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I'm looking forward to it as well. I echo Murlon's wishes of a Happy New Year to All !

My secondary right now are Thermal and Pain. Thermal is the one I'm starting to slot. When I started looking at it, I started scratching my head thinking the same thing. I figured +recharge would be good and defense would be helpful, but beyond that, everything else was hit or miss. I will slot procs. I've been reading up on those, so I seem to have a handle of what would work and what won't, but that over all bonus one just stumped me. Over All, Master Minds are a simple monster to tame and seem to require very little outside their power slotting. (Simply speaking of course)

Sounds interesting, but the time is going to be too early. Are you going to be running for a few hours. I'm on the west coast (pst) and anything after 6pm pst would be cool if you're still running.

Oh, with Virtue down right now, are you going to be running when it goes back up (if)?

I've never seen creepers show up in the pet window. There is no indication that you even have creepers running after you leave the origional patch area unless you hit a new mob group and up pop the vines. It has no timer showing, no bar available. I can only tell when it runs out by the change of color on their name when the vines are showing.

I can target the vines and cast O2 Boost on them. (found out by accident) They can also receive AM (animation shows at least) but if new vines pop up, they are not showing the buff. The pet itself is not buffable, the vines maybe, but only the ones up and running at the time of the buff. (Again, only because the animation shows it received the buff.)

I love my Plant / Storm troller. He is awsome for Solo play and can run rather easy at difficult settings. That said, it is going to be a little slow going at times only because the damage is spread around and the mobs can take a little time to bring down. I've run a few AE missions for farming purposes and picking up tickets is fast and easy.

Expect a little down time for endurance. Even with Stamina and recovery bonuses from sets, I can still have some issues with extra large groups. I use hasten so once in a while that -end kick can hurt a little.

Sometime, the mob group you're fighting may be a factor. I love fighting CoT, Councle, Family, and Carnival. I do not like Malta and Knives. Some go down faster than others. The varity of damage offered by Storm can cover a range of damage and depending on your Epic, you can cover every aspect. Smashing and Lethal are the primary damage from Plant with some toxic from creepers. S/L is resisted more at higher levels making take down times a bit longer. Storm had wonderful debuffs to defense and resist that are priceless.

Use seeds! Even if you're farming for exp. Seeds are going to make things faster and easier for you. Some farmers have told me they hate it when seeds (confuse in general) is used because they don't get the max they expect. I love it! You'll never see me without seeds, creeper and rain.

In short, it's a good build for farming. It plays differently than say Fire/Kin but still gets the job done. If your AV or Monster focused, meh, I've not had luck solo. If I can change my AV to an Elite Boss, then I've had better luck, not great, but better. In teams, it plays awsome. Rooting mobs after tank has aggro then Lightning Storm, Creepers, and Tornado can go to town without knockback worries. I've run on teams for AV and Monster Farming and we just mopped the floor with them. Creeper can grab aggro and help the tank a great deal in a pinch. Fly Trap is still stupid, but seems to pull through in a pinch if you keep an eye on it and try to move in areas to guide him through a fight. (I don't think this was a short as I wanted it, oh my.) Just don't under estimate the power of this build. It is a great build and I have lots of fun with it.

Still sounds like you all had the better time. We had way too much booze flowing last night and had a fight between one office worker's husband and a guy in the shop. How I missed being with you all last night. Now I'm off to fix the damage from last night. Merry Christmas, Happy Hannaka, Happy Kwanza, Merry Sostice, and A Special "What Ever Else I Forgot" to all. And A Happy New Years! Looking forward to teaming up again in 2010.

And I really wanted to run this too....

Have Fun Tonight All ! I have to start putting things together for the company party in about 2-1/2 hours. I'd so much rather be running Posi with you guys and gals tonight.

I have to pretend I am happy being with all these people that I work with. If I drink, it's going to be even harder to keep my mouth shut, so I can't even get a good buzz going tonight. I hate company parties.

Aw... I was reading more into Oil Slick. I see if I go Magic Origin I can use my apprentice Charm to ignite oil slick. So it doesn't really matter what I team up with TA at this point. I'll just make sure I pick Magic when making ?/TA. Cool !

Thanks Local! That was an informational read. I have my CC 6-slotted with I/Os and was looking at sets. I'm glad I read that before I made the investments.

I like having my CC up as much as possible. I have recharge in 3 slots plus use Hasten. I have +recharge all from a couple of sets now and working on a couple of more. Sometimes CC seems slow to follow, but I think it's more the chance to hit that may have a "miss" and not trigger the vines or patch. I know it's there with me and has a real good follow rate. I've seen it trigger effects before I've reached mobs at times. Most times, I'm leaning more on CC than I am on Seeds and I'm a big fan of Seeds.

I'm so sorry for your loss.

I'm doing good, I made another level before heading off to work. However, I'm never one to turn down a helping hand when it comes to exp. Thank You for the offer. If you want, I'll write a note to your instructor excusing you from being late on your paper if I cause you to delay its completion.