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When well used Fulcrum Shift can damage cap most ATs. On a team with a Kinetics defender, a damage capped blaster adds a lot more dead stuff than a second Kinetics defender.

That being said, caps come into play very rarely and probably aren't worth discussing.

Not picking on you Seldom, but this keeps coming up.

If a corrupter or defender buffs your team or debuffs your enemies, that doesn't mean your blaster is doing more damage than the corrupter; the corrupter is causing your entire team to do more damage. It's something the corrupter is doing that benefits the team, not something the blaster is doing differently because the corrupter is there. The blaster fires off their attack chain as usual, but because there's a corrupter around, they do more damage; that damage should be credited to the corrupter.

This is one of the reasons that corrupters are more damaging on a full team. Aim+Build Up increases one toon's damage by ~160%, but a 20% damage buff on all 8 players is approximately equivalent damage scales notwithstanding, and most of these can be kept up nearly 100% of the time. Debuffing enemy resistance by 20% is about equivalent; most of the major resistance debuffs are in the 30% range.

Yes, blasters can push their own damage into the stratosphere, but buffers and debuffers can provide as much or more of a benefit to the team by increasing the damage the entire team does.

I don't believe you.

There, someone said it.

Wouldn't you bump into AV resistance issues? I would assume that Elec/ would fare as horribly as any other control set against AVs, i.e. they'd totally ignore you.

DoTs in general are more effective for Corrupters. This is because Scourge effectively doubles the damage cap when it goes off, similar to Containment. Irradiate, Ignite, Full Auto, and Flamethrower can do some mean damage as well.

Large single hits can be less useful for corrupters because you 'waste' the scourge damage that goes beyond a foes remaining hp. If you hit for 600 and scourge for 600 against a foe with 900 hp remaining you don't kill him harder.

IIRC Defenders also get more powerful secondary effects - recharge debuff from psy and ice, defense debuff from rad, etc. Sonic/Sonic is one situation where Defenders outdamage corrupters - since everything's a resistance debuff, any hit after the first is more powerful for a defender. By the time Scourge comes into play, the Defender is way ahead in resistance debuffing and damage done up to that point.

OTOH, you can use it to knock stuff that escapes back into the patch. I find that one of the main advantages of AR/Cold over Fire/Cold is being able to knock baddies back into Sleet and Snow Storm after they've crawled out.

On a team with someone to hold or immobilize, the extra damage is just gravy.

More specifically, the OP is /cold. Between the stealth aura and snow storm, he'll run out of end fast unless he cranks recharge through the roof and gets Heat Loss close to perma.

With good use of Heat Loss, it's practically impossible for a /cold to run out of juice. IIRC it only takes 1-2 nearby targets to hit the recovery cap, so even recovery debuffs aren't going to impact you much. Being able to stack Sleet also makes a huge difference on my AR/Cold, but since Plant/Cold neuters the knockdown I guess it's mainly nice for the res debuff and tiny damage.

Oh? My bad.

Very low levels can cost more than the highest levels for some items - ex Miracle +Recovery. Mainly procs, yes, but I'd think that people interested in keeping their PVPIO bonuses when they exemp for Sirens or SFs would value these pretty highly.

I'd comment further on whether this is any good as a guide for a /cold, but I stopped here.

I don't know. People hate me or something. I offered 50m for an invite to a good group on a 50 Rad/Kin worth close to 2b and got nothing for 5 minutes, quit and went to play Dragon Age. Incidentally, Dragon Age rocks my socks.

I'm more confused that I'm unable to find a team on a level 50 Redside /kin than anything else, really. I guess all the /stone farmers rerolled Elec/Shield and don't need /kins anymore? Are people really saying "we've already got a /kin, pick someone else"?

*shrug* I'll be back in a few months. I hit a billion and that's more than I'll ever need, so I'll be ducking out of the level 50 -KB IO market. Regularly turns over 100m and I was able to buy in for 50m for 40m profit every day or two, if anyone wants to take my niche. 'course I've probably spoiled it for the moment, but wait a week or two and it'll probably be hoppin' again.