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Tornado and Lightning Storm look overslotted at the expense of Vines here. I'd recommend 4 slots in Vines and then trying to frankenslot it with Acc/Hold/Recharge IOs.



Tornado I'd just slot with 3 damage (or some Damage/End IOs and damage). It's recharge is low enough IMO and you do have to mind them a bit on teams, spamming the AOE immob to make them behave.*


Ditto with Lightning Storm, I don't think you need to 6 slot it. They're great if the team is standing around but with my Illusion/Storm I found LS generally was only good for 3 or 4 blasts and then we'd move on. I'd aim for 4 slots in it and Frankenslotting to max damage along with a bit of End and Acc in there if you can (Dear Castle. Please fix Lightning Storm, give it an opening one-off ranged Chain Induction style power or something).


Confuse set IOs are dirt cheap. On my Plant/Emp I was able to get it slotted with Set IOs by level 20, then I never had to pay for SOs for it which was great. I'll probably upgrade them at 37 though into an end game configuration.


With Freezing Rain I never bother with Defense Debuffs on it really. They're not needed and slots are precious. 3 recharge and one End did it for me, with an Achilles Heel PROC thrown in whenever you can afford it. The -resist is the star here (since you'll be AOE Immobing everything in sight the knockdown tends to get countered)


I've just thrown an Achilles into Fly Trap as well, but if I had the option I'd go for sticking it in Freezing Rain first (I'm currently playing a Plant/Emp so Bitey was the only place I could fit one).


Hurricane is ripe for -ToHit/End IOs as well, they should be pretty cheap too on the market.


I wouldn't bother with 2 travel powers either, unless you're planning to PvP or something. Pick one you like the most (Hurricane & TP is fun, as is Hover and Gale/Hurricane, but picking SS gives you another power to pick from) and drop the other. I'd take O2 Boost instead for keeping Fly Trap alive solo. O2 Boost has a few minor buffs that can make it occasionally very useful (the End Drain protection it gives can be very handy in the 40s and the Lady Grey TF).


I like the Earth Epic. Fissure is a great AOE which can take the Forced Feedback PROC, Seismic Smash is probably the most powerful melee attack / hold a Controller can get and you could get a self-heal /+HP power as well. Poo armour is good, especially coupled with Hurricane, if you can stand the look.


If you are going with Fire though Consume may be more useful than Fire Blast. Epic single target blasts aren't great on Controllers and you'll have plenty of other things to be doing. And Storm is heavy on the Blue Bar. Ice would also be an interesting choice. Plant/Storm has so many pseudo-pets (and confused ones) you could throw them all out and then Hibernate up to regain your blue bar whilest the enemies shoot themselves and get ripped apart by Creepers, Freezing Rain, Fly Trap and Lightning Storm (and Ice Storm if you get it, FR & Ice Storm is a nice combo)

Wait, so they wait months and then release a 3 issue offensive at us (on the weekend the clocks change this side so my bodyclock is all broken and unsynced) with tonnes of new features?*



Marketing (bless their black and shrivelled hearts) are even more ebil than I thought!


Now the question becomes which side of the pond am I going to get Going Rogue with? The EU side where I've a few 50s and lots of 40s or my new US side?*

My Grav/TA controller, Quantum Arrow, EU side. Made after meeting one on a PuG who had been powerlevelled and only had Net Arrow from his secondary "because they don't do any damage". After setting him straight in terms of what the -resist arrows will do for him I got intrigued and was a little bored of how Easy-Mode my Fire/Rad controller was so I created one myself.
Some great synergies in there, all ranged all the time and Wormholing things onto an Oil Slick and then igniting it is hilarious.
TA could do with some tweaking and hopefully Castle will eventually get around to reevaluating his baby and making a few minor tweaks to it.

Brickstown is always my level 30-40 levelling zone. I hate Founders so much.



Other than that I agree with the list. DA is at the top of any list of mine in terms of needing a revamp / some content (keep it as a Hazard Zone though, my Claws/WP scrapper lived in there for his 20s)