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The former.

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And a certain That Which Winks which will be appalled, which is another bonus.

He left a month and a half ago.

In the specific case of Mind Controllers/Domis they get Terrify, the AOE sleepie-nighty-snoozey-snooze and the Telekinises thingy as well. But yes, I did read "hold as well as" as "control as well as".

I absolutely agree with this though, Forts do feel as powerful (or more so) than other ATs thanks to the sum of the powers they get.

It was more the idea that they hold as well as the Control primaries as well as Blasting as well as Blasters that I was taking a slight issue with (they do have defenses some of my meleers are jealous of though, I don't Set IO too much and my Fort is basically softcapped when Mindlink is up and a Purple Insp away from it when it isn't, which is glorious. Her Widow alterate is at between 40% and 45% all the time).

Forts are absolute beasts, but I just felt the OP was overgilding the lily a tad is all.

Mind you my Warshade is a beast as well and I find the playstyle a bit more exciting (and more reliable, my Fort can get eaten alive by some things which cause cascading Defense failure).

^This

My Broadsword/Fire scrapper HATES not having a Taunt aura.

Except of course a Controller / Domis main source of Aoe control doesn't tend to be the aoe hold at all, its the other Aoe mez they get, which was my point. Domis and controllers get another option, which typically recharge in 60 or 90 seconds which Forts lack.

I wasn't saying a Fort has rubbish aoe control, i was refusing the OPs claim that Forts control just as well as Domis or controllers. they don't.

Well not really. More "Attack like a Corrupter without Scourge, hold like a Blaster". I'll give you the defense thing though.

Forts control is nice, but given the fact they don't have the sort of relatively quick to recharge AOE control that Controllers and Domis get in one shape or another coupled with the relatively low durations compared to Controllers and Domis they don't match up, from a pure Control point of view.

The fact they can do some control, have excellent defenses and attack pretty well, all combined, does indeed make them awesome though.

Erm, doesn't this basically describe everything the developers do? There's always going to be a larger or smaller subsection of people who aren't interested in a specific piece of content the developers add.

One of the wonderful unexplained wrinkles of the invention system.

(Watch out for it if you're slotting Dark Servant as well).

In the case of set IOs slotted into pets or pseudo-pets any Acc (or Damage or End Reduction or whatever) comes from the set will only affect powers the pet/pseudopet has which could take that Set IO.

So if you slot an Accurate Defense Debuff IO into Fly Trap the Acc won't actually apply to it's Roots attack.

Pretty sure Sonics -resist is the same across the board.

Plus this is the Controller forums so DP is probably out.

I'd agree with you Scarlet, Sonic is bland, bland, bland. Ultimate Power is an Earthquake clone, the aura -resist is 3/4s the power that of Freezing Rain or Sleet (and they're flat out placables so you don't need an ally/pet to use them).

Even Trick Arrow has neat tricks, like being able to flambe everything in a huge area and having a very powerful AOE Hold as the level 38 power.

Very few powers in Sonic jump out as "Look forward to" powers really.

I wouldn't rank it one of the top control sets for raw control, but what Necrotech says here is true, basically you're trading the sort of control Earth or Mind has for ranged AOE damage. Roots does twice the AOE damage of any other AOE immob, Creepers can end up doing nice damage too when summoned into a big spawn and Seeds also works as an AOE damage power, sorta.

Fly Trap isn't the greatest pet in the world but it does have a fair spread of AOE abilities too to add to the mix, and will take Achilles Heel PROCs which will affect the Cone and Single target darts and the bite attack, but not the AOE immob.

Maybe he already has a Crab Soldier though.

^This. I've always said that the job of "tanking" redside was spread out. Masterminds are be good at triggering / absorbing the alpha (originally by using a pet or pets first, but also with BG mode when it got added), Brutes and Domis are good at then controlling the aggro once combat gets going.

Even that is a generalization though, there's plenty of leeway in the way the redside ATs work (which is why I like them so much).

You made Fire/Rad look pretty!! Kudos to you, that looks really well.

Yep, I was going to post this too.



My wife always looks at me oddly every time I exclaim "Doom Door" at the TV, for some reason.

Isn't the Red Dwarf Tribute Scientist up there working for Arachnos? The guy with a working inter-dimensional portal he somehow got working in some old temple ruins.

Supposedly it's not an Afraid / Avoid aura but it happens just as frequently as it used to back in i5/6 with my Fire Tanker (except they don't change their minds 2 seconds later and run back at you thanks to your Taunt Aura).

It's meant to be morale breaking but I'm not exactly convinced, it *looks* like a standard Afraid/Avoid reaction to me.

The only good thing is that since the damage is frontloaded now it matters less. I wouldn't be farming with it though.

Possibly, makes sense if that's what they did at 27/28 as well (since the penalty at 32 is only -10% rather than -20 per SO).

I actively dislike the "Combine" dialogue popping up for everything I reslot so I try and avoid it by slotting at 27/32/37.

Oh, rather more useful to everyone who isn't going to whatever PAX East is, a booster pack of cossie code style powers.

Blazing Aura, on a Scrapper, does not Taunt. Burn will actively scare things away on a Scrapper.

Of course Spines is probably the best set for dealing with that sort of running, Slows as secondary effects and Quills taunting them back.