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Another thread that has inspired an influx of a certain build. Seeing lots of TW/DA's at low level now.

Just like I was seeing plant/storms.

Funny, how some threads turn out to be very influential on people.

I have a Kat/DA that's maxed out IO and incarnate wise and I love him to death. TW/DA is probably incredibly good once you get a handle on your endurance issues. Dark regeneration is simoly an unbelievable power that makes the set worth it by itself.

Nope and max defense debuff resistance is around 52%.

So, I created a KM/Regen scrapper and I really liked the animations and even the odd sound of KM. The biggest thing that I got really sick of was the fact that half the time I'd attack my target would be dead before I actually got to deal damage to it.

Now, maybe this isn't as much of a problem as I was thinking it was when I was playing the character, but I'm thinking of remaking this character as a KM/EA.

Do you players of kinetic melee character find the corpse bashing to be extremely frequent and/or annoying? Or have you not noticed this as a problem at all?

This thread must of had some impact on people. I've been noticing a ton of pre-level 20 Plant/Storms as I'm leveling up now.

After playing with poison on a corrupter for a while I've decided, that for me, poison isn't worth while on a MM. It works well on a corrupter, but I just can't see struggling to keep my pets alive when I can go with another set that can provide me both reasonable debuffs and useful buffs for my pets.

It's a shame. I thought poison might be fun.

I've recently started playing around with poison and I really like what it is capable of as far as debuffs, even though I feel 8 ft radius' are very low for the effects of many of the powers.

The one concern I've had is that poison doesn't really lend anything to the survivability of the pets directly only indirectly through a couple -tohit -damage debuffs. Since these debuffs are in a small range I feel they aren't as great defensively as buffs that I can simply put on my pets.

So, which pets seem to pair the best with poison as far as durability and surviving goes?

I'd say be wary about choosing ice as your primary.

I have an ice/earth dom that is a lot of fun to play, but her effectiveness can really be dulled down to zero in a lot of cases. Especially in things like the ITF where nearly all the mobs have high KB resistance.

Any mobs highly resistant to knockdown will be really rough on you since the biggest control for ice is ice slick. Most of the time this is a great control, because the mobs have very few opprotunities to attack you when they're continually falling, but on teams you find that people will immobilze mobs which, most control sets, will cause the mobs to stop falling. Or someone will knock all the mobs off the ice slick. This can effectively neutralize you're most effective control.

I've actually found myself KO'd a few times, because I'm at melee with a boss that's falling all over ice slick, someone hits an immob and I take a couple of heavy shots that puts me down.

The redundancies of the slows in ice can be particuarly useless as well. It usually doesn't matter how fast a mob is moving if it dies in the first few seconds of a fight. This also tends to lower the average benefit of -recharge powers. If a mob only has one chance to attack, it doesn't really matter how fast or slow it's powers recharge. It's great on hard targets like AV's, but on average it's going to be less useful.

Unless Ice is thematic for you, I'd generally steer away from it.

I'm not sure at this point. I'm bouncing around between AT's and character concepts trying to find something I like.

Currently, I'm leveling an Ice/Earth dom which has actually turned out to be a lot of fun.

So, in my search to find the next character that I'll enjoy I started trying out different controllers, blasters, stalkers, and dominators.

I recently gave a Plant/Time controller a try and I found that I really enjoyed the plant primary. It seemed very functional and very effective at low levels with plenty of room to grow at higher levels. Time seemed like a great secondary for plant with some nice debuffs and a secondary single target hold. Not to mention the capability of very high recharge rates.

My question though is between a dominator and controller they'll have similar lower level performance with damage capability probably being edged in the dominator's favor. However, how do they compare at their peak performance in both control and damage capabilities?

Between the two, I'm really looking for a balance between lowend and highend performance. Insights would certainly be appreciated. Thank you.

That's, because they probably can only proc on the intial cast. Procs can be very buggy in powers that create temporary pet type things.

I'd pay close attention to the intial effects and see what's going on.

Just PuGs and TF/SF teams.

I already have two farming characters I use when I feel like farming.

I considered a stalker to begin with, because I enjoyed the stealth components I had on my previous scrappers with DA and EA. When I don't get to use AS or utlizing stealth, I seem like a squishy and less effective scrapper.

So far I enjoy a stalker much more solo than on a team. Though, soloing does get boring from time to time.

I think TW/WP is going to be pretty standard for a while.

You might not be able to softcap many defenses with WP, but S/L is usually more than enough with the amount regeneration you're capable of with WP.

I think the fact that WP has quick recovery and the potential to have physical perfection from the epic power pools will make it pretty popular with TW since it sounds like TW might be rather endurance intensive.

Furthermore, since TW is said to have many AoE attacks it really does lend itself well to rise to the challenge.

I don't really care.

I'm not interested in defending my position or particular use of words. If you've posted to simply argue a point, you're wasting your time. Some of you have only posted in the thread to join an argument.

You can continue to post why you choose to play a stalker if you wish. I have no further feedback on the argument.

My spider is called Squish-Ewww.