Light_Petting_EU

take it slot it love it.
I have to say I started an Ice/Kin on release purely because of the buffing changes that were promised.

I tend to use it whenever 2 or more mobs have spawned close enough to each other.

Or when I need to thin all the mobs from around a ballista.
(note: run away the second you can).

Of course, as a /kin, all I have to do is make sure I have a blue handy and I can use it whenever...

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Funny enough you dont see mobs use these powers except for the wisps in the shadow shard (grr annoying detention field :P)

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I got smacked by a detention field by some council very recently. I think it is new, as I can't ever remember it happening before...

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Why is it that I'v hardly ever seen it in game apart from when I'm playing? Is it because Mind controllers are rare or is it because it is a fiddly power to use?

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I have it on 4 characters (2 heroes, 2 villains). You don't see mind all that often and even when you do, it has so many other great tricks it (TK) isn't always the best thing to use.

Annoys the crap out of people in PvP though.

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But dark has -regen too

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I know that, but whenever an AV comes up it is always "send in the Rad/Kin". You just illustrated my point - Dark isn't as well known and as a result some teams will take something else in preference (their loss)

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Whatever you do, go /psiiiiiiiii....

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have to go play my storm/psi for a bit now. Curse you!

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Dark/ is a very strong, and it's not nearly as common as kin, which can make you more wanted

[/ QUOTE ] the flipside being, some player don't appreciate it or understand what you're doing (Kin used to be far worse for this but it and Rad got a bit of increased awareness thanks to -Regen). Dark does have the advantage of a heal centred on you, so if you play in a lot of PuGs those green numbers might help (trying to get a damaged blaster to run TOWARDS that boss is difficult sometimes.

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Or even better, play both!

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Been there, done that

You'll probably want 2 acc in every kinetics power - you'll get sick of missing.

Siphon speed needs (as others have said) 3 recharge, backed with 3 recharge in hasten for almost-but-not-quite perma hasten.

Ill/Kin can be a fantastic build but Ill/Rad has more synergy between primary and secondary (Rad has a lot of control to plug the gaps in Illusion). Fire/Kin is just plain sick at higher levels
Fire/Rad is pretty cool as well.

I personally skip Flash but only because I have access to choking cloud and EMP from RAD ... you'll probably have to take it, which is a pity as it takes forever to recharge, doesn't affect all that many and has a low duration now.

If you do start at 8pm, I'll wheel my lvl 33 (I think) scrapper around and see if there's a spot free.

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As a brief stat blast, 1003 hours spent levelling over 16 months

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40 days and 40 nights? sounds kind of ... biblical.
gratz.

No details, no screenshots, nuffink. Just saw he'd hit 50 as I logged last night and noticed nobody had mentioned it yet...

congrats, even if our total teaming was 49.8-49.9 (not as much as it sounds, given this was over the weekend)

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Phantasm, at first you will love since you will be a solo powerhouse. After epics he basically just gets annoying with his knockback attacks.

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bwahahahahahahahahha

Gratz Filth.

now ~I just need to get my sucky corruptor up to 44 where I can solo without a poxy +2 boss causing me to drop my rep

Thanks for all the petitions against me in bloody bay, they were most appreciated

sorry for the long gap - I just popped out for some milk and lost track of time. I even lost track of the thread I made about it

I have a robot bat-cow that might hit 50- at some point, does that count?

I know a couple of people who need it - are you planning on trying to exemp people down for the xp, or just blast through it?
will send a tell if I'm on

oh yeah good point. Fixed my post up above as well

Seriously, while lots of powersets do have golden stretches of levels (and fire has it right at the start) There are specific builds for defenders, tankers, scrappers that in any given level range are more powerful (I'd say you'd have a hard time topping fire/kin in the 38-41 range though).

The set is great fun to play, although ST damage does droop a bit in the 20s.

fire is woefully underpowered (as is mind, illusion ...) I think all of my toons that will hit 50 will be a controller at this rate, despite the obvious drawbacks.

Containment really does very little to benefit fire at lower levels - other ATs can easily manage exactly the same thing (Kin/Elec def, Fire/Ice tanker and a peacebringer can do this from lvl 6(?) without breaking into a sweat).

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Good thing to we all havent totally alienated ppl who are actually interested of doing something like this.

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Well, given the (now deleted) other post on this subject, I wouldn't be too sure

yeah, happy birthday.

Fire/Dark? Great AoE carnage + Tar Patch

Against what?

Ice/Cold is pretty impressive but you will learn what ATs/powersets to avoid ...

Yeah take both - I have a /Rad controller and joined a solo blaster yesterday who had an AV mission ...

"Shouldn't we get a team first?"
"Nah - let's go"
took us five minutes but we did it in perfect safety ... and it was VERY obvious when LR was not up...

Well, you didn't say what you wanted it for, so there's soo many ways you could build an effective ill/rad (pvp,pve single target, pve aoe control etc.)

what seems amiss?
this guide might help plus some people have provided their own builds at the end.

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I'm also not sure I'd want to spam Transference every 15 seconds, the set is just too busy for that.

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Well, now that end drain is useful again, I find myself spamming transference for that (rather than the endurance gain) all the time ...

I have fulcrum shift + transference, it would be rude not to.

Glad you're enjoying it. I *KNOW* dominators should be my first choice (what with 5 controllers and everything) but I'm just having too much fun with my MM, Corruptor and Brute to consider it at the moment...

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Thanks LP! And thanks for hanging around when you had to be up for work, and getting debt while trying to help us with our wholy unecessary double-ding. Hopefully, you'll ding at stupid o'clock sometime soon, and we can do the same.

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Well, tbh I doubt that will happen now - I did try to leave COH due to starting a part time MSc (on top of running my business, work, 4 kids etc.) and it was only catching pneumonia and nearly dying from it, resulting in 12 months of extra CoX time that has enabled me to play this long (lucky break eh?) as for getting up for work, I got round that by dialing in and starting at 1am . As for the debt - don't worry, I'm all too used to it on that corruptor

And Aero, my all time best stupid o'clock was a 'Let's do all the TFs back to back with our 50s' in the states. Kids, do not try this at home ...

(Syn & Cybercel to some of you)
For both dinging 50 (simultaneously) by calling in an arc, stood next to Lord Recluse and posing for photos ... the posing posers that they are.

10 levels in 7 days ... I can't even manage 1-10 in that

gratz to you both