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1 hour ago, Panache said:

Poison without the heal, antidote or rez; all you *do* is debuff!

 

But causing your allies to puke their guts out 90 seconds post rez is absolutely an obligatory part of playing a poison defender.

 

Storm, TA, and Poison all make for excellent Offenders. 

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1 hour ago, Psylenz0511 said:

If you haven't rolled one before --

 

FEEL THE POWER OF THE STORM!!!

I've done multiple Earth/Storm (as well as other /Storm).  A very potent combo of hard controls from Earth and the raw damage power of Storm.  Great control from start thru endgame.

 

Edit:  Not a bad Defender either 🤪 ooopsy. What happens when you go from the Controller forums to Defender forums on a sleep deprived brain

 

Edit 2:  And I don't care what anyone says Storm/Storm is a great deal of fun even solo especially once Storm Summoning comes into its own and even if not the mostist meta pairing

 

Edit 3: And as @Psyonicosays TA is a very nasty debuffer ... TA/Storm Blast is also a good deal of fun.

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I have at this point paired poison with:

  • Rad blast - works well, seems thematic, further debuffs defense
  • Elec blast - works great with poison trap/weaken at sapping targets, short circuit is a great proc power
  • Fire blast - works really well at killing things
  • Elec control - I liked elec blast so much I made it as a troller and it really can shut down a full team worth of NPCs with all the tools at its disposal.
  • Plant control - pretty much same as elec control but more damage, and no sapping.

It's hard to go wrong with poison. It's a great set, but aside of playing it on a mastermind, it's meant to be played in melee.

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I like Poison/Rad/Dark. Venomous Gas/Oppressive Gloom/Soul Drain/Irradiate all lend well to thriving in melee. Oppressive Gloom stuns all minions and stacks with Cosmic Burst to 1 shot stun bosses. You don't need to slot anything for accuracy using soul drain/tactics/kismet/vigor/setbonuses/defense debuffs so you can shove a crazy number of damage and utility procs into the build. 

 

Poison/Fire is very strong too or you can go for Dark or Water Blast to have a self heal, but I've never found it a necessary to make poison work.

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9 hours ago, BazookaTwo said:

Poison/Dark is pretty potent, just needs attention for accuracy. 

Since all of dark's AoE is cones (except black star) how do you handle being in melee for venomous gas?

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On 1/10/2024 at 1:34 PM, Psyonico said:

Since all of dark's AoE is cones (except black star) how do you handle being in melee for venomous gas?

I played Kin/Dark and wasn't crazy about it for this reason. Kin really likes melee and /Dark really likes range, so you end up hopping around a lot. Too busy for me. I wonder if TA/Dark would be good though, since they both love range.

 

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4 hours ago, Glowworm said:

I played Kin/Dark and wasn't crazy about it for this reason. Kin really likes melee and /Dark really likes range, so you end up hopping around a lot. Too busy for me. I wonder if TA/Dark would be good though, since they both love range.

 

I've got a TA/Dark, it's good fun and quite potent.

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On 1/9/2024 at 8:38 PM, smnolimits42 said:

alright i'm gonna try poison again, what would be your favourite secondary ???

Take something with quick blast animations and good melee range damage, might I suggest the old Poison/rad combo

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