New Update March 30, 2012 Official Guide Post Editor for the update was Local_Man
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Failing any clear identifier from the poster, we will go by the original post date vs. Issue releases:
I-1: 6/30/04
I-2: 9/17/04
I-3: 1/5/05
I-4: 5/5/05
I-5: 9/1/05
I-6: 10/28/05
I-7: 06/06/06
I-8:11/28/06
I-9: 5/1/07
I-10: 7/24/07
I-11: 11/28/07
I-12: 6/20/08
I-13: 12/2/2008
I-14: 4/8/2009
I-15: 6/29/2009
I-16: 9/15/2009
I-17: 4/28/2010
I-18: 8/16/2010
I-19: 11/30/2010
I-20: 4/5/2011
I-21: 9/13/2011
I-22: 3/6/2012
I:23: 5/31/2012
e.g., if it was posted in March/05, it is an I3 Guide.
Guides appearing here were gleaned from links posted in one of the "Guide to Guides" threads (the Controller GtG or the GtG threads in the "Player Guides" forum). We cannot sift through the hundreds of individual threads to find a posting, so be sure to 1) place your guide in the "Player Guides" forum, nowhere else and 2) post a link to it in a "Guide to Guides" thread!
A few important notes: When some changes were made in the forums, authors were able to go back to their previously posted guides and edit posts. Guides that show any "edit" after the original post date will be designated as "Updated" and then the issue that matches the update date. The author may or may not have fully updated the guide through that issue.
City of Heroes has gone though a lot of changes. Early guides may have some useful information, but will not include many of the changes in the game. Some changes were to the game as a whole, while other changes apply specifically to controllers. In particular, the early guides will not take into account Enhancement Diversification, Invention Origin enhancements or Containment. Middle guides may not include inherent Fitness, AoE Team buffs or the addition of Patron Power Pools to the Ancillary Power Pools. There have been a few changes to powers.
CONTROLLER (Be sure to check the Defender guides for your secondaries! Also, Dominators share most of the same primaries, so Dominator guides may be helpful but Dominators have some significant differences including a damage secondary and Domination.)
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.) Guide Links:Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
New Update March 30, 2012
Official Guide Post Editor for the update was Local_Man
This thread is for posting Guide or FAQ links for Controllers. Please create your guides in the "Player Guides" forum (since posts in that section do not roll off) and link the thread here. Also, do not post your guide in this thread - only the link to your guide. For non-Controller guides, check the master list of all Guides in the Guide to Guides. DO NOT POST QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS FOR GUIDES HERE.
Failing any clear identifier from the poster, we will go by the original post date vs. Issue releases:
I-1: 6/30/04
I-2: 9/17/04
I-3: 1/5/05
I-4: 5/5/05
I-5: 9/1/05
I-6: 10/28/05
I-7: 06/06/06
I-8:11/28/06
I-9: 5/1/07
I-10: 7/24/07
I-11: 11/28/07
I-12: 6/20/08
I-13: 12/2/2008
I-14: 4/8/2009
I-15: 6/29/2009
I-16: 9/15/2009
I-17: 4/28/2010
I-18: 8/16/2010
I-19: 11/30/2010
I-20: 4/5/2011
I-21: 9/13/2011
I-22: 3/6/2012
I:23: 5/31/2012
e.g., if it was posted in March/05, it is an I3 Guide.
Guides appearing here were gleaned from links posted in one of the "Guide to Guides" threads (the Controller GtG or the GtG threads in the "Player Guides" forum). We cannot sift through the hundreds of individual threads to find a posting, so be sure to 1) place your guide in the "Player Guides" forum, nowhere else and 2) post a link to it in a "Guide to Guides" thread!
A few important notes: When some changes were made in the forums, authors were able to go back to their previously posted guides and edit posts. Guides that show any "edit" after the original post date will be designated as "Updated" and then the issue that matches the update date. The author may or may not have fully updated the guide through that issue.
City of Heroes has gone though a lot of changes. Early guides may have some useful information, but will not include many of the changes in the game. Some changes were to the game as a whole, while other changes apply specifically to controllers. In particular, the early guides will not take into account Enhancement Diversification, Invention Origin enhancements or Containment. Middle guides may not include inherent Fitness, AoE Team buffs or the addition of Patron Power Pools to the Ancillary Power Pools. There have been a few changes to powers.
CONTROLLER (Be sure to check the Defender guides for your secondaries! Also, Dominators share most of the same primaries, so Dominator guides may be helpful but Dominators have some significant differences including a damage secondary and Domination.)
GENERAL
Choosing a Controller Build, V2 (Enantiodromos) [I-15]
Splatroller: An Overview (Enantiodromos) [1-15]
The Splattroller Field Guide (Omniverse) [I-14]
WhisperWitch's Guide To Controller Primaries Damage Vs 1 Target (magicj) [I-14]
WhisperWitch's Video Guide to Telekinesis (magicj) [I-14]
Arcane Controller Primary Powers FAQ (Enantiodromos) [I-12] Updated in [I-16]
Comparative Analysis of PBAoE and Ranged AoE Holds (Mystic_Amethyst) [I-8]
Controller Damage Overview (Enantiodromos) [I-6]
Choosing the Controller that’s Right for You (Enantiodromos) [I-6]
CONFUSION AND XP/TIME (v2) (Enantiodromos) [I-6]
Guide to being a Healer (Enantiodromos) [I-8] Updated [I-15]
Guide to the word \Necessary\ (Enantiodromos) [I-8]
A guide for solo controllers (Ishtar) [I-4]
cforce’s Guide to Confusion v.1.0 (cforce) [I-3]
5 Best Solo Controller Builds (Pilcrow) [I-2]
The Unofficial Strategy Guide for Controllers (Ubah_Weasel47) [I-2]
Magnitude – or, why Johnny can’t hold Dr. Vahzilok (GlaziusF) [I-1]
DARK CONTROL
Guide to Darkness Control and Dark Assault for Dominators and Controllers (Blue_Fenix) [I-22]
ELECTRIC CONTROL
A (Quick) Local Guide to Electric Control (Local_Man) [I-22]
EARTH CONTROL
Leveling Up an Earth/Storm Controller (GGG247) [I-14]
Local Guide to Earth/Rad Controller (Local_Man) [I-10] Updated [I-17]
Eternal_Wilting Earth/Empathy (Eternal_Wilting) [I-8]
Guide to Earth/Storm Controllers V. 2 (KokopelliJoe) [I-8]
C_dog’s I7 Guide to Earth Control/Force Field Controllers (C_Dog) [I-7]
I Feel the Earth Move- A Guide to the Earth/Sonic (HotButteredSoul) [I-7]
Kaigame’s Guide to Earth Controlling V2.0 (Kenshin) [I-4]
FIRE CONTROL
Striking the Match, a Fire/Kin’s Guide (Star_Sentinel) [I-11]
Elemental Chaos The i10 Guide to Fire/Storm (Eldandil) [I-10]
Fire Blaster’s Guide to Fire/Rad Controllers (LivingHellfire) [I-9]
Fire/Rad PvP Guide (Choff) [I-8]
Guide to soloing a fire/rad (Switchgear) [I-7]
Fire Control, Storm Summoning, and synergies (DaemonDivinity) [I-7]
Eldandil Tauro’s I7 guide to the classic Fire/Storm/Fire Troller (Eldandil) [I-7]
Fire/Storm Splattroller Build Guide (Enantiodromos) [I-6]
Ardent Emissary Torches the World: A Fire/Rad Guide (vI6.1) (Funky_Pink) [I-6]
Foxmaiden’s Ultimate Fire Control Guide (Sakura_Kitsuki) [I-6]
Brimstone Gale’s Guide to Fire/Storm Controllers (BrimstoneGale) [I-3]
Slotting Fire Pimps (Booom) [I-2]
GRAVITY CONTROL
Quantums Arrows i10 Guide to Grav/Trick Arrow (Carnifax) [I-10]
A Guide to the Gravity/Radiation Controller (FunkyWaltDogg) [I-10]
Eddy’s in the Space/Time Continuum- Grav/Kin (husdonsmith) [I-9]
Controlling Time and Space-Grav/FF (Bunny_Man) [I-9]
Grav/Storm Guide 3.0 (Reinman) [I-8]
Quick Guide to Gravity/Trick Arrow (anachrodragon) [I-7]
Ubiquity's Guide to Gravity/Empathy Controllers, (Baryonic_Cell) [I-6]
The Guide to Gravity Control [v1.20051101.0] (Arinara) [I-6]
Gravity/Storm Controller Guide (Zloth) [I-3]
Gravity/Force Field Controlling: Zen and the Art of Knockback (Doctor_Gravity) [I-1]
ICE CONTROL
Ice/Storm - Looking at Jack Frost and the sets.... (Adam_Amp) [I-14]
Craigen’s Guide to the Ice/Kinetics Controller (Craigen) [I-11]
Frost Storm’s Guide to Ice Control/Storm Summoning (EmeraldRain) [I-7]
Frost’s I6 Ice Control, Empathy, and Kinetics Guide Revision 2 (Frost) [I-6]
Purple Heart’s Guide to Ice/Empathy, VI6.1 (Funky_Pink) [I-6]
Lopp Syded Ice/Radiation Emission Controller Guide V3.0 (PurplePplEatr) [I-4]
Snowlock’s Ice/Storm Controller Guide V2.0 (Snowlock) [I-1]
ILLUSION CONTROL
A Local Guide to Ill/Rad Controllers (Local_Man) [I-15] Updated [I-21]
A Blinding Empowered Light - The Illusion/Kinetics/Primal Controller (Nalrok_Athzim) [I-18]
Thriving on Chaos as an Ill/Rad Controller (Extor_Prime) [I-13]
Illusion Control/Radiation Emission Guide (Ishtar) [I-12]
Lady Lumi's I12 Guide to Illusions and Empathy (_Blu_ ) [I-12]
Issue 9 guide to Illusion Control (Energy_Aura) [I-9]
The selfish Illusion/Sonic controller (CaptainSpud) [I-9]
Lights and Sounds- Illusion/Sonics (3rd times a charm) (Muad Dib) [I-9]
Mogura’s guide to Illusion/Kinetics (Mogura) [I-9]
Smoke and Mirrors- Illusion/Storm Guide (Tal_N) [I-8]
Illusions/Kinetics for PvP (Dubya) [I-8]
Illusions/Kinetics for Solo and Team Success. (Zombie_A_Go_Go)[I-7]
Tanzier’s Guide to an I6 Illusion/Storm Controller (Tanzier) [I-6]
The Illusion Control and Empathy Synergy Guide (TIEDestroyer) [I-6]
Tom’s Foolery, Guide to Illusion/Rad solo in I6 (Q_Arkhan) [I-6]
Pilcrow’s Phantom Army (PA) Guide (Pilcrow) [I-4]
Desyncher’s Post-I3 Illusion/Radiation Guide 0.5 (Trinary) [I-3]
Uberness, Thy Name is Illusion! Illusion/Kinetics Guide V2.0 (Spectral_Ops) [I-3]
MIND CONTROL
WhisperWitch's Intro to Canonical Mind/FF/Primal (magicj) [I-20] (link to videos)
Katerinae's Guide to Mind/Storm Control (Katerinae) [I-13]
WhisperWitch’s Tactics For Mind Control, Version 2 (magicj) [I-11]
No Pet? Suck it up! A Mind/Kin Guide (EmperorSteele) [I-11] Updated [I-18]
Mind/Storm guide (Azoth_WindMage) [I-8]
Mind w/ Radiation and Empathy v 2.3 (Entantiodromos) [I-8]
cforce’s Guide to Mind Control/Storm Summoning (cforce) [I-6]
WhisperWitch’s Guide to Building a WarTroller (magicj) [I-5]
WhisperWitch’s Tactics for Mind/Force Fields (magicj) [I-5]
Hedon’s Guide to Mind Control/Telekinesis (Hedon) [I-3]
PLANT CONTROL
The Plant/Cold/Stone Controller - Death from All Sides [I-16]
Plant/Thermal Controller Guide (Coldmed) [I-12]
Plant/Rad Splattroller Build Guide (Enantiodromos) [I-12]
SECONDARIES
Silas Plays Support and So Can You! (Silas) [I-16], Updated [I-20]
Playing Kinetics on Large Teams (Amberyl) [I-15]
Empathy – How to Buff (Psyonico) [I-11]
Trick Arrow Enchiridion (Luminara) [I-11]
Controllers and Defender Primaries : A Guide to Playing with Other People’s Toys (Blueeyed) [I-6]
WhisperWitch’s Guide to Herding with Force Fields (magicj) [I-4]
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control