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Power Boost only boosts the duration of mezzes (however a longer duration means you can stack more).

However the uberness of Power Boost + Power Sink make it worth taking for that combo alone.

How about controllers and other keldians giving mez protection? (and dominators for co-op missions).

You could slot the KB protection from Karma or the one from Steadfast Protection into Steamy mist, or even have both.

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All I can think of is to reduce the resist of the shields and the buffs from the inherent, replacing the controller buff. I would be interested in what you would suggest.

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Personally I would suggest nothing. My human form PB plays fine, and doesn't feel in the least underpowered. If I need mez resist I either use an inspiration or slip into dwarf form, but I usually don't need it. I certainly wouldn't want my resistance nerfed, or to gain no benefit from teaming with a controller. The whole reason for Cosmic Balance is to encorage experienced players to team with less experienced players.

You can hit the resistance cap quite easily without dwarf form, so take away it's mez protection, and all it is is a few extra hp in exchange for lousy damage and an enhancement slot drain. Most playes would drop it - I know I would.

The only time I have been menzzed when teamed with 2 controllers is when one has been on the other side of the map, or when one has died and gone to hospital.

Light Form is a panic button, and one of the things that should cause you to use it is encontering mezzers when you arn't teamed with controllers.

Put it this way: what would you have nerfed in exchange for gaining mez protection?

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But in Synapses 2 controllers weren't enough to keep me from being put to sleep by the Tesla clocks. I'm under the impression that the higher you go the more controllers you need, maybe because the status effects of mobs are stronger. After all you only get 1 point of protection per controller.

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2 mags per controller I believe. If you still got mezzed with 2 controllers, most likely at least one was out of range of the effect at the time.

Anyway, with Dwarf form, Lightform and Cosmic Balance I think there is plenty of mez protection available, any more would be overpowered. After all, if you could get full mez protection without Dwarf Form hardly anyone would take it.

The trouble with playing an empath is all the noobs who have come from other MMOs and think you can't do anything in a MMO without a healer want to team with you.

/hide is your friend.

Yes, but you explained in more detail!

Yes, you will find yourself doing much less healing at higher levels, especially when teamed with experienced players.

Did you have a stealth power active at the time?

I think the ST has a duration and recharge both 60 seconds.

It's curious also in that it shows up in the pet window, but is imobile and invunerable and unbuffable, and doesn't take pet sets (which is good, as fear sets are far more useful) - Photon Seekers take pet sets.

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Glue arrow is a weird one though, the Glue patch (not the debuff) seems to be related to the life of the targetted Mob, like an toggleless anchor. Spectral Terror is more like a Placeable AOE, not a anchor or toggle.


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Yeh, I tried this on a low level mob (a skul of course) and the proc killed him instantly, and the glue patch vanished.

I think you only get one extra tick in its duration anyway (20 sec I think), but its nice to have, and you can stack 'em.

hmm, would the -recovery of EMP cancel out consume? Could be a good reason to not respec back to fire, even through consume would not only ignite the oil slick, the oil slick would count as a mob to recover from.

It should check for damage every 10 seconds.

Glue arrow certainly does, I tested it yesterday.

I havn't been able to get the gimpse proc yet, I have one that is supposed to do disorent, but it only has a 2% chance (That can't be right, surely? ) so seems pretty useless.

I go through end quite quickly sometimes, since most of the time I'm running SI and hover, and EMP arrow has its end recovery debuff.

I've had Fire, but respeced to energy for Power Boost (which I am 1 level short of yet), but am not to keen on it. I'm not conviced I really need power boost. Most of my holds seem to last long enough anyway (I am built for very high damage output), or are compleatly nullified by PTOD.

The other appeal of Ice is Frozen Armor, which as +def should help keep me invisible. The drawback is it doesn't give me a power to ignite oil slick, limiting me to apprentice charm, which is ralther short range, or Phant doing the right thing at the right time.

Tested it. seems to work, isn't overwhelming though.

Makes it even more difficult to decide what epic to respec into.

So I can hibernate while the 10 second suppression wears off, and my pets beat up the mobs.

I've slotted a fear set IO into mine.

Spectral Terror does take fear set IOs!

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A bit more rchg would be nice,

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You could stick a LotG def/+7.5% recharge in SI.

Put another in CJ.

Put a Karma KB protection in there as well, ditch Acrobatics, and get Grant Invis, Hover, Stealth or Manouvers, and slot with another LotG def/+7.5% recharge. (the power does not have to be active for the bonus to apply).

This gives an additional 22.5% recharge reduction.

Does Superior Invisibility function when Hibernate (controller epic) is on?

If you where so inclined you could slot you single target hold with a ranged damage set, or half of a hold set half of a ranged damage set. It's just a matter of taste.

There is: Impeded Swiftness: 20% chance of minor smashing damage

There is also Pacing of the Turtle: chance of -recharge

Nether is currently working, since CE is an untargeted aoe, but I expect the fix to come soon (it is fixed on US test).

Yeah, I like the idea, it would avoid being detoggled by voids hiding round corners.

Unfortunatly nova makes me travel sick so I don't have it.

The KB protection IO is great in my human form PB though.

Nova form only takes Fly sets (which does mean it will take a Stealth IO).

However you can slot 2X ranged aoe set Detonation for aoe def, and either Ruin or Thunderstrike into your single target attacks for aoe or range def.

You can get more aoe def by slotting Aegis into Dwarf form.

You could also slot the +res/def IO from Steadfast Protection into a click power such as Essence Boost (PB) or Eclipse (WS) for a further 120 second def boost.

The stratagy I intend to go for is to try and get some +def from set bonuses, since this will help (a very little) against being detoggled.