What AT should i pick for Time manipulation?

I know it's only available for defenders, controllers, masterminds and corruptors. My question is which AT would benefit most from it? I'm still fairly new to CoH, so i'm not sure if it makes a difference or not.

Defenders have about 20%ish more on every effects of the set. If you want to be a "Time Manipulator" go with fender (preferably melee/PBAoE oriented secondary).

Trollers, MM and Corrs will have roughly the same numbers.

Time has recharge buff and Melee range auras, these are the best for (most) controlers.
Time has AoE Heal and Def buff, which fitts to MM but recharge buff doesnt affect pets.
Time is mostly melee, doesnt have damage buffs, is quite active (no buff and play style like FF, Sonic, Thermal or Cold) so doesnt really fit to Corruptors imo.


So Id say:
1- Troller
2- For the sheer numbers, Fender
3- MM
4- Corr

Of course thats considering there are better secondary for MM (DM, Traps, Thermal) and Corrs (Kin, Rad, DM) but it doesnt mean your character will suck if you pick these AT.

After reading it, I would say controllers primarily will use this, and defenders second (Corrs as well)

Controllers just by nature of this power would locktown pretty much anything or just plain up have more use for it.

Fire, Ice, and Elec controllers are the ideal for for Time since all three play well in melee.

All of them. Buy extra slots.

Corr! Cuz a Troller will likely bore you!

Well Corr or Defender. Corr if you want to do more damage on the team and have the blasts sooner. Defender is you want to be more survivalable.

Corruptor or Defender.
Time Manip. is a fast paced set, you're going to be shooting off a lot of buffs/debuffs. Suggest going Radiation/Time for the AoEs, or Fire/Time because well.. Fire/ makes everything better.

Defender if you want to last longer, Corruptor if you want your blasts first.

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I'm going Corr.

Because time gives me a number of tools, including debuffing enemies, healing self and allies, buffing DEF, massive +Rech, soft controls as well as a hard control hold.

Once I have all of that, the only thing I need is a primary that expedites the elimination of enemies.

Unless they change it, Controller because your route to Power Boost is more direct.

I actually don't find Time's PBAoE that amazing. More or less on par with something like Choking Cloud, which is useful for melee-ish characters but skippable enough. Not bad a panic button power, but I'm not sure I'd be wading through melee just to use it.

The AoE on that PBAoE from time is a 25' radius so it can be used from somewhat of a distance and not quite be in melee.

I'm not sure how one PBAoE debuff makes a set mostly melee??

Whelp...Time Manipulation looks like it is gonna be a fairly active set, so I would rule out Corruptors and Defenders since they have blasts so having a bunch of active abilities means you got alot of things you gotta spam to be effective. So that would mean Masterminds would have some benefit from it as would earth controllers since their most powerful controls are Patches.

Personally I would go with a Necro/Time MM or a Ninja/Time MM, your pets will be in melee so you can leverage all your powers to their best ability.

If you want to make to most of TM, you will not have much time left to do anything else: it is a rather busy set. I would prefer it on a Controller or a MM.

On a Controller I would suggest Illusion because Phantom Army can take care of your damage while you are using TM. Same goes to any of the MM pets as well.

I highly recommend NOT going with Time/Beam in any combination. I have one at 50, and although it's strong for taking stuff out it is insanely busy. You literally cannot keep up Disintegrate/Time's Crawl on as many targets as you should and cannot focus on using those combos effectively without sacrificing other debuffs or attacks.

Mind Controllers and Corruptor/Defenders with the Psi APP can potentially stack a Mag 12 hold in seconds with Dominate>>Time Stop>>Telekinesis>>Dominate. If I'm not mistaken that will hold most standard Elite Bosses.

[Nope I'm wrong, you only need to Overcome Mag 6. So, any hold with Time Crawl'ed Time Stop will do it, but only for the short duration of the extra Mag 1 in Time Crawl.]

I'm liking Ice Blast with Time. Very good damage output along with stacking slows and holds. Cold and Storm might do more damage with their -res rains, but the extra recharge and self defense of Time is quite nice.

I'll be rolling a ice/time/power Corr... Aim + power build up + time crawl + time stop + freeze ray means i can hold bosses, and down them in record time. Plus Time distortion will make blizzard and ice storm that much more awesome, as things wont be able to run out of them at all.