Jibikao

You know what, I have to say Radiation blaster is probably the best on Blaster than on Corr/Def.

I have a lvl 42 Radiation/Sonic Corruptor. Radiation has good aoe but the ST attack chain is really awkward. I hate spamming Bolt for little damage and X-ray being a 4s attack has 1.67s casting time (making it one of the worst range attacks). I only use Bolt to debuff the target's defense so my remaining powers hit easier.


And I've heard nothing but complaints about Radiation Blast on Defender like super low damage...blah blah blah. And the -defense debuffs are really overkill on Defender. Do they need to stack that much -def?


The reason I say Radiation Blast looks very good on Blaster is that 1. Bolt recharges at 4s making it a decent attack and X-ray recharges at 8s. 2. Cosmic Blast is a mag 3 100% stun which helps Blaster solos very well.

I have a SG mate that made a Radiation/Energy Blaster. He said he will only play Radiation on blaster and he deleted his /Rad Defender. As far as I can tell, his Rad damage is really high but he does draw a lot of aggro when he goes in for pbaoe.



If your goal is to blapper, you can just focus on using Cosmic and one pbaoe and one target aoe. You can ignore the cone. Start with Cosmic at range and once you are in melee range, use Energy attacks to stack stuns on bosses. Oh and you are right that use rad attacks first and then use your two Vet Reward attacks. The -def helps big time.

What is the most powerful "regular" boss in your opinion?


Super Stunner is extremely annoying IMO because he drains TWICE (the rez drain is the worst) and if he casts Static Field, it's also slowing you down and putting squishies to sleep.


However, I think my vote still goes to Master Illusionist. She is like the !@#$ of all. She is very hard to kill with that high regen and phase out and she casts so many annoying pets including Dark Servant and 3 Illusionists.

What's up with all these Power Pool discussions? Are they really going to introduce more or it's just pure "wish list"? I guess if we talk about it more, it's more likely that it would happen? :P

This could be off-topic but I took out my lvl 50 Blood Widow build (follow up, double Assault, and no mental powers) tonight to run some +4 x 6 mission against Longbows (Villain tip). Longbows at +4 and with warden can be very very hard. Those sonic grenades can end you life so fast after all the debuffs.

Anyway, I brought up Blood Widow because she makes my Stalker looks so weak that's all. I know I haven't really IOed my stalkers but I forgot how strong night widows are.


Not sure if Night Widow should be the base-line for Stalker's performance on a team but yeah, Stalker still needs more help IMO.


I couldn't make up my mind if Stalker REALLY needs help. Well, I've been playing mostly my Kin/Dark Stalker and while Burst is good (broken), Stalker's damage is really not that high. Or is Night Widow's damage too high and too fast? Lunge and Slash have crazy high Damage Per activation.


Ugh.. not sure what I am talking about here. It's late 1:17am. I just finished that +4 x 6 Longbow mish with NW and she makes my stalker feel so small.... maybe a well invested Stalker is a lot different but I know my NW also brings good buffs for the team. Conclusion, I think Stalker still comes up a bit short and I think mostly in damage department. I've teamed with some Tankers and man, can they survive crazy well. I just can't say the same for my Stalker "man, my damage is so crazy high!". I feel my damage is good but not crazy good. This AT should have the highest melee damage IMO either during short or long fights.

Stalker dual blade is what I call a very good mix of ST and AoE damage. It has better ST damage than Spines for sure and two high damage cones.

It offers some versatility but two of the combos are tied with BU, AS, Placate which means you can only choose one at the beginning of the battle.

Attack Vital is definitely ST and it's a very good source of ST damage. The problem with DB is that you have to wait until lvl 18 to get the first combo I think.

I can care less if Corruptor gets force field.

I only want /Poison!

I've been playing my Kin/Dark Stalker a lot lately.

I am currently in love with BU + Burst and since I run teams all the time on freedom, I rarely use BU + AS. The only time I use AS is after the alpha is over and I see a lonely boss.


They can really cut down AS's activation time IMO for pve purpose.

In fact, after I fully slot my Concentrated Strike, I use Assassin even less.

Yeah, all the -damage is probably better than 100% chance to stun. I just don't notice the -damage that much. Maybe the targets die too quick. I need to find a Hero/AV to test the -damage.

Do most AVs/Heroes have high resistance to -damage debuff?

By the way, I was a bit surprised that the stun chance isn't 100%. CS seems like a typical Total Focus type but doesn't have the same stun chance and costs the same endurance. The activation is a tiny bit faster even though all Kin attacks look "slower" because the actual damage comes at the end of activation; whereas some attacks may deal damage earlier and then you are stuck in that activation (example Midnight Grasp does damage very fast and then you are stuck there for a bit).

Speaking about enemy difficulty, Circle of Thorn is the weakest past lvl 40 for some reasons. CoT starts out strong (probably the strongest) and it's nasty with whole bunch of ghosts and a Mage with force field and earth control powers. The Earth mage era is also very nasty but after earth mage, the whole CoT group becomes the easiest to maul through. Maybe it's because both Carnies and Malta are harder which makes CoT easier..it seems.

Oh oops.. lol It's Super Stunner. ugh

When did they add Super Freak to Freakshows?

That dude has made Freakshows so much more annoying to deal with. I hate him but I am glad the dev made it harder as freakshows were farmed so much.


That auto-rez's radius is so large that it's almost impossible to get away and the worst is when he casts static field. He doesn't do a whole lot of damage but he just keeps draining and puts people to sleep.


I hate him but I enjoy him. Nice challenge to the freakshow mob.

Funny I don't like caltrops much especially on stalker.