Is Sonic Resonance underappreciated?

[Hitback]

To be honest, I haven't rolled one yet, but I'm doing some research trying to decide on my next MM and I feel like Sonic is being slept on. 

 

Looking at the numbers, Sonic and the pet +res IOs are enough to give your pets 75% res to all damage types except Psionic. And after the upcoming nerfs, it will be the only secondary easily capable of -45% res debuff. 

 

I think it pairs great with robotics, even if they are defense-based. Sonic has no heals, no -regen and no psionic res, and robots can provide all three. 

Edited February 3 by Hitback

[Lunar Ronin]

Sonic Resonance is great.  It's just very endurance hungry, and doesn't have a heal as you've noticed.  But if your primary has a heal, or you don't mind working Aid Other into your build, and you can deal with the endurance, it's very solid.

[Psyonico]

I don't have experience with Sonic as an MM, but I do have it on a defender.  Yes, the set is underappreciated.  The next patch also gives a nice little boost to Liquefy, which IMO is exactly what the set needed to perform well, so we'll see how it goes.

 

I do agree that Bots could be a good choice as you pointed out.

[kelika2]

Sonic is ok but it requires a semi-big bank account or some serious dedication and/or thought.

 

The global pet based IOs are a huge must.  10+10+10(15 catalyst)% resists are huge for both Thermal and Sonics.  Making your pets tough is a huge bonus.  Also picking the primary to stack resistances helps.

 

the -resist toggle needs a melee type pet or finding out what pets do not need to be at a range.  Examples:

Mercs:  The Spec Ops DO NOT need to be at a range.  Their AoEs are Target AoEs (fireball, explosive blast, etc).  Meanwhile your Commando is very Cone based (fire/ice breath and so on) making your commando a bad Disruption Field target

Bots:  Your prot bots also do not have cone attacks, making them OK to send into melee for disrupt field.  also an added bonus:  the prot bots drones summon their seeker drones on themelves.  and in melee it makes it so they have a better chance to hit more targets

rest of the sets have a nice dedicated melee pet to do the job

 

eh..

 

Demons and Beasts get the most benefit from Sonic reso due to inherent resist stacking, sonic bubbles and IO buffs.  Necro sounds nice but smash/neg/psi/toxic damage enemy groups are rare.  Pets have a 90% resist cap.

 

With all that said, try Robot/Trick arrow.  Not only does Flash Arrow 'add' to bots Defenses you also get Oil Slick arrow later to really feel the power of stacking DoTs.  And glue arrow helps keep things in your assbots fire patches and your fire patch.