IT would be, IF they end up doing that (which in all regards they should, especially for scrap/tanks who have their mez protection in the form of a click)
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No, IW is not currently usable as a break free. Wish it was, because the mezzes always seem to hit after IW drops.
I've gone through all the APPs on my ill/rad except for earth. My ill/rad's feet never touch the ground, so most of earth's powers won't work or were just plain wrong for his background.
Fire offered nice damage, but I didn't need consume - end was generally under control. Fireball still looked pretty wimpy compared to what a blaster could do.
Energy Torrent from Primal was even more annoying kb - something I could live without. And power boost proved to be generally useless because nothing lives long enough at that level that a 60 second hold is ever useful. This proved true even on the STF.
I don't have perma PA, but it's fairly close, so I didn't have many mezzes directed my way, or even attacks for that matter, so IW from Psionic wasn't too useful. Psi Tornado is cool but activates kinda slow and is too pink for my controller.
So I finally settled on ice. The blast does good enough damage and isn't psionic and hibernate is my panic button for when things do get out of hand (and then I can resummon PA immediately on exiting). I went with ice storm because its long recharge syncs decently with flash's long recharge, which is my only AoE containment. Frost breath wasn't an option at the time I settled on ice, iirc.
Those are just my experiences and observations, but it's something to go on.
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How many epic powers can you take?
I would go Primal forces -
Power boost is going to boost your self heal and holds/confuses
and temp invuln for resistance. If your looking for just recharge bonuses then yeah psi master for IW and PT.
If your building for recharge then I am guessing you have hasten and am - if you have am close to perma your getting mez shortening with AM (am lessens the duration of mezzes) plus if you carry break frees your probably better off than waiting for IW to come back up (but then again if your close to perma on hasten and am IW would be up fast 
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What is your goal for the epic powers? To increase your global recharge?
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Power Boost seems to boost recharge too, and conserve power is lovely when you feel like going ape **** with your powers 
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Powerboost should NOT be affecting recharge. If you are finding it does, then you found a very nice BUG.
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The amount of speedy recharge, isn't significant on quick recharging power I would say, I'm not one to go trying to get details, just notice a slight recharge boost when spamming my powers as oppose to when I don't use power boost.
Also it appears that the proc in my Spectral Terror [Glimpse of the Abyss] does a few more points of damage when using it as well. This I did test....not a staggering amount, but it was definiteely more.
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No, IW is not currently usable as a break free. Wish it was, because the mezzes always seem to hit after IW drops.
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CURRENTLY, no. This was in regards to a future patch allowing such powers to be used while mezzed. Mainly coming about because of shield tanks/scrappers having their mez in the form of click powers and being helpless when it wears off. Mainly in regards to tanks, but the problem/option is still being brought out because of this. And is a terrific idea.
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How many epic powers can you take?
I would go Primal forces -
Power boost is going to boost your self heal and holds/confuses
and temp invuln for resistance. If your looking for just recharge bonuses then yeah psi master for IW and PT.
If your building for recharge then I am guessing you have hasten and am - if you have am close to perma your getting mez shortening with AM (am lessens the duration of mezzes) plus if you carry break frees your probably better off than waiting for IW to come back up (but then again if your close to perma on hasten and am IW would be up fast ).
What is your goal for the epic powers? To increase your global recharge?
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Power Boost seems to boost recharge too, and conserve power is lovely when you feel like going ape **** with your powers
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Powerboost should NOT be affecting recharge. If you are finding it does, then you found a very nice BUG.
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The amount of speedy recharge, isn't significant on quick recharging power I would say, I'm not one to go trying to get details, just notice a slight recharge boost when spamming my powers as oppose to when I don't use power boost.
Also it appears that the proc in my Spectral Terror [Glimpse of the Abyss] does a few more points of damage when using it as well. This I did test....not a staggering amount, but it was definiteely more.
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Check your combat attributes. Powerboost does not increase any +rech powers.
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On another Primal Forces related point, ENergy Torrent does not deal knockback. It does knockdown. If yhou find it doing knockback it is probalby because you have vast it during the duration of powerboost (which will raise its KB value above one).
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No, IW is not currently usable as a break free. Wish it was, because the mezzes always seem to hit after IW drops.
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CURRENTLY, no. This was in regards to a future patch allowing such powers to be used while mezzed. Mainly coming about because of shield tanks/scrappers having their mez in the form of click powers and being helpless when it wears off. Mainly in regards to tanks, but the problem/option is still being brought out because of this. And is a terrific idea.
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This.
Currenty ther are only 2 mezz protection powers you can use while mezzed. One is a breakfree inspiration (or one of its larger cousins). The other is Domination, the inherent power of Dominators. Hopefully Indomitable Will and other click-to-use duration based mezz shields will be added to that familly soon. It would significantly increase the utility of this power for builds that cannot achieve sufficient +rech to make it permanent.
On the subject of Ice Mastery, its a surpsiongly good damge set, and one that people often overlook in favor of the more famous Fire. Ice Storm and Frost Breath make a most effective combination (although as with any controlle build that does nto include kinetics no one will be mistaking you fire a fire blaster anytime soon). The shield has the same adavantage sf all defence based shields. Although following some unwritten rule on the subject it too is costume-destroyingly ugly. As for hibernate though... I prefer to use Hyper Phase as my panic button and I am always skeptical of using precious epic power slots on somethjing that duplicates the effect of an easily available temp power, only worse (you can still summon pets while hyper-phased).
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On another Primal Forces related point, ENergy Torrent does not deal knockback. It does knockdown. If yhou find it doing knockback it is probalby because you have vast it during the duration of powerboost (which will raise its KB value above one).
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Actually powerboost doesn't even affect KB anymore. If it is knocking back its because someone was being NOOBISH and slotted it for knockback XD.
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I can say with certainty that ice storm on controllers is a joke. My ice/kin has it, even at capped damage, especially with its unnecessarily long recharge, its quite pathetic. Frost breath is a good power though.
But as for ice storm, personally ice storm and rain of fire. The epic versions should have a 60 second recharge, and the primary/secondary blaster/defender versions of the power should have a 30 second base recharge. They have enough faults via scatter and DoT and loss of buffs by being a pseudo pet to justify that EASILY IMO. Rain of fire at least has decent damgae. Ice storm even on a blaster though still makes me want to cry, that extra long recharge on both just solidifies the tears :/.
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My mistake, its been a while!
I hear a lot about Indomitable Will, and had a question regarding it. I remember hearing some time ago that certain mez protection powers would be usable while mezzed, in effect turning them into break frees. Is Indomitable Will one of these?