The Best Defender I Hated Playing

[Diantane]

A rad/anything. You tell people not to kill the debuff “anchor” and its like putting a target on it. It’s the first thing they kill. Then the team wipes and they say that there weren’t enough heals.  Sure, there was a change in the game that the debuff stays on the corpse, but it doesn’t move to other enemy groups so it’s not perfect. The reason the radiation heal is so weak is because it’s rarely needed.

 

My defender is rad/elec. All I want to do is play on teams until I’m 30. Then I will solo. You put the Tesla cage and debuffs on a guy and kill them at your leisure. The only attacks I have are the top tier ones. When I play a defender I “play” a defender (not a weak blaster). Only train defender powers until later.

Edited October 2, 2021 by Diantane

[Uun]

Play Trick Arrow. No anchors.

 

6 minutes ago, Diantane said:

The only attacks I have are the top tier ones. When I play a defender I “play” a defender (not a weak blaster). Only train defender powers until later.

 

What does this even mean? You're not taking powers from your secondary? You're not slotting powers from your secondary? Even if you take all the powers from your primary, there are 7 power picks before lvl 30 that have to come from your secondary or a pool. Radiation Emission doesn't require a lot of slots and several of the powers don't need more than the base slot. 

[Doomguide2005]

     I suspect it means he'll need a Respec at 30 or 31 as Mutation and Fallout are, at best, mule powers on a solo Rad/Elec and he took all his primary by 30th.  And he'll be needing to slot enhance and use those weak defender blasts or die lots ... and lots.

[Psyonico]

This is the same person who believes "dedicated" ATs are better than people who take and use their secondary.

[Wobegone]

On 10/2/2021 at 11:19 AM, Diantane said:

A rad/anything. You tell people not to kill the debuff “anchor” and its like putting a target on it. It’s the first thing they kill. Then the team wipes and they say that there weren’t enough heals.  Sure, there was a change in the game that the debuff stays on the corpse, but it doesn’t move to other enemy groups so it’s not perfect. The reason the radiation heal is so weak is because it’s rarely needed.

 

My defender is rad/elec. All I want to do is play on teams until I’m 30. Then I will solo. You put the Tesla cage and debuffs on a guy and kill them at your leisure. The only attacks I have are the top tier ones. When I play a defender I “play” a defender (not a weak blaster). Only train defender powers until later.

With the debuff staying for a time even if your anchor is defeated, there's no reason to tell people not to attack the anchor.  If it really bothers you how fast your anchor is being defeated, try using it on an edge minion rather than a boss or Lt.  Besides, I rarely had to use my anchor debuffs on average spawns.  I tended to concentrate more on Lingering Radiation first followed by using my attacks followed by healing if needed on average spawns.  With some teams and spawns the anchor powers would be priorities of course, it depended on my judgement.  I'd dole out Accelerate Metabolism when and where it was needed, although it was almost always on cooldown.   

 

This idea that 'if I play a defender' nonsense was covered extensively in your other thread.  This isn't WoW.  Slot your attacks.  Use your attacks.  

[Nemu]

I think some of these toggle debuffs like RI, spore cloud and darkest night are due for an animation speed up. That can contribute to the feel bad when the anchor gets killed.

[Without_Pause]

I realized I teamed with the OP. All I'll say is they mean well. Like REALLY REALLY well, but sometimes doing so also rubs people the wrong way. I watched a team dissolve after what I felt was an odd comment at the end of a mission. They do advertise teams in a great way though as they do actual arcs. Considering they have a thread on being a dedicated AT, I'm not really sure what "Only train your defender powers until later" really means. I assume they mean your attacks, and well, no need to beat that dead horse.

 

FYI, even on live RI didn't move to the next mob unless the anchor was still alive, and well, good luck finding a group willing to drag the anchor around a map considering putting it on a boss was the ideal situation back then. I had a Rad/sonic on live. RI animation time made it situational back then on the right teams. On level 50 team these days, its animation time really isn't all that ideal. I still think Rad is one of the best sets for support.

[Carnifax]

It's better than it used to be when they cut off when the target died in fairness. Who knew that sticking a big swirly effect on an enemy would automatically make the Scrappers murder it.

 

It's not their fault; it's how they are wired. 

 

[Aurora_Girl]

It's like we teach and teach and teach and the lessons just don't work!

[Erratic1]

On 10/2/2021 at 1:19 PM, Diantane said:

My defender is rad/elec. All I want to do is play on teams until I’m 30. Then I will solo. You put the Tesla cage and debuffs on a guy and kill them at your leisure. The only attacks I have are the top tier ones. When I play a defender I “play” a defender (not a weak blaster). Only train defender powers until later.

 

My first 40 (back when that was the cap) then first 50, Live, back after release was Rad/Elec. 

 

Fond memories and yeah, getting people not to kill the anchor was a chore. But loved her.

[Sovera]

Here I was giving the example of a Rad defender in another thread the OP made and didn't even realize how apt it was.