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Nobody does this because nobody has to. Devs post here with the players and have in some form since ‘04. It is not hard to extrapolate some of their stances from their own catalog of statements. I don’t have quotes on hand at the moment but I’m positive Null being an undesirable last resort fix is not something I just made up.

I have never ever used Agility or Spiritual to get to perma-dom. It’s pretty easy really.. you 2 slot hasten and get to that 70-80% in recharge bonuses (easy with IO’s) and you’re there.

So their maces double as grenade pez dispensers? I like it.

I was running Mystic Flight once instead of Super Speed on a Speed TF and my teammates all made fun of me 😞

One of its multiple boosts, yes, I got that. Great LotG slot too. But it sounds like your con is so overwhelmingly frustrating to you that the power is an overall loser on your pro-con analysis, IMO.

Well, yeah, exactly, one would wonder why you would pick a power you don’t want the boosts from.

Speaking of liking things selectively, I’d consider Agility Radial (or Core?) if not for that pesky proc-rate-ruining recharge enhancement. But of course the solution here is not for a bird to max out my proc rates; no, unfortunately, how this works is I just don’t pick the power I have a problem with.

Null is for stuff that can’t be resolved any other way, and the devs are justifiably reluctant to just throw new features at Null over just any ole problem. Every other power-suppressing feature in Null’s options had literally no other way for players to address the problem because it was 100% out of their control. This literally does not meet that standard because it’s you liking one effect of one of your own toggles but not another. There are tons of scenarios that fit that description, and every single one of them has a solution fully within the player’s control: if you don’t like a toggle’s effectS, you can turn it off.

The devs put suppression on Speed Boost and only Speed Boost because (1) players couldn’t control if someone else boosted them combined with (2) it really makes you zoom around. I would say neither (1) or (2) is a problem here because Hover is no zoom zoom power, but I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt on (2) and try to imagine you Hovering too quickly to control. Still, because (1) is a nonissue here and you are free to detoggle any power causing you problems, I’d have to say this won’t happen. Null is a clunky way of fixing the game’s most persistently annoying predicaments, and this doesn’t meet the high standard necessary to justify a Null option.

As someone who often finds buff proposals to be ridiculously over the top, I am pleasantly surprised to be good with all of the above 🙂 Not super positive exactly how good their pets have to be RE: (6) but in general very yes.

I would be good with increasing the cooldown on Judgement.

Yeah, basically we know that it’s either no-PA-as-is or no-Ill-dom. Any ideas outside of those parameters aren’t going to happen.

Oh yeah, sets. I guess I’m done with playing all blasts and armor sets once through or more. Still no Earth Control or Force Field played on HC. And then a handful remains for the other set types ofc.

ITT we learned PeregrineFalcon is causing other posters to question their own sanity, apparently..

No vote since converting to KD often is a substantive buff to a power and therefore merits a reasonable opportunity cost.

82 50’s and counting, at least one level 50 of every AT, at least three level 50’s of every non-epic AT, and at least ten level 50 blasters, controllers, defenders, and tankers 🙂

Well I played my Mind Dom last night and can safely say I got more mileage out of its awesome T9 than I do from most pets. Basically a nuke since it’s an insta-win against a large group. Long recharge initially, but only about a minute cooldown with a pretty typical perma-dom build.

A pylon test seems pretty irrelevant to measuring the potency of a control set..

Man the pros here really gush about Static Field but I don’t really get it. I just can’t see how even a pulsing sleep is worth much once AoE DoT is out there whether from you or a teammate.

Think I’m gonna respec my Mind/Ice over from pvp to pve and see how it goes. Haven’t done Mind Control pve since live. Made a build for it yesterday. Will let you know if I observe any of this alleged gimpfest, but color me skeptical.

The implication that my plant control characters need to be “allowed to compete” is laughable. One of the strongest sets in the game (up there with Fiery Aura, Fire Blast, and Kinetics on mob-shredding capability) and a barely noticeable recharge tweak can’t change that on its own.

I’d be good with this. Plant is so powerful with Creepers alone I doubt I’d notice such a tiny nerf anyway.

If the shoe isn’t a proc bomb shoe it might not hurt too bad

KB to KD is a highly beneficial change and should therefore remain costly.

Well I’m loving the power now. I’m also experimenting with switching over to building new characters around amplifiers. I used to avoid them, but you can fit in even more procs when you’ve got that extra boost making up for relatively few set bonuses. So I’ve got this new Dark/Psi/Soul Vigor proc monster with this single target attack chain: Cross Punch: Armageddon: Damage Armageddon: Proc Fury of the Gladiator: Proc Obliteration: Proc Eradication: Proc Force Feedback: Proc Gloom: Superior Winter’s Bite: Acc/Dam Superior Winter’s Bite: Acc/Dam/End Apocalypse: Damage Apocalypse: Proc Gladiator’s Javelin: Proc Cloud Senses: Proc Telekinetic Blow: Gladiator’s Strike: Proc Mako’s Bite: Proc Touch of Death: Proc Perfect Zinger: Proc Explosive Strike: Proc Force Feedback: Proc Greater Psi Blade: Superior Might of the Tanker: Acc/Dam Superior Might of the Tanker: Rech/Proc Hecatomb: Damage Hecatomb: Proc Touch of Death: Proc Unbreakable Constraint: Proc Frankly I’ve never put so much thought into a tight single target chain because I don’t have Mids so all the calculations are done manually. But I put in the effort to fiddle with this one and it’s pretty neat 🙂