Worst of the Worst

Oooh, team teleport does sound lovely for bots. Sadly, my bots/traps is already sorta tightly packed for Awesome Tools.

I will say that since it does bypass the prompt, I guarantee if I'm lead and someone does pull that on me, you're kicked. I don't care if it's the middle of combat or a TF. Punt it is.

I guess the fact that you lead every TF or team you're on speaks to something of this control freak nature. Glad I've seen your global to avoid you.

I'm sure that in your mind every move you make is beneficial to all team members. However, I'd just as soon control my own character. I'm not one of your bots.

I've been on a TF run by Dechs, it was a blast. I would not worry about it.

The team teleport design is... interesting, but on the whole I think it's probably the right choice.

FWIW, my bots/traps just made 38, and I am in love with detonator because it's so silly. I even have macros set up for each of my bots to make them say "WHY AM I TICKING, MISTRESS?" and then explode.

I have no clue what I want from patron powers. Right now, I have hover and fly but no teleport stuff. Taking Team Teleport would eat three power picks, and that's a lot, but... Being able to get the bots into a spawn without spreading out away from FFG would be SO handy. But I love my leadership pool.

I could probably live without hover and fly. Although I'd want CJ then. Hmm. Traps do need to be near the ground to work, for the most part. It looked nice as a travel thing (I find teleport annoying, though very efficient, as a travel power), but... It doesn't fit as well. I do like the option of getting out of spikes and the like.

I'll look at it. I don't recall whether she's got a respec open at the moment anyway.

For tankers, I'd say that Willpower / Energy Melee, Fiery Aura / Energy Melee, Electric Armor / Energy Melee, and Stone Armor / Energy Melee might possibly have the worst synergies.

EM is a slow as molasses set with long pauses between attacks, only one weak multi target attack, and heavy animation lag. It's especially bad for:

- Willpower tankers need to keep mobs close by and constantly attack more than one at once to hold aggro.

- Stone tankers, who have -recharge in their signature power; and

- Fire and Electric tankers, who rely a great deal on their self heal for survivability, and so get killed by long animations.

I'd add Dark Armor to the last category, but the prospect of stacking stuns with Energy Melee makes that combination somewhat more synergistic than the others.

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Speaking of Worst, Teleport is easily the worst travel power. To really make it shine, you want at least 5 slots in it, compared to the 1 you need for Fly, SJ, and SS, and taking Hover is almost mandatory if you don't want to deal with the possibility of falling.

That said, I love it and make room for it in many of my builds. Six-slotting it gets me some cheap +HP and +regen set bonuses, and it's one of the cheaper +stealth IOs available. And winning every race with my team from mission door to mission door and in patrol missions is just satisfying.

You can make almost any build acceptable, but for me the worst are...

• Grav/Sonic Controller
• Peacebringers

• Sonic Repulsion
• Black Hole
• Dimension Shift
• Time Bomb
• Flurry
• Group Fly/Group Energy Flight
• Team Teleport
• Invisibility

I have to volunteer energy/kinetics corruptor for this, both great sets individualy, but they have anti-synergy together. Nothing like KBing something, running after him to heal off him to have him get up and get a good melee shot in while your animating your next bit of KB

that saying I'm perservering because I love the character, she's now 36 and coming back over hero side, so I may get her to 50 one day

I am currently loving my lvl 45 (and fairly well IO'd Grav/Rad troller) but can see everyone's point about it being the worst of the control sets. Propel needs more damage and Dimension Shift needs to go away (but of course won't). I'd like to see it replaced with an thematically awesome AoE Lift . I think most who find it an effective control set combine it with control heavy secondaries like Storm and Rad (EMP ftw!). I think one of the great issues with Wormhole's team unfriendliness is the cast time. Cut it down to 1-ish sec. like Stalagmites and there would be many fewer instances of "late delivery" to the team. It's amazing the difference that even 2 seconds can make in turning a helpful action into a hindrance on a fast moving team.

I also find my Peacebringer to be an under-performer and have a rather odd suggestion for improving their player love. Many players have correctly identified one of the issues with PBs (and to a lesser extent WSs) to be slot shortages (ironically exacerbated by inherent fitness). My suggestion is to give Khelds the option to select 3 slots in lieu of powers from level 35 on. That would allow Kheldians to satisfyingly slot their chosen powers. A potential total of 18 additional slots (at level 50) could, at the price of fewer (frequently superfluous) powers, make Kheldians much more appealing to many players.

TP needs an increase in animation speed... by that I mean it should be reduced to under a second. The speed of recall friend, TP foe and the various other TP powers could be reduced to 2s.