Wyatt_Earp

Where did you get 30ft? I checked in-game on my elec dom and it says 20ft. radius.

Yes... 4s interrupt.

http://tomax.cohtitan.com/data/power...on.Poison_Trap

I have to second this... It's been a long time since I've used poison trap as well, and I definitely also remember it being extremely hard to get it to trigger. I would always see groups of 4 or 5 foes just run right past it.

Poison Trap is honestly the ONLY power that I've ever come across in this game that can't be construed as even the slightest bit situational. It's kind of baffling why the devs have done nothing with it, considering that Poison (as a whole) isn't overpowered, and IMO is pretty sub par. And now, /Dark MMs get a buff to TG's radius... HA! How's that for fair?


Not that my lvl 50 Necro/Poison MM is bitter or anything...

One correction here.

Weaken has (in addition to the -ToHit and -Damage) -Special (74.5% which includes another healing debuff)

You need about 110% global recharge and 3 SOs worth of recharge in Hasten... So, no. Frenzy only lasts 20s so you can't really count on it to apply much to hasten's recharge. Not sure how long the empowerment buff lasts, but even if you take it into account, you'll need about 73.75% more global recharge in order to get perma-hasten.

IIRC, when slotting Endurance into a pet, it will only affect those powers that could slot that IO. So, an End/Hold IO would only affect Block of Ice whereas, if you could get some endurance reduction in via a Slow set, it would affect all of his powers except for one. Or you could obviously go for a generic Endurance IO that will affect all of his powers.

Actually, I would think that Tough would be a complete waste on any build that is soft-capped to S/L. If you think about it, you're only taking 5% of S/L damage already, then Tough is stopping 12.75% on top of that (roughly 20% slotted). So, in total, Tough is really only giving you 1% damage resistance to S/L compared to a build with no S/L defense. For the endurance cost 1% S/L resistance is not worth it, IMHO.

Well, that's one way to not get any more help... And there isn't anything necessarily wrong with the build. Maybe you should try making your own?

Just a note from personal experience. With all of my Kin trollers/defenders (1 at 50 and 3 or 4 at 38+) once you get past 65% recharge, you notice very little difference. During combat, triple stacked siphon speed is pretty much a common occurrence. The first IO build I did with my lvl 50 kin defender had over 100% global recharge (somewhere in the neighborhood of 117% IIRC). It is mostly just a novelty to say that with Gaeas of the Kind Ones, you can buff yourself to over 300% recharge. I quickly respec'd into a ranged softcap build (and subsequently a very expensive S/L/E/N/R softcap build) that is much more useful.

My plant/kin currently sits at lvl 44 collecting dust because I find him so incredibly boring to play. Partly because it's so easy, and partly because it's so repetitive. (I don't quite know how it's more repetitive than any other build in this game, but it feels that way to me)

Anyhow, my advice would be go for about 65% global recharge, add some ranged and/or smashing/lethal defense, and go with the nerve alpha (to me, it's a no brainer on a kin because you don't really need damage, recharge or endurance).

Here's an example of what I would suggest for a Plant/Kin.

Basically, you don't need hasten up 100% of the time to have permadom. It only needs to be up most of the time.

As has been said, 70% is the minimum for perma, but with my dom, I'd usually only get 1 or 2 cycles of permadom before hasten's downtime overlaps too much with domination's recharge. When I respecced to get to 88.75% is when I had permadom 100% of the time. (as long as you don't forget to hit it between missions XD)

And this.