slow attacks. And he will just stay ranged and throw a rock like every 10 seconds.
I think he has perma-granite armour. Best thing to do is drop him on top of the mobs. If you have kinetics or rad as your secondary you may be able to speed him up a bit.
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Well, IMO, comparing to the attacks of Earth Control, the pet is pretty strong. he's slow, but he tanked infernal for me today!
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He is supposedly 90% resistant to psi, elemental, and energy damage, not sure about smash/lethal, but I guess around the same mark. He will pretty much take the Alpha strike of any AV, so very useful for that.
The 3 attacks he has are Hurl Boulder, Heavy Mallet and Stone Fists, all at the same damage level as a /stone tank, so his damage output is pretty high but slow attacks like someone mentioned.
Certainly not the worst troller pet by any means.
Edit: He doesnt move anywhere near as slow as granite form, more like a hero with sprint on. Kin will definitely compliment stoney better than any of the other secondaries though.
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Hum.. Ty for feedback. I have a L40 Ill/Kin wich is quite fun and easy to solo with. I was thinking of a PvP troller this time. Fire/Storm seems quite good, but I hate Fire powers (except the rabid monkeys). Another option would be Grav/Storm (I love singularity). Any other suggestions? ;P
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Grav/Bubbles, Grav/Storm, Mind/Storm, Ice/Storm are all pretty good for PvP.
Illu/Kin is also very good for PvP. Anything /kin is invaluable for team battles just for speed boost and ID. You can make most controller combo's work for PvP imo, just gotta know what role to play.
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I started an Earth/Storm the other day, and so far, he is a) the fastest toon to level 7 so far, b) incredibly fun to play, especially if you have a grounding in Illusion (my main is Ill/emp) and c) quite a few synergies in the powers.
In terms of animated stone, from observation they seem to be fairly useful, especially as you'll have the mobs locked down tight.
Highly recommended, should be comfortable to PvP with too.
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Hum.. Ty for feedback. I have a L40 Ill/Kin wich is quite fun and easy to solo with. I was thinking of a PvP troller this time. Fire/Storm seems quite good, but I hate Fire powers (except the rabid monkeys). Another option would be Grav/Storm (I love singularity). Any other suggestions? ;P
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For 1-on-1 PvP, /rad is also a strong secondary.
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Love my Earth/Stone. Quicksand compliments Hurricane very, very well in PvE.
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Hum.. Ty for feedback. I have a L40 Ill/Kin wich is quite fun and easy to solo with. I was thinking of a PvP troller this time. Fire/Storm seems quite good, but I hate Fire powers (except the rabid monkeys). Another option would be Grav/Storm (I love singularity). Any other suggestions? ;P
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If I was to make a new Controller today it'd probably be Grav/Storm. They look like a lot of fun.
Earth/Storm: excellent combo!!
Rocky... It's love and hate actually.
Travelling speed is okay (like sprint as somebody already mentioned), but in combat he is really slow. Both in movement and very much more bothering in attack rate. Mostly he stays at distance throwing rocks at already dead mobs (really 7 out of 10 boulders hurled are wasted landing on mobs arrested by someone else already) at a rate of maybe 1 per 10 secs
When in a cheery mood and feeling confident he actually lunges for a baddie, but thats a sight to cherish as it's pretty rare. Best use he has is to drop m in the mobs let m pseudo tank a bit to draw initial agro and take alphas. He can handle quite a bit. Though most AVs whack m in a matter of seconds when hes on his own without backup.
Good thing is i've never seen him get mezzed, but maybe 4 illusionist could blind him when they synchronize their holds.
He's stupid, but cute (watch him closely when swimming or even better climbing rocks; makes me all weak inside ;P )and protective. He love to throw the occasional rock at mobs that have it in for you, although in big teams with big spawns you can't really feel the difference.
Delayed him till 35 on one of my earthtrollers and even considered not taking him at all.
But hey, once you have looked into his cute lil' eyes, in the end you just can't pass up on him. He is defo first up for some love from the devs though.
He's probably the "worst" of the controller pets because of the reasons pointed out by others...and speed boost doesn't help much either...but you gotta love him for tanking the psi AVs without a scratch 
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He's probably the "worst" of the controller pets
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Give me Animated Stone over Jack Frost any day.
Ahoy! I'm about to start an Earth/Storm troller but first I wanted to check something. I've been told that Animated Stone (AS) is really slow (on movement and attacks). All I want to know is.. how slow? Does it moves as slow as a Granite tanker? And its attacks? Are as slow as Stone+Granite? I hope not. Any suggestions for another secondary power pool? Cheers
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