Another hold to stack to stop a boss. (On a personal note, that meant I could put away Taser Dart which I was using to stack my holds. 
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-regen for AVs.
Teams are the number one killer of soloists.
What Seriel said.
You can never have too much control.
@Mental Maden @Maden Mental
"....you are now tackle free for life."-ShoNuff
I've done just fine without it through 50 lvls. If my build opened up a little bit I might take it for another basilisk mule, but the -regen is so low it wont do much more on top of Time Crawl. The -heal has it's uses, but I can stack blind so quickly I don't really need another hold to stack against bosses.
Level 50s: to many to remember at this point
I really don't see what power is so important to take its place in the post-inherent-fitness world. Let me guess: weave. If so: sigh. If not: I'm genuinely curious.
@Mental Maden @Maden Mental
"....you are now tackle free for life."-ShoNuff
I usually take it on the way to 50 on a troller and drop it once I have enough IOs to make the main hold recharge quickly.
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If you don't want it and are happy without it, then don't take it. You don't have to take a power just because All The Cool Kids Are Doing It.|
Originally Posted by hiller
The problem with it is that I already have a really good ranged hold with Blind. Having another one feels redundant to me considering that the build is already tight.
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Personally, I don't have a Time controller, but my Ill/Trick Arrow has both Blind and Ice Arrow, but not Flash. I like being able to hold two individuals at the same time, or insta-stack magnitude on a Boss.
1) Stack holds on bosses. Especially after using Time Crawl to guarantee Time Stop is Mag 4.
2) Debuff AVs.
3) Another place to plant four slots of Basilisk's Gaze. (My Altitis is sufficient that I can get these more than fast enough.) Mids tells me I can get Phantom Army Permanent.
I like it on my Ice/Time (it lets me double hold bosses while only taking one hit from them or set up containment on two crits to at least give a small boost to my abysmal damage) but I might skip it on Ill. Then again probably not cause more control for Illusion is nice, even if not strictly necessary (I mean my Illusion troller is /Sonic 
s).
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Time does not mature until very late. At low levels where single bosses are actually quite dangerous, it's useful to be able to knock one out with a quick 1-2 punch of Timestop + ST hold (you can use the ST slow + timestop to do the same thing, but the Mag 4 hold on that has extremely short duration). It sets up containment for Blind and also accepts Basilisk's gaze.|
Originally Posted by hiller
Anyway, I'm posting this because I want to know if I'm missing something and Time Stop is actually more useful for Illu/Time than I think it is. Share your opinions please!
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The long animation time and lack of damage make it much less useful at high levels where you are laying waste to team-sized spawns, but it's still a solid low-level pick.
I'm noticing a lot of Illu/Time builds are using this power, but I don't really see the appeal of it.
Time Stop is a single-target, ranged hold with -heal and -regen.
The problem with it is that I already have a really good ranged hold with Blind. Having another one feels redundant to me considering that the build is already tight.
Blind, Deceive, Flash, Time Crawl, and Distortion Field provide plenty of crowd control options without Time Stop.
Anyway, I'm posting this because I want to know if I'm missing something and Time Stop is actually more useful for Illu/Time than I think it is. Share your opinions please!