Garent

Insinuate otherwise of what?

That's what I said.

I have played control sets. My list of 50s is in my signature for everyone to see for just this reason. There's a controller there, and there are controllers I've played without getting them to 50.

If they choose not to slot for damage, that's their choice, just like how it's the corruptor's choice not to slot for damage if they so choose. Controller durations are high enough at high levels that it's not necessary to slot for mez in the single target controls. If you want to slot for mez duration anyway, there are frankenslotting options available to you so you don't have to sacrifice damage to get it. Dam/mez hamidon enhancements are very cheap, so it's a false dichotomy.

Controllers have a 0.55 ranged damage mod. This gets doubled to 1.1 with containment. They have the exact same strength on their support powers as corruptors do. Scourge would have to have a 100% to kick in at the half health mark in order to make the modifiers equal after inherents. Normally defenders and corruptors having an entire attack set while controllers having two attacks in their control set would make controllers be behind anyway, but it all goes out the window at high levels when controllers get access to powerful attacks in their ancillary pools.

I can't go into great detail about it because the last giant post I made didn't get much of a response. Which is really frustrating because making a post about how something is wrong results in people pointing out situations in which my argument falls flat that don't actually exist because I can't cover everything in the span of a paragraph. Whereas if I make a large post about how I think it SHOULD be, including conceptual goals, mechanical methods, and even numbers, no one pays attention to it.

Not all secondaries have control, and not all secondaries have debuffs. That's the way it SHOULD be. Making every secondary's method of mitigation be large amounts of regeneration is homogenization. Fire is the only secondary with no form of mitigation other than hot feet and arguably burn. Every other set has powers that can be buffed into potent mitigation tools or can easily have a form of survivability attached to them without changing the concept of the power. Conserve power being turned into energize is a change that I support, for example.

Well played, madam. I laughed.

There are many methods of increasing the desirability of specific secondary powers without attaching heals to them. If the sets in general were better, it wouldn't be necessary to give them one overpowered heal. Also, most of the people mentioning tight builds are doing so because the opportunity cost of building around the enhanced snipe isn't worth the benefit.

I remember this too, but I just checked and it looks like it didn't happen.

I would like that, but every other power in the sets can't be brought up to the bar set by these powers, and that means it would still be a situation where most of a set's use is in one power.

Short answer? Small changes to a variety of powers in each set, with the ultimate goal of every power having value and with the set as a whole having a unique method of mitigation/supporting offense compared to other secondaries. The long answer is way too big to go in to without its own topic.

This definitely pops up in other archetypes as well. This is unavoidable in many situations, like mez protection in defense sets, but some sets manage to do it in a unique way, like how fiery aura's status protection is spread among its shields instead of being in one specific power. It's far from the greatest of evils, but I think it's one worth avoiding when possible, and I think it's possible here. Every secondary having a designated "this is your overpowered regen/absorption power" is what I consider to be bad design. I feel that the secondaries should specialize in control, or self healing, or debuffing, to give examples.

They could, and I'm hoping they do.

zero defiance = long animation snipe with bonus damage/effect
greater than zero defiance = short animation snipe with standard damage

It's basically the stalker treatment. If you're in combat, you get the fast version, if you're using it to start a combat, you get the slow, powerful version.

Hilarious. Props to you.

Ahh, I THINK I understand now. But I might not. :P

Jumping back to this point, I've thought about it, and power redirect is possible in relation to proximity if you do it a REALLY specific way.

-use power 1 on target
-power 1 does its effect on the target, including placing the temp power 'power 2' on target
-power 2 is a pbaoe that affects players in the area. It does nothing in and of itself
-power 3 redirects to power 4 if you have power 2 on you.

In other words, if you use power 1 on the target beforehand, if the target is close enough to you, then power 3 redirects to a special animation or whatever. I have no idea what type of balance issue we could address with that, but it's there. I don't know of any powers that I think would benefit from that type of synergy.

Throwing bad ideas at a wall and seeing if anything sticks...
Inferno is changed to a self buff. It reverts to its usual nuke version if you have blazing aura (it's being renamed cauterizing aura, isn't it?) up and it is hitting an enemy.
If you are near an enemy that has been hit by smoke grenade, then time bomb and trip mine have their interrupts removed.
If you use it immediately after hitting an enemy with shocking grasp, power sink instead targets only that enemy but is much more powerful.
If you use it immediately after hitting an enemy with midnight grasp, dark consumption only hits that target but does significant damage.

The smoke grenade one has promise. The other ones missed the dart board by a large margin I think.