Little_Whorn

Darn you Linea. I'm still trying to pull that one off!

Everyone's a butt but me.

There. Happy? ^.^

Thanks THB. On point, I've been testing the reward/kill ratio lately with my plant/psi dom and while it flies in the face of what I understand about confuse actually increasing xp over time, i've found that the seeds tends to actually lower rewards somewhat compared to other similarly fast farmers such as my ss/fire (in farms at least).

In my experience, plant doms can use seeds to increase kill speed up to elite levels, but it's not without a price. Sometimes, against other elite damage dealers, my plant dom sacrifices some rewards to match their speed. In other words, the plant dom can exceed most other farmers enough in terms of kill speed to make up for the lost rewards. But where she can't (i.e. up against another elite farmer), it becomes harder and harder to draw even. All of which matches what I understand from Local_Man's confusion analysis. In order for confuse to result in even or more rewards, the confusing must increase kill speed by some impossible to measure amount. But in racing the absolute fastest farmers, it's still very difficult for my tricked out plant/dom to exceed the speed of these farmers enough to make up for the high xp.

Of course, this comes with caveats. Plant doms, when built well, aren't really slowed down by any spawns. So whereas a ss/fire or some other farmer slows down against longbow or vanguard or something, my plant/psi dom keeps trucking along. Usually the difference is more than enough to account for the lost rewards. Secondly, seeds can be somewhat unpredictable. Go up against enemies with high dps but low burst and the lost xp isn't a problem. But go up against enemies with high aoe burst damage and they can sometimes take out too many of their allies for me to do enough damage to keep the reward ratio up.

Of course, the vast majority of in-game currency is earned from recipe drops, a-merits, and other rewards that aren't lowered by confuse. So the lowered reward ratio is only really somewhat a factor in pure powerleveling or AE farming. And the difference is not as much as you'd think.

Personally, just my plant/psi/ice. She's my main and so she tends to take most of my inf. But, with more money, I'm sure I could build a fire/psi/fire or a fire/psi/ice or a plant/psi/fire to accomplish the same goals. I think plant is a bit faster than fire, but I'm fairly certain fire could compete with plant and your blaster if built right.

But let me redirect back to you: How many Blasters have you accomplished all these feats on?

Umm, those would be dominator builds, not controller builds. And yes, certain dom builds can solo just as fast as arch/ment (not to mention MUCH safer) and are just as capable at soloing high lvl AVs and GMs.

Nobody shamelessly self-promotes quite as...vigorously as THB lately. The funny part is that his blaster really is pretty powerful, but the way he constantly brags about it...can't stop picturing this:

I have to assume this was a typo. Stamina should never be 6 slotted in my experience. That would be like 6 slotting health to get more regen.

Wish I knew how the math works here. How does Frostwork get reduced for each pet tier, rather than providing a static buff?