Earth goes well with anything. Got 99 levels of it and I might go for an Earth/Thermal some day.
@False Fiction - Virtue / Defiant
Current projects - [Glaciologist - Ill/Cold Troller] [Cloudshaper - Storm/Dark Def] [Harald Wartooth - Elec/Psi Domi]
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Quicksand (debatable for me at the moment, use it with almost every mob when soloing, but not very often in team)
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Don't underestimate the defence debuff of Quicksand, very handy to help your AoEs hit especially at lower levels.
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awww, great you found something you like so much eiceman. Sounds like it's your first troller.
Yes earth is great, and QS is very good stuff. Use it in teams! Enjoy! 
Yea I've heard super things about earth/ too, and i love everything /Kinetic.
You will love Siphon Speed and Fly btw, its sort of 2 travel powers... but it stacks and caps your flight speed nicely too.
Happy hunting.
Carlsberg don't do Farming,
But if they did..........
Inertial Reduction is good with fly too, as it removes the inertia that you normally have with fly making it behave like a fast hover.
That said I dropped it on both my main kins, one because she never uses it and the other has SJ anyway.
Thanks guys for the positive feedback about Earth/ , its really encouraging to hear others having a wail of a time with it.
False_Fiction thinking of rolling another Earth/ controller, probably empathy or arrow (like the idea of some of its control again!), they do Earth/ in villains?
OV_ohms Ill keep Quicksand and use it more often, probably just something that will grow on me.
Blue_Note awww man, if I wanted to love a toon Ive just found it in my controller. Unfortunately its not my first controller, but the first one that has made me like it soo much, didnt like the playstyle of other controllers until this one, and am struggling with my lvl 19 to like it.
Donna Tommic not really been looking at /Kin, just something I find off putting. Siphon Speed rocks, and its funny running around that fast without gold/yellow feet. So Siphon Speed stacks ontop of each other? Was wondering that. Does Siphon Power do the same? Stack with multiple applications? Oh I cant wait to go hunting huge mobs hehehe
LostNinja was looking at my build, and thinking about Inertial Reduction, and didnt include that in my provisional build. Could change my mind when I get there.
@Eiceman
Morphius - MA/Regen - Union
Taelan - Ice B/Ice M - Union
Hellyon - Ice A/SS - Defiant
Bubbletastic - FF/Energy B - Union
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thinking of rolling another Earth/ controller, probably empathy or arrow (like the idea of some of its control again!), they do Earth/ in villains?
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I have an Earth/Trick Arrow, soooooo much control! I love it.
Earth will be in City Of Villains come Issue 12.
My Earth Rad, until she got killed to make room for my Grav/FF was quite fun. I reckon I will play a Plant/Thermal with prolification, and wait for the next prolificaiton to play Earth/** since it was quite fun set to play.
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I also have an Earth/Kin, and I'll just say it gets better and better! Stone cages you won't use so much later on (cos it's a total end hog and stops your earthquake working properly.) Stalagmites later on absolutely rocks and then there's Volcanic gasses which also works really well. Earthquake also rocks! (sorry!)
I wouldn't recommend Fly/Hover for an Earth Kin though as Stalagmites needs you to be on the ground to use it. I'd heartily recommend trying Combat Jumping or Stealth and picking up the Anti KB IO though, well worth it!
I've been struggling (well, not really TBH, I try not to drop too much at a time, all the placable clickies helps loads though) without Stamina and am now lvl 29. Stone pet and Transference are getting closer and I've thought about slotting Increase Density with Dam Res to really let my stone friend tank. I can't wait for a Fulcrum shifted, Speed boosted Stone pet with good levels of Damage resistance running around.
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Many and varied!
@Miss Chief
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My Earth Rad, until she got killed to make room for my Grav/FF was quite fun. I reckon I will play a Plant/Thermal with prolification, and wait for the next prolificaiton to play Earth/** since it was quite fun set to play.
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Awwww, you deleted an earth/kin to make room for a grav/ff? that's pretty sad.
Lady_DarkForce good news about the control of Earth/Trick Arrow, should be great fun, and the news about Earth/ joining CoV, I should read more forums lol.
Mega_Jamie another altaholic? *faints at the mentioning of deleting an Earth/ *
Miss_Chief omg, how can this get any better, so cant wait to level more. *Mental note must take stalagmites and earthquake *. Despite having fly, Im a well grounded player and with Siphon Speed Ill stay grounded during missions. Nice to know that the build doesnt have to have Stamina, but just for the quick recovery whilst resting Ill get it though. Keep us informed of what your toon is like when you get your tank pet 
Blue_Note we all make mistakes, god knows I still make plenty with 2 years experience of playing CoX. Mind you with altaholism its not easy to manage your toons lol. Sounds like Mega_Jamie made the right choice as (s)he enjoyed the new toon more.
@Eiceman
Morphius - MA/Regen - Union
Taelan - Ice B/Ice M - Union
Hellyon - Ice A/SS - Defiant
Bubbletastic - FF/Energy B - Union
I have this amazing idea of a Grav/FF uber tank, on par with my Grav/Stormie plus an AV magnitude intangible power for dealing with pesky multi AV fights (STF) seemed fun.
I do regret deleting the Earth troller, especially after getting her to level 14 in a day for the omega TF, only to use a different character!
She weill be the first created when I can buy some more union slots
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@eiceman: you 're right dude, didn't mean to sound harsh, just find that /ff is sooo boring 
And about that earth/ta... it's a great combo! I have played one (as well as an earth/storm) and liked it very much all the way. In fact it's one of the only few rusted 50's i picked up playing again some time ago for fun (after turning that ancient I7 SO build into a more decent post-modernistic IO build)
I love my earth controller. One of the best things about it is the amount of procs that can be slotted in powers. Someone said about not using stone cages as you level, which I don't find at all, I constantly spam it on teams, in combo with stalagmites its as good as a hold (mine has trap of the hunter chance for lethal and positrons blast chance for energy) Quicksand is a great defence debuff and slow, very worthwhile using in teams (again I have Impeded Swiftness chance for smashing). Though I found as I levelled that earthquake is the power I tend not to need to use much though I do as it has Achilles Heel chance for res debuff and Lady Grey chance for neg energy in it.
Earth.kin is an amazing combination. I have mine leveld to 39 at it absolutely pwns enemies. Was teamed with another of same build the other day and 2 of use simply destroyed anything in out path. FS does help lots though, especially when x2.
Volcanic gases and stalagmites are fantastic powers, a must for any earth trolly.
Intertial Reduction and Siphon Speed are basically travel powers, BUT:
They don't detoggle
They don't suffer from supression
They don't drain endurance
PLUS they affect other travel powers if you decide to take them, although IR and Siphon meant I never need to get a travel power on my kin.
And quicksand is awesome. No tohit check, massive -def and a slow effect. Hell, quicksand and the group immob meant I only need 1 ACC enh in my other attacks
Happy trolling!
PS. it gets better with stalagmites and volcanic gasses... a LOT better
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I love my earth controller. One of the best things about it is the amount of procs that can be slotted in powers. Someone said about not using stone cages as you level, which I don't find at all, I constantly spam it on teams, in combo with stalagmites its as good as a hold (mine has trap of the hunter chance for lethal and positrons blast chance for energy) Quicksand is a great defence debuff and slow, very worthwhile using in teams (again I have Impeded Swiftness chance for smashing). Though I found as I levelled that earthquake is the power I tend not to need to use much though I do as it has Achilles Heel chance for res debuff and Lady Grey chance for neg energy in it.
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It was me that talked about Stone Cages. Because it's an immob it'll stop your earthquake from working and I prefer the KB rather than the immob and still being able to shoot at me. I also found it's a total end hog and as I'm going staminaless until Transference I want to keep my end
Defiant 50's
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@Miss Chief
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Lady_DarkForce good news about the control of Earth/Trick Arrow, should be great fun, and the news about Earth/ joining CoV, I should read more forums lol.
Mega_Jamie another altaholic? *faints at the mentioning of deleting an Earth/ *
Miss_Chief omg, how can this get any better, so cant wait to level more. *Mental note must take stalagmites and earthquake *. Despite having fly, Im a well grounded player and with Siphon Speed Ill stay grounded during missions. Nice to know that the build doesnt have to have Stamina, but just for the quick recovery whilst resting Ill get it though. Keep us informed of what your toon is like when you get your tank pet 
Blue_Note we all make mistakes, god knows I still make plenty with 2 years experience of playing CoX. Mind you with altaholism its not easy to manage your toons lol. Sounds like Mega_Jamie made the right choice as (s)he enjoyed the new toon more.
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Earth is my favourite controller power, mainly because I'm such an egotist and like people to know THERE'S AN EARTH CONTROLLER ON THE TEAM The powers are all so visible and noisy and such spectacle hogs. (Be aware though that some other ATs who aren't quite used to tabbing for targets don't like Earth because it tends to make mobs difficult to see.)
Get Air Supp as prereq for Fly and then you have good extra attack as a controller and basically just use fly for travel or for getting to tricky spots quick in missions. Hover would be a bit of a waste for an Earth troller - if you were annoyed by knockback a lot, it would be more worth going down Super Leap route and get some minor hold protection as well as kb protection from Acrobatics.
Hover 3 slotted with SOs or IOs is THE combat maneouverability power for blasters or defenders with cones to line up super quick from any angle, but it's not really much use to anyone else.
Wow tryed out earth/kin tonight, only lev 8, but duo with a fire/kin, between us were walking through hollows, killing whole groups of 10 white/yellow con mobs with no danger at all..
We even went to kill Thorns in perez at 6, all we could find were large groups of 3x red lietenants with there zergs of orange guards, bodys just hit the flore silly easy, as we focused our holds on the life mages, leting the earth and fire cages take out rest (took few blue insps though)
Totaly loving this
I rolled a Earth/Kin controller this weekend, now sitting at lvl 13, and I am so impressed with the set(s). Been playing for almost two years, and this toon has got my blood rushing when I play him. Ive been on Tenacious since lvl 2 and stayed at that difficulty, which Ive never done with any toon, even with a scrapper or tank.
;. Does anyone else feel like this about their Earth/Kin?
Its an awesome, jaw hitting the floor, holder with:
Fossilize (great power, put your hands up in the air its Kidd the Hero!)
Stone Cages (just an awesome power, hit a lot of mob with just two acc TOs)
Quicksand (debatable for me at the moment, use it with almost every mob when soloing, but not very often in team)
Salt Crystals (maybe a mistake, not very useful when in teams as I dont get that close)
complimented by:
Transfusion (great heal when you get a bind added)
Siphon Power (adds to damage, woot!)
Siphon Speed (Im still gona choose fly)
Sands of Mu (great when it hits, get most of even lvld victims HP down quickly)
Air Superiority (just adds to the damage)
Ive played one other kin, now deleted, and it didnt feel like this, so it cant be down the the kinetics. Just thought I would let you know how impressed I am with the set, well done devs
@Eiceman
Morphius - MA/Regen - Union
Taelan - Ice B/Ice M - Union
Hellyon - Ice A/SS - Defiant
Bubbletastic - FF/Energy B - Union