Grav / ????

I use to have a grav/rad but when i played it i wasnt fan of rad back then, i like rad now but i would like to know some other choices i have for a gravity controller?


Thanks for the advice in advance.

Well let's see Grav's imm has no kb pro, the whole set does lack more damage then most, and there is at least two powers that I would never take. But if it were me, I would go.... hmmm I'm going with Storm Summoning, and call yourself Atmosphere I would say though, Gravity as is, is only good for concept until Dimension Shift get's a revamp, and the pet get's a little more damage. If I wanted more control I would take that pool power set, what is it? XD

I have a grav/kin and its alright. There isn't much synergy between the two though, but that's mainly because I still find the grav set to be underwhelming. I've heard grav/TA works good too because of the -KD in TA.

I like grav/kin since there's more than a couple of grav powers I'm not too keen on and kin is full of great powers It works for me!

I'll echo Local Man. Grav/Storm has great synergy as he spelled out and looks awesome. (semi) controlled chaos in a good way!

I'll vote for Grav / Trap ...

Wait, it's not still proliferated ? Oh drat !

Wormholing mobs into a minefield would be sadistic enough to my rouge controller... :}

I've got a Grav/TA and let me tell you, it is a totally clicky combo to play. You have NO TOGGLES in your primary/secondary. Life is "kinda rough" until you reach 33, when you can put some slots into Singy, but after that it starts getting easier.

Unlike Grav/Kin, you do have a bit better Range To Target synergy with Grav/TA since the combo is very happy with never getting close to any opponents for any reason ... unlike /Kin or /Storm where there are multiple advantages to staying in close. This means that you can "hide out" inside of Singy (who will Repel everything that gets close to you) with impunity since you're not using your own positioning as a component of your attack strategies.

If you go Grav/TA, make sure to choose either Magic or Tech as your origin so that you can use your origin power to light your Oil Slicks. Grav/* does not inherently have any fire or energy based attacks to light your Slicks with. If you pick something else as your origin, you'll be waiting for an APP power pick to find a way to reliably ignite your Slicks.

The hardest thing to live with when playing Grav/* is that most of its damage output is DoTs. That means lots of little numbers smoking off everywhere rapidly, rather than seeing BIG numbers cropping up as a direct result of smacking something. Only Propel is a heavy hitter attack, but it's short ranged and the animation and projectile flight time on it is so long that the power is nigh unusable in teams (target dead LONG before projectile arrives to do damage). Because of this, Grav/* doesn't "feel like" it has a whole lot of "oomph" factor to it, and you can waste attacks (and endurance) on targets that were already going to die anyway from all the DoTs stacked on them already ... but which hadn't died yet ... which can be frustrating.

Grav/Storm is definitely chaotic to play ... but Grav/TA also has its strong points which don't involve pure chaos and are more about "ruining somebody's day" through debuffery and control. The resistance debuffs in */TA also help out with the "weak" damage feel of Grav/* and can in many cases accelerate a team's bulldozer pace better than other secondaries (or some primaries) can.

And Oil Slicks can be used on Hamidon Raids ...

It's the end. But the moment has been prepared for ...

Grav/Cold also has the synergy that Grav/Storm users have noted.

Grav/TA (OSA: 3min base recharge) and Grav/Sonic (Liquefy: 5min) too, to a lesser extent due to the longer recharges on their knockdown drops.

My namesake is a Grav/Storm and is always fun to play so I echo the comments for that combo.

I would also say Grav/TA would work well

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Grav/Storm for earlier ability.
Grav/Cold for later AV soloing.

I haven't played Grav consistantly since the early days of the game, but thinking of starting one up again GR. The set holds a lot of sentimental feelings so will be nice to take it out for a spin again.

Previously I played as a Grav/Kin by the name of Kinetic Kat, so Kinetics is definitly out of the question. (Shame that back then no one appreciated Kinetics..until after I stopped playing it!)

Currently I'm torn between /Storm and /Rad, leaning more to /Rad because Peacemoon is already a Mind/Storm and not sure I can make another character with the constant steamy mist ring again

Also it would be more of a concept character, a scientist and inentor. I have no intention of minmaxing him. Aid Other/Self and Dimension Shift are both on the cards. He would probably be teamed with a Bots/Traps MM all the time come GR. (Robo wife, if anyone is interested in their concept)

My biggest question is over Choking Cloud as I've never used that power before. Think it will work for Gravy and help improve the overall control?

Actually drop the aid self/other, I don't want it that much and just silly with radiant aura.

Well by all the replies i haft to say i agree with Grav/Storm to an extent. And i like it, sounds like there are some sick sombos you can do, but it all comes down to playstyle, if you solo more some of these might be good combo's, i personally group a lot so /Kin works well with SB and all the other buffs/heals. But keep in mind controllers arent meant to do damage, their meant to maintain the chaos of the battle cause whoever can control the battlefield has the upperhand, Wormhole you can help pull groups around or even "feed them to the meat grinder" several occasions ive pulled groups out of the distance to drop them in to my groups tank/scrapper/blaster squad to chew them out and boy phaseshift has recovered many of almost wiped missions runs by pausing the battle momentarily. Lets not forget the reason why i chose Kin. Siphon Speed, i can stack siphon speed 3times + hasten and Gravity Distortion field is back in no time (slotted with 2 recharge reduc) not only that but if your lucky and a fellow teamate is also Kin +SB to your stacked SS and hasten and you can throw down more holds and wormholes then ever, then after burning through end you have your Endurance Transference to recover it all back, rinse and repeat. All in all Kin has its use's it just al ldepends on playstyle, but if i wanted to solo id would pick Grav/Storm all the way, if anything reading all these replys makes me wanna make one!

It'd be cool if they'd increase the mag of all Grav powers (screw that standardization stuff).

Of all the controller primary's you'd think Grav would be stronger, I mean you can create a Singularity for christ's sake.

or maybe give Grav some extra little something like "anything damaged by a grav can't rez" cause it has its face smashed in...idk, I'm ranting now. I like the mag idea tho.

Course there's plenty of other thing's that are more important to fix

I have a grav/TA and he's WACKY GOOD TIMES on a team.

Local Man, do you have a grav/storm leveling build?

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