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In my experience with Plant/FF I found Repulsion Bomb highly skippable though Plant does not want for AoE control like Illusion. Coming in only 6 levels earlier than the first of the AoE's found in APP's makes it seem even more lackluster. It's got a whopping 16.9 endurance cost, a full 3 second cast time, and only a 40% chance for a mag 2 stun. In some ways, it's similar to Fissure but far, far inferior.

I can see it's place in your build (10% recharge is nothing to scoff at), but for most players I'd say to avoid it.

This is not quite how it works.

Each part of Carrion Creepers will only fire proc's if they match the type of attack for that part. Let's look at the proc from Positron's Blast for an example.

When you summon CC's, it will spawn the CC Patch, Vines, and a Bramble patch. The patch spawns attempt to fire the Posi AoE proc with its immobilize every 10 seconds. The Bramble power does no damage and will ignore the proc. The Carrion Creeper Vines have two powers: Vine Smash and Throw Thorns. The Positron proc will not fire in either of these powers because they are both single target.

The proc with the highest rate of fire in CC is probably Impeded Swiftness: Chance for Smashing Damage. It will fire in the initial summoning due to the Bramble and every time that the Vines attack because of the movement slow in those powers. Positron and Trap of the Hunter will have a chance to fire every 10 seconds against enemies hit with the Entangle (which has a target cap of 5). Explosive Strike's proc will have a chance to fire when the Vines use their Smash attack, but this is against a single target.

I prefer using Explosive Strike and Impeded Swiftness. While the Vines only have single target attacks, several Vines attacking and those powers cycling every 4 seconds means they have fairly good rate of fire.

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You are correct. I had a little slip of the brain there. I think only Captain Mako has any baked in protection against immobilizes.

I haven't tested for myself, but the first thing that springs to mind is that it might be a problem of magnitude with the Big Four. After applying level scaling for a level 54 AV, a controller should still be putting out a mag 3.6 cage, enough to overcome boss level protection. The immobilize portion would be negated if the PTOD are up, making it seem as if the AV is unaffected. Defender's have a lower mag on Detention Field which may prevent them from caging the AV's. Endoplasm Exposures do increase the magnitude of the Untouchable and Immobilize portion of Detention Field, but I'm not 100% certain that it works on the OnlyAffectSelf portion.

But that's just my guess on the AV's, I've no idea on the healing Nictus.

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Not much is catching me this season, but I overlooked some good series at the beginning of last season too. I had to play catch up when I realized how fun Working! was. So far, Ookami-san and her Seven Companions has given me a good chuckle. I've still got to checkout a lot of the series premieres yet.

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You were watching me? I kid, I kid.

Personally, I find a bit of stealth helps more than range. If you position yourself well you can hit the entire mob in one go. Then stealth carries benefits elsewhere.

Sleep is definitely in there according to the information that has been released, but it sounds like it will behave much differently than the sleeps we know. A placeable sleep patch sounds like it will function similarly to Volcanic Gasses. If it reapplies itself, then I think it might function okay along side some damage ticks or damage aura.

I'm definitely on the other end of the spectrum. I prefer a whole that is great than the parts, but that's probably why I have never dabbled in scrappers or brutes. To me, things like the all fire/rad STF are quite interesting and exciting. Of course, there's definitely room for both playstyle; it just becomes a problem when they unwittingly collide.

A little communication generally resolves most problems when it happens, but you occasionally find...

The guy that tries to solo an x8 mob and fails spectacularly. I was on a Citadel the other day that peaked 3 hours due to two players like this. Surprisingly, they never altered their tactics throughout the entire run. Run to the last room, aggro the boss mob, face plant. Heck, at one point the rest of the team cleared the map and made it to the one fellow who was still lying on the ground rather than visiting the hospital.

If it happened to do -recovery or even -end, that would definitely make it worth it in my book. I could see it as the cornerstone for anyone that decided to go the sapping route.

The Kismet unique will really help with this. Despite it's description ingame, it actually provides +tohit and it can be conveniently slotted into Dispersion Bubble for a constant bonus.

That reminds me of some fun you can have with TK and Detention Field. Toggle TK on an enemy then hit him with Detention Field. He'll no longer be repelled, but other enemies that enter the area will be held and repelled. It creates a neat little "Don't come near me" zone without pushing the anchor across the zone. Probably of limited usefulness, but it's a neat trick.

I'd have to search the Market forum, but I think someone did some research on confusion and drops. The conclusion, if I recall correctly, was that confusion wasn't detrimental to drops in anyway. No matter how you defeated 100 enemies they would always drop the same percentage of salvage, recipes, etc.

A bit of warning on putting Force Feedback in Creepers: You will only have a chance to proc for the recharge bonus on the initial casting. After that, the Vines will have a chance to proc when using Vine Smash; unfortunately that does not carry back to the player or affect the Vines as they, like all pets, ignore +recharge. Also, note that all those procs won't fire at the same rates. Ragnarok, for example, will only fire on AoE portions of the power (once about every 10 seconds) and not in the Vine Smash or Vine Thorns used by the Vines (each cycles in 4 seconds).

As for Kinetic Crash in Hurricane, I prefer Argentae's slotting. With two less slots and more useful enhancement in the power, the difference of 2.5% recharge is negligible unless I was pursuing perma-Hasten or something similar. The knockback protection is nice, but I imagine the additional knockback in Hurricane itself could become unruly.

Power Boost doesn't affect either Recovery Aura or Regeneration Aura. Or even Adrenalin Boost for that matter. It does affect Fortitude, increasing both the defense and tohit; Clear Mind, increasing the magnitude of protection it offers; and your immediate heals, Healing Aura, Heal Other, and Absorb Pain.

Power Boost only lasts for 15 seconds. However, the boosted effects of other powers last for the normal duration of the power affected. For example, Fortitude for a controller normally provides 11% defense and 15% tohit for 120 seconds. If PB'ed it will provide 25% defense and 33% tohit for 120 seconds.

Like I mentioned before, I've found that I had to do very little healing actually. Between buffs and controls, you can prevent a great deal of damage from occurring in the first place. The build I have laid out for my mind/emp, for example, has Fortitude down to about 18 seconds recharge and will take advantage of Power Boost to boost the defense it offers to around 31% for some of those Forts. That's significant mitigation alone. Couple that with the array of sleeps, holds, fear, and confusion and it makes a large impact. Toss regeneration aura on top of that, and you may find your spot heals collecting dust in your tray.

Simply put, a controller shouldn't have to use the heals very often.

However, it does sometimes come to that point and it becomes a difficult question of "Should I keep this person alive or control the aggro before the rest of the team needs healing as well?" It may seem like they're not using heals very well when the make the decision to let person X (who aggro'ed the spawn alone) take a nap while they wrap up some of the aggro. But if they've prevented the additional aggro from falling back on the team and causing multiple deaths, I'd say they did the right thing.