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aphex_twin_EU

 

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As it says in the title


 

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Just how many controllers you planning on making dude!!??


 

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More than you could possibly imagine


 

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I'll put my prospective build up when I can be bothered.

It's VERY secondary heavy, mind.


 

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Well, for Storm it took me a while to find what I wanted, unfortunately, some of the cooler powers just aren't that good.

I had hurricane for a good while, but I realised that I never really used it, especially as I couldn't be botherd to use it perma as my end already sucked, although I might respec it in again, thinking about it.

I had Tornado all the way from when I got it to around lvl 45, but people kept on telling me that it was annoying. I know what they mean, I guess it's like Kinetics>Repel for melee users, but I still get the time where I just wanna put a tornado in the middle of a massive mob.

Gale, well, I suppose you have to have it as a controller.

I have the heal, but it's not very good really, heals around 400 or something, but the Res to disorient is quite handy.

Snow Storm + Rain is a fantastic combo. Not the damage of course, I slotted Rain with defence debuffs, slows, and Recharge. Snow storm is a great slowing move, and it's got quite fast regen, although at the lower lvls I found it drained my endurance. With Slow enhancements, it keeps the enemies in the rain for ages, the knockback of the rain is pretty much constant on almost anything, so it's a pretty good holding move, and the scatter stops them from attacking you.

Steamy mist is a great buff, I slotted it with 3 defence buffs, 2 end reductions, and one damage resistance (to fire, cold, negative energy and energy I think)

The Storm is amazing, and I slotted it mainly for damage. Although before ED It was 100 times better. The knockback saved my life plenty of times in Held situations, it seems to know when you're in trouble, smart lil thing

Thunderclap is also quite good looking and cool, but I tended not to use it much, and the accuracy was quite disappointing, and I already had a disorient from the dark set (dark pit) so I respecced it out.

There ya have it, storm in a nutshell.


 

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Thunder clap is one of the most underestimated powers in the storm set,its great for pvp when someone
with status protection comes running up to you thinking there Invincible and you hit thunder clap and it drops
his mez protection then you hold them and cause they think they are Invincible they carry no break frees so
then you kill them and then you laugh like this "tehheheheheheheheh"


 

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Here's how I'd most likely build a new Ice/Storm controller (PvE focused)

Exported from version 1.5B of CoH Planner
http://joechott.com/coh

Archetype: Controller
Primary Powers - Ranged : Ice Control
Secondary Powers - Support : Storm Summoning

01 : Gale acc(01)
01 : Block of Ice acc(01) acc(3) hlddur(5) hlddur(9) recred(19) recred(19)
02 : O2 Boost endred(02) hel(3) hel(5) hel(9)
04 : Chilblain acc(04)
06 : Hasten recred(06) recred(7) recred(7)
08 : Hurdle jmp(08)
10 : Steamy Mist endred(10) damres(11) damres(11) damres(15) endred(23)
12 : Ice Slick endred(12) recred(13) recred(13) recred(15)
14 : Super Speed runspd(14)
16 : Freezing Rain recred(16) recred(17) recred(17) defdbf(25) defdbf(27) slw(27)
18 : Health hel(18)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Hurricane endred(22) endred(23) endred(25) thtdbf(37) thtdbf(40)
24 : Assault endred(24)
26 : Glacier acc(26) recred(34) recred(34) recred(36) hlddur(37) hlddur(37)
28 : Snow Storm endred(28) endred(29) slw(29)
30 : Tactics endred(30) thtbuf(31) thtbuf(31) thtbuf(31)
32 : Jack Frost acc(32) dam(33) dam(33) dam(33) acc(34)
35 : Hover fltspd(35) fltspd(36) fltspd(36)
38 : Lightning Storm dam(38) dam(39) dam(39) endred(39) recred(40) endred(40)

Then pick an epic pool, probably Primal or Psionic. Slot as you see fit (one end red and three resists in shield, three rec red in Conserve power/Indomitable will recommended). I'd most likely get Vengeance as one of the 40+ power choices, regardless of epic power pool.

I picked Hover for some vertical movement during fights. Sometimes Hurdle will suffice, but I haven't regretted taking Hover.

I currently have Tornado in my build, but that was more of a fun choice, not one I'd recommend for actual usage. It's very erratic, so it can't really be trusted to do more than cause a huge amount of chaos (which it is fairly good at), something that's not that popular with teams and usually not effective while soloing either.


Icelock - Ice/Storm Controller
Command Bot 1 - Bot/Traps MM

 

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Steamy mist is a great buff, I slotted it with 3 defence buffs, 2 end reductions, and one damage resistance (to fire, cold, negative energy and energy I think)


[/ QUOTE ]Awful waste IMO considering the base defence is under 3%.


 

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Steamy mist is a great buff, I slotted it with 3 defence buffs, 2 end reductions, and one damage resistance (to fire, cold, negative energy and energy I think)


[/ QUOTE ]Awful waste IMO considering the base defence is under 3%.

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How would you recommend slotting it? i've always wanted to do a stormy!


 

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Steamy mist is a great buff, I slotted it with 3 defence buffs, 2 end reductions, and one damage resistance (to fire, cold, negative energy and energy I think)


[/ QUOTE ]Awful waste IMO considering the base defence is under 3%.

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How would you recommend slotting it? i've always wanted to do a stormy!

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1-2 end reds and 3 res


Icelock - Ice/Storm Controller
Command Bot 1 - Bot/Traps MM

 

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Steamy mist is a great buff, I slotted it with 3 defence buffs, 2 end reductions, and one damage resistance (to fire, cold, negative energy and energy I think)


[/ QUOTE ]Awful waste IMO considering the base defence is under 3%.

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How would you recommend slotting it? i've always wanted to do a stormy!

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1-2 end reds and 3 res

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Jackpot,this is exactly how it should be slotted so says I


 

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why chillbain? the single target immobilze seems like a waste to me, also for hurricane i'd switch round one of the endurance reductions for another tohit debuff, so it'd be 3 tohitdebuffs and 2 endurance reduction.


 

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Chilblain for AV lockdown and to bring down fliers. Frostbite (AoE immob) doesn't mesh at all with Ice Slick, so I wouldn't pick that unless you go Arctic Air/Tornado/Frostbite/Thunderclap as your main powers.

Hurricane, well, either way works, I'd get 3 of each in it eventually. And as it's more for situational use, you might want to go with 3 tohit debuffs before 3 end reds.


Icelock - Ice/Storm Controller
Command Bot 1 - Bot/Traps MM