Riverdusk

And I'm not really seeing the big difference between the issue device blasters will have and several other powers. Not only stalkers as has already been mentioned, but the numerous ones who have shadowfall, steamy mist, and arctic fog. Those offer significant protection and have to be shut off during escorts. In fact those are even more of an issue imho as those mess up the escort tracking for not only that player, but usually the whole team. It almost gets to the point where I need a macro, "turn off shadowfall! or x or y " everytime I do an escort mission on a team as at least one person invariably has one of those aoe stealth powers and fails to turn it off.

Yes, it is an issue, but I don't see device blasters suddenly making it a top priority. Happy to be wrong I suppose, but I don't really see it is a big issue, most of the time I get the escort to the door before I even run into an ambush anyway (if I'm solo). If you are on a team, let someone else lead the sucker out.

Don't forget Bots/Nature. Actually I tend to shy away from "perfect" matches and prefer the odd combo's, it makes me come up with more interesting stories.

Sums up my feelings about it. I wouldn't mind a 50% uptime if it was actually a really good power.

That's what gets me, even if it was up 100% of the time the way it stands now I'd still rate it as the least powerful among all the incarnate powers released so far...and it'd be the first one I'd drop if I had to drop one for some reason. On top of that it is only up 50% of the time? I'm just not understanding the reasoning.

Yea part of my feelings are probably due to the fact that I built a tier 3 hybrid control before realizing, oops, it doesn't work for pets at all. My current main is an illusion/dark controller so probably 3/4ths of my damage and control is from pets. Total dud.

Support I'm assuming won't work on my non-buffable phantom army so another dud there.

I'm rarely in melee so another dud there.

Assault I discovered for whatever strange reason works on phantom army (at least the doublehit version I've tried so far), but doesn't work for any of my other pets. Better than nothing so I have my...winner...I guess of the choices I have. Interface I'm feeling is a lot more powerful as it is up all the time and works for all my pets (except for poor dark servant since he doesn't take damage enhancements means he is ineligible, hate that, but that's another rant).

I've gotten conflicting information on whether or not they are suppose to work for pets, some say it is a bug they don't, others state the devs specifically designed them not to work for pets except for hybrid support. So I'm totally confused on what the future plan is for these.

So in short, underwhelming with the possibility to be somewhat decent if they make them pet friendly, or with the possibility to be an almost complete waste of time if they decide hybrid assault working on phantom army is a bug.

Yea further testing and phantasm never got the doublehit., it was only PA..but another twist, the decoys the phantasm was spawning did.

Hopefully that doesn't change, illusion doesn't have as many "regular" control powers, so the control tree I find really is weak for them, imho. I can imagine how nice it'd be for my plant controller who can spam roots every couple of seconds, quite a difference.

Support would be weak because as you said it wouldn't affect phantom army. Assault is the only one I'm finding worth the time, unless they decide to make PA work with the control hybrid as well.

Everyone went to plant control.

In my experience da is much sturdier in "regular" content than electric.

Dark armor to me is more of a resistance/control/regeneration hybrid, whereas electric armor is pretty much just a straight up resistance set. Electric's heal and control are minor compared to dark's. I find having more variety, more layers of mitigation give more potential.

Your farming comment makes me think though, it'd be cool if they gave dark armor -tohit debuff resistance, I'd be all for that buff and it'd be thematic. You can get it in focused accuracy, but it is end expensive and takes an epic pool.

The whole "dark obscures your costume" that continues to get spewed is becoming a pet peeve of mine. Cloak of darkness does not have to obscure your costume anymore unless you choose it to at the tailor. The "no fade or pulse" option has been there for at least a year now I believe, can't remember exactly when they added it. But it was quite a while ago now and yet I still see that complaint leveled against dark armor constantly. Once that fix went in I found dark armor less obscuring/annoying than fire armor's graphics even. They do need to fix the brute version of dark embrace though as the "no fade/pulse" option doesn't work on that power, but does on the scrapper and tank versions.

I took one look at the DPA of the crab attacks and went "blech". Considering I like to go for high recharge builds, bad DPA is a big warning sign for me. That pretty much made my decision to stay huntsman/bane. I find huntsman the nice middle ground capable of good single target and AoE. I plan on a pure bane (except adding in venom grenade) for my 2nd build. VEATS are one of the few AT's I bother with 2nd builds on, love their flexibility.

Comparing a huntsman to a petless mastermind? I'm taking that as a joke if he means effectiveness, because it must be. If he means rarity, that also doesn't match my experience. I've yet to ever come across one of these petless masterminds, but already teamed up with two other huntsman in the last couple of weeks from just random PuG's. That's significant considering how rarely I see other spiders period.

I'd say no, they never have done them daily during double xp before. A maintenance right before is typical though.

And despite what the official announcement says, usually (always?) in my experience double xp runs until Monday morning maintenance, so more like 4-6am PST Monday morning rather than midnight Sunday.

If you are going to mention a SoA you'd actually be better off with huntsman/bane than spider. You get an extra -20% res from surveillance. And go with Mace mastery for shatter armor for better numbers and better uptime than arctic breath. Add in venom grenade and some Archilles heel procs and you'll be hitting -80% res pretty easy against a hard target along with all the team buffs.

No -regen though so there are better things, it'd be very good, but not "ultimate" either way. Love my huntsman though and they bring a lot to a team.

Exactly. Anyway, some of the programmers and developers I'm sure do care about the game, but I'd bet they aren't the ones in charge of pricing. Usually the ones in charge of pricing don't even know much about the product in my experience.

Personally I never planned to buy this no matter the price point. I just think it is silly and have a hard time coming up with a superhero character that it'd make sense having a little green man following them around.

A Monday after Daylight Savings Time...so double bad. I also witnessed a traffic accident today, Monday after DST is suppose to be one of the worst for accidents, certainly seems true!

Definitely not seeing how you come up with corrupters being wanted, but controllers not. On average their damage (definitely by incarnate levels) is probably going to be fairly close especially with this recent buff:

And the buff/debuff numbers of the secondary are the same or in many cases better on controllers than corrupters. Compare cold domination debuff numbers on a controller vs. a corrupter sometime, especially in the AV killer power Benumb. Yes, the -special is almost twice as good on a controller compared to a corrupter. For some reason corrupter's have some weak AT mods in some strange areas when it comes to debuffs.

Yea, I don't think controllers have anything to worry about. Despite the name, they offer a lot more than just control to teams.

Anyway, I agree with the other's reports here that the only time I've seen something specific asked for to this point at least is for a MoM. Have several times seen calls for widows or dark miasma for that one (dark affinity now too I'd guess).

And gremlins got s/l resistance. I find it curious fire imps got nothing, they were already the squishiest controller/dom pet since they are summoned at -1 in level and have nothing but some fire resistance. Unless that changed? Playing fire control for first time in a long time just now and haven't got back to fire imps yet.

I do remember them being one shot all the time though even on normal content. I also remember specifically them often being tossed all over the place since they have no knockback protection, sometimes amusingly so I have to admit. Can only imagine they are completely worthless on something like an incarnate trial. Since gremlins got 30% s/l resistance maybe give fire imps at least 20% s/l resistance? Like I said, curious as to why they were left out of all the pet buffs flying around this issue.

Funny because I felt that way about my illusion/rad (meh) after I played my plant/rad. Taking my ill/rad into a x8 map felt slow as molasses compared to plant/rad. Guess it all depends if you get a bigger thrill from AV hunting (ill/rad's game) or slaughtering masses (plant's forte).

I still pull out my illusion/rad though, it is fun. Doesn't hurt it is about the only character I have that I still like that has all the anniversary badges, so it makes the perfect badging character (also great at getting them).