Miladys_Knight

Play something other than DP as a blaster. DP is fine for corruptors or defenders. The long animations make it not so good for blasters.

The best thing about DP is the sheer number of procs you can pack into it. Since procs give the same benefit no matter which AT uses them adding procs (especially damage procs) is better for a low damage AT like corrs and defenders.

Blaster survival is all about killing quickly. You want quick hard hitting animations and a secondary that either helps you kill faster, or one that increases your chances of survival while maintaining the kill speed of your primary.

I believe that you are simplyfing this far too much and you have also left out some important information, possibly to make the set look better than it is.

The set is lacking in hard controls especially in the early levels. (Though it does have a plethora of soft controls).

The chaining effect isn't as simple as this:
since chaining powers check against each target to see if they jump to the next target. The likely hood of a chain breaking early is also increased when fighting higher level mobs, while acc is debuffed, or in the early game when accuracy slotting is low.

Chaining powers also suffer when up against a spawn containing armored targets (think Crey and PPs for example) as the chain is much easier to break in these cases or when the mobs are spread out far enough that the chain jumps to a mob that is a bit out from the rest of the spawn and then there are no legal targets near enough to jump to. This will also break a chain.

Chaining powers also take a finite and measurable amount of time to jump from target to target. If the targets (in the case of Synaptic Overload) are aggroed before the chain is complete (quite typical when gremlins are out or while teamed) or if a proc is placed in the power (nullifying the stealth aspect of the chain) the controller can be defeated before the power finishes chaining. In higher levels (when the powers actually can begin to come in to their own by having an adequate amount of enhancement slots assigned to them) the spawns can be defeated by the rest of the team before chaining is complete.

The absolute worst problem even with quick recharge is that 5% (or more if acc is low) of the time the power will fail completely. In the time it takes for the power to recharge and be applied again the controller can easily take enough damage to be defeated.

I still stand by my opinion. It's not a really good set for teaming because of its lack of hard controls, all the chaining delays and the 5% (or higher) chance of complete failure every time a chain power is used.

It's not a good solo set for the above reasons plus the low damage output.

If I had to sum it up I would call it the Murphys Law set. The time the chain is going to fail is the worst possible time for it to do so.

Edit - Don't get me wrong I'm not saying that the set may not be fun to play. I'm responding from my own point of view and my experiences in the closed betas. The OP's question was in regards to which of the unique mechanics are best. IMO the mechanics of DP and elec control are not good mechanics and are actually disadvantageous as currently implemented especially when compared to existing sets with "standard" mechanics. With that in mind kin melee's siphon is the best unique mechanic of the new sets.

IMO, Dual Pistol's swap ammo power, causes the set to give up too much raw power in exchange for not enough utility. The long animations and low damage, long recharge, PBAoE nuke make playing the set as a blaster problematic, though for defenders and corruptors I'd place it at just slightly below average.

Siphon I think I like. KB powers in general don't bother me so much but I know that a lot of players are unhappy with having yet another melee set for armored ATs with KB powers instead of KD or KU. It might be nice if the devs made an internal rule that melee sets for scrappers, tanks, brutes, and stalkers be made with mag .7 KB max. (Secondary power sets for blasters should retain their KB) Any player that wishes to have knockback can always slot it for additional KB mag. Other than that the only thing that is a problem with Kin melee is the longish animation on all the top tier powers. That's not a huge deal on an armored melee class though.

I'd have to say that the chaining aspect of electric control is a weakness rather than a strength. For a squishy class like controllers and dominators having an AoE control power fail completely (which it will do at least 1 application in 20) is a problem that will be hard to accommodate especially since the power(s) aren't any better or stronger to off set that. IME electric control is a solid contender for least controlling AND least damaging control set. Edging Gravity out of it's long established place at the bottom.

Out of all the new power sets I will not play a DP or Elec control on Live. They do not fit any of my various play styles and I won't adapt my play styles to accommodate the new sets. That would not be fun. Kin Melee is interesting. I'll probably make a Kin/SR scrapper on live and see how it goes. Even though I am much more of a blaster/controller player than a scrapper player.

That's cause you have to put something in that single slot for Hurdle and Swift.......

Just so there's no misunderstanding, When GR goes live there will only be ONE market. It will not be blue, red or any other color.

If you want to give it a color I propose $$$ Green

This would be the post I agree most with. It's not really a good team controller since in the time it takes to completely sap a spawn the team will have killed said spawn and it's lacking in team effective controls in most other areas until high level when you get synaptic overload.

For Solo play as a controller it can be quite safe since you can sleep the spawn, move in and drain all the endurance out of the spawn, and then begin killing the spawn. The lack of damage of course will make soloing problematic.

I would say that the very best combination for Elec would be as a soloing Elec/Psi dominator where the lack of damage in the primary can be easily off set by the secondary.

Sounds about right to me.... from the dev standpoint. At one time we were told that Purples would never be made available to purchase with merits because we couldn't hold enough merits to afford one.

Since we can hold 9999 merits the dev vision has obviously dropped quite a bit.

Making PvP IOs available to those that hate the I13+ PvP seems like a good move to me.

Chance to heal "can" be useful to a blaster. Entropic Chaos chance to heal slotted in the tier 1 and 2 primary, and the tier 1 secondary will allow a blaster to break sleeps since these can be fired while the blaster is mezzed.

If the OP started playing a few months before registering on the forums (like I did) (s)he should all ready have it. If not, well then in just a few short months.

Take super speed at level 6 slot a celerity in it as soon as you can slot one. You get PvE invis that you will always have no matter what level you play at for a single power pick, a single slot, and minimal endurance use. you also get the fastest travel power (barring range boosted teleport) in the game.

I'll echo this. Plant starts strong and stays strong and is useful both solo and teamed.

I have a Plant/TA/Fire and I can lock down entire spawns while teamed and still do damage fast and efficient enough to solo farm.

Ranged defense set bonuses are also quite useful here. You can handle the alpha of a +0/6x spawn with a half-ish bar of health left depending on the RNG with about 25% ranged defense. It makes the purple insps stretch quite a ways.

For non-farming and non-/kin fire controllers and for my /Fire blasters I use 3 Nucs and 3 Micros.

Indeed. Mine is definately a non-standard build. I tend to make non-standard builds just to see what I can do with them and then am surprised at just how well they work. They often become favorites after that.

My Energy/Energy/Force blaster is built as a blapper and it is my main. The Fire/Storm/Stone I mentioned is one of my more fun non-standards and sees lots of play time.