Amy_Amp

The most giggle like a school girl fun I have had has been on Plant/storm, Earth/storm, and Ill/rad. Plant/storm is you go in and confuse the mob and then toss so much stuff at them they forget you exist. If you like a lot of little numbers all over the place this works. Earth/storm is just a stupid amount of control. I did the "30 Fir Blog" mission as the only controller and had the team chanting my character's name. My Ill/rad is level 37. I have it only partially IOed out and I think the total cost was under $100mil, so what's there is on the cheap outside of Devastation slotting for SW. Current solo setting is at +4. Seriously.

Mind/kin and Elec/kin are rather close as well. Both play incredibly fast, and my Mind/kin likely holds the record for "How the hell did I get out of that" situations. I so wished I demo recorded some of the stuff he's pulled off. I have a number of other ones, and I might be missing one of the more fun ones, but those are the ones that come to mind out currently.

Claws has never really disappointed me. Facing something that resist your attacks is just called game balance.

Unlike what seems to be the masses, I've been willing to give this an actual chance. For me, I loved it.

You have far more time to solo than I'm willing to spend if you slot up on end mods for both AoEs. Even if they have a sliver of end after SC and BL, they are attacking until one of those powers recharges. End drain on a team is damn near a joke outside of specific situations. You run in to try and do end drain and then a controller comes in and mezzes them in one click. If you like it in the 30s then great. I don't mean to rain down on anybody's fun. Again, on the LGTF draining the end on the Famine EB is a huge boost due to it's end drain being a major pain.

Like I said before, mine hit 50 back in i5. I've done everything with it outside of the alpha slot stuff. I'm rather comfortable in what it can and can't do. The build had it's place, but I just find /elec incredibly lacking in today's game. Case in point, I find end game teams move fast enough for end drain to not really matter and that doesn't factor in controllers. If you slot up the attacks for end drain then you are playing more like a controller, and to me an Elec/kin controller is many more times fun in part due to the sheer speed of the build, Jolting Chain alone is just a joy to use, and Elec control was built from the ground up so it doesn't carry the identity issue of trying to do control and damage, but not really being good in either due to it being a blast set that Elec blast has.

If you like it, awesome. Knock that build out and have fun. My Kin/elec is my name sake, the one name people in game know me as, and my first 50 so I will always cherish it on some level. I don't even dare look to see the number of hours I have played the build. I played it long enough to have a "Wait a minute..." moment, and after that I started to figure out I liked other builds better.

If Doms are out of the question, then a /ta controller, or Dark/ice/psy are the only ones I think that would have a chance, but I think it's rather low. You would need to abuse the +2 mag hold proc and hope for the best.

I assume it's coming in the next round of ports. It was either Cold/ice, or Thermal/fire for the last round. Thermal would be nice to try out, but I have zero desire to play Fire blast. If I'm going to play it, it's going to be via a blaster, or corr.

I like Kat/elec more because DA covers some of /elec's issues, DA can ultimately be dropped on a /sr with the right build while DA is always useful for /elec, and I'm in a phase where I like having a damage aura when possible. My /elec is DB/elec so I can't directly compare it, but my Kat/sr has been rather solid so far at 47.8 so to me there is no bad answer.

Claws/regen was the first non-support character I had that clicked for me. It was the most fun 1-40ish I had on a character. It was fun as hell to go into Crey's at 30 and play "I wonder what can kill me?" Somewhere in the 30s I did something like 5 levels of not using clicks to see how much I died while doing missions. I died zero times. 40-50 has me begging for IOs to get some defense in there. The voodoo doll beta tester feel just got too old for my taste. When you are on top of your game playing the build it can be amazing. When you are off of your game, well....

It's still end heavy post level 22. Yes, I know Transference covers it, but it's still a pain. FF is too slow for my own playstyle as well. I'm still leveling a Fire/kin and Fire/storm, but even at level 26 for both the returns have been disappointing even knowing both bloom late. Fire currently ranks as my least favorite controller primary, but we'll see. It's Fire, or Grav, but at least Grav has had moments of fun.

I soloed on the old setting of unyielding on mine, so it can be done. This was however well before I really started to play ATs that do solo well, but it is also before the more recent change for defenders in doing more damage while solo.

From a solo point only, /elec lacks a third single target attack to make a credible attack chain. This pretty much forces you into taking the pet. Not that I did in the end mind you. I might if I ever did a post i19 build. It's AoE is lacking from the stand point since one of the two isn't slotted for damage as much as a normal AoE attack. It will still lean towards taking on bigger mobs with lower levels due to the two AoEs and Fulcrum benefits more from more targets.

It will never be fast even for a defender, but you just have to figure out if even a decently built Kin/elec is worth it. I can solo on my Kin/elec, but it's been level 50 since the i5 days so I hardly play it outside of ebil marketing. If I do play it, it pretty much is 100% teaming. Is it viable on teams? It is as long as you don't buy into end drain too much. End drain has it's place, but it's small. The LGTF where you take on the four horsemen is one of the few standout situations for end game playing.

My vote would be Plant/storm. Seriously, it's that fun. You just end up throwing so much crap at a mob it just can't comprehend it all. Seeds, Creepers, Tornado, Lightning Storm, and epic attacks. You can even go Plant/storm/ice for just a mass of DoT damage inflicted upon a confused mob.