I can't figure out if Forcefield is lackluster or I just don't know what to do with it

[evetsleep]

On 5/2/2025 at 7:37 PM, UltraAlt said:

 

So, yes, a force fielder really needs to team up to be successful, but I do not feel that teaming is a bad thing.

 

 

I have quite a few bubblers and I, more or less, agree with this.  Generally speaking when I want to solo with one of my bubblers I take one of my MM's off the shelf (or maybe eve one of my controllers like fire/ff or arse/ff).  I find solo'ing with a corruptor\defender force field toon not impossible, but too slow for my tastes.

[mistagoat]

A while back, I built a FF/Sonic Defender with the goal of making it as tanky as possible. I got all positional def to softcap and s/l res to hardcap and it had lots of KD and stun. It does not kill fast but that doesn't really matter because it can just chill in the mob for as long as it takes. On top of being pretty tanky it also brings 38% def to teams!

I tried making a similar build with a corr but struggled to hit the numbers I was aiming for.

It was a fun toon to run up and I've been thinking about doing another one and pairing with a better blast set, maybe Electric. 

 

Anyway I don't think FF is bad but it's all survivability buffs, a bit of a one trick pony. Some debuffs or damage buffs would be nice in there but I suspect it's one trick would be nerfed pretty hard if they diversified FFs buffs/debuffs.

 

In its current state I think it shines in the low to mid level range where folks are still filling out their def/res.

[UltraAlt]

4 hours ago, evetsleep said:

I find solo'ing with a corruptor\defender force field toon not impossible, but too slow for my tastes.

 

Corrupters do tend to dish out more damage than Defenders. I can agree with that.

[tjknight]

Force Field + any darkness set (Control, Blast, Necro) the -tohit plus the shields is nuts.