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Originally Posted by Jade_Dragon

Yes, Taunt should always override the run away effect. One thing to remember is that Fear will never, in itself, cause a foe to run. The Fear effect is for the foe to cower in place, and not attack unless attacked back. If the run effect activates, it's because the Fear effect caused him to be hit by several attacks while he was unable to hit. (I'm guessing this is why low level MOBs sometimes run when hit by Fear. It's not because the Fear is making them run, but because they can't hit because they con grey)

Anyway, I personally consider it a bad idea to continue a toggle on a running critter. You never know what spawn that critter is going to run into, and aggro with your toggle. So while I'll agree your team leader was an idiot, Rom might not have been the best target to drop Darkest Night on. Of course, you want to make sure it's an anchor which won't be easily killed, but that's just something you have to decide based on the conditions of the fight.

I would say that if he was the only one being effected by the debuff, and he had run off and was no longer attacking, there really was no reason to keep it up. So turning it off was probably a good idea, just not for the reason the team leader said.

Originally Posted by Donna_

There is a high % of sink on every transaction made through the market... i'm sure that is more than enough for now.

Originally Posted by Angelic_EU

I know that fire/trap can take on an AV or a GM solo. What other /trap combos can do the same?

Originally Posted by Cobalt_Azurean

I vendored a purple recipe once. Suffice to say, I haven't made that mistake again.

Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

How does it fare against enemy types Dark Armour isn't specifically tooled to counter?

Originally Posted by je_saist

Okay. I haven't read the thread itself, just responding to the original post, so if this stuff has already been addressed and I'm just repeating it, yeah, sorry.



Okay. Big problem here. The buff archtypes have deliberate minimal resistances and protections against mez effects in the game. Outside of the anti-mez fields in the Sonic Resonance and Force Field power sets, only Controllers get any mez-protection with Indomitable Will. Even then, IW is a level 41 Epic Power, and you'd need to be pretty much at hard recharge cap for it to be perma.

So, your basic request here, isn't one you are ever going to fill.



Requisite link to damage caps: http://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Damage_Cap#Damage

While Corruptors do get 100% more damage boost than controllers or defenders, raw damage is only one factor. The majority of a corruptors damage comes late in the HP bar of an opponent when scourge kicks in and they start doing double damage.

Controllers, by comparison, get double damage as long as any mez effect is applied to an opponent.

Defenders get a Damage buff when they are solo or with up to two team-mates, and have stronger buff / debuffs.

Then there's the matter of the power sets themselves.

Case in point, Archery. Archery is largely made up of a large number of single strike shots, and only has two powers that benefit from scourges double damage on damage over time: blazing arrow and rain of arrows. While all attacks have a chance for double damages, that overall damage becomes limited.

So, does the higher potential damage cap on a corrupter off-set the stronger buffs / debuffs of a Defender? Does it offset the control offered by a controller?

That is up to any particular player to decide for themselves. There is no hard only one way to go answer. Each archtype has it's own strengths and weaknesses.




Okay. First lesson in Kinetics 101: Your buffs are not for you.

Fulcrum Shift, as a power, is designed for your team-mates to take advantage of. If you are getting into Melee range on a regular basis, you need to back up.

Control Sets with good alpha mitigation capabilities are often used as platforms to drive players buffing themselves with FS. One of the reasons the Fire / Kinectics Controller rose in popularity as a farming solution is that fire control offers both a perception debuff in smoke, and a stun debuff in Flashfire. Those particular debuffs can give Fire / Kins time to get into melee range and leverage fulcrum shift for themselves.




Okay. Defense is meaningless.

No really. There are a couple basic problems with obsessing after defense. Your archtype, the corruptor archtype, has no defense debuff resistance. This means that it's only going to take one single attack landing with a defense debuff, and you no longer have any defense.

The larger the mob that you enounter, the more chances the enemy has to penetrate your defenses, and the more likely you will be going splat.




Yeah, here's the thing. Many mez attacks, such as sleep or hold, are not delivered through smashing / lethal damage attacks. The mez attack most often coupled with smashing / lethal / energy attacks is stun. You are getting hit by enemies with attacks you have no protection against.



Short version. No.

To put it bluntly, what you are trying to do, the developers don't want you to do. It's known as blapping, named after players who played blasters like scrappers trying to take advantage of the old blaster defiance.

In order for what you want to work as you want it to work, you pretty much have to cherry pick which enemies you fight, making sure to only take on opponents with smashing or lethal damages and no mez effects.

Now, if you are dead set on using a ranged archtype in a non-ranged combat situation, your best bet is going to be controllers, and from what it sounds like you want, you might as well go ahead and make the flavor of the it's going to get nerfed again and ruin it for everybody else Fire / Kin.

Originally Posted by Rad_Avenger

I am curious how the Emp drew Black Scorpion's aggro. My combat logs indicated that was who killed him.

Originally Posted by ItsCamRUN

It's probably best if we don't do that...

Originally Posted by Shred_Monkey

nope... i've thought about it some more and I'm still going to say a 2nd scrapper is best. If for no other reason then because this way the other player won't quit the duo because he's not having as much fun.

Originally Posted by Deus_Otiosus

I'd just like to take this moment to thank all you Therms out there, rare though you may be, for making teams everywhere more awesome than they were.

Originally Posted by Torrynt

[...]There should never have been a defender AND blaster class. Just a combination of the two: Ranged attack and Buff sets with damage somewhere in between. You wouldn't have had the sterotypes that exist and the damage levels would have been easier to balance. Oh well. It's still a great game... just wish they could go back and redo certain parts.