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For me Spirit Tree feels more like convenience than safety - its regen isn't strong enough to feel like it's really saving anyone (though it certainly does from time to time). It's just super nice to have the entire team at full health at the end of a fight instead of half the team being between 40 and 100% - it just kind of lets the team shrug off the incidental damage that can add up over time... Nice to have, but it makes or breaks a fight pretty rarely. Sometimes I do think about taking something like Aid Self instead.

I initially went with the snipe too, it's a shame the snipes aren't a bit more practical, because the sets really are nice. I agree that they're a pretty awesome way to pad your set bonuses before you've have a character long enough to have the pricier sets. Also, sniping is fun.


You sound like me with combustion - for a week I tried my hardest to like it and I just couldn't do it. It seems like such a good ability on paper, I really wish they would slash the animation time.


The last thing I'll say is that Roots does about the same damage as Fireball if you cast it every cooldown. When you're fighting spawns that are dangerous to approach, or if you're just feeling lazy, root/fireball spam is a really easy way to keep up on AoE damage without sticking your neck out, I think you might like it if you ever give slotting it a shot.

Definitely fill up on reds and spam it a bit and see what you think of it at that level of enhancement, if you haven't already.

Have fun with your build, plant/fire/fire is my favorite character!

I don't understand your slotting on roots, I feel it's clearly a better AoE than Fire Breath and a unique strength of plant control. Remember that it does double the damage of other root powers. Its animation time is fantastic, its radius generous, and it's a targeted AoE that won't require the positioning Breath does. I honestly feel I do significantly more damage with Roots than Breath because of the time saved on positioning and how much more consistently I can hit an entire spawn. Plus it magnifies the damage your seeds do. Enemies love to just run away when confused, this will force them to stick around and fight each other. With its short recast you really don't have to worry about duration enhancement.

I really think you're missing out by leaving it at 3 slots and putting root duration enhancement in there.

Personally I skipped Combustion and the snipe, but I'm not sure if that's just preference for you. You can build a complete chain from just Incinerate, Fire Blast, and Blaze, so I honestly don't think it should be a consideration for your single target chain. Also I found its cast time and radius to be surprisingly disappointing.


I really like Spirit tree and think it's an under appreciated power. That being said, I'm not confident you'll miss it. With a good recharge though I feel I have it out on most pulls, and it really shines when another player has it too or triage beacon. Also bear in mind you can have two out at a time for a while if you are fighting an AV.

I'm not really trying to sell you on it, just saying that it can be useful depending on what you're doing, but you seem to understand that already.


I really enjoy having the sleep btw. It's one of the best sleeps in the game and it'll save you every now and then. It might not be a staple of your build, but it is a cheap purple holder as well. Also it's kind of nice starting a pull with sleep instead of confuse, makes it a bit safer in my experience.

With inherent stamina I can't imagine you would need to slot it for endurance. I would personally go for 5 piece Doctored Wounds and then decide whether you want to fill in that last slot with an end mod.

The regen gets really significant with healing mods, I think you'll be pretty pleased with it and you'll be fine on stamina.

I was plant/psi/soul for a while before I swapped to plant/fire/ice and later plant/fire/fire.

Soul Drain is a fun ability, but it won't get particularly close to perma. It combos nicely with Drain Psyche and Psychic Shockwave since you were likely spending a lot of time in melee range anyway with that set.

I would guess that Sleet is probably going to be a bigger damage increase for you in most cases though.

Not perfect, but here's what I was able to import from his build:

Also your playstyles are so foreign to me. You guys focus super heavily on defense, to the point that you pick up Contagious Confusion for 5% ranged defense instead of using a range enhancement to extend your cone far enough to not even get hit by the alpha in the first place.

Honestly I feel plant/fire is a frenetic, very high damage build and that using Rise of the Phoenix a couple times an hour well worth it for the major damage increase you guys could get by dropping your focus on defense.

I mean seriously, SoC has a 16 second or less recharge and lasts over a minute in a decent build. Vines has a recharge of a minute and change, and you have an excellent AoE sleep on a about a 12 second cooldown. To bridge the gaps you have inspirations, your Destiny power, and Rise of the Phoenix, plus who knows what else I'm forgetting about.

I can't believe you guys are using Gravitational Anchor in Roots.

Roots does nearly half the damage of Fireball and has 1/4 the cooldown. You're not maxed out on 6.5% damage enhancement slots, so you're really only getting 3.5% global recharge by going Gravitational Anchor and you're losing what is objectively your most versatile AoE attack, not to mention in some cases, your strongest.

If you're using the Reactive DoT it makes Roots even crazier. It basically increases the damage by 40% if you don't have significant external damage buffs going.

Every time the devs release new content I would assume they hope you'll spend a certain amount of time on it. I would assume any new pets would require you to start from scratch, but I doubt there will be new, unique salvage for them.

Are you sure it's supposed to work on pets? It seems like it'd be absolutely ridiculous with powers like creepers, phantom army, MM pets, etc. If they re-add it then I'll be stoked, but I had just assumed it was disabled intentionally.

It definitely doesn't work with creepers, flytrap, or animated stone.

Domination doesn't really affect abilities directly. Dominator controls have an additional component built in that checks for domination, and the judgement powers don't have that.

I was lucky enough to drop in on the last level of an ITF with a BAF team on the first night. We 16-manned Romulus and got full credit for the entire TF.

Hi guys, I was just curious if anyone here has some experience with the Scorpion/Mace pool. Is there redraw on every attack?

Are you able to export your combat logs somehow? I love reporting and would gladly post some numbers for the tier 4 reactive proc if there's a reasonable way to do it.

I also think it'd be interesting because it looks like our playstyles are fairly different - I spam roots constantly and the procs really shine on low recharge - medium damage powers like that. I see the proc burning constantly.

For a change of pace I'm thinking of respec'ing. How good is the Mako pet compared to the lore pets?