Sick of sleep and holds

I know. I know...I just see it so much. Activate Personal Forcefield, and watch safely as others (Elec Doms! Im looking right at you!!!) get eaten for breakfast. If you are going to open with anything open with a group hold and then the imob.

Oh..and Rad players or Storm who think it's wise to "pull" using an anchor = one dead troller!

As someone who used to play Empaths a lot, the idea that you can keep Clear Mind on an entire team is too tedious to even contemplate. The duration of Clear Mind is only 90 seconds. As such it's only useful as a remedy than a preventive measure. It costs 5 end, and takes 3 seconds or so to cast and recharge. No one can spend a quarter of their time and energy doing that. At times I have endeavored to keep one other person buffed with Clear Mind at all times, and that person was always another empath -- someone who would heal or buff me as needed.

Which is kind of the point: I don't see the OP offering to keep the rest of the team buffed with Increase Density (which gives damage resistance and protection against immobilize, knockback, hold and stun, the latter of which is probably more common than sleeps in melee situations). He's just interested in being able to waltz in, kill everything without any effort and move on to the next spawn. I wonder if the OP even has Increase Density in his build, unless it's a mule for Steadfast Protection: Res/+Def. I've seen a fair number of /Kins who don't even have Speed Boost.

Anyway, the OP's real underlying complaint is that he can't solo +4/x8 because he keeps getting mezzed. An empath won't help in that case.

On a practical note: I have a Mind/Kin with Indomitable Will down to a 92 second recharge (down for 2 seconds). The worst thing is remembering to use it. I get mezzed so infrequently that it's not the first thing on my mind, and I always forget about activating it until I'm mezzed. And then it's useless. If it were made so you could activate when mezzed it would be great.

I have a similar problem with my perma-dom, but I only forget to hit that when I'm distracted -- typically when out of combat. But the villain Frenzy power is just fabulous for instant-on Domination.

Since when are AE farms "The game"?

AE farms are an aberration that was never intended to exist in the game, it is not even CLOSE to being "the game".

Play your Controller like a Controller and not like a mobile damage aura and maybe you'll have better luck.

It falls to you to adapt to how the game changes over the years. Expecting the game to adapt to your preferred way of playing is (for lack of a better description) bat guano stupid.

Originally Posted by Dechs Kaison See, it's gems like these that make me check Claws' post history every once in a while to make sure I haven't missed anything good lately.

On a LGTF or ITF . . . you are on a team. Let your teammates do their jobs -- let the tank go in first to draw the aggro. Use your pets. Use your teammates. And use your secondary. Sometimes you can provide more benefit to the team buffing and debuffing than being in the front line doing damage.

Those TFs were designed to provide certain challenges. The ITF foes have mez protection, but Slow powers are very effective. The Rikti have lots of mez. Part of the challenge is that you have to adjust your tactics to the situation. (Those TFs are already easy enough.) What you are asking for is to be able to mez foes all the time while preventing them from mezzing you. That would make it all too easy.

I was going for something cheaper for him to test, but Grav Anchor is the better choice, but if you are on a budget, Trap of the Hunter will do similar.

Yeah, Singy does stack mezzy goodness, however I keep forgetting to cast him. Silly me! But yeah I see your point there.

I don't think that was his point. I think his point was that sometimes holds don't land, and controllers can get mezzed pretty easy if not prepared, as can defenders, and all squishy types.

Telling him that he has to adapt is all well and good, and I mean no offense to you in the least, but your not providing options for adaptability other than mezz the mezzer or change your game play does not really remedy the fact that he is A) being mezzed, or B) providing a solution to avoid it.

Sure he mentioned farming which is not a great aspect of the game, but it's frequent enough occurence that it should go with a mention, that AE or Portal farms are popular in some cases.

We should be looking at prevention, and while all toons have to adapt, just mentioning adapting without giving options or ideas, really wont "PREVENT" this type of thread from starting up again.

Maybe you just plain prefer to play scrappers. One of my regular buddies has twenty-something level 50 characters, and only one is a controller -- and that one was kind of PL'ed up to make a full team of Fire/Rads. He just doesn't like controllers -- they don't fit the way he likes to play. He loves scrappers and has a ton of them.

For me, nearly half of my twenty-something level 50 characters are controllers -- I love 'em.

I recast Clear Mind after every 2 spawn group or there-abouts. I've developed a bit of an internal clock that causes me to wonder if too much time has gone by between castings. Ditto for Speed Boost and Increased Density on my Kin. I also maintain Fortitude on 4 people. All while blasting during my waits for CM to recharge, of course.

I spent about a year at the Hollows training before I could do this. This was when the Hollows was still relatively new and populated. I was covering every lowbie in the entire 3 block radius semi-circle around the Atlas Gate, and sometimes beyond. I also spent 3 respecs (pre-IO era) to ensure that I could reliable solo my own missions on dinky Defender damage, which at that point were the 40+ and full of mezzers.

(and never did.)
... smells like troll?

That's Devastation with the Chance to Hold proc. On all my squishies, I try to make sure they get them in their single target ranged attacks (except my AR/Traps Corruptor. I needed those slots in Burst and Slug for other things). I also include the single target immobilizes in that rule, since they can take ranged damage (if I can spare the slot). It's just so satisfying seeing all those tesla cages pop up on your enemies when you least expect it.

Also, if you are playing a Tech origin character, don't overlook your origin attack power. Although it is a short duration, that Taser Dart's hold still stacks nicely with other holds.

Yes...yes it is. Definately...quite enoyable!

Plus it makes the elec toons feel less special. Muhahahahaha.

Also. When tossing a Urinal (Through propel of course) it funny watching a tesla cage appear.

"I have struck at thee with my magic electric urin collection device"!

It's pure win!

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Elec Soiled Matress, and Couch also are amusing. Fork lifts...well...thats also WIN!