Captain_Karate

Just an update! I'm using my slightly modified version of TheOOB's build,and it's a monster. Solo'd the Mender Ramiel arc on 0x4, and am now easily blowing through missions on 0x8.

I probably play different than most though, in that I am always in melee range, so Times Juncture is really useful for me. I like to be at the centre of the action! lol. And with all my pets, and perma chrono shift, farsight, and temporal mending this toon hasn't died yet since hitting 50. I sometimes get into Troller-lock when on teams though! lol. It's like "Oh ya...might be time to buff someone..." instead of taking out spawns myself. >.>

When you leave Praetoria, you make a choice whether to be a hero or a villain. That becomes your new classification. So you will be able to access the character after they've made this choice and end up either in Paragon City, or the Rogue Isles.

*edit. This is in response to TheOOB. I thought it would be evident, but Local man posted while I was typing this out. lol*

Well to address some of your concerns, and explain a bit of my reasoning:

1) I didn't slot blind for damage because I was planning on mainly using ice blast, and spectral wounds for damage. I would probably spam it on a hard enemy to try to stack the holds etc, but I'm doing that for the hold, and not the damage per se.
2) Usually I use the 4 cheapest pieces in the basilisk gaze quad when I use it for the recharge bonus. I could use the quad and the triple, but i't ups the price a lot. And I don't care about inf really, but just because I have a lot of it, doesn't mean I spend it when I don't feel it is necessary.
3)I usually 3 slot hasten. According to mid's with two io's it has a 120.9 second recharge. I could live with that, and drop the third slot. One slotting it, the recharge is 1:39 or so, which I don't really like. I like it being permanent...but it could really use two, like you mentioned.
4) According to mid's PA recharges in 62s. That's almost perma, so I don't see how I'm over on the recharge that I strictly need. With perma-hasten, I'm sitting at about 188% global recharge which apparently is just enough to make Phantom Army permanent.
5) Going along with 4) that is why I chose the Coersive Persuasion set. It's relatively cheap for a purple set, and gives the 10% recharge which is a decent boost at helping make PA almost perma. I also like the CP proc that can turn my single target confuse, into a possible multi target confuse.
6) Distortion field was slotted with the acc simply because they were the 4 cheapest pieces of the Basilisk's gaze set. I could slot the more pricey ones, and it would be more effective I suppose - but I'm not sure it's all worth the extra hundred's of millions it would cost to do that on all 3 sets that I have 4 slotted.
7) Chrono shift. According to mid's it is a 15% endurance return when used. Adding more endurance mod io's into it doesn't change that number at all. Seems like yes it can take end mod sets, but they don't seem to be affecting the endurance given when the power is used. Although that may be an error with mid's. But that is why I didn't slot it for endurance - because it didn't seem to be doing anything.
8) I didn't slot to hit debuff in time's juncture because the base seemed fine to me. At -12.5% to hit, even two slotting with 50 io's it increases to -18.7%. I'd rather slot two endurance reductions there to reduce the end cost from 0.52/s to 0.28/s.
9) Assault doesn't affect the illusion pets? Or just not PA? I was thinking it would be cool if all my pets got the benefit of 15% damage buff...but if they don't...then ya, it would be a waste.
10) I didn't slot frozen armor for defence, because I was checking out local man's guide, and it seemed that if played effectively, defence isn't really all that critical on an illusion controller with all the decoys. I was mainly taking it for the base defence, and a place to stick a lotg 7.5. I would assume that Phantom Army would be drawing much of the aggro, and with my invis powers, and slows, the only thing I would have to worry about is ranged smash/lethal damage, which doesn't really bother me too much. I've got about 34% def to s/l with perma far sight active, and up to 38-39% with group invis or superior invisibility(and still in stealth). I could get more by slotting frozen armor more, but with the pets taking a lot of the aggro(hopefully) I don't think I would need it on many even con mobs.

11) Slowed response is one of my best attack powers? Hmm. I didn't gather that from the description. I mean sure, I will be using it, and since it is almost perma, it will be pretty much a constant def and res debuff on mobs. I figured since it was basically less than 2 seconds away from being permanent, thanks to my global recharge, that all it needed was a single -def io. Base def debuff is -20% defence, and -22.5% damage resistance. Seems pretty good right out of the box. I just stuck in another -def io into the single slot, and it boosted it to -28.43% defence debuff.
12) Distortion field is permanent also. It's got a 18 second recharge time on a power with a 45s duration. I slotted for holds for the recharge bonus basilisk's gave me. Even slotted with holds, it's a static -65% recharge debuff on enemies, which is all I would ever use it for personally.

So anyways, that was some of my reasoning for doing what I did. I am going to make some changes though, based on your observations. I'll let you know how it turns out, and maybe you can critique it some more. Thanks!

Okay, Local Man, I read some of your Ill/Rad guide. It gave me some good ideas. Here's my first try at my Illusion/Time build.

Oh...I took SI and GI because I did want another Lotg mule, and I can use Group Inviz a lot, instead of Superior Invisibility, and it does have a decent team benefit too. Stealthing for glowies. *cough* But for the times I am using it, I stuck in the end reduction io's cuz it is a bit of an end hog, to put it mildly.

I tried to slot the time powers as best I could, based on my understanding of how they will work, and keeping in mind their usefulness, and ED caps, etc.

Anyone have any suggestions, comments, ideas...I am all ears.

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Temporal Princess: Level 50 Mutation Controller
Primary Power Set: Illusion Control
Secondary Power Set: Time Manipulation
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Ancillary Pool: Ice Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Blind -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(3), BasGaze-Slow%(3), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(5), G'Wdw-Dam%(5), NrncSD-Dam%(7)
Level 1: Time Crawl -- Acc-I(A)
Level 2: Temporal Mending -- Dct'dW-Rchg(A), Dct'dW-Heal(7), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(9), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(9), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx(11)
Level 4: Spectral Wounds -- Entrpc-Heal%(A), Decim-Acc/Dmg(11), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(13), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(13), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(15), Decim-Build%(15)
Level 6: Flash -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(17), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(17), BasGaze-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(19), Lock-%Hold(19)
Level 8: Superior Invisibility -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(21), LkGmblr-Rchg+(21)
Level 10: Time's Juncture -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(50)
Level 12: Deceive -- CoPers-Conf%(A), CoPers-Conf/Rchg(25), CoPers-Conf(25), CoPers-Acc/Conf/Rchg(27), CoPers-Acc/Rchg(27), CoPers-Conf/EndRdx(29)
Level 14: Temporal Selection -- Heal-I(A), Heal-I(29)
Level 16: Distortion Field -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(48), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(48), BasGaze-Slow%(50)
Level 18: Phantom Army -- ExRmnt-Acc/Rchg(A), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(31), ExRmnt-Dmg/EndRdx(33), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(33), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(33), RechRdx-I(34)
Level 20: Time Stop -- BasGaze-Acc/Hold(A), BasGaze-Acc/Rchg(36), BasGaze-Rchg/Hold(37), BasGaze-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(37)
Level 22: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(23), RechRdx-I(23)
Level 24: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A), EndRdx-I(37)
Level 26: Spectral Terror -- Abys-Acc/Rchg(A), Abys-EndRdx/Fear(34), Abys-Acc/EndRdx(34), Abys-Fear/Rng(36), Abys-Acc/Fear/Rchg(36)
Level 28: Farsight -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(40), LkGmblr-Def/Rchg(40)
Level 30: Maneuvers -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A), LkGmblr-Def(31), LkGmblr-Def/EndRdx(31)
Level 32: Phantasm -- ExRmnt-Acc/Rchg(A), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg(39), ExRmnt-Dmg/EndRdx(39), ExRmnt-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(39), ExRmnt-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(40), BldM'dt-Acc/Dmg(42)
Level 35: Slowed Response -- DefDeb-I(A)
Level 38: Chrono Shift -- Dct'dW-Heal(A), Dct'dW-Rchg(42), Dct'dW-EndRdx/Rchg(42), Dct'dW-Heal/Rchg(43), Dct'dW-Heal/EndRdx/Rchg(43), H'zdH-Heal(43)
Level 41: Hibernate -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 44: Ice Blast -- Decim-Acc/Dmg(A), Decim-Dmg/EndRdx(45), Decim-Dmg/Rchg(45), Decim-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg(45), Decim-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(46), ImpSwft-Dam%(46)
Level 47: Frozen Armor -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
Level 49: Group Invisibility -- LkGmblr-Rchg+(A)
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Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Numna-Regen/Rcvry+(A), Mrcl-Rcvry+(50)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A), P'Shift-End%(46), P'Shift-EndMod(48)
Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Containment
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 4: Ninja Run

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I recently made an Ill/Time controller. I've never used either powerset before. I was wondering a bit about people's thoughts on slotting the Illusion pets. I've also seen two of the Ill/Time recent posts.

I was thinking about slotting some of the defence bonus, and resistance bonus in the pets. Something like these maybe...

Edict of the Master: Defence Bonus
Sovereign Right : Resistance Bonus
Call to Arms: Defence Bonus
Expedient Reinforcement: Resistance Bonus
Soulbound Allegiance: Chance for build up

Is that a waste of slots? The def and res bonuses were noticeably absent in the builds I checked out. Or should I just go for perma-PA slotted with acc and damage type stuff for the pets?

Thanks!

Do you have the "Hide recipes missing ingredients" checked accidentally?

Sold!

I ended up slotting the Panacea on one of my toons.

Shield Wall Proc still for sale.

[Shield Wall: +Res (Teleportation), +3Res (All).50]
[Panacea: Chance for +Hit Points/Endurance.50]

2 billion for the Shield Wall Proc.
1.95 Billion for the Panacea Proc.

Send me a PM, or a global tell to @block-head

Thanks

Both have been sold!

Happened to me the other day. Clear room in your tray, then email yourself something else. When you try to claim that new one, it will not allow you and say you have global transactions pending. Logout, and back in, and you should see the enhancement that disappeared is now in your tray. That's what I did, and got my Glad Armor +3 back. Whew.

Just remember you have to be level 10 to send emails. I did a trade on Union for a Glad Armor +3, and after picking up the io via email and trading to the purchaser...I had to level myself up to level 10 before I could email myself the cash. lol. Oh well...I ended up defeating Frostfire again.

One has been sold. Still one for sale.

I now have two of these for sale for 2.5 billion each.

Selling Gladiator's Armor: +3 Defence, Level 50.

2.5 billion, and it's yours! In game transfers can be made on Freedom or Champion. Otherwise, we will have to do it by email. We can work out the details...

Send me a PM, or an ingame tell to
@block-head

Thanks!

You can always swap Super Speed and Indominatable Will if you don't have City Traveller. Indominatable Will is available at level 10, but placed at 14 in his build. Most likely it was a small oversight on his part, and since both are single slotted, it's an easy solution. Anyways, the contest is over, but thanks to all who entered!

And the winner is PBaRmy!
Highlights of his build, which he PM'd me:
40.6% def to s/l. Notr soft cap, but close, and only one purple more than softcaps if things get rough.
4.82% recovery with only 1.55% consumption.
1221% regeneration with RttC.
42.5% global rech bonus, 112.5% with hasten active.
He took the body mastery pool. It's less offence -but with zero endurance issues, almost capped defence, and lots of regeneration, it was what I was looking for. Here is the build:

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Thanks for all who entered! It was kind of hard to pick a winner, because all of the entries were good in their own way. I just think this entry fits my playing style the best. Thanks everyone!

PBaRmy: Send me your global, and I will email you the cash.