Force Redux

@Sir Myshkin Summoning the proc gods...can you put a Bombardment %Fire Proc in Oil Slick and have it self-ignite?

On my Plant/Nature controller I never leave home without Spore Cloud (which can slot Dark Watcher for recharge) or Life giving Spores. Each had their uses.

I'm enjoying my TA/Dark Blast with only one or two procs per power tops. It's a more defensive build, but I enjoy it and it should be future proof to most changes. This is actually becoming one of my to characters ever, everything I do debuffs and helps my teams in meaningful ways.

Are you in melee enough with your powers to justify Melee? I might go Assault myself...

Between Farsight and Supremacy you likely sign need Tactics for everyday teaming. But with the purple patch (fighting purple mobs), debuffs from certain groups (Thorns, Arachnos, etc) and your T1 and T2 pets being lower level, I like to have it for those outlier moments. You are correct, set bonuses do not transfer to pets. They only inherit unique IO abilities that specify they affect pets. I always have Maneuvers and Tactics on every MM.

@JulioThom33 welcome back!

Thank you. I appreciate the certainty of the breakdown. I can't always trust the slotting categories in game, or the inherent accuracy rating to mean its not 'auto hit'. 🙂

Sounds awesome, @Luminara! With your slotting advice, I have a wonderful TT, NF, Torrent rotation of cones for messing with bad guys. They are also dubuffed by about 20-30% more ToHit based on my rotation from those alone. The poor bastards!

Thank you, I'm glad you found it helpful!

I moved to TA/Dark and its much more enjoyable. Plus I found a nice concept for Flechette Noir, my magical archer. I think it feels less busy alternating dark stuff with arrow stuff. Plus I'm learning to prioritize the debuffs/attacks with experience. Its been ages since I ran my Illusino/TA back on live. I forgot so much.

Awesome stuff, especially the slotting on TT and NF, thank you. I'll probably pick up Torrent as well. Did you bother taking Blackstar. I love Blackstar, but I find I'm never really 'in the mix' and was curious if you'd also take it as a PBAO?

Are there any other TA powers that do not require a to hit check, other than disruption arrow? Glue Arrow doesn't need a to hit check... Any others?

Has anyone tried TA/Dark Blast? I'd think with the heal, debuffs and immob it might dovetail nicely with Trick Arrow. Any experiences or builds?

That's a mistake, should be Shield Breaker for the proc and defense bonuses

Thank you, I grabbed Criminal Offense

Set bonus is only applied to you unfortunately not the pets. I generally don't seek out damage bonus regeneration bonus etc for that reason.

I'll have to look at Mid's and compare why I made that choice. I think you'd be fine either way TBH.

Once your are ready you can solo Brigg's S/L cave farm. I'll grab you the ID next time I'm in. I've done it many times on my Thugs/Time/Mu before I retired him.

Geez, you guys are gonna make me roll another alt with all this talk!!! Ninja/TA... Who knew the day would come???

A safe start would be allowing shield buffs to affect the caster also, not every buff. No one is making that argument I think.

Understood. The values would have to be examined for self buffing. But currently there is no parity with sets like Time, for example.

How's your journey been going?

I would think if this ever would happen it would apply to any support secondary that buffs on any AT.

debuffs from separate sources should stack, debuff from the same sources may or may not stack depending on the power.

I like it for the bonus regen and Damage on Bruiser or the team tanks or high Damage dealers, but it's really skippable. But on teams I rarely use it TBH, I hate single target buffs.