MaHaBone23

No set can do all the things another set can do. And what fallacy exactly are you exposing now?
Having an AoE confuse and a ST confuse is not exactly the granite foundation upon which to build a set.

All things being equal (secondaries, enhancements, and player skill) I would wager Electric Control can mange and shut down many more opponents than Mind.

It is, however, a stackable single target confuse.

EDIT- to be more grammatical, Illusion has a stackable, single target confuse.

Meh. Psi damage is pretty all-or-nothing is the resist department. I'd still rather have a pet.

The "auto-hit" part is mildy interesting. Might be more so if accuracy was not so easy to boost through enhancement, set bonuses, and buffs.

Synaptic Overload. Granted, it takes slightly longer to jump to 16 targets, but you get it earlier, and its unique jumping nature means you can hit +def enemies easier by targeting their less defensive pals.

Seeds of Confusion deserves a mention, too. Sure, it aggros like a fart in an elevator, but you get it much earlier than Mass Confusion and its recharge is 1/4 that of Mass Confusion.

Illusion.

I guess you're missing out.

Joke's on them!

THIS.

When I saw the trailers, part of me was worried it was going to be a lot of silly gimmicks and in-jokes dressed over a thin, under-developed story. My only faith came from Wright's solid track record.

So much for the track record. My first instinct was right. The main characters are- at best- flat, and at worst, jerks. There's not much of a real plot, when you strip away all the cuteness and pointless fights. The fights themselves were usually resolved by the kind of dopey, lazy conventions you'd usually see in some 1970s Hanna Barbera cartoon. All the silly little crap peppered throughout the movie really just distracted from the story, or more even distracted from the lack of story. Cut out all the silly gimmicks, and you got a 40 minute movie about minor hipster drama.

Before I saw the movie, someone told each of the exes represented some aspec of Ramona's personality Scott had to "conquer" and the whole battle/video game thing was just his way of visualizing it. If it had actually worked that way, the movie would have actually been really amazing. There would be some story there. Too bad it didn't work that way.

And ya know what, while I got my rant on, lemme blast another detail- if you're going to make a movie derivative of video game visuals and conventions, maybe take some time and use VIDEO GAME VISUALS AND CONVENTIONS. Sometimes it seemed to click (the "pee" bar) and other times it was some arty, low fi, hand-rendered noise, like the opening credits, or the flat white slash when they played music.

IMHO, a far superior version of the same kind of story would be Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. Not as funny of loaded with game refs, sure, but it had an actual story with fully formed characters using a crazy, surreal kind of dreamspace to deal with RL issues. Awkward, insecure hero and a brash but damaged heroine trying to figure themselves and each other out. Even has crazy hair colors.

Okay. I'm done. /rant

What would you add? I was counting on the global accuracy to shore up that aspect, and i do have a bunch of Dam/Acc HOs at my disposal.