Dark_Blasphemy_EU

On a single foe, mental blast is more deals more damage. Tornado is better when lots of mobs are together of course. But with hasten and AM mental blast recharge is 1.2 secs while tornado is 9. I personally like having the chance to 2shot red lts once containment is on (with mental blast and spectral wounds) and go for another. Besides it's much better for AVs, where u can be attacking all the time with no pause (only when LR is back), and also if you solo imo. But you are right, to each, his own

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Empath on his own = poor.

2 Blasters on their own vs 4 Stalkers = Quite poor.

2 Blaster + 1 Empath vs 4+ Stalkers = Win.

Balancing is completely borked.

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4 stalkers should always kill blasters and empath at similar skilled players

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My money is on the blasters + emp, but it could be a close and interesting fight. If the stalkers all had spines (easiest way to spike), they would probably have good odds.

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as always it depends on the player and tactics involved, empath and blasters wouldnt see my and my stalking partner untill it was too late.

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This is actually what i meant, sorry not to have explained but I was in a hurry. Having stealth+hide+grant invis (stealth cap), heroes with perception cap will only see u in the last 10 feet, not enough for the team to react in time. Stalkers need 2 blows in hide to kill an empath, and besides, an EM stalker (i'm sure at least one of the four will be EM ) will stun the empath in 1 blow. It can just hit the empath without stopping to run with ss on and another one finish the job, it can be another EM or, more suitable, a spines impaling from range and rushing to recover hide. Much that I appreciate ur opinion, NB, I gotta disagree here

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SR is a great set at higher levels, its not worse than regen in want way, just different, a fire/kin can wipe my spines/regen with impunity while my BS/SR destroys them

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Hah! That's still to be seen . So far we've only seen that a fire kin pwned ur HO [censored]

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Well, BS/SR does have Parry, so there you go. I'm not surprised you were doing well. Try Claws/SR or Spines/SR for example

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Cant complain about how my spines/SR does in SC. In fact I think it kick [censored] with percep cap and ranged dmg Aid self is pretty useful too

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Even whithout using pets, i'm pretty sure that an high lvl ill/rad, will be able to solo all alone a non AV miss set in invincible by using the following chain:
Power Boost - EM Pulse -Enervating field- BLind/Spectral Wounds...

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Any illusion should be able to solo any non AV mission at lv8 so...
IMO EM doesnt need powerboost. Its hold duration is so huge u can cast it and go to the toilet. When u are back foes will still be held . Besides it's no autohit, so 3 rech 3 hold is not the best way to slot it IMHO.
About the psi tornado thingie, it's a darn too long recharge time power, and its dmg is pants too, so bearing in mind illu has no AoE Immob to activate containment, I dont think it's worth really. Mental blast animation is bloody long, but recharge is quite fast and dmg is quite good (about 1/3 more powerful than SW, it's also more dmging that the body mastery blast and psi armor is better too), so for me it's a better choice.
About RI giving more chances to hit than training enhancements at those levels... well foes dont usually have defenses at those low levels either, and u really dont notice RI much till u got it SO'ed. I personally find the illu set much more useful in the beginning, with rad getting more and more powerful for latter levels

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Empath on his own = poor.

2 Blasters on their own vs 4 Stalkers = Quite poor.

2 Blaster + 1 Empath vs 4+ Stalkers = Win.

Balancing is completely borked.

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4 stalkers should always kill blasters and empath at similar skilled players

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Well, rule #1 in PvP is not to have fun...its to ub4h r0xx0r pwn your enemy into smitheries and then go to your homies and say "d00d...I totally g4nked dat n00b"

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Although that's pretty common in the zones (common, but not the majority mind me /activate shield for flames), it's quite strange in arena. Actually, having pvp'ed a while myself, I just found that 3-4 times there. I wouldnt pvp myself against someone I consider a 'n00b' actually, as I consider that would be a waste of time. I would against a newbie tho

Well i'm quite happy with my build as it is. The main reason why i got that order is for slotting wise. I prefered to have some powers full slotted to have them all half slotted. Recall friend and mutation dont need any aditional slot. That way I could slot properly the important powers I had at that time, and it worked fine for me. No point in having IR and AM 1 slotted, or having spectral wounds or blind 2-3 slotted.

I do agree that spectral terror is great in pvp. Actually IMO it's the best illu power along with blind and spectral wounds in pvp... but the build i posted was exclusively pve intended. And in PvE, first it's not reliable alone, u gotta combine it with other powers, such as lingering rad (which is effective alone); second, it doesn't activate containment.. so of course it's a matter of opinion, but I really think all the powers set previously are more useful for pure pve

Rofl ask the owner to install it

PS Heat in Spain is unbearable in Summer, u can say that freely (actually we Spaniards do say that all the time)... but our keyboards are right... it's urs which are upside down missing some letters!!

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Radiation infection at lvl 26 and AM at 24 while you are choosing Recall firend at 8 (and to drop teleport as Travel Pow)??? Why you choose RAd as secondaries then?
Well, If I would go for PVE and i wanna team, my mates would love my Rad infection and my Accelerate metabolism much more than recalling friends...

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I can assure you that not in hollows... and well you need to have recall friend if u plan to take mutation later on, so...

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On the other hand, I would skip Health (you already have a good heal pow and your hp are not big enough to make Health worth of choosing)go for Hurlde instead...

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Why hurdle having fly? Health is IMO underrated even for trollers

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Actually, yesterday I started an Ill/Rad troller.. Up to now i'm lvl 7, i've got
1Rad. Aura
1Spec. Wound
2RAd Infection
4Blind
6Decieve
I'm at present soloing orange oucasts bosses (electric eel) with two yellow minions withouth any problem (well, i used a pair of greens and blues)

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Well i soloed my way from lv8 till 30s on invinc with that build (it was my first toon on union, so i didn't know anyone yet ), and two days ago a fire/kin friend of mine and myself owned Black Scorpion in RV on our own

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And Spectral terror at 49

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PvP wise, i can't think of any previous power to be less valuable than ST.

But as you said, it's all a matter of opinions

For PvE I'd go for something like this:

Archetype: Controller
Primary Powers - Ranged : Illusion Control
Secondary Powers - Support : Radiation Emission

01 : Radiant Aura hel(01) hel(7) hel(7) recred(13) recred(34) recred(34)
01 : Spectral Wounds acc(01) acc(3) dam(3) dam(5) dam(5)
02 : Blind acc(02) acc(9) recred(9) recred(11) hlddur(11) hlddur(13)
04 : Deceive cnfdur(04)
06 : Recall Friend recred(06)
08 : Superior Invisibility endred(08)
10 : Swift runspd(10)
12 : Air Superiority acc(12)
14 : Fly fltspd(14) fltspd(15) fltspd(15)
16 : Health hel(16) hel(17) hel(17)
18 : Phantom Army recred(18) recred(19) recred(19) dam(43) dam(46) dam(46)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Hasten recred(22) recred(23) recred(23)
24 : Accelerate Metabolism recred(24) recred(25) recred(25) endrec(31) endrec(31) endrec(31)
26 : Radiation Infection thtdbf(26) thtdbf(27) thtdbf(27) defdbf(29) defdbf(29) defdbf(37)
28 : Mutation recred(28)
30 : Enervating Field endred(30) endred(40) endred(43)
32 : Phantasm acc(32) acc(33) dam(33) dam(33) dam(34)
35 : Lingering Radiation acc(35) acc(36) recred(36) recred(36) recred(37) slw(37)
38 : EMP Pulse acc(38) acc(39) recred(39) recred(39) hlddur(40) hlddur(40)
41 : Mental Blast acc(41) acc(42) dam(42) dam(42) dam(43)
44 : Mind over Body damres(44) damres(45) damres(45) endred(45) endred(46)
47 : Flash acc(47) acc(48) recred(48) recred(48) hlddur(50) hlddur(50)
49 : Spectral Terror acc(49) acc(50)

Deceive is really useful against AVs. Deceive them to have all the minions around him killed safely. Besides great to control sappers, quantums, voids... as doing it doesn't aggro unlike holds.

I know I focus on illu set a lot at the beginning, but it's really worth if u plan to solo sometimes too. Of course when rads really shine (well shine shiner, lets say ) is for AVs, and u will be ready for them at late 30's.
Quite like most trollers, illu/rad is a late bloomer... but you just gotta see what it can do when it finally blooms

Sign me in with wickedone, fire ff troller

I thought that was the way to go in sirens tho lol. It's really strange seeing similar numbers. Sometimes heros camp in front of the villains base, and some other times it's villains who camp and tp out heroes... but even numbers, it's rare

Lol finally!!!! It took you a GOOD time, bet it's even more satisfying now. Gratz and well deserved

Parry lasts for 10 seconds, with 3 rech u can have 2 almost perma stacked. With hasten u sometimes get to 3

Hmm i dont have the hard numbers, but u can stack 2 of them easily with 3 recharge . I'll log my bs and test myself

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Propably only those who wanted it easy playing overpowered blappers.. Didnt make my blaster leave pvp. Im just PvEing currently to get to 50.

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Well, it seems blappers was the way to go. Since i7 came out I just fought a blaster so far . Dunno if they were overpowered or not before, that is a matter of opinion, but i do think they are heavily underpowered atm

Well that is a personal opinion. Loads of others will say that they only stay in the game cos of PvP.
Personally I don't think PvP has made the game less fun. First you are not forced to PvP, nor in the zones neither in Arena. U can completelly avoid PvP if you want... but i agree with u that debt in pvp should be abolished. That is the main reason IMHO why PvP zones haven't succeeded, but remember that arena is also PvP

If u plan to be an exclusively ranged blaster id go for fire/energy, but u wont have holds that way. Quick animations and best snipe in the game tho, uber when combined with boost range+bu+aim.
Elec/'s animations are not as quick as other primaries, but it makes up with a nasty end drain and mez.
Ice has quick anims, a cpl of holds and -speed -rech debuffs that are quite handy. Con is its range is not as good as others

If u already have boxing/kick... pick IH . It's like comparing brawl to headsplitter (well i might be exaggerating a bit, but there's really no possible doubt about which is a better choice )

If u dont like spines, i'd go for broadsword hands down. If u can handle endurance issues. SR with parry would make u pretty untouchable... and about dmg.. well u know the deal with BS

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[PA is uber, last longer than holds and the combo PA + Spectral terror is just as good as a hold. The problem with illusion isnt control its ways to get containment.

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Nevertheless, EM Pulse lasts longer than PA, but I think it's the only hold that does that, and it's not from a troller's primary, so...

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Like the toggle drop nerfs didn't destroy pvp enough yet

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It didnt (notice sarchasm). It just made a whole AT suddenly disappear from PvP

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Nah more like who has the best Illusion/kinetics or the Illusion/Rad :P

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Fire/Rad ftw!

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Ice/EM tanks and spines/SR scrappers

Pfft, like it was any news that u suck, NB .
About the topic.. well what is happening to u is hat i've always found in the zones sinces they were released . Maybe i was plain unlucky or u were really lucky not to have seen things like that till lately

Oh well, I'll join just to help out if one peep needed, but if u get another i wont