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Shield is far better on a scrapper due to higher damage modifiers and buff modifiers making AAO and Shield Charge significantly more potent on a scrapper. Same goes for Lightning Rod doing significantly more damage. Furthermore pets only have a 300% dmg cap, on a brute almost all of that is eaten up by fury and enhancement value leaving no room for improvement. On a brute you will find your other aoes hitting just as hard or harder than shield charge, on a scrapper it will be your burstiest aoe.

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I would like to see an i22 stalker-esque change as well, maybe with a slight buff (not 3x dmg) for using it out of combat.

*Depends what you put it in.

Yep I read that. Finished or not I can already tell what I will be interested in or not.

buff/debuff values are around 20-30% stronger depending on power, per AT mods, not double.

Furthermore, the -regen isn't any better on a defender, the +rchg, +end, and +recov in chronoshift arent any better on a defender, temporal selection on a defender only has better +dmg, the +regen and +rchg are the same on both ATs, the higher defense isn't that big since you can still easily softcap to everything on a corr and hit effective incarnate softcap with time's juncture on a corr, and you're going to be slowing down everything to a crawl on either AT.

The biggest things time defenders have over time corrs is higher heal numbers and -7.5% more -res on slowed response. Whereas corrs will be doing overall more damage, have a higher damage cap, and have triple scourge rain of fire.

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Hopeling already nailed it, but just to expand:

Time isn't a very offensive secondary, fire really helps out where time manipulation lacks in offensive prowess (in comparison to secondaries like cold, kin, storm, and rad).

Time is very defensive. It's not very hard to build for 45% defense to M/R/A and also have the tohit debuff from time's juncture on top to cushion defense debuffs as well as having a great self heal. Naturally with all of this it doesn't need alot of the defensive utility that alot of blast sets bring (like the tohit debuffs and healing in dark, or the end drains in elec or the stuns in rad, or kb in energy, etc) to be incredibly survivable, so fire is a natural fit.

Time's Juncture and Distortion Field synergize with Rain of Fire quite well keeping enemies within RoF.

Soul Mastery lets you powerboost your farsight to easily reach softcap defenses. It also affects the healing in Temporal Mending and Chrono Shift and Time's Juncture's Debuffs among other things. Powerboost recharges twice as fast as Power Mastery's PBU so you can use it alot more frequently to boost many of time's powers in addition to farsight, whereas if you went with PBU it would mainly be used just for farsight but has the additional affect of giving a 68% dmg buff, while nice is also cut by the animation time of farsight.

Soul Mastery also gives you Soul Drain which can be active 50% of the time. Typically you will get more mileage out of soul drain's damage buff than you would from the damage buff in PBU.

Soul Mastery's shield is also a bit better than Power Mastery. While Temp Invul gives about 3% more S/L resist, Dark Embrace gives 17% Negative and Toxic resistance.

This.

Double Mire Quasar was never and isn't the best nuke in the game, it's not even close.

Aim+BU with any blaster crash nuke does more.
Aim+BU with blaster inferno does nearly double.
Aim+BU with non crash blaster nukes (RoA, Overcharge) do almost as much damage
Aim'd Corruptor Inferno does almost as much damage
Damage capped Corr Inferno does almost double damage (fulcrum shift)
Daamge capped corruptor crash nukes do more damage
Aim+corr corr crash nukes does more damage @ -30% resistance (sleet, FR, Radiation, etc)

I could go on.

This. You don't need burnout to get Creeper's duration to be greater than it's recharge, it's perma-able but you can't stack it. It overwrites it just like most other pets do.

On my ss/fire I use t4 core spiritual and t4 core Ageless when solo for max recharge and by extension damage and still being sustainable. When doing teams/trials I switch to Barrier, Clarion, or Rebirth depending on what the team needs most. Ageless is great as a self buff if you're building around it, however most other people won't benefit alot from it compared to other destiny buffs because most people will have a solid attack chain and be sustainable with out it. For example on BAF and UGT I switch to clarion for confuse protection or for MoM I will switch to Rebirth to combat the high amounts of aoe damage on the trial. When running Clarion, Rebirth, or Barrier I switch to Vigor Alpha to keep myself end sustainable although Cardiac is also an option here.

I prefer Pyronic for the 1 second activation and being able to nuke another group or grab aggro of said group at range. Really though Judgment choice is mostly a personally preference so I'd take whichever you see yourself liking/using the most. Though I wouldn't take Cryonic on anything.

Yep. That looks alot better

This.

KoB is a better place for KCs than haymaker, KoB is just as much a set mule as haymaker is by that logic.

There is precedent for objection. Energy Manipulation's Total Focus used to be mag 4. It was nerfed to mag 3 because the devs felt blasters shouldnt have burst mezzing that is stronger than that of controllers.

The point should be to balance blasters with other ATs, not make them carbon copies of every other AT.

Blasters are and should be more than nukes on legs, they have 8 other powers in their primaries to use than just nukes. Furthermore Corruptors have nukes in their primary as well, their primaries are just as important to their AT as blaster primaries are important to their AT, nukes need fixing across the board, not just for blasters.

Blasters are pure damage ATs, if you want to be able to mez or buff or debuff as well a blaster is not for you. Blasters are meant to be best at dealing damage, currently they are not, giving them stuff from "mez/survival pies" does not contribute to the overall goal of the blaster nor fix the issue that they have.

Fire's secondary effect is DoT. Damage is mitigation. Dead enemies cannot dps you. Increasing Blaster dps increases Blaster survivability.

Do you actually know what a taser is?

From wikipedia:
The Taser fires two small dart-like electrodes, which stay connected to the main unit by conductive wire as they are propelled by small compressed nitrogen charges similar to some air gun or paintball marker propellants[clarification needed]. The air cartridge contains a pair of electrodes and propellant for a single shot and is replaced after each use. There are a number of cartridges designated by range, with the maximum at 35 feet (10.6 m).[21] Cartridges available to non-law enforcement consumers are limited to 15 feet (4.5 m).[22] The electrodes are pointed to penetrate clothing and barbed to prevent removal once in place. Earlier Taser models had difficulty in penetrating thick clothing, but newer versions (X26, C2) use a "shaped pulse" that increases effectiveness in the presence of barriers.[23]

Emphasis in bold, a taser isn't a long range device. Originally taser was a melee power, it was buffed to a quite reasonable range.


1) Blasters can use their t1s and t2s while mezzed
2) Giving mez protection to a single secondary messes with balance between sets in ATs. Fire manipulation is balanced by having the highest dps output, giving it strong mez protection doesnt make sense. Balance within an AT is just as important as balance between multiple ATs.


Sorry to tell you this, but blasters are meant to deal damage, they're meant to be the best at dealing damage. They are not. They need more damage. More damage is survivability. Dead enemies cannot fight back. A good blaster will be very survivable. Yes it does take combat awareness. No you don't need "mez/survivability" buffs to make blasters survivable, it's just a different playstyle. If you really want survivability in the form of stats, softcap your blaster to S/L or Ranged defense and pick up clarion/rebirth/barrier and or use powersets that have stuns/debuffs/healing, blasters already have the tools they need, they just need a bit of a buff to their damage modifiers.