Nubcaek

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Mind Control: The lack of an AoE immobolize/stun means it's pain to set domination for AoE attacks. Furthermore when purple out your mind troll, you can stop groups every minute with Total Domination and Mass Confusion. Fire Control on the other hand can stop groups nearly as well with Flashfire and cages about every 45 seconds using just SO's. Mind Control really just seems to suffer in the post-io world.

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It's funny to say this, but yeah, mind/ doesn't control as well as fire/ in everyday missions and farms. Of course, we're talking heavily IO'd builds here, with flashfires up every 25ish seconds + cinders every 60ish.

Honestly, this control disparity really applies with any powerset that has a quick recharging aoe "hard" control. Terrify is nice and all, but the retaliation really hamstrings it. We won't even go into plant/ and perma-SoC.

Mind/ has incredible flexibility though, I like always having something to overcome a mobs status protection, and "Notify Never" is a massive advantage in nasty situations (LRSF, I'm looking at you). When the going gets tough, mind's perks start to shine through! I'd disagree that it's underperforming at all.

Oh, as for sets that are *imo* underperforming:

Gravity, especially for doms! Can't see how to fix this one without breaking the cottage rule though. Propel is completely redundant to a dom.
Devices, lost a lot of utility to IOs and needs "something" to mitigate the loss of build up while teaming.
Defender Secondaries, /sonic excepted!

I won't be changing much, maybe the pom-poms on my /em blaster. My mind/psi dom will be sticking with the classic pink, it just fits perfectly.

Oh, and they had better not change everything to octarine, otherwise anyone who isn't magic origin or a catgirl/boy will have a pretty bland game.

Some fantastic names here, especially the puns!

As for me (Virtue/Freedom):

The Lobotomist - my mind/psi dom, and main
Great Briton - Archery/EM blaster
Rocket Knight - FF/EM, soft spot for him as he was my first character to ding 50

Redside, there are an awful lot of folk (myself included) running around with exposed brains, specifically wired ones.

Guess showing off your grey matter just screams "I'm evil!"...that and the scads of /psi doms.

Arc Name: Food Fight!
Arc ID: 1046
Alignment: Villainous
Creator Global/Forum Name: @Nubcaek
Difficulty: Easy-ish, no AVs/EBs
Synopsis: The future of the Rogue Isles' most beloved foodstuff is in jeopardy, Aeon Corp has a problem!
Estimated Playtime: While the MA says "long", it's a pretty short arc, made mainly for practice. I'd estimate 10-20 mins, most ATs should have no problems.

Any feedback is greatly appreciated, and I'll return the favour! Cheers.

Think we've all been guilty of creating pretty dull costumes at one point or another. My dom is absolutely awful, but I've grown attached to him and no matter how long I spend tinkering in the costume creator can't bring myself to change the way he looks.

Avert thine eyes!: Imicus, in all his monotone glory

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What's most amusing is the lack of any sort of link to this *cough* "Awesome" *cough* costume.

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Agreed. OP, let us bask in the glow of your creative genius!