Indominable Will

Ok, I'm considering taking the fire or Psy epics for my fire/kin controller, but I dont know what to thing. I think that Fire has the better AoE, more upfront damage or something, but I also think that Psi epic has the great status protection power, and a still good AoE for FS+Containment+AoE Combo, now, a possibly make-or-break question is: Can Indominable Will be made perma? This is someone with 3 slotted hasten and siphon Speed, so if it is very close to perma when 3 slotted for recharge, I think I could push it the rest of the way to perma-ness.

Input appreciated

The base recharge is 360, duration 90. With 3 SO's, hasten and triple stacked siphon speed the recharge is about 110 secs.

'nods grimly' So sadly not then perma 'sigh'....you'd really have to slam in Adrenaline Boost to get it perma Mmmmmmmm AB!
But equally the armour and psi tornado is nice tooo ^^
Mental Blast I've just never really warmed to. I've only heard its good for 'long distance shooting out of range'

Mental Blast is the reason I stopped using the Psi epic recently on my controller and switched to Primal. It's a reasonable useful attack but it's long animation and the fact the damage is Psi means that it wasn't helping me much vs the enemies I was already struggling with (like robots)

Ah, I see. So, it's not really a power to switch on auto, you put it on in PvE against annoying holders, and in PvP as soon as you get into a fight with someone or something.

Now, the next question: What's the difference in the damages of the AoEs in the sets Ice, Fire and Psi?

Fire>Others

i personally on a fire/kin, if u want pve dmg, wud go psi every time, its unresisted by most iirc apart from robots and the indom will does come in very handy when teamed with empaths who wont give the best dmg dealer on the team perma CM

What about ice? The armour is defence iirc, which would stack with my CJ to help a bit better than Resistance IMO, and ice storms gunna be benefiting from buffs and containment in I7, right?

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What about ice? The armour is defence iirc, which would stack with my CJ to help a bit better than Resistance IMO, and ice storms gunna be benefiting from buffs and containment in I7, right?

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with fire/kin slotted right u can use transfusion to keep urself alive, just sit in the middle of the mob spamming transfusion while running fire cages, hot feet and psi tornado

CJ has pitiful amount of defence, it stacking with anything is not noticeable... Fire is the best PvE epic, unless you want more control, in which case primal is best.

I agree with X_treme. When levelling, Fire is nice because you get the AoE at 41. But once you hit 47, Psi Tornado does more damage (which is less often resisted) and the shield gives you some nice psi resistance.

Hmm, I thought with defence scaling, once you've gotten to an amount like 40% or something, even 2.5% Would affect the times you get hit alot more than it would affect on its own. Or something.
And could I take fire epic, then spec into psi at 47?