SinisterDirge

Drop your traps on him. As long as it is triggered, he is debuffed. Let him jump, his regen, defense and resists are still debuffed. By all means shoot him, but the traps are ridiculously helpful to the whole league. It is not pointless.

On topic of thread: thems the breaks. Somedays feels like I can't knock a hellion across Perez without hitting an idiot. Somedays the idiot is me. Least we have player notes these days.

What content gets significantly more painful for blasters at 50 than at 49 to warrant a drop to #3 in popularity? Is it not essentially the same content?

As for Op: Play what you like to play. I can't get a blaster past 35. That's not superfluous, that's the AT and I agreeing we don't suit each other.

This is my experience as well. I am the first to admit that I make a horrible "support" teammate. I preffer debuff sets to buff sets. Mostly because I dont want the responsibility of keeping other players buffed. Any debuffing I do helps my gameplay and incidently helps the team as well. I will pay attention and try to keep a triage beacon out and in the back for the squishies to huddle in for example, but my gameplay does not need to change drastically for teams.

The aoe buff buff has made me more comfortable playing my cold on teams just because it is easier to keep shields on everyone.

In Nomine Patri, Et Fili, Et Spiritus Sancti.

Won't your face be red when you hear about issue 21.

Not much has changed since you left meaning that the same toons that soloed well a year ago will solo very well now. Melee will always solo well, some slower than others, but your mileage may vary and all that rot.

Lately I have been having fun with corrs. Particularly sets that give some sort of mez protection.

I will need a decoder ring or something to read any further into your post about what playstyle you enjoy.

Hard to imagine that scrappers are superfluously useless, but its true. I read it on the internets.

As stated on the wiki, as well as here, it can stack up to 4 times. 20% -damage is nothing to sneeze at. Pair it with void judgment -damage and you will definately notice it. stack it with any sort of resistance what so ever and you will notice a difference, at least you should.

It should hurt less when you get hit in the fase.

You want fire/ because the pairing is uber hot goodness.

*Edit: Maybe I should mention why I didnt consider archery for my /traps toon. Traps plays way better at the feet of the mobs, you should be the first in the spawn, laying down all your ****. With archery, it is too tempting to lay down a death zone, then pull the spawn to you. Bad trapper! Bad and slow. Teams will not wait for you to set up. You need to be set up before your teammates hit the spawn. RoA takes way too long to animate for there to be much synergy with your traps, and getting the timing down when you are in a team to fire it off and debuff the spawn before your teammates destroy it is a greater challenge than I care to accept. Also, explosive arrow blows the whole spawn out of your death by debuff zone. That is two of your heavy hitters in your primary that are out. "But traps has trip mine that does KB" you say. That is correct. That means you will ever only use one of the two powers per optimally packed up spawn.

Don't get me wrong, I am not saying that one shouldnt play this combo, I am explaining why it doesnt work for me.

I have no experience with sonic besides the lack of aoe's on paper which instantly dropped it out of contention. The -res would be nice, but I can stack acid mortar three times on my trapper, more than enough -resist for my needs.

Highly recommend against doing that. You want to include all three of the main tiers of mobs in your missions. Otherwise, the xp the mobs give takes a significant hit. Also don't recommend any more than 2 npc buffers if that is something you are considering for your mission.

Frankly, I don't see the big deal of having the bosses there, everything gets cut down by the scythe.

You should feel lucky.

The devs came to my house, tossed my freshly hatched kittens in a bag and drowned them in my bathtub, making me pay for the water that drowned my kittens. You will never hear about it on the news though, Black "Ops" Pebble is just that good.

****! No one told me I was a cripple! I alleviate my single target impediment by fighting more than one purple boss or EB at a time. Considering the game is not balanced to be able to solo AV's, I will hold my head up shamelessly if I need some help to take one out.

Was not a fan of the combination. Much prefer the victoria/acu combination. With the aoe buff change, most of your pets will be over buffed anyway. (in teams that is) Solo, the orb has never really made a noticeable difference to me.

This was a known issue. Beta testers did know about it, and made sure the development team knew about it as well. As stated above, it was a known issue and still they released it without fixing it.

I am very glad to hear it has a fix in the pipeline, thanks for the relatively quick reaction after it hit live devs.