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Have a good journey Hazel bud! Good thing to pick up teaching again. The world needs more good teachers!
Fair winds and thanks for all the good times you showed people.

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Both FS and PSW are used to utterly demolish your foes.

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Agreed, but same can be said about many other powers. Still doesn't make them all the same.

which are 2 totally different powers with totally different uses on different AT's

Well yes, you are actually exactly emphasising the point, although you do make it look like the opposite. Read my previous post again wher i said that others powers could do with a little boost indeed, just make shockwave less powerfull. That's the right balance check.

Nothing wrong with stone armour till lvl 38 before granite (which is awesome ofcourse provided you have a kin on team )
But imo Psi assault for domis could do very well with a balance check though: tweak shockwave and make it less powerful (increase recharge by a mile if you ask me) and make the other powers -bar DP which is great too- a little better.

But shockwave is the only thing that gives out good orange numbers in that set. Gotta wait till lvl 38(39) before you can get this superb power to rock your world (and lets be honest it's way overpowered and high on the list to be swung at with the nerfbat). Till then Psi assault is pretty pants on dam, but has decent secondary effects though. And it lacks PB

Hahaha, you just don't give up the propaganda uh rooks? You are not alone out there, but a (big) minority indeed.
Still Ice/thorns can be pretty good indeed

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Basically, dont be afraid to quit, but do it politely.

I was playing my FIre/Dark corruptor a few days back. A very effective team toon, but one who, with all the AoE, draws a lot of aggro.

The good team I was in slowly descended into a lot of hangers on who where fighting +4s rather ineffectively. THis included two Brutes - neither of them had taunt, a taunty aura or ANY AoE attacks.

After a few face plants I basically said "Thats enough debt for me, I cant be an AoE corruptor in this team" and left. Sent a tell to the team leader who was nice chap and had formed the previously good team.

If people want to play solo toons (like the above brutes) thats fine, but I cant play my team toon with them. Im sure they were lapping up the xp, but I would have been much better of solo rather than compensating for their solo toons.

So dont be afraid to make your exuses and leave, but do it politely. "U SuXxx0r" is not a good way to go. But if you join an 8 man team with 4 scrappers and 3 blasters, I would say something like "Sorry guys, Im not really going to be able to tank for this team." - you could, I suppose, offer to turn of your taunt aura and skrank, but personally I wouldnt bother.

Similarly I dont like Powerlevelling, so If I see anyone fighting +5s in a team 3 or 4 levels higher than them, I often politely say I dont PL, and leave.

Sometimes you just cant play your toon in a certain mix, so just leave!

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That's the second time in a short while that i read something by you and get the feeling this is exactly how i think. Scary... (And I have a nice fire/dark as well)

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I don't know if 11+ mil inf is really high in this game (for me it looks like a sky high on my newbie level, but who knows), but I know for sure - having 11 mil as level 20 first character that made it all by himself is not really that ordinary...


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Great you enjoying it so much!
11 mil is a lot for a lvl 20 indeed But getting it from 2 very valuable drops has got nothing to do with the power sets, it's called luck.

Keep on having fun!

Norton rocks!

RI herd FTW!

Wasteful overkill of insps used though

Whoah? You been taking a peep in my kitchen alvan? You are mentioning exactly the same domi's I have. Scary. Just don't say you are making a plant/fire next. Btw it has been my fav domi. Truly great combo (pve wise)
Only i got me mucho nice IO on them already

Swap one def debuff for an end redux in RI, and maybe ad a second if you got the slot for it, it'll help you greatly. A third def debuff is not really adding much to your already awesome def debuffing overall. One would even suffice.
And yeah i see stalagmites
3 immob in stonecages is really overkill. Even without one its very good stackable. 3 slots to be saved imo.

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Sorry to burst your bubble but you cant take any epic unfortunately you need to take scrapper ones which for pvp you're looking at body or weapons. Body is generally chosen for PvP Focused Accuracy a very nice power some more decent ranged attacks and conserve power can be useful. Weapons is a -jump webnade, caltrops and 2 ranged attacks.

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Aww that bursting bubble must be a big bang that!

P.S. I don't know where you were hovering gaidax, but it's really worth getting your hands on the excellent Mid's hero builder. Amongst many other things it makes you able to check exactly what powers (epics too) you can take on each AT and sets.

Looks like a decent build overall.

Okty already said most, so just emphasising some noticable points.

-Really take hasten. You want it.
-No stalagmites?? It's great. Take it. Love it.
-Drop leadership pool. It's not so usefull for your toon. Unless you wanna go the full monty and go for vengeance. Since you are already so strong on (accu/def/res) debuffs in your secondary and primary, it's a waste of 2 powerpicks imo. Not even to mention the increased endrain. Pick hasten and stalagmites instead!
-Rocky only needs 1 accu. So that's okay, but drop the stun indeed.
EMP and LR indeed best to slot 2 accu.
-EQ: just 3 rech really, other slots better spent elsewhere.
-Choking Cloud hmm, not a big fan either. But if you do want it 3 endredux/3hold is the way to go. But realise earth/rad is pretty much a 'stay in the back and keep oversight' toon, you have no real business in melee. But for CC you need to go in melee CC. (It would fit better though on a fire/ or ice/ troller)
-3rd endmod in AM would be a very wise spend slot.

Nice massive debuff/control toon you got there. Enjoy!

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Hi,

Im looking for a different controller.

I am unsure but I might go Illusion/ earth/ or something else, quite possibly illusion/force field.

What do you guys think? I dont want to pick something thats FoTM (such as fire/rad).

Does anyone know what the best hard control (lockdown) primary to take?

Also need a secondary which is team friendly, and possibly with some debuff element

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A different troller with a good hard control primary and a team friendly secondary eh? Gosh so many nice combos's possible...

Best primary for this is earth and ice as second. Leave illusion and fire as far as this goes, although they have other very nice qualities.
For a secondary kin and rad are pretty much Fotm: /TA and sonic are quite rare, but make up for some really nice sets
Personally i think /TA is a really fine and interesting set to play. Storm is also damn good and unjustified underused imo.

Combining all this there arise a few nice combo's you could try:
-Earth/Storm.
-Ice/TA
-Earth/TA
-Mind/TA
-Earth/Sonic
-Ice/Storm (but not so original)

The list could go on, but these are just few 'different' and good synergising combo's.
I've played both Earth/TA and Earth/storm (and many more in relishing my troller fetish ) myself and they offered an incredible good time.

Hope you pick a combo that will fit you. Have fun!

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Its not as easy to level as a regen but I love mine far more than my regens

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Yeah, that makes sense

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What are you trying to say? People cant enjoy other sets than regen?

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Nope, didn't mean to say that at all. I just misread your phrase, so let's pretend I didn't write that

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Its not as easy to level as a regen but I love mine far more than my regens

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Yeah, that makes sense

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Other than the damage modifiers being raised i think domination should have a +tohit buff in it to counter all the +tohit heroes get.

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We'd love that ofcourse, but an incorporated tohit buff would make it too powerful.

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Grav is just slow not -recharge isn't it?


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Indeed just slow (still very annoying though). Must have been the smokes again

Fire/dark is very nice, and if you already got a dark/dark def- dark miasma is awesome stuff-, imo really try something else.
/cold set is very nice too and it seems more and more ppl discover the excellence of it, as since last 2 months or so i've seen a huge increase in /cold cors. especially ice/colds.

Disco! The Godmother of all Storm/Sonics!

Son/kin is nice
For advise have a look in the guides here and you'll find some ideas and tips. Also best to check the guide section on these european forums ofcourse.
Don't forget to look in the blaster section for sonic blast and defender or troller section for the kinetic side if you want some more to read

Storm set is filled with very good powers. Skip gale and take O2 boost as first power though if you ask me.
Thunderclap is not liked by many as it only stuns minions, but imo it's pretty good especially with you being sonic as you can stack stuns with screech and your nuke. (thunderclap right before nuke and everything except EB/AV will be stunned)
All the other powers are ranging from good to awesome and personally i'd take them all and skip gale. Maybe also sjip thunderclap, but that's to your personal liking.

Dark/sonic should be good in PvP. Excellent stacking of resis debuff, a stun, a sleep (if you take it), frightening accu debuff, good heal (with nice secondary effects), a fear power and a sweet slow patch.
It's said it's one of the 'undiscovered' gems for PvP.

Im counting on 20.00 BST peeps. In middle of TF atm and never make it 19.00 anyway.
Hope this will work out for all