What Primaries and Secondaries for the endgame AV's?

[Star Slayer]

Right. This is why I prefer Rad/ over the others as I mentioned, because the (mostly) toggles-on, then fire away. Plus if you have the right +Recharge (and Rad DOES) the attack chain for Sonic is rapid and you can stack lots of -Resistance with two, sometimes 3 attacks at the most that fire quickly.

 

But yes, I haven't tried Beam Rifle but here its the new rage because of it's debuffing ability and damage.Its a shame most of the models suck... : (

[Pherdnut]

I'm surprised there aren't more mentions of Dark. A great mass heal with -50% regen that the servant can also use. Lots of teeth-pulling debuffs, particularly -ToHit and big -damage. Holds from you and the servant (only need one more for most AVs). A cone of fear to render adds useless. Then between Tarpatch and Howling, 2 area slows, -50% recharge,  -30 res, -500% regen, a mass stun, a weak and pointless target fear, and a dash of mass dark-energy damage that really just serves to add another to a very long list of sets you can slot into Howling. Oh, and a mass rez that will never rez anybody because they always get clobbered/rezzed on cooldown.

But one of the best features of Miasma for AV soloing is Darkest Night from both you and the servant. It's end-expensive but it turns AVs into kittens.

Oh and the stealth/res/universal defense aura helps I guess.

[Yoru-hime]

I ran Dark/Dark as my main throughout legacy and I'm restarting it here now that I've gotten home.

 

Dark definitely has all the tools to turn a snarling, cranky AV into easy pickings. Lots of tohit debuff, plenty of -regen and a dose of -res to go with it. Plenty of control to keep their horde of friends in line as well.

 

Whether or not it's the absolute best at it, I couldn't say, but I never felt like there was any AV or GM I couldn't effectively neutralize.

[chips]

What's wrong about poison? It was mentioned a few times but not very high ranked even though on paper it seems extremely strong against AVs. On the main target it debuffs massive -res (65%), -def (78% base), some -reg (50%). That's more then most other powersets. Additionally all these debuffs are toggles or on a very low cooldown (not sure if they stack or not).

[Frosticus]

On 7/29/2019 at 12:46 PM, chips said:

What's wrong about poison? It was mentioned a few times but not very high ranked even though on paper it seems extremely strong against AVs. On the main target it debuffs massive -res (65%), -def (78% base), some -reg (50%). That's more then most other powersets. Additionally all these debuffs are toggles or on a very low cooldown (not sure if they stack or not).

Basically what hampers it is the lack/low -regen debuffing. 

If say paralytic hold* also had -500% regen then I'd personally rank the set quite high. 

 

*I've advocated for poison trap to be replaced with the traps version but I no longer hold that opinion. I actually like poison poison trap right now. 

[oedipus_tex]

If we are talking about iTrials, Force Field with Power Boost because that powerset directly fixes the two main things that can cause an iTrial to fail: inadequate defenses on people leveling up their alts, and lack of league-wide mezz protection.

 

For 8 man task forces like the ITF I would probably choose Cold Domination. Traps would be in the running except for AVs with death auras who tend to run around a lot. Cold lacks a heal, though, so Thermal is a very strong secondary option.

 

 

Edited August 8, 2019 by oedipus_tex

[fallingcat2]

Seen people saying a dark/sonic defender can solo a AV and that sounds sweet, so I want to make one and am looking for a build if anyone has one. that would be soo helpful thank you.