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Whee. That was easy!

Can I have a pony as well?

Yep, my poor teen Brute is poorer than I remember any of my alts being in a long time *sob* The Red Side common and uncommon prices have really normalised (300 for a Luck Charm last night. Boo! Where's my 60k?)

Do you not see the correlation between your willingness to pay over the odds to get something immediately and the fact that the prices seem overinflated to you?

In other words : "They saw you coming mate!"

Place realisic bids and wait it out. In the meantime farm Merits / Tickets (merits if you want something specific and don't want to play with the RNG, tickets otherwise) to generate reward rolls (I tend to go for level 35-39 rolls either way). At the mo I'm just doing arcs, earning 20 merits and then random rolling. I tend to just play the game and hope lady luck smiles on me (or at least doesn't poo Snipe Sets down upon me) rather than actually farming or anything. Mostly because of my chronic altisis.

I was sorta saying "The main premise of why Domis don't get Illusion is wrong" more so.

If I alluded you're a dick I apologise. I'm sure you're lovely.

I just like arguing mostly. I don't believe in attacking people (much), more arguing with what they've posted (and sometimes being convinced that they've got a good point after all).

I agree with you, Earth was the better choice between the two, but I disagree with your reasoning as to why, it's more to do with Theme (as per your point below) than your original point about Illusion not working well with Domination, which, even allowing for the standard code rant *could* be dealt with.

That's just reiterating the final point of my first post really. It's more to do with the fact that Illusion would step on the toes of Masterminds more than the fact it wouldn't work well with Domination (especially given the amount of changes Domination has gone through since release).

Controllers control their enemies. They certainly don't control their pets (see Fire Imps for examples)

Really I'm not disagreeing with your point about Illusion not being a good fit for Domis, just your reasoning on why it's so.

We're more likely to see Dark Control & Elec Control I reckon. Both have a lot of suitable powers ingame already to build the sets from.

Yep, I really wish we could zoom out much further. As it is any "spash" effects for a power hitting or a Summon kicking in is really hard to see properly.

I think the whole point is that Villains already have 2 ATs with a Melee Primary and 2 with Support Secondaries. This fill that gap in. Otherwise you're just making melee based corrupters really

How many power does Earth Control have that are actually affected by Domination? 5, if you count 2 immobs and a sleep. 2 which are actually useful (the stun and the hold).

Plus looking at it from the other PoV Illusion is also the worst for Controllers in terms of using Containment and it doesn't really hurt them too much. Illusion on a Domi would be fine. You could also adjust their Spectral Terror summon to do a one-off AOE Fear Effect if they're in Domination (the actual summoning power, not the pet), it'd be the same amount of work as porting any other Controller -> Domi power to do so really. Actually thinking about it Flash would almost be worthwhile to pick up for a Domi at low levels just because of the Domination Boost. Normally it's rubbish.

Far as I know the only reason Devs are anti-Illusion for Domis is the fact it'd be rather Mastermind like with all those pets and decoys, not for Domination reasons.

Most Brutes can be pretty disheartening in their teens (like most teenagers really). Like in real life you have to avoid killing them off in their teens and tell yourself that once they hit 20 or 22 they'll become worthwhile individuals

My Stone/Fire Brute was a nightmare to level in his teens. Even fully slotted out with Accuracy & End Reduction it was a real struggle (hurrah for Security Guards and pre-nerf Manic Slammers otherwise I'd never have made it). Now he's actually pretty fun.

Of course like an idiot he's now in mid-30s limbo while I do the painful adolesence run with my Claws/Elec (with the new diff settings it's a bit easier thanks to spamming her AOE and chomping Insps like smarties to keep her running).

Or, in the case of my Fire/Rad : Anything BUT the default power scheme

In the words of one of my SG mates "Aaaah. Everything is orange and lime".

I love the Longbow Ambushes in Mayhems, especially the Eagle Death Squads. Fly about, duck into bank and wait for them to come in all nice and clustered together. "Hello XP bags. I've been expecting you..."

Safeguards really are a poor reflection of the awesome that are Mayhems.

Atlas? Is there some reason you hate villains? :'(

*Rereads* Damn, 6:30. Cannae make it anyway. My wife and daughter get cranky if I play computer games instead of cooking their dinner unfortunately (irrational of them).

Grav/Traps would be a sick, sick combo. Set up field of death. Wormhole enemies into field of death. Move on.

In fact given than most Control sets will mez a spawn long enough for you to drop Poison Gas and one or two trip mines most control sets are going to be pretty evil combined with Traps.

Weird thing is Donna is one of the most prolific farmers and IOers EU side (or one of the most vocal). I shudder to think how many other IOed & Purpled out toons she has currently.

So this speil against the high prices is a little weird to be honest. Why not just strip some of the nicer IOs from some of your more unused builds and reuse or sell them to fund your current builds.

For someone like me, who frankenslots quite happily in the game and gets mostly any IO I aim for it's rather ironic for me to have her giving out about high prices

If you check Castles posts in the Dev Digest he says this is a bug, not an intended change.

Yep, it prevents knockback for 10 seconds. I'm planning on taking it for when I want things nicely bunched up for it followed by Static Discharge & Ball Lightning.

Urrgh, really? Bugger. If that's the case it's not very good there alright. Drat! Now I've a spare Gaussian floating about.

Ooh, but I've a Claws Brute too. Time for a transfer.

I *think* that only applies if your attack drains End from your enemies. So in Power Sink or any Elec attack it does that.

You could be right on the "What is the Target" issue though, it may not give you End at all. It's one of those weird undefined quirks of how this proc works with Target rules where it's hard to know what it's going to do.

Even more reason to stick it in Stamina or another +Recovery power instead.