EternalWho

Originally Posted by Local_Man

More Recharge results in diminishing returns. Once you get to perma-PA, additional amounts of Recharge start to have less and less effect, such that fairly small amounts of additional recharge only result in reducing the Recharge on powers by a fraction of a second. There are points where your limited resources can be better used than adding more recharge.

With the large amount of Recharge in a Perma-PA build, Radiant Aura is up very quickly (especially slotted with the Doctored Wounds set). Especially since healing becomes less important in the higher levels, an Ill/Rad will generally have something better to do than be the team healer. Fast-recharging Radiant Aura is plenty.

To me, Recall Friend is probably my first choice. My Ill/Rad had it (and Teleport for travel) leveling up. I could stealth missions and bring the team to me more than once ever 30 min (with the Vet team TP power). Since I was usually the last teammember surviving, I was often the one to Recall the dead bodies of teammates to bring them to a safe place to rez. I miss that power in my Perma-PA build and look forward to getting it back. Mutation is my second choice as something handy to have -- I have often regretted not having it.

My only question is the third power. (1) I dislike taking powers as pure "mules" for an IO -- I like the power to be useful, even situationally. If a power can hold a needed IO AND can be useful, then it is OK. For example, Combat Jumping provides Immob protection and jumping mobility at a very low endurance cost as well as holding a LotG Recharge. (2) With my build and the two choices above, I'm capped out on Power Pools. I could drop CJ (or Hover/Fly) and use Group Invis for the LotG Recharge if I really want to add a new power pool, but I'm pretty happy with my build now. (3) It needs to be a power that can be effective with no additional slots (or maybe one extra).

So that leaves:

(a) Something out of one of the power pools I already have. Fly is kind of slow, so Super Speed or Super Jump, or even Teleport might be a nice "quality of life" pick. Or a melee attack? Air Sup? Flurry? Jump Kick? I don't think so, since I generally stay out of melee and my attack chain does more damage than any of those while staying at range.

(b) From my Primary and secondary, only Group Invis, Fallout and Choking Cloud are left (since I want to take Mutation). Choking Cloud is a mostly-worthless endurance drain unless you can fully slot it up and have the secondary powers to make it effective (Hot Feet, Arctic Air, Conductive Aura), so that one is out. Fallout? Very situational, but kind of fun . . . I could Fly/Hover over a group of foes, then Recall Friend to drop a teammate's dead body into the group, and then use Fallout for some damage and a huge Debuff -- and then rez him with Mutation. Worth considering, but it will be used very, very rarely. Group Invis? Can use it for another LotG Recharge, and it uses far, far less endurance than SI -- might be useful in big battles and to invis teammates. Worth Considering, but won't be used all that often, as I tend to run SI almost all the time.

(c) Another power from my APP set: I use the Fire APP set, so Consume and Rise of the Phoenix are the choices. (Between Fire Blast and Fire Ball, I'm very happy with Fire, so I don't plan to change.) Consume is a decent but slow recharging Blue-bar filler in melee combat. With PA out and while Invis, it can be used before drawing aggro. I don't have many (hardly any) endurance issues, and this needs some slotting to be effective. So No to that one. Rise of the Phoenix? The only self-rez available to controllers that does damage to foes in the area? Another situational power, but definitely worth considering.

In the end, I'm kind of leaning now to Rise of the Phoenix, but that could change.