MentalMaden

Earth/Rad is hands down the best all around "team" based control combination. With the team combo the OP was talking about, DPS really shouldn't matter. Hold the stuff for the oncoming aoe onslaught of the scrapper and fire tank, provide safety through debuffs and efficiency through buffs and watch the enemies die. DPS.......not so important unless you're soloing.

I have an earth/rad and earth/TA at fifty, love them both and I'd recommend them to anyone wanting to make an earthie. That said, I've wanted an earth/storm forever and have just put it off because I want to work with other sets first.

Any of those three will not disappoint.

reroll

I seem to remember maybe he said they hoped they'd eventually port them over, but I don't remember anything directly saying when it would be done or anything about GR.

And the purple proc (chance for build up) does work on PA as well.

Freezing rain is a huge HUGE help and it comes early. Heal? meh.

Things like hurricane, steamy mist and thunderclap are wonderful in the twenties for survivability and increased control. As someone that has played both sets 1-50 I'll say that fire/storm matured much earlier and made a bigger impact earlier.

Fire/storm is a much much earlier bloomer than fire/kin.

Todays ACTRT team was:



Kilauea, Mysterious Cowboy, Storm Drain, Flameboost, Earthen Enchantress, Rock of Ages, Effervescence and Aranni. Thanks to those who came out it was a great time and team. Be on the lookout for the next sign up.

Edit for the oops.

Gratz.

Nope, it works on them.

Ok trollers, last week there was a request for ACTRT (All Controller Third Respec Trial) and that's what we'll do. So.......

What: Third Respec
When: 2/6/2010
Time: 1 pm EST/12 noon CST/ 11 am MST/ 10 am PST
Where: Peregrine Island
Who: Why Controllers of course. Sign ups first come, first served


1. Mental Toon
2. Mrs. Draconis
3. Mr. Draconis
4. Cpt. Cog
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Reserves-

Barrel of monkeys fun.

Don't get me wrong there are times when you can do it without sacrifices, but lets be honest, unless you are a melee type taking alphas or on a farming toon, trollers don't "need" softcapping. Your controls and secondary with epic shield should make you sturdy enough.

Many of the regulars have made some nice points so I won't go over them.

One "differing perspective" though (and very very minor)

I like PotP for a lvl 49 power. I try with most of my builds to put in a power at 49 that gets by on low or default slotting, so I can put more into my 47 power (at lvl 50) which tends to be something either AoE-ish or a shield, etc etc. That is where I put PotP in on my Ill/therm for a couple of reasons. To be quite honest I don't think rezzes are nearly as important anymore given we have enhancement combining now. But they are more helpful in situations like Raids and Late game TFs (things you usually don't do until 50 anyway). Default slot recharge with hasten (a controller requirement in my opinion) gives you plenty of recharge for a rez.

Just a thought.

And I want to echo what some of the others have said- Softcapping at the expense of controllers or recharge is a no no in my book. I think the trend of softcapping everything has gotten a bit out of control lately.(<---opinion)

And....

Given that most known heroes are "Hero" level in power, its strange to get lvl 5-10s to help them out. It seems like an arc involving a powerful heroes powers being gone, would be a higher level.

By "known" hero or villain you are talking about established NPC characters ingame, correct?

As I said above, not exactly my point, they aren't asking for it all the time, just specific missions.

And that is understandable but still a touch off my point. In certain specific circumstances it warrants application proactively (which I'd argue the average player doesn't even realize), but not like SB or shields that are generally all the time powers.

Heh, well while that's understandable, that wasn't really my point.