Psiphon

Originally Posted by Scirion

Ahh, Rage... The single biggest reason why I will never use Super Strength on a Defense-based set...

Originally Posted by Residentx_EU

The Dom do more damage that's clear but this has been my experience with the controllers. In Heroville, I'm always being asked to heal and the controller can do this so well, you'll end up working your tail off. I did the Abandoned Sewer mish a few times and I stopped playing my controller after that. Do Cauterize, Heal, TP, and Shields(thaw, plasma, forge)...its a workout and if you should die...you'll be the last one rezed. But as a Dom...everyone loves you :-) For example, I was asked into an AE farm just to "rain" damage.

Originally Posted by Northman

There are really no guides that I can find for Earth/Earth. After reading the "Dominators are Beasts" thread I thought I would roll one up. Wow. Only level 9 and this toon is just plowing through missions. Just wondering if there is a better secondary to pair with Earth than, well, Earth? Not really looking to use Fire as I have several Fire toons already. Thoughts on Earth Assault?

Originally Posted by Excelsio

My Doms are steamrollers! I love 'em!

My Controllers, on the other hand (other than Fire or Plant/Kin)... This is the sort of steamroller that they are, and it sums up my feelings about them: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLlUgilKqms

Edit:
Dominators, for being a 'Villain' AT, at least have the decency to give their opponents a quick arrest. Controllers, on the other hand, seem to be much more sadistic in that they force their opponents to stand around in agony for a small eternity.

Originally Posted by Red Valkyrja

His bufercations (clones) ARE his primary source of regeneration. Take them out/mezz/hold/etc as they come along then return to beating on Trapdoor.

Originally Posted by Avatea

Our engineers have just managed to resolve the issue affecting the European updater. Please let me know if the problem persists for some of you.

Originally Posted by Carnifax_NA

For Controllers I'd rank Grav ahead of Ice Control, Singy and the ranged AOE hold put it ahead for me. I've never found Wormhole any worse than say Telekinesis when teamed with one (TKing mind controllers have annoyed me more in the past in fact, at least with Wormhole I know they're going to be stunned for 30 seconds). Ice Control has too much of reliance on Ice Patch (which can easily be completely negated, unlike Quake which at least does a ToHit debuff too)

Originally Posted by milehigh77

I"ll share my experience with Storm and AVs.

Once upon a time I was running Maria's arc with 7 other people. I was the only source of debuff on the team.

To make a long story short, it wasn't until someone brought their Radiation Emission alt that we were able to defeat the AV.

My Storm defender had all the IO bonuses needed for perm Hasten, Achilles yadda yadda yadda.

I may be wrong but the most important debuff to have during a GM or AV fight is -regen.

Since you don't get -regen with Storm I don't see how one can solo an AV with Storm when a team of 8 weren't able to take Chimera down with Storm as the sole debuffer.

I'm sure I'm wrong about this anyway.

Originally Posted by Finduilas

I think "replacement" is a perfectly accurate way to put it, since it allows me to completely skip a power I don't want.

Building for sustained endurance under normal conditions is very different than building for sustained endurance while constantly attacking for extended periods of time. Unless you're planning on soloing AVs or something similar, the later just isn't necessary very often. One reason I like CP is that on the rare occasions I need that sort of end recovery, it is there to help, without having to plan my build around needing additional recovery all the time.

Similarly, IMO normal accuracy enhancement in attacks, plus whatever accuracy set bonuses you happen to get, plus the Kismet +Acc is completely adequate for most circumstances. Unless a player is planning to spend a lot of time fighting hard-to-hit foes, FA is a end-hungry waste of a power pick and slots.

That goes double for the current situation, where the OP is building an /SS tank. How often would any player need the kind of ToHit you'd get from Rage, the Kismet +Acc *and* FA? That's just a ridiculous level of overkill, IMO.

Originally Posted by CBeet

I want a Controller, I am craving a Controller, but being mostly a Blaster/Brute/Scrapper player it is pretty difficult to get past level 6, which isn't to say I have not already got one past. I have a level 38 Gravity/Forcefield. I'm sure you can see where I went wrong (I've been kicking myself for ages about it, I was so close to choosing Storm which I'm loving on a Mastermind).

I've tried what is pretty much a pure support character. A slow, boring, little-used support character. Now I want a proper Controller, I want to buff, debuff, control, manipulate!.. But I don't know what sets to choose. I've narrowed it down to Electric/Sonic (faster, short-term control powers to keep me clicking and self/ally buffs and debuffs galore), Earth/Thermal (I like the BAMness of Earth and I've also wanted a healy type for the fast paced nature of it, but Therm also comes with tasty debuffs so trumps out Empathy) or Mind/Kinetics (Fast powers! Wham! Zip! Pow! And teams will love me).

To those who've tried these combos, I'd like to know your thoughts on them. To those that know too many numbers like me, I'd like a fresh opinion on how they'd work together. I KNOW it's all down to personal opinion, but I'm still interested in personal accounts and how they do in the 30+ game especially.

Originally Posted by Nalrok_AthZim

Ill/Kin plays very much like Ann Heche's relationships: I'm out, I'm in, I'm out! You start off outside of battle, sending in PA and Spooky (thanks for the term, Local) and then run in to cast Fulcrum Shift. You then run out again to hold, blast and debuff as needed.

Recall Friend has always been more helpful to me than Teleport Foe.

May I suggest Power Mastery for this build? Power Mastery has a beefy 42% S/L resist power in Temp Invulnerability, as well as Power Boost (which can turn your heals, endurance changes and recovery boosts into MEGAHEALS/MEGA-ENDURANCE/MEGA-RECOVERY).

Originally Posted by Auroxis

I disagree. Some recharge sets are really cheap and easy to get(doctored wounds). It's really not hard to get high recharge on an empath anymore with hero merits and the alpha slot. I found myself actually removing recharge IO sets from my build after I19, and AB is still perma with several seconds to spare.

Even if you can't get AB up full time, it'll be up a large majority of the time at least.

And as for Kin against Empathy, of course Kin gives more offense. But it doesn't compare to Empathy when it comes to keeping a team alive.

Originally Posted by Auroxis

The difference between capped typed defense builds and capped positional defense builds is the inability to softcap Psionic defense(at least without sacrificing a lot) and Toxic defense with a typed defense build.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

And you can debuff the foe's ToHit with Radiation Infection. Stone Cages + RI can almost act like an AoE Hold . . . at level 4.

Earth/Rad has so many tools to handle so many situations. Team Heal; Team buff of a bunch of things including Recharge and Recovery; Debuffs to increase team damage and reduce foe's ToHit, Defense, Damage and Regen; two of the three best AoE Holds in the game.