Quick Noob Question: Add-ons.

EternalYouth, if you decide to try an Illusion/Radiation Controller, take a look at my Illusion/Radiation Guide, linked to my sig. It has a lot of information on how things work for controllers in general and Illusion/Radiation controllers in particular.

I find the Illusion/Radiaiton Controller to be one of the most flexible and powerful builds in the game . . . but not a "blaster-mage" by any stretch of the imagination.

You really shouldn't use it less - That power is really a good debuff that just happens to have a decent PBAoE Heal as a side effect.

Vidiotmaps and similar are on a hazy line when it comes to the TOS. Technically, they're not modifying the game client (which is against the TOS), rather they're utilizing an undocumented feature of the client (the client will read files from data/ in preference to the files in piggs/). On the other hand, the only way to know exactly how to use that undocumented feature requires piggdiving, which is against the rules.

Dark/Dark Corruptors are great
One note on DM: Howling Twilight is more like an AoE stun and great regen debuf... that just happens to rez nearby allies. I use HT whenever it's available, rather than when somebody dies.

On the other hand, ask a question in this forums and you'll often get three answers within the span of two minutes, all polite and answering your question

Twilight Grasp (Dark Miasma) and Transfusion (Kinetics) are the two strongest AoE healing powers in the entire game. As a bonus, they're quick-recharging and debuff regeneration for those long AV fights. TG also debuffs tohit, while Transfusion saps endurance.

The great thing about this game is that powers don't really get outdated as you level up. Control sets continue to use their ST holds and immobilizes, blast sets continue to use their T1 and T2 attacks (especially Blasters, who can use them while mezzed), armor sets continue to use their first defensive powers... you never work your butt off to earn Fira only to replace it with Firaga later.

Note : When they say Arcana is very knowledgeable, they mean she's taught some of the developers things about their game they didn't know :P

Eh, depends on how you look at it. They don't modify any of the client's files. However, the client itself when running is changed.

Vidiotmaps, though, is well known to the developers - so is the couple of people that tend to make different and/or more correct icons for powers - and mentioning them and their packs has not resulted in moderations of posts/deleting of posts/banning of people.

The devs "wink" at the above couple of people/groups, but do not officially endorse them due to the company's policy. The method used by the packs could very easily, I think, be closed off. If one does not wish to run an .exe to install them, it's possible to simply do a drag & drop of the new files in to the correct folders.

And the (unquoted by me) note about the long animation time isn't quite true anymore.

And the "leech" heals (requires a target) a) have a higher than standard base accuracy, b) heal unenhanced as much as the non-leech aura heals heal fully enhanced, or there abouts, anyway.

Well, you can pull up detailed power information right in-game. If you have a power (or a recipe, or an enhancement), DRAG the icon into your chat bar and drop it. It will not be removed from where you were dragging from and it will put the name in the chat line. Hit <enter> and it will bring up an info screen.

You can do this for ANY power or item in the game, even if you don't have it. You just need to know the name and put it in square brackets. For example, type the following into your chat line:
[Dry Heave] <enter>
Seriously, that's actually a power.
The players can't have it, but I think it's the best power name in the game.

You can also drag a power icon to the chat entry line and will do the same thing (with hidden AT/powerset info). When dragged like this it will always be for the AT/Powerset the linking player has.

Note the powerset name (especially when just typing a power name in, like [Brawl]). For instance, with brawl, it mention being in the 5th Column powerset - which won't reflect how it is for players, necessarily.

You might also have it go to the Controller version of a power instead of a dominator, so if it's a control power it would list the +1mag proc instead of the double mag effect for domination.