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Maria is a lvl 45-50 contact, so you can never outlevl her. Even if your contact bar is full you can get her Arc. Provided you have cleared old arcs. This means running past ALL your OLD contacts and see if they give you a mish. When they do, its an Arc you havent done yet. ( Dont ask me to explain how this works, its pretty complicated and im starting to get all wound up over this sodded system that handles the contacts and their arcs. REALLY bad concept)
You prolly need to do a few arcs before you can get Maria's, but make sure you go check with her after every old arc you've done. Eventually she'll let you do her arc.
Good luck

Im not following you up after this post with aggresive tone, because it's tending to get out of hand. So we best leave it at we differ in vision. And thnx for the insults and accusations. good job; it tells us a lot...

You got a good point there Syn.
I agree most ppl really think it would be sensible to spend one powerslot on stone prison to make earth/storm a good damagedealer from early on, because with 3 dam slotted it does the massive amount of 3,7 BI. That will make a huge increase to BI/DPS Wow!! It truly shows great undestanding of what a (earth/storm) troller primarily should do: sustainable DAMAGE!
And additionally its a good thing indeed that most of times you can immobilize one mob, because you just want that one mob to stay away from you, please let the other mobs come close to you and show their awesome melee powers on you and your team mates. And why spend time and end to hold that specific target with fossilize indeed, instead of doing the much better single immobilize. That way he can at least still shoot nice things from range at you while you try to arrest him.
Maybe i'll join that cue of earthtrollers respeccing stone prison in that presumably will develop at jack wolf soon now.

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-Drop the single immo (stone prison) its of very limited use, and keep the AoE immo (stone cages).

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Depends entirely on the type of Controller you want to build - if you want to enjoy any real Containment damage as an Earth/*, taking Stone Prison is the best way to go about it. With a fast recharge, and a decent rate of DPS/DPE, it's certainly a help in those times when you're either soloing, or are needed to provide some damage output. If you're going for a purely "team control" build you can probably skip it, but at the cost of ignoring your inherent power - YMMV.

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Not really imo.
The stone cages have a rather long duration, so you have a long time to get most out of containment. Before the cages are vanished the new one is by long recharged and you have multiple targets contained in one shot. Its not only for team orientated builds also if damage output is needed stonecages is to be prefered. And tbh eart/storm doesn't do good dps and isn't good solo untill you get some good damaging epics.
And as far as immobilizing AV's: stonecages do that very well, so it's not really needed to take stone prison for that.
And oh Auora, i agree with archy there that it's a good idea to get stalagmites much earlier because stonecages+stalagmites is very good stuff

Bugger, fell asleep on the couch after a very tiring day and missed all, both hami raid on defiant and the Arena battles. So next week there's another pvp event scheduled?

Very nice H. Hardly have teamed with you lately, but i've teamed with you quite some mishes a bit back. You're one of the best tanks i've come across for a long time. You deserve a BIG grtz!

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Btw the fire damage on volcanic gasses is negligible

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So does this mean it doesnt ignite Oil Slick Arrow?



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Nope it doesnt, at least not noticable... In fact Gasses dont do damage at all on contrary what is said of it

Woot. You did it! Grtz

Grtz Uzzi. Well done!

Grtz Miss. Had good fun with you and ofcourse it's always good to see another darkie get there I vote for more dark defs!

Crim just dinged 50 a few minutes ago!
Well done buddy. It was a true pleasure teaming with you on the countless mishes. Great i could pop in to be witness to the glorious moment

Ooooooh. Grtz Wilf! You missed sham going 50 and now i've missed incor brawling there. And that after a lot of nice teaming. Anyways well done. Guess its about time now for you to take the wrap of that WoW box ;P

Great you making an earth/storm, its immense good fun. Here a few thoughts id like to share with you:

-Drop the single immo (stone prison) its of very limited use, and keep the AoE immo (stone cages).
The latter is of great use to keep the mobs clustered as to make the fights easier and so the AoE's have more effect, especially on your freezing rain or a tarpatch for example. (or cluster them again after having them positioned with hurricane and/or gale). The immo's also have a useful short anti knockback to prevent them being scattered by WS, nrg attacks, some PB moves or any other knockback stuff provided you time it good. And also then you can have lightning storm hit more and multiple targets instead of having your cloud knock the mobs all over the place...)
Second good thing is the "ghetto" hold you can make when combining stone cages with stalagmites.
-Drop tornado, its endcost is high and really only a "panic" power you better pick another power instead (O2 boost?)
-take steamy mist for sure, but earlier. It has a great resist buff and stealth is always good to have from early on. Also might consider taking ss, because it stacks to invis combined with steamy mist. Really handy for stealthing and scouting.

Have fun!

Ive been playin with the thought as well and actually planned a full build for it cos it seemed really interesting. The -resis, would go well with those fiery imps, but all in all i think a fire/rad or fire/storm would fare better.
Sonic lacks the personal damage mitigation those other 2 sets have. And they both have good (even with higher numbers...) resis debuff too with respectively EF and FR.
The only worthwhile (and great it would be knowing the equivalent from FF powerset) power sonic has for that is the dispersion bubble and maybe if you like it liquefy, but thats just a much weaker spin off of earthquake with a too long recharge.
The repulsion stuff and the capture cage i rule out as i dont find its all that good.

Still i'd like have a spin with a lvl 33ish one, just rather invest the time getting there in other things

I've played all troller sets rather extensively and Earth is my personal favorite of all troller primaries. I played an earth/storm to 50 on defiant and i've loved it from day one and its still lasting. The synergy with storm is excellent! Lot of placeholders and bril debuffing. Btw the small inherent def debuff of the earthpowers is a nice bonus too. Kinetics is nice for the sb that gets rocky to move his incredibly slow butt. Its such a cute ( check him out when rockclimbing or skinny dipping ) but silly pet, only really good to let him do some tanking. His attacks do good dammage but with his outrageous slow attack rate it isnt really to be trusted to do some good cleaning.
I also have an Earth/TA -lvl 40 if i recall well-, which is in retirement for a long time now. Its nice too, but i've found earth/storm compliment eachother much better.

Btw the fire damage on volcanic gasses is negligible, but seeing the hold returns in pulses it even gets bosses held quite easily combined with an immobilize/quicksand/earthquake
And the EMP arrow is dissappointingly a dissorient instead of a hold which is wrongly stated in the description

ooh, another ill/kin on thug patrol!
Good to see you're putting some in effort in making your build when just starting out.

A few things have been said already, of which taking into account ED (drastic diminishing returns on enhance after more then 3 of the same in one power) is the most important one.

In addition id say you best put 2 accu enhancements in each of your holds and kinetics powers which need have to hit to be of benefit. Just like you did with transference already. You know you dont want to miss with those nice (de)buffing powers I must admit im an advocate of accuracy, id rather hit (almost) all the time up to +4 mob then waste my end and get faceplanted by missing.. although some might disagree.

Also slotting more recharge would help a lot. Especially for long recharging powers like flash and fulcrum.

And oh yeah; keep group invis. The invis status is just as good use in pve as sup invis (when diving into pvp take sup invis) and its much more teamfriendly and less costly on the endurance, cos sup invis is a big endhog.

And speaking of end; speedboost is a truly godly buff, the good enhanceble part is really the endrecov not the runspeed, so best swap those 2 speeds for endmod.

And finally: i'd advice to (drop repel and) get an armour from the epics. you're a squishie and the armour provides you with some much needed protection so you can keep the boat rocking a bit longer before you get whacked whereas repel prolly isnt really all that.
Which epic you take is a matter of preference, just wait till you reach the 40's and see what epics ppl use and dont be afraid to ask them about it so you can make up your mind.

Have fun!

Shamana the natural troller dinged 50 on defiant recently and she is elligible for listing as well: earth/storm/fire

Congratulations Bod!

Shamana

Weeeeee! rad dinged the big one! Massive gratz, it has been a pleasure going through the 40s with you

Shamana

Thanks for all the fun and good times. Its been great playing on defiant.
Shamana probably has been my finest toon i've played, and i'm much pleased she met so many of you nice people here along the way

Weeee, big congratulations on the big ding Loki!

I've been hugely impressed with your amusingly good manners and style from that first moment on you asked me to help you out with a timed mission.

I'm actually thinking of petitioning that they make a memorial for you being nicest person in game, a true paragon hero.

Shamana

I'll be hanging about, maybe ill bring a team, but i'll happily play as mercenary as well Galaxy again?

Nah don't judge so quickly. Lately I've been playing rather extensively on defiant apart from my original home Union. And i like it there too!
There is no real comparison possible apart from maybe that i find defiant a bit more relaxed and Union a bit more hardcore.
N00bs, bastids, good people, ignorants, sweeties are to be found on both servers. Don't let one or two sods fool you into believing otherwise. Give defiant a fair chance, you might like it there too

He idris, i might join with my darkie lvl 41. You have me on global so gimme a shout when its going down.

Have fun Kaya.
Been a while since we teamed, but if im still here when you're coming back we should kick some bottoms as in the old days