Greycat

Mind control's great as is. Any issue with it would be a general controller issue with the old lengthened AOE hold recharge. Definitely don't need or want Confuse turned into an AOE or chain. Absolutely not. The times I use it (frequently,) I *want* just one target (typically a buffer, sometimes a sapper for amusement) confused, not everything around it. If I want everything around it confused, I use ... wait for it... Mass Confusion. And yes, seeds is AOE and earlier. It also causes aggro to pay for it. I don't want either confuse doing that. It would make the set much less useful. (It's also why I don't put the damage procs some confuse setss have into it.) And Mass Confusion is perfectly fine as a T9. It's a Mind signature power. The AOE hold? I tend to want that earlier. (Yes, people *do* take it and use it and know how to use it.) Especially on controllers, since it's setting up everything held by it for Containment (and a boss can be followed up on quickly by the ST hold to stack. ) And with the power availability changes (which, frankly, I still dislike and which annoy me on every character I'm leveling) you get it earlier.

No, they're thinking nobody should/does take AOE holds. And they're wrong. As far as the OP - as mentioned, the effects aren't "your powers." They're something added on. The tailor or whoever doesn't have any way of knowing or caring about procs and their effects, and I'd hate to see how messy the interface would have to be if that *did* get added.

... and you had to necro a year and a half old thread to ask that?

Nope. I typically do as well. A fast, generally low-end attack to finish something is fairly useful. About the only time I don't is on some control sets.

Here's one - If you're going to run on MSRs? Take fold space. Not *as* useful leveling up, but once you've got an Incarnate level - and can blow money or threads on Ultimates - then, in the bowl, you'll pull *everything.* About the only thing you won't pull to yourself will be U'kon. Hover above (or take advantage of someone with group fly *waves to the masterminds*) and just keep dropping enemies en masse into the meat grinder. ... Yes, even bosses. If you're *not* pulling things? Move a bit towards one of the edges. Enjoy the vmerits.

I have too many characters of different types to really have a "set" way of doing things. It really depends on the character. I don't bother with purples for the most part. ATOs... sometimes, and then "eventually." I generally buy purples (via merit) when I have a bunch of catalysts sitting around - catalyze and toss on the market for a bit of INF. I don't generally bother with "builds." I throw in what looks interesting as it goes - sometimes that's just "eh, ST ranged, thunderstrike, ok," sometimes it's "wonder how many powers can take a stun" (electric's fun that way,) sometimes it's just something that only I will see that I find amusing (Feliney Assault, cat brute, has Mako's bite and the Leviathan pool because catgirl tossing fish around amuses me.)

... I don't need to read more. >.> "I told you not to run into that mob alone!" Ooh... can one of the items be a book? Is a slap upside the head part of the pool too?

Yeah, I've got someone who could use a big, dangly, tacky pendant. (No, not kidding.) If the shoulder/neck detail can hang down some... might need chest details for the really tack... er, substantial ones. That said... being able to use something other than neck chains for necklaces would be nice. Things with actual pendants of various sorts, for instance (not just for dressing up, either) would be appreciated.

Yeah, there are a *number* of issues with character positioning to actually "sit on" things. Other MMOs allow you to click on something and select "sit," but I shudder to think of the amount of work that'd have to be added to every seating surface in the game to do this (not to mention alignment for things in the base editor so you don't have three people sitting at a table facing each other and one staring at a wall.)

I've got to agree with this. WIllpower's such a hands-off, don't-need-to-think-about-it set. I don't do "builds," I'm not perma-anything capped-anything (at least on purpose) and my WP characters are still exceptionally durable, to where I have to check the map and make sure I haven't split off at some point if I notice my teammates not around.

Following someone with superjump when I'm on sprint... You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. You are getting too far from your mentor. Your mentor is too far away! You are in range of your mentor. (repeat 60x....)

*Recalls the Big Red Ball from forums past.*

It surprises me when people seem to have just discovered how to do this. I hear people (especially melee) having trouble with Protean and it's like.... have you never tried this technique? He'll never get his PBAOE off since you're only in range for half a second...

So, Spectrum's an ... interesting look, and can lead to interesting shadings. Still, after seeing a video where the lighting ... kind of reminded me of Spectrum, it also got me wondering if it'd be possible to do *patterns* that were also Spectrum-ized, even if it could only be used with Spectrum itself. ... that sort of look, where you've got zones where you could put in another color (or shadow) that wouldn't necessarily be colored that way by default. Yes, I'm thinking specifically on top of Spectrum itself... though if that could be brought over into normal patterns, that may be interesting as well.

I pretty much always take a travel power. Rarely put it off - if nothing else, it's a "ok, don't really need to slot this, so extra slots early for some power." About the only power I skip is superspeed - thanks to early game annoyance with it and Terra Volta and the lack of vertical travel... even with the current "extra" tacked on. (Same goes with experimentation... speed of sound. The extra effect is actually extra annoying. I'll only take it if the character *really* calls for it.) As far as availability of other powers... rarely does that influence me. I'll take those pools *despite* the travel power sometimes - primarily for combat teleport and/or fold space (Teleport Target is always useful.) (And since it was mentioned, I rarely take hasten. Maybe as a 49 "I have nothing else I need" pick.) Group powers... I've said before, and somehow this seems to just get any number of panties in a twist, that we should have Null in coop zones. MSRs and Hami raids fill quickly, at least on Everlasting, and leaving to hit Pocket D to turn off Group Fly if you've forgotten to may mean you don't get back *in* the zone for a while, if at all. But I don't generally mind group travel powers, otherwise... other than Incandescence.

Not sure if still valid, but I *vaguely* recall extra damage or some such for a stalker's AS on a held target at one point.

*snort* I remember beta when everyone looking at the market was *sure* Boresight was going to make them rich on the market. Yeah... no.

Starting back in i3... First character, got him into the hollows. Don't recall what mission I was trying to get him to, but suddenly seeing this giant, floating skeletal thing conning purple. Seemed like something I should *really* avoid (having not fought COT at the time...) Also, on a different character (the one who'd be my first 50,) doing missions with a team in the Hollows and seeing this white floating thing come out of the door and fly off... hooked on Kheldians since.

Eh. I mean, they *are* looking for a group. And I suspect all that a "farm" channel would do - besides cause griping - is cause messages to be duplicated in there *and* in LFG. Even as an "official" channel, it may not populate for people with older characters (such as the people *doing* the farming) where they're looking or trying to advertise. And we already have people uptight and complaining if anyone says *anything* that's not directly "We are doing these missions and have room for X" in LFG. I'd rather not see them fill the channel with so much whine it's mistaken for France.

I don't perma-dom at all and have never found it "pretty brutal" on any dom.

... well. 15 minutes of waiting, posting this, deciding to head to Eden (because I need my costumes...) Stop to punch some COT mages and one finally showed up. First time I've actually seen an ambush for that mission.

So, here's a question: Does Carson in Founders Falls actually *spawn* an ambush like the other tailors? Idle curiosity thing. I know the first two tailors spawn ambushes (Tsoo and Crey, specificially.) Hard to miss the first one since they spawn fairly close by and - for an ambush - fairly fast. The IP one can take a bit to arrive, especially since there aren't any Crey in IP so I suspect most folks are already on their way to Bricks or wherever to start punching in the name of science. For Founders Falls - well, I don't think I've *ever* gotten a Nemesis ambush. Even on live. So I grabbed the FF costume mission (because... costumes,) went across the street and just ... waited. (I have nothing better to do, so including the time to write this up, I'm at around 15 minutes.) Just out of idle curiosity to see if there WAS one. If there was an ambush - even slow and swimming - it should have reached me. So... doesn't appear to be one. The other ambushes don't get targeted by anything, so I don't think it's "something else killed them on the way." And I'm literally the oly person IN Founders at the moment, so it's highly unlikely someONE else killed them (ambushes will also tend to be at your level, not the zone's or zone cap, and the character I'm on is 46.) Is there something that just prevents an ambush from forming? Are they falling down below the map because of ancient spawn point weirdness? Do they just not GET one? Nemesis definitely *spawn* in FF - there are Comet tir... tiral... tiramisu snipers, after all. (Or are they the only thing allowed to spawn, perhaps? Which, yes, is part of why I was here - a mention that "snipers don't move," which I had to double check my own memory of - and no, they don't, even taunted. So yay.) Or do they just not spawn because Eden's chock full of them and one nearby zone transfer away? Idle curiosity.

Let's just necro this damn thread since that seems to be the thing to do! Woooooo! This just adds SO MUCH VALUE to the forum!

Yes, this thread was SO IMPORTANT it had to be necroed THREE YEARS AFTER THE LAST REPLY.

Eh.... maybe? On the other hand, you could just take Teleport Target instead of Confront... which would also open up things like combat teleport and fold space.