Amy_Amp

You can play a Kin and not take Fulcrum. You can play Ill and not take PA. You can play SS and not take Foot Stomp. You would have a lot of people shaking their heads if you did so, but you could do it. Seeds fuels Roots and CC. Adding a debuff based set like /storm is just adding more fuel to the fire. Without it, you are just a wannabe AoE based blaster.

Plant does not have enough damage mitigation to compensate for the lack of Seeds. Not even remotely. Your control would be immobilizes, some slow, some regen, and a subpar pet. How would you shutdown a mob? You couldn't unless you used your AoE hold that has a long timer and would be used every 2-3 mobs.

Plant also won't have enough damage to compensate either. Yes, Roots does high damage, but it's still all DoT. CC does all DoT damage. A Plant controller wouldn't really be doing anything of damage until damage procs get slotted. Again, Seeds is the setup power in terms of control and damage. Without the setup, it's a rather uphill task.

Seeds + containment + -res debuffs + as much AoE as you can muster = school girl giggling kind of fun.

Where's the Cheetos? Where's the Mountain Dew?

This being in generic terms since some builds can blur the lines in terms of damage.

Emphasis mine.

Accurate meaning it needs to hit to be applied.

I was too new of a player to really be affected by the mass sweeping changes, but I think when it's all said and done, only Earth's AoE Hold is really worth much of anything and that's due to the pulse effect. It was really the AoE Hold least impacted by the changes. IOs just gives it even more interesting options.

No. Siphon Power is a ST target damage buff/debuff that is centered around you. Fulcrum is a AOE target damage buff/debuff that is centered around your target.

How are these different? Fulcrum can damage cap the user. Siphon Power can't. Fulcrum isn't going to buff the squishies who won't go near melee to get the damage buff. Siphon Power can. Why keep both? Because against an AV the AV can be put at the -dmg cap by a single Kin using both powers. Even a Rad isn't going to turn an AV into a kitten like a Kin can. I'll also point out Siphon Power is good for soloing.

I want to defend it, but my first Kin took it and it made me not roll another Kin for some time after I axed it. Of my current 7 Kins, none have it. Of the countless others that got rerolled, none took it. It has it's uses, but those are just too limited to justify it. I'm ok with one stinker power in a set if the set works overall.

Because it let's you skip the prerequisite travel power. This was a bigger issue before i19 and before vet rewards let you skip the prereq. It's also unsuppressed movement which is helpful in PvP. Saying that, I think I had one Kin with it. I simply prefer SJ.

No, and for the reasons listed above. Siphon Power is not a bad power.

Make the buff of Speed Boost last longer. Same with ID.

I've tried coming up with replacements and came away with nothing so I just figured it was ok to leave in. I don't think having Repel be an option is really screwing over builds.

Let me get this straight, you want to give Kin, the one set known for reaching the damage cap, a power that uses -res? Damage isn't an issue for Kin. Giving it more damage isn't going to solve it's issues. Defense debuffs don't come across as being that important to me once decent slotting kicks in. I'll just point out you can slot a -res proc in def debuff powers.

O.o

Earth with /rad, /storm, /cold, /ta will work. If you don't like the buffing aspect, the sets with debuffs will likely fit you better.

EDIT: If not Earth, then Plant gets my vote. With an AoE blaster, confused mobs are dead all the faster.

Needless to say I should play my Dark/elec brute more.

I did KM/nin and had no real issue doing content.

Just note the heal doesn't come until 20 when you are done with Praet. Dark/elec would be good for solo content 1-20 and it has potential 20+ as you invest in it. Stone would be good 1-20 and beyond. SS gets good a little late for Praet., but it blooms huge post 20 as well.

It's an old school habit that I have. I actually sell TOs if I have the time. This considering any new character I make can easily inherit 100+ mill at level 1. To be honest, you could just e-mail yourself the enhancements and grab them later. There's enough downtime on teams to do it either way.

The vast majority of scrapper primaries get good 26+. Something like Claws which gets Spin at 6 and Focus at 18 is a rare thing.

I think Kin is a solid set that is comparable to MA in that it looks really pretty even if there are sets that put up better orange numbers. It's definitively a DPS set. I wished I liked the animations of Kin/sd better. I like the idea of the stacked +dmg/-dmg.

I made a Spines/elec since with power customization I could make the spines look like metal and then change the colors of /elec to match the metal look.

EDIT: With certain sets it might be you need to get to certain powers. Spin, or certainly Focus on a Claws scrapper. Pulling off the AV combo on a DB with it getting a crit. Hitting BS's, or Kat's tier 9 and getting more than one crit on it. FSC on Fire. Even at 18, the sheer orange numbers a Spines scrapper can put out with 2 damage auras if paired with the right secondary. Etc...

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