Dark_Impact

This is my sad face.

I just started a plant/nrg dominator and I'm loving her so far, but long term was looking to add Primal Forces Mastery to shore up the lack of melee and AoE that dominator energy has. I colored her secondary to evoke a sunshine theme, and I'm very happy with the way it turned out. If I won't be able to color PFM, I may have to rethink things. Has there ever been any mention of making pool powers customizable?

I've always thought this was a bit counter-intuitive and backwards myself.

Scenario 1: You AS Fritz. He lives. His buddy George sees this go down.
George: "Oh my god, you severely wounded Fritz!" *cowers in fear*

Scenario 2: You AS Fritz. He dies.
George: "Oh my god, you killed Fritz! You dirty *******!" *blam blam blam blam blam*

I tried this a couple of nights ago on my zombie. I came out of the trading house and they bugged. I didn't notice right away and started a fight on the street. Used the veteran recall teammates, and that worked, but they showed up and just stood there doing nothing. No combination of commands made them budge.

I'm pretty sure it has nothing to do with enemies being mezzed, but rather enemies not landing any successful attacks for a period of time. I see this all the time on my ninja/storm. They're either bouncing on their butts, or whiffing due to hurricane debuff.

I'm not speaking from experience mind you, but I'd imagine the best thing to do is wait until your current application is about to fall off then use it so that you don't lose stacks. This also gives Concentrated Strike time to recharge and once again have a chance to reset the cooldown.

Perhaps for you and your gameplay style, certainly not for everybody.

Switching sides is neither hard nor time-consuming, even with the limits they've imposed (such as they are). I recently took a Praetorian mastermind blueside, and when she's high enough level I will be briefly swapping to red for access to scorpion shield and that alone. Once done I will likely go right back to blue-side with a smile on my face.

I cannot speak to /traps, as I've never gotten one past level 10 or so. Mainly because I've never come up with a concept that did anything for me that included traps. It is widely held as one of the strongest secondaries.

I can speak somewhat to /storm. I got my ninja/storm to 28 over the weekend, and I'm having a blast. One of the defining abilities is hurricane, and good performance means you need to learn to use it wisely and with skill. For most mobs I turn on hurricane, run in and touch the mob carefully, sometimes strafing to keep them from scattering too much (depending on level layout), and at the same time dropping freezing rain where I intend them to end up. Once you have debuffed everything with hurricane, turn it off, it is an end hog. If I pull this off properly, all that is left is mop-up. These two powers alone are so effective at keeping them whiffing and bouncing on their arses, that it is not uncommon for my pets to stop attacking half way through a fight, because I keep them on defensive and the enemy hasn't landed an attack in a while.

The future only gets brighter from here - I haven't even started putting thunderclap to good use (just got it, it has bad accuracy and is only effective for me after freezing rain, and by then the fight is all but over). I don't have either defense bonus unique slotted yet, and only one of the resists. I haven't slotted mist for defense, I don't have maneuvers yet. Once I rectify these things, the true beat-downs begin.

Unless they changed something since my last hiatus (which may well have happened), dark servant does not take recharge intensive.