DreadShinobi

Yes. Except for potentially Repel, but that shouldn't be used anyways.

Actually, it's more rare that I have anything but the full 5 stacks. Assault triggers off every enemy hit. I think I've said this before in this thread too, but basically what this means is if you hit 8-10 enemies with an aoe, you're going to instantly get all 5 of your stacks off just a single attack and since the buff lasts 15 seconds, you can get your stacks at the begining of each spawn when you're aoeing.

It's the perfect condition, but it is also the average and most common condition.

A passive-semi passive set; corruptor

Yes usually and absolutely not, respectively.

Should be minimal, unless you really like toe-bombing, but even that would still just be at the begining of combat.

You can only do so much -regen before -regen becomes irrelevant. If you've floored your target's -regen, adding more -regen isn't going to be doing anything for you. Typically PGT's -1000% will floor most anything. Powersets with only -500% regen is typically plenty for most things.

It's alright for both ATs. The difference for Corrs and Defenders is that there are many other good/better sets to use, like Kinetics or Cold.

It should be noted that Radiation Infection and Enervating Field (the two toggle debuffs) do not cause redraw. You get to keep your weapon out as you toggle those abilities. The only common use powers that Rad has that cause redraw is the heal and lingering radiation. The heal's usage can be reduced by softcapping/tohit debuffing so that you don't actually have to use it often, and Lingering Radiation only needs to be used every 30 seconds at most.

Depends on the set. Sonic Resonance is a set that will pretty much always be better on a Defender. Traps will typically be better on a Corruptor. Radiation is a close call, but the corruptor will still typically out perform the defender.

Sonic Resonance is absolutely better on a defender as all of it's relevant powers are affected by Defender's higher buff mods (remember that not all (read: many-most) powers are not affected by defender's higher buff mods in some way or entirely). I honestly wouldn't make a FF, Cold is better.

A blaster is best when incorporating it's melee attacks, as such I would not reccomend making a Blaster.

I'd say the main sets have been mentioned:
Rad: no redraw on toggle debuffing
Traps: semi-passive with good debuffing and self protection, but also a very slow and stationary set
Cold: Drop Sleet and go, very strong at high level, not great at low levels.
Sonic: If you really want a good set for a Defender

Indeed. Even my SS/Fire comes out to be ~300 even.

Regardless my staff/da is sitting at about 198.82 dps, which is just too low for a maxed out purpled build imo.

On my staff/da brute doing a pylon test it felt like watching paint dry. I never actually wrote down the dps because of how slow it was. And this was on a min/maxed build with all purples/procs and stuff you could potentially have as well as having t4 alpha, interface, and destiny. The chain I was using was PS>SR>PS>SS. I also tried a build with a procced out mercurial blow, but that didn't really help. I even tried adding EotS to the attack chain on a couple runs (which actually wasn't that bad compared to the PS>SR>PS>SS chain), I think that chain I used was PS>SR>SS>EotS using EotS for the -res. Respectable to me is 300+ dps, which is probably higher than most other people consider to be respectable.

5 decimations +ato proc in subdue is also a perfectly acceptable alternative. The point being the ATO proc is best in Subdue as it will be an integral part of any ST attack chain you use as a psi dom.

If you don't need to slot the full Dom ATO set for the 6th slot ranged defense, the best place for the Dom ATO proc is subdue (5 apocs + ato proc).

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While my badger got this the "real" way when it was still 2 billion inf, pretty much all my toons get the Leader badge by default at this point. It's silly easy to earn.

The Brute really doesn't need combustion though. Blazing Aura, FSC, Burn, and 1(fire/soul)-2(mu) patron aoes is plenty of aoe. The Brute will easily be out dpsing the Tank in aoe even without Combustion thanks to fury, and obviously in ST as well.

DPS doesn't matter. DPA matters. Regardless, neither punch nor jab should be used. They're set mules/powers for exemping, that's it.

My mistake, you're right it is 15 seconds. I have the power on beta on my dom. I just wasn't really paying attention to the duration as the fact that it procs on each target hit completely blew me away.

Are you including enhancement value as part of the +255% dmg? Since that does cut into your damage cap.

And it's not really about relying on outside buffs to reach your cap. It's about having a usable damage cap that isn't cutting into your growth/potential where you can benefit from your team mates and basic gameplay tools such as inspirations. It's less about hitting that cap as it is about having that window of unused potential to do something with if the situation arises. No other AT other than Kinetics users will damage cap like a Nightwidow can (except maybe silly things like SS/Shield tanks), which is half of an entire AT, the other half not so far behind. Once your team gets a bit of +dmg going from assault, or other buffers, god forbid a kinetics user joins, the disparity between your dps contribution and your team mates damage will widen quickly.

I've been semi-pushing for a SoA dmg cap increase for a while now =/

T4 Assault Core is a 65% chance for 15% dmg buff for 10 seconds. It also has a chance to trigger once per target hit, so if you open with an aoe you can get that 75% dmg buff right at the begining of combat, and pretty much keep it there perma.

Something to note about nightwidows in particular:

SoAs have a 300% enhanceable damage cap.

Let's say you're using Musculature with good enhancement slotting, that's 125% of your damage cap used up.

Let's say you're also running double assault (quite common for SoAs) that brings you up to 155%.

Now let's say you've got perma double follow up (not hard to achieve), that brings you up to 215%

Now let's say you have some decent damage bonuses, that's going to be 20-30% on a good build. You're now up to 235-245% dmg buff.

Now drop the Assault Hybrid on top of that. You're now at 310-320% dmg buff, overcapped from 300%.

At this point, you cannot benefit from a 3rd follow up with a higher recharge build, you cannot benefit from and +dmg procs like Decimation or Gaussians, and you cannot benefit from any team daamge buffs at all (literally, they will not improve your damage at all), and you will not be able to gain any benefit from red inspirations.

Sure perspective comes into play here a bit. You can either consider it a good thing that you will basically be perma dmg capped without any outside help, quite nice for a solo'ist, but you will also have no room to improve in combat, your combat capabilities will be completely static, you will not be able to do any more damage than you can normally.

It's an issue SoAs (and in particular, Night Widows) have been facing for a while, and it's really going to show when people start picking up Assault Hybrid for their SoAs and realize their damage cap will be severely limiting their growth.

They never said that. Zwill just said they weren't giving out a free respec with this issue (i22). They said nothing about future issues.

What was your time w/out Hybrid slotted?

They have been using ATOs to tweak balance issues, quite noticeable with the first round of them, even moreso noticeable with the second round, I fully expect them to continue that trend. ATOs are something that they will use to balance, whether they admit to it or not.

More simple? Yes.

Easier? No.

Not killing the Telepathists makes the job of those responsible for pulling the IDF away from the technicians much more difficult because of the stacking debuff. Which will be at 4-6 stacks depending on your league size if you're ignoring the telepathists.

4 stacks (small league) is:
-20% def
-4% tohit
-20% dmg
-20% resistance

6 stacks (large league) is:
-30% def
-6% tohit
-30% dmg
-30% resistance

Which is applied to your entire league.

It only takes 2-3 people to keep telepathists down to a minimum.

I wouldn't call i23 hitting the beta servers a slow night >_>

Unless you're the silly guy still on live.