DreadShinobi

You're worried about fire being outperformed by plant when sets like ice and grav control exist? :S

Granted I haven't actually gotten the proc yet on my fire troller, but i dont see it being as game breaking as many claim on a control AT. The only place I see an issue with the new knockdown bonfire is blasters and MMs having access to it, which clearly offers far more control than intended to non-control ATs.

Nope, which is why I asked. It's pretty obvious my account is f2p right now, so I can't do trials.

AFAIK, you're the only ones that have actually tried. Number of successes is only important relative to the number of attempts. I haven't really been keeping up so I didn't know either, hence why I asked.

Also even with the few cutscenes that can be skipped its per character not per global. Meaning for the most part even if you have an entire league of experienced people who've all run the trial hundreds of times, if one person is on an alt, you're still stuck watching the cutscene.

It's not enjoyable, and it just wastes everyones time. Sure I can alt tab out and read forums/fb/manga whatever while the cutscenes are going, which I do, but when I'm playing CoH I'd rather do just that, and actually play CoH.

qft

I am behind I haven't been playing at all this month and my sub expires sometime today.

The IO does sound cool though, I wonder how many energy blast users/pbs will actually use it..... Or Stormies for that matter, oh lord, I wonder how this proc will work in LS and Tornado.

The what now?

Flashfire and Cinders are both very good aoe hard control. Fire Cages is also fabulous softcontrol, especially with a grav anchor proc. Char is also better than every other ST hold bar Dominate.

The big thing is containment hotfeet. Bonfire shouldn't be taken, Imp dps only really comes into effectiveness for cleaning up bosses and ebs/avs. Fire Cages+Hot Feet+patron/epic aoe roasts everything.

1) Mind for doms is one of only 2 sets that can actually effectively use their ST hold in a ST dps attack chain (because of the activation time, and the other being fire). This means they can successfully integrate the ATO proc into their attack chain for a *large* net gain, other primaries can't do this because their holds are too long. Perma 64% dmg buff is no joke. Not to mention being able to throw mag 6 holds while not losing dps is incredibly useful.
2) Mind for trollers is awful because it's so bad at setting up containment, and it's dmg suffers because of it. Illusion can get away with it because it has a very unique niche. Mind does not have that niche, infact Mind's biggest niche (easiest perma av control) isn't even possible for controllers, it's a dom only trait.
3) Semi related to the previous, but it can't be stressed enough, not having an aoe immobilize on a controller is just bad, aoe immobs are the bread and butter for controllers. They're massive sources of damage and softcontrol for them.

Fire has much better control than you give it credit for. And mind is an anomally that needs to be ranked differently for controllers and doms. For Doms its the #3 dmg set, for trollers its #9, mind would also be at the bottom of the barrel for control for Trollers, but easily near the top for doms (not higher than plant). Depending on what you're fighting, since confusion is a very variable damage contribution, Fire can go on par if not outdps plant for controllers, but not doms. PermaPA is highly over-rated as well.

Never played grav, never will. The changes they made don't make the set anymore competitve.

Not as good as plant or fire for doms and trollers, not as good as mind for doms.

Not as good as fire or psi assault. The mechanics/powers in the set are nothing special to say the set couldnt have been released with cov.

We needed new armor sets BADLY. It's not even funny how long it's been since we've gotten one (last being SD). Doesn't matter what the set was, just that we are getting more variety in that category is what is important. Getting a new ranged set is also big, especially because it won't have redraw.

Haven't noticed any standing change other than the initial rush from dark control/assault, which quickly dried out.

Doms are top tier competitive in endgame content, especially if packing permadom and sleet.

We don't know, we don't know, we don't know, and yes.

They should just do-over grav changes for the next few issues. Other than that, Mind still needs help for controllers.

The amount of upcoming sets that are on our plate right now is enough.

Highly ineffecient. If you're too lazy to do the ramiel arc, or you're one of those people who think it's too hard, just auto unlock it in ouro using the voucher system, otherwise it's a 5 minute arc, and those threads (and influence) you would be burning to unlock the slot the way you mentioned could be put towards actually getting something slotted in it, the slot isn't worth anything if there is nothing in it.

Lol'd

I'd go as far to say it being necessary for TW. More rchg, means easier cycling of your best attacks in your momentum cycle.

Out of that list, just accolades. All my toons get all the accolades.