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I generally give everything an episode or two to see if it can live up to or overcome my expectations. To me, the gratutious amounts of fan service and needless nudity coupled with a thin plot meant dropping this one quick.

Also, there's a character that attacks by squeezing some sort of acidic milk out of her breasts. It's pretty tasteless.

Gentlemen, I believe it's time we fight the power.

As soon as I hit the 60 month vet reward, I have a few characters that will switch into Fly. For min/max'ing I've taken SS or SJ, but greatly prefer flying to either of them.

A little tangent off something Tex mentioned: at +3 Disruption Field is only debuffing the enemy 14.6%. Running Assault would net you 15% extra damage at nearly 1/3 of the cost. Even at +2 Disruption Field is only increasing damage by 18%, but still at 3 times the cost of running Assault. When you face AV's resistance debuffs will be even further resisted.

Then there's redundancy between Clarity and Sonic Dispersion. I never could figure why they'd add more mez protection in the set. Also, Sonic Repulsion is a bit of an unruly power unless you have an ally that really wants to stay out of melee at all cost.

Finally, the animations are ugly.

I can see it being handy if you haven't reached perma-dom levels of recharge. For a perma-dom, I think it's rather meh and I'd rather take Call to Justice. It's like carrying a few free inspirations.

If it makes the pool more useful for everyone else, MM's just might have to suck it up.

As Elemist has alluded to all attacks in game have some type to them: Melee, Ranged, AoE, lethal, smashing, cold, fire, toxic*, or psi. When you attack an enemy it checks against all types of defense that the enemy has and uses the highest applicable value. If you use Bone Smasher it will check against Energy, Smashing, and Melee. If my theoretical enemy had 20% melee defense, 5% smashing defense, and 0% energy defense, he would have 20% defense against my attack. However, if I had used Power Bolt; which is energy, smashing, and ranged; he would only have 5% defense against the attack.

Now where Mind Control is weird and wonderful, and where Elimist's example goes slightly wrong, is that Mind Control's powers are only typed as Psi. That means all your mind controls only have to overcome one kind of defense while most every other attack in the game must overcome two or more. If any enemy has 15% ranged defense and 0% psi defense, then they will have 0% defense against Mesmerize. For the majority of the game it's a considerable advantage because psi defense is rare. However, the factions that do have psi defense tend to have it in large chunks.

*Toxic is odd. There is toxic damage, however, there is no toxic defense. Most toxic attacks are paired with fire to give players some defense against them.

As for resist, they're quite a bit different. Resistance reduces the duration of your holds, sleeps, etc. It follows this formula: Total Duration/(100%+Resistance). For example, if an enemy had 50% resistance to sleep, it would sleep for 66% of the normal duration of the power. If any enemy had 100% resistance to sleep, it would last only 50% it's normal duration.

Finally, you have mez protection. Mezzes have magnitude, or how much you have to stack a control before it takes effect. All mobs have some level of mez protection inherently: minions have 1 point, lieutenants have 2 points, and bosses have 3 points, EB's have 6 points. For each mez you stack, it subtracts the magnitude of the power from the enemy's protection to that effect. When you reduce the enemy's mez protection below 0, they are affected by the status. The standard magnitude for most mezzes is 3 points. If you hit a lieutenant with dominate, for example, it overcomes his 2 points of mez protection. Some mobs have more protection against specific effects, or powers that confer extra protection to themselves or their allies, such as the Cimerorans' Shout of Command.

Going back to your initial question, if you are playing a Mind Controller and missing with your mezzes a lot you are likely facing an enemy with high psi defense (Carnies, some Arachnos). Other controllers may have a much easier time dealing with the same mobs.

Cool, glad it's working out for you Elimist. Just be wary of some of the numbers. I had almost mistakenly fallen under the impression that I had a positionally softcapped, perma-hasten, perma Link Minds, perma-dom (that almost goes with saying) build until I realized I had powerboost on.

The way it works is this: for click powers, PB will boost the power for its full duration. That is to say, Link Minds will be boosted for a full 90 seconds. For, toggles the boost will only last for 15 seconds. So Weave, for example, will only be boosted for 15 seconds.

So... the build I thought I had softcapped was only actually softcapped for every 15 out of 35 seconds or so. That's still quite nice and would definitely help survivability, but certainly less exciting than a fully softcapped build.

Personally, I'd drop World of Confusion due to it's rather lousy range (only 8 feet) and pick up Indomitable Will. I'm not sure if your domination is 100% perma due to the down time on Hasten and IW would fill the gap for mez protection should it drop. It'll also cap out psi defense (the only defense you're missing) and allows for another LotG.

Also, remember this: Linked Minds is a click power so Power Boost should affect it through it's entire duration rather than just 15 seconds. Speaking of Linked Minds, you could swap the Def and Def/End for Def/Recharge and Def/End/Recharge to bring it's recharge down more than 40 seconds while still maintaining capped positional defense.

Generally, I'd say you could swap out some slots that chase Ranged Defense since you're so far over cap and put them towards recharge bonuses to keep Linked Minds up more often. It's definitely a great start and it's making me take a second look at the build I had started for a mind/nrg.

That's an excellent point Psiphon. I'd highly recommend taking Combat Jumping as well. There's nothing more frustrating than being stuck a few feet from the transfusion that could save your life.

This a persistant problem. It's been affecting controller pets for a few issues now too. Phantasm, who has no melee attacks, closes to melee for some reason. With Phanty and his decoy I was able to tackle a few GM's, but now that he gets himself killed it's much more difficult.

If you can find fun in theme alone, more power to you. Unfortunately, I can't do that. A large part of my fun comes from the mechanics of the game and I create concepts around what the game gives me. That's why I'd suggest looking for something that fits your concept a bit better.

On the grav side you're only really missing out by skipping Singularity. DS is skipped pretty regularly. Now, on the forcefield side... it seems like you'll only be left with Dispersion Bubble, PFF, and Force Bolt. I'd probably just roll a /nrg Dom in that case. You get some mez protection and the knockback seems like it would suit your concept. The /nrg assault powers are a little flashy though you may be able to tone them down.

Why, yes, I do. Maybe we can compare them some time. Subtly suggesting you post a build for people to comment on rather than asking for a build outright.

I quite agree. I was hoping for a nice solid melee attack.