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Defender DPS is best DPS!  My level 29 dark/dark defender is currently soloing at +0x5, and having a blast.  I actually do feel like a blaster sometimes.  Well, maybe more  like a controller.  Actually I feel like every archetype rolled into one!  After I lock down everyone with fearsome stare, tar patch, tenebrous tentacles, and start hitting them with Night Fall etc, enemies just melt.  Solo, ya the 30% damage boost does help a lot, but this is the most fun I've had with a character for awhile.  The Defender DPS is real, yo!  😄

 

 

 

 

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3 hours ago, kiramon said:

Go play a brute and come back.

 

 

*Stalker or TW/Bio scrapper :p. But brutes are passable too 😄

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16 minutes ago, Chance Jackson said:

The D3(dark/dark defender) is not a new concept in fact it was FOTM on live I even had one though I never went too far with it.

Yes, I had one on Live, but now with the Defender damage boost while solo, it's even better.  I remember it being strong at high levels, but this is the first time I am finding it so easy at lower levels, also. 

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Cool! Enjoy!

If you are in the mood for teaming, you might try getting a team of Defenders together.

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1 minute ago, DoctorDitko said:

Cool! Enjoy!

If you are in the mood for teaming, you might try getting a team of Defenders together.

Smoothest steamroller in the City!

 

Sometimes I duo with another Defender.  We call ourselves the Dynamic Defender DPS Duo! 😄

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46 minutes ago, Chance Jackson said:

The D3(dark/dark defender) is not a new concept

And it's even cooler when you give them a name like Dark Lord Darkness.

(Yes, I did that.  No, not going to remake him so anyone who wants can take the name.)

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I appreciate the well-placed defender love.  There are five other ranged dark/dark archetypes, though.  What about DPS for them?

  • dark/dark blaster: theoretically it should be the highest DPS, even solo.  I'm not sure survivability would be as good, but Dark Manipulation does include some nice mitigation.
  • dark/dark corrupter: same power sets in OP, but with pri and sec reversed.  I would expect DPS to be clearly greater non-soloed.
  • dark/dark defender: (OP is here)
  • dark/dark dominator: combines the controller's dark control with the defender and blaster attack set.  Should be good DPS.
  • dark/dark sentinel: lower DPS, but possibly the highest survivability.  DPS is great and all, if you aint da'id.
  • dark/dark controller: likely even lower DPS, but spinach meatballs to the patient!  Yesterday in a solo BNY mission, my young dark/storm controller took down Snaptooth by repeatedly Possessing the lieutenant.  Not fast, but it was fun!
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I recently made a rad/water defender and was very shocked that I was able to solo two early EBs with him: Veles and Chernobog. Three if you include Morana, but you don't get to finish her off before she flees.

 

Like, they were pretty easy too. Veles was a little bit of a challenge because he came at me while I was still fighting his goons and he set the warehouse on fire and summoned a dead guy. In truth, he almost had me but a green inspiration dropped at the exact moment I needed it most.

 

I actually had Chernobog turn and run. I guess he didn't like basking in Atom's glow.

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Well, Chernobog is a dark god, after all. Too much Cherenkov radiation!

 

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You haven't lived until you DPS'd with a Granite Tank.

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4 hours ago, GastlyGibus said:

I wish I could relate. My FF/AR Defender hits about as hard as a wet noodle. 😂

AR is in a bit of a rough spot tbh.

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19 hours ago, kiramon said:

Go play a brute and come back.

That's what I usually do. Try a brute, get bored and go back.

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Also Tar Patch is currently bugged and is way more effective than it's supposed to be which is probably helping here.

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12 hours ago, Bopper said:

You haven't lived until you DPS'd with a Granite Tank.

Doesn't count, you used Rage.

 

Nerf Rage!

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