No Traps :(

Controllers aren't getting traps!!!!?? That's the only proliferation I REALLY wanted

Maybe next time =)

Getting /Poison is nice, but yeah I've really wanted /Traps on my Controllers for a long time.

Is there a +regen cap? Because stacking 2x Spirit Tree and 2x Triage Beacon (or even one of each) sounds, well, interesting.

For controllers, /Traps and /Dark Miasma interest me. /Poison not so much. Still I am glad they are proliferating something.

Yeah traps would have been slick, maybe next time.

I think Plant/Traps and Grav/Traps are gonna have lots of "giggle" potential. As in pointing and giggling at the bad guys.

For plant, the Tree and Triage stacking is neat, but its really all about confusing the bad guys, having giant tentacles and roots rip them up, and having Audrey spit all over them, with all the crazy procs going and the -resist procs maybe stacking with Acid Mortar and plus you'll have the seeker drones nerfing the hell out of them and the poison trap making them puke the whole time. Then you toe-bomb them because, what the hell they gonna do? Eventually you might even be soft-capped during this process.

For gravity, its all about setting up the kill zone and using Wormhole to transport guys into a kill zone where Singularity, Poison Trap, Acid Mortar, Seeker Drones, and about 10 trip mines are waiting.

But I'm sure you can't go wrong. I think Illusion/Traps will be wicked also, and Elec/Traps also seems very interesting in terms of how they'd combine. I'm sure Ice and Mind etc will work well too.

I will probably go with Fire/Traps and Earth/Traps simply because those are favorite sets of mine, and they have their own nifty interactions. Seeker Drones, Acid Mortar, and Hot Feet alone just make for some fun killing. As for Earth, well it will simply be fun to stack Earth's controls, which are location based, with Traps which are location based too. So its more of an overkill thing. Good times. Oh and I'll probably roll Plant/Traps also.

Here are my plans:

I21: Fire/Poison, Earth/Poison, Plant/Poison, Illusion/Poison
Later: Fire/Traps, Earth/Traps, Plant/Traps
Later: Fire/Dark, Gravity/Dark, Plant/Dark, Illusion/Dark

Anyway. Hang in there gang, Poison will be pretty killer, especially with several of the powers getting a half-strength small radius AOE splash (the heals and debuffs I guess). Good times!

Lewis

Traps is going to require some sanitation before they port it. I'm pleasantly surprised to get Poison. I was expecting Pain Domination, which is probably the easiest of the remaining ports.

Elec/ would certainly love the damage from Trip Mine, but the knockback? Not so much.

Elec/Poison, that seems like it could be pretty interesting. Some good -res, and a few additional tricks to handle some of the particularly annoying enemies.

Traps is ready to go as is, it won't be any more OP for trollers than it is for Corrs, Defs and MMs. I for one am anxiously awaiting a troller port, #1 on my prolif wish-list.

I personally want it for plant/traps for the spirit tree/triage combo. I don't think it would be anywhere near overpowering but would in general be nice since they don't follow you around to have one ready ever y battle on the faster late game teams.

Grav/traps. would be funny but on late game teams, meh.

And poison, I really fail to see where it stands out much more than /cold does outside of a ST heal but at a MUCH larger loss.

Meh, I don't take much stock in mortar and poison gas, seekers, creepers, caltrops, aoe defense at all, When the enemy is confused, the rest of that really doesn't matter. On the rare confuse-free mobs, traps isn't going to do much against them, think even nemesis.

IMO traps is terrible outside of AVs. The situations where it's even that useful outside of that is rare.

Actually Acid Mortar would be perfect for Seeds, it debuffs def and resists, meaning enemies hit each other more frequently and harder.

And I apologize in advance for my brusqueness, but to any one that says "IMO traps is terrible outside of AVs. The situations where it's even that useful outside of that is rare" I can only say "lrn2play". That's truly a mind boggling statement, so much so it's not even worth countering.

I like traps, though it's look is quite different from most controller sets, much more gadget oriented, I can't come up with a ??/Traps controller theme off the top of my head.

However the brilliance of traps is for a large part contained in the seemingly modest Caltrops power, per second ticks of auto-hit damage(though resists still work) a per tick application of a crippling slow that can be slotted with the proc-set for more damage ticks, and a fear effect that (can't be enhanced, but) gets worse the longer a mob stays on the caltrops, it even works on bosses if they stay on long enough.

I love caltrops.