StratoNexus

Nonsense. You can easily go beat the snot out of them in a few arcs. Only when they are massively supported on a major invasion where they have used a boatload of resources to prepare and come with loads of allies are they increased in power to the point where the player needs to respond in kind and also get modest support of 7 others.

Its not like Battle Maiden is presented as having this type of power all the time. The NPCs only have very, very high levels of power when they are planning something major. If you want to fall back on story driven reasons for why your character should be the most powerful person in the game solo, the game gives you plenty of ways to live out that fantasy. The fact that the game also has stories where the protagonists must struggle to overcome daunting foes is a good thing. Variety is important.

Maybe repeatedly using Force Bolt, Repulsion Bomb, and/or a Vet/temp power will make a difference? Perhaps bubbling people who already have bubbles could "game the system." Maybe bubbling NPC allies could trigger getting better rewards?

Resistance debuffs can go negative. They cap at -400%. Resistance debuffs are very potent.

It is a pretty common idea I have seen many times, true. It was suggested a lot as a change for Assault Rifle.

Which closed Beta? The one for DP this spring?

It is not Earthquake. I am sorry you fail to see that. Is Freezing Rain Earthquake because it also knocks things down?

Agreed. However, I think the game has room for some more niche choices. I am NOT sorry that some powers fall outside of your vision of the game and of how you think it is played by most people (and you may even be correct about how most people play). There are several powers that fall outside of my general liking as well, but I do my best to look at them objectively and realize that while I am not a fan of them, they can indeed make some players happy.

I don't choose to play a powerset with 3 ally buffs and two ally targeted toggles in order to take pool attacks and use those. If I did, I would not complain that it is the set that is lacking, but rather I would accept that I am working WELL outside of the design intent (My Ice/Sonic controller actually has two pool attacks, but I do keep the shields up when teamed and I use Dispersion and Disruption all the time (although I am level 34, so no Clarity yet)).

If you find buffing tedious, why play a set that is so obviously dependent on buffing allies to be good? I find buffing to be fun and challenging. When you have a team screaming around a map like lunatics because they can't get mezzed and lose life slowly, that satisfies me. Therefore I like playing buff sets. When your team has to wait for you to engage, when they depend on your debuffs, I find that less fun, so I stay away from debuff sets (well, except Storm, but I really like Storm for concept reasons). Should I come here and insist that AM be changed to a single target click buff so I can keep it perma on my whole team (except myself) like I can do with Speed Boost? Maybe Fearsome Stare can be removed from Dark and replaced with an ally buff that grants the target a Cloak of Fear type power? That would be great!

You could argue that, but only because you want to play Sonic your way (and then complain that it doesn't work well when played that way). Sonic is a very active set in that you can keep Clarity up and use your blasts/controls a lot. You might choose to use Cage and Repulsion, if you are a good communicator or play with SG mates a lot. If you want to toss out a few buffs and then do the newspaper emote, try Force Field (although I'd argue that you should be using your other powers on them as well).

While I do not think the recharge time on Liquefy needs to be 5 minutes, it does a lot more than Earthquake and it does it very well.

If you had to put both effects on the same target you might have a point. Also, an ally who knows how to use it can knock things back into patches or back at the character with Disruption. Yes, Sonic Repulsion is probably difficult to use with a PuG, because most people have trouble typing simple instructions.

Clarity provides so much more than Dispersion and grants the receiver huge freedom of movement and the Sonic user piece of mind that his team has protection even away from the dome.

Cage is definitely very situational. I call it and Repulsion skippable, but respectable, options.

I thought that too for quite a long time. 40 feet is not terrible, but it is noticeably shorter than Supremacy.

I changed my MIDs to the unofficial I19 version, so the data chunk is unlikely to work. However, if you select the entire build and copy (I start from Villain Plan by Mids' Villain Designer 1.803 and copy all the way to Level 4: Ninja Run), MIDs will often be able to interpret that just fine (or at least mostly fine, sometimes a few IOs fail to show up).

Also, when you want to run RWZ missions, juts send a bunch of tells to scrappers, brutes, stalkers, and tankers. One (or more) is bound to join you and combining any armored character and a Kin makes missions fly by.

CS will never do extra damage true. A critical on other sets single target tier 9s will indeed outdamage CS. CS is still a big hitter and still an extreme damage attack.

The 20% chance to recharge Power Siphon is pretty nice too (and probably better than a true critical in the long run).

[sarcasm] Agreed, they should eliminate Brutes. They are too similar to scrappers and never should have been added. The powersets scrappers do not have can just be ported and all is well. [/sarcasm]

I suggest replacing them with a an AT that has a melee primary and a buff/debuff secondary. That would be different.

All pets benefit when in range of you. The uniques are granting you a power which buffs your pets, but they have a pretty short range.

This unique works all the time (as long as you do not Ex below its range). You do not need to activate the power it is slotted in.

You need to look at the tier 9 again. Outside of Lightning Rod, I think it does the most damage with a single click of any scrapper attack set. Concentrated Strike deals 20% more damage than Head Splitter.

Crushing Field washes away many sins. It is more effective than actual Taunt against large spawns. Of course, I usually combined it with Freezing Rain and Hurricane, but I can see Repulsion Bomb and Repulsion Field having similar aggro controlling abilities (Bomb and Force Bubble seem to work well on my FF defender for keeping aggro off of other people, although the Bubble's size limits its use a bit more than Field's).

I agree completely. I love Sonic Resonance just as it is. I'd love it on a MM.

I still think you should take something else. If you go with Leadership, I would go Assault instead of Maneuvers (unless you team with people granting you Defense a lot).