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Well I used it before years ago, and it was safe then. I haven't used it recently though. There are plenty of other people you can ask too.

Doesn't really matter to me either way if you use it or not. I'm just trying to lower the tension level in this thread. If you don't think your position should have to be defended, then don't do it. It's just going to invite other people to defend their position and continue arguing.

Not everyone who suggested the program has said those things.

You don't intend to, but it's what you're doing. You're on a forum asking for advice, and when people tell you that a program is safe, you don't believe them because they aren't trustworthy enough for you, and you're very flagrant about this fact.

There's also an issue of tone. If you had said "I'm sure you guys are right, but I don't download programs unless I completely understand everything about it, including how it works and who made it. I'll look in to it more and see if any people I know use it so I can ask them about it, then we'll see if it will work for me." then I'm sure people would have been much more understanding. Instead every time someone tries to explain that the program is safe you argue about how it MIGHT not be safe, which is insulting to them and confrontational.

You want to wait until you've taken a bit of damage so the +regen can fill you up. In my experience, 50-70% health is a good place to use it.

Not having defense debuff resistance hurts, but the truth is that most sets don't have much if any and get by just fine.

Yes, it will. Burst damage is questionable on a defender, and aim isn't very beefy in the +damage department. Even while solo, the kill speeds will be reasonably similar, and on a team there's no contest.

This isn't true. The stealth and defense only partially suppress. This means that cloaking device can reduce the chance of accidentally attracting the attention of a nearby group while you're in combat.

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EDIT: Turns out these forums will change your post to lowercase letters if your entire post is in caps.

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It's not the stalker assassin strike thing in particular for me, it's that half the people in my SG groups tend to quickly move from one dead group to the next live group while the other half doesn't, and this means that by the time the latter half reaches the group they have to struggle to find live targets.

I'm worried about the same thing. My main group already has an issue with +4X8 enemies dying too quickly.

Same. If your group is killing whole groups of enemies in 10 seconds then defensive effects aren't going to help anyway. It's just more frustrating with end drain because at least with something like to-hit debuffs you can pretend they helped :P.

On my level 40 electric controller, it's about 8 seconds. That's how long it takes for me to cast chain fences twice. Static field gets used in between those two. Archvillains take a long enough time that we get in to the fuzzy area of human perception of time. I would say 25 seconds minimum if everything works out. It can take much longer than that if I get stuck tossing O2 boosts around and I have to start conserving endurance. One of your primary means of end drain requiring 15 endurance and recycling every 8 seconds is a huge drain.

Obviously, my effectiveness takes a huge hit once I'm up against higher level enemies. I'm excited to see what agility alpha and preemptive interface along with global recharge bonuses do for me.

I am REALLY hoping that the issue 24 changes make a huge difference for blasters. I definitely agree that endurance drain and a number of other blast set strategies are going to be more viable in issue 24. Like I said, I consider end drain's time requirement being antithetical to a blaster's standard strategy to be a blaster problem. I just want to make the end drain on the first two blasts existent.

I'm curious what your secondary is. I'm guessing it's not energy or electric, because those paired with electric blast can drain even level enemies extremely quickly.