You need to get Radiation Infection from Rad as early as possible. Its an Accuracy debuff & a defense debuff.
So it protects you (really well) and, more importantly, means your holds hit more often. Its the best power in the set, especially combines well with Choking Cloud. Personally I'd take it instead of Mass Hypnosis as AOE sleeps are only really useful when soloing (and RI is better for soloing IMO). 5-6 slots, 3 acc debuff, 2 defense debuff.
I never bother with Rezzes like Mutation. Chances are there'll be a Empath along in big teams anyway. I'd take Enverating Field instead to increase your damage.
No Telekinesis either? I'd drop the TP pool for Telekinesis. Recall Friend is fine for getting people to the mission door and useless / marginal after that.
Haste may be of use too to get Total Dom. Mass Confuse & Terrify recharged quickly.
In addition to what Carni said (Rad Infection asap and definitely TK over TP Foe!!!), make sure you get Enervating Field too (before Lingering Rad). Levitate does a bit more damage than Mesmerize although it's Smashing instead of Psi (you probably don't need both). Assault at 49 won't be of much use really, Hasten would be a much better choice (although you should try to get it earlier, maybe at 30?).
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You do NOT, I repeat, do NOT build a rad without RI and EF. Really, you need them.
Mes does set up Containment though and stops them in their tracks, at least until you clobber them with something.
Speaking of clobber. Dom, Air Superiority is a nice combo. RI lets you melee fairly safely with Air Sup and you can do Dom > Air sup chains early on for some decent damage, taking care of any others with Confuse, RI & Mes sleeps as you do so.
*Edit : Had my chain backwards. RI, Confuse & Sleep the extra guys. hold and clobber the active target is a much more sensible way to go about things.
You should really try to get more powers from Rad as it's an awesome set and miss out on some of these powers would be a big shame.
RI should be gotten ASAP and slotted with 3 tohit debuffs and maybe 1 end red. No really need to slot it for def debuff since the base is fine for PvE.
EF can be held off till after stamina since it's quite a drainer.
Wouldn't recommend CC for a mind troller since you work best from range and it's a biiig endhog. It's accuracy is very low (and can't be enhanced) but will continuosly tic holds at the affected mobs so everything will be held eventually.
How a controller uses his secondary defines if it's just another controller or a good controller.
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Hmm seems youve gone for quite an end intensive archtype combo.
A good few powers you have taken indeed but as the others have said you are missing some of the essential rad powers, also you might want to take tk since if you plan on doing pvp it will prove to be one of your most used moves. Which by the way should be slotted minimon of 3 end red and 1 recharge.
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You do NOT, I repeat, do NOT build a rad without RI and EF. Really, you need them.
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Same goes for LR, those 3 powers are the reason why rad is so uber, with AM one step behind
Anyway (excuse my poor english) mind rad is the best in pure control.
You should engage a combat like that : zone sleep ; radia débuffs ; zone hold (or fear or confusion). After that, everybody should attack. Mobs will be like... how d'you call it... pudding ? ^^
Thx for all the help,
i have adjusted my build and currently on 28 its fun to play. (Actually much more fun then my fire dom :-))
I'm just not sure about choking cloud. Since it stacks with totaldomination / dominate it could still be an addition. On many indoor maps i'm forced to be in the middle of the fight and can't do any far ranged attacks anyways.
Since i'm playing on teams mostly where the mobs are +2/+3
does choking cloud still hit here more then it misses or would it be a complete waste here ? Otherwise i would put levitate or telekinesis here instead. Can u give me some thoughts about this too ?
Thx for the held again.
Well, after playing all archtypes expect controllers for a long time, i have decided too give it a try - i haven't had so much fun since a long time. My Fire/Kin is on 24 right now and i have tried some other builds too.
Currently, i have created a Mind/Rad combination. The idea is to focus on holds from the primary set and take only some additional powers from the secondary. Right now i'm on lvl 8 and this is the build:
Archetype: Controller
Primary Powers - Ranged : Mind Control
Secondary Powers - Support : Radiation Emission
01 : Radiant Aura hel(01) hel(13) hel(50)
01 : Mesmerize acc(01) dam(3) dam(5) acc(9) dam(11)
02 : Dominate acc(02) hlddur(3) acc(5) recred(7) hlddur(31)
04 : Accelerate Metabolism recred(04) recred(7) recred(13) endrec(11) endrec(17) endrec(17)
06 : Confuse acc(06) recred(46)
08 : Mass Hypnosis acc(08) acc(9) recred(43)
10 : Hover fltspd(10)
12 : Swift runspd(12)
14 : Fly fltspd(14) fltspd(15) fltspd(15)
16 : Health hel(16)
18 : Total Domination acc(18) acc(19) recred(19) hlddur(21) recred(23) hlddur(31)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(23)
22 : Lingering Radiation acc(22) acc(25) recred(25) recred(37) recred(46)
24 : Recall Friend rng(24)
26 : Terrify acc(26) acc(27) endred(27) dam(29) dam(29) dam(31)
28 : Choking Cloud hlddur(28) hlddur(33) hlddur(34) endred(34) endred(36) endred(36)
30 : Mutation endred(30) endrec(50)
32 : Mass Confusion acc(32) acc(33) recred(33) endred(34) recred(36) recred(37)
35 : Teleport Foe acc(35) acc(37) acc(40)
38 : EMP Pulse acc(38) acc(39) hlddur(39) endred(39) recred(40) recred(40)
41 : Indomitable Will defbuf(41) defbuf(42) defbuf(42) recred(42) recred(43) recred(43)
44 : Mind over Body endred(44) damres(45) damres(45) damres(45) endred(46)
47 : Psionic Tornado acc(47) dam(48) dam(48) acc(48) dam(50)
49 : Assault endred(49)
From the rad set i have planed to get radiant aura (must), AM and then lingering radiation for slowing down mobs, choking cloud for hold and em pulse, all for support of my primary holds.
My question, after making this build i have read that choking cloud has a very bad accuracy ? Should i drop it or does it work only with radiation infection slotted for defense debuffs ?
Would do you think of the total build, as i said before i want to concentrate on the primary mostly and take only some good support powers from the secondary.
Thx for the help !