped Def/Res to everything but psi gets rocked in 801.A