That's why I got this set!

Anytime I play with a Archery blaster on the team. ROA = Sad scrapper with nothing to hit.

Solution is on the next floor up.

I'm that blaster, lurking in the back, watching everyone run in, pop their specials to do something soo cool, and then...

AIM BU NUKE.

I do it on purpose.

I build for recharge to do it every spawn.

Your tricks are great, but my trick is leveling everything before anyone can do tricks. Just relax and watch your rewards window. You do have a rewards window set up, don't you? WHY NOT?

You could always play "Inspiration Tetris" while I do the heavy lifting.

Speaking of unhelpful KBs and Immobs, I was playing my Dark/KM tanker and doing quite well for myself on an eight-man +2 team.

Now, Dark has some nice PBAoE tricks. Death Shroud is decent damage when hitting eight or so enemies, and Oppressive Gloom is always handy. Plus, Dark Regeneration is always wonderful, assuming it has targets.

Unfortunately, a /Storm Corrupter and some sort of /Grav Controller decided that the winning combo was to scatter enemies in all directions and immob them. This is great when you're fighting swarms of purple Council who are quite effective at range against squishies, and your tank's only ranged ability is taunt.

Biggest personal pet peeve: Storm characters with perma Hurricane who hover above you, preventing you from seeing what is going on. Bonus points for Snow Storm colored pure white, times six if it's some kind of Mastermind littering the floor with pets.

I felt this when I played my warshade. Always seemed like I was 3-5 seconds behind the rest of the team. Mire, switch forms, Mire, switch... oh, everything is almost dead already... Stygian Circle, Dark Extraction... hey, wait for me!

My night widow, on the other hand, has probably caused a lot of grief to others. I don't know how many times I swooped in on a target just as a tanker or scrapper started to wind up, and finished it off with a couple of quick attacks before they could deliver the blow. Sorry! Heh heh.

Energy Transfer and Total Focus are tops on my list. OK as soon as I land you are gonna get it..... SLAM! Pounds fists into corpse.

Rad debff toggles in a close 2nd. They are great in AV fights but pretty pointless for most regular group content. Although now with the new TFs at lvl 54 it is not so bad for either as mobs tend to live a bit longer.

when you are an controller earth or plant or what ever and you hope that tanker can actually herd so you can release all of you aoe controls and a blaster type does a knockback power and scatters the herd before you even have time to set up you first AoE control.

Don't hate on my Stone Cages bro, though I do use them significantly less than Earthquake, Quicksand and Stalagmites

Shouldn't knock the power because a player doesn't know how to use it.

Stone Cages can be used for setting up Containment. I agree they are overused though. However, even on my Ice characters I use the AoE immobs sometimes. The -knockback wears off after 12 seconds, so enemies can be both rooted and flopping. The cages can also be a decent power to spam if you have them procced out. Especially Electric and Gravity, which can make use of both the Chance for Knockdown and Chance for Hold procs to turn the power into a lockdown cluster.

Yeah the AoE immobilize from electric. I sloted the going rogue preorder Knock down proc in it. Oh it was so great. Every time did it in a mob at least 1 got KD and then when they tried to get up jolting chain then they want to get up AoE. I may not being doing much damage but neither are they. Soooo much fun. Though I hear catdrops with the proc in it is sooo funny.

Ugh, AoE immob spam. How I despise it.

My one and only Tanker was an Invul/Fire that I ran on a static team. This team included a Fire/Rad Controller who would open every fight with her AoE immob, the second I aggrod the mob, thereby immobilizing everything all over the place where not only was it much harder for me to grab and hold aggro, but everything was out of range of my Invincibility and not helping me survive. Sometimes I would tell her to please hold off for a few seconds and let everything bunch up a bit....and she would hold off for two spawns or so. Then, BAM, Fire Cages again.

Then she rolled up a Tanker of her own. Around the time she hit the mid-20s, running on a lot of PuGs, I got a tell from her apologizing profusely for her immob spam and swearing she would never EVER do it again.

The immob spam also made my husband swear off PuGs with his Ice/Fire Dom, since after everything that was fire caged on his Ice Slick killed the immob-spammer it would immediately turn around and kill him.

I had another one this afternoon in LGTF. I mentioned it to them on the first mission, no response. Second mission after them caging countless times in my sleet, I send a tell to my friend (the leader), asking them where they got this controller from anyway. I got told to stop concerning myself with it. Obviously, with how fast things were dying, it couldn't possibly matter that I was KDing things. Later on I got ticked, I mean, half of my Dom's controls are soft (earth assault secondary), I can't use them as control if you are caging everything! Snapped at them in party, got told 'fine, ill stop using MY stone'.

All I saw for a long while was them spamming heals (they were /Emp) and rocky running around. In fact, before that, I don't think I saw gasses, earthquake, etc. Maybe I didn't notice earthquake due to every spawn being caged, though.

Honestly, this was one of the worst I've dealt with. Not only were they spamming their least valuable control, they didn't have three key Empathy powers. No AB, no fort and no CM.

My friend, the party leader, got pissed at me for telling the controller how to play. That I'm going to have to suck it up, get used to playing with other control characters and that I can't tell every person in the party how to play. Along with how 'one of the scrappers is spamming immob anyway' (and they were, it was TT, which has no -kb).

Hahah, time bomb, definitely time bomb. Two ways to get robbed and both hurt so much.

You can either do it in the current or next spawn before team gets there and hope it goes off in time. Or you can do the only true option to make it work on a decent team. Go 3! spawns ahead and set it. Sometimes you do that and you get robbed because your team moves a little too slow and the distance causes it to not detonate or detonate wrong. And often the only time you get it right means assured death from the now angry spawn (how do you damage buff something enough to actually kill when it takes 6 hours and perfect stealth to set up?)