[Plant/Poison First Time Controller]

16 hours ago, Oneofthe1d4 said:

Other Pools to possibly grab powers from some of which may be removed on a respec at 50;

Speed - the ever popular Hasten

Fighting - Weave and Tough + the pre-req

Leadership - Assault and Tactics, maybe Maneuvers

Concealment - get Stealth for solo levelling

 

 

Regarding your pool choices, you an skip stealth and just grab Super Speed.  Add the Celerity +Stealth IO and you can stealth most anything.  This allows you to pick up a different pool like Jumping for Combat Jumping that has a much lower End/Sec cost and offers some decent protection that doesn't cut in half when you engage.

[Is Fire/Time as neat as it seems like it'd be?]

Fire/ is one of my favorite primaries.  And /Time offers so much to it.  But the End is really the problem.  You might want to consider the Primal Forces Epic Pool.  Power Boost+Farsight is an amazing defense mechanism and you'll be tanky enough to be running into those fights head first.  As long as you don't build a proc build, Ageless will save you from all your End problems.  Stick with it through those tough levels and get yourself some End Redux for your toggles and +End procs (all 3 in health and the 1 in Stamina) and it becomes a slight bit better.

 

Personally, I got XP boosters and ran through lower levels on mine.  You'll be really happy with it in the end, I am sure.

 

Oh and DO NOT FORGET the Knockback to Knockdown proc in Bonfire.  Yes Fire Cages has that effect, but opening with Bonfire is a lot nicer than opening with Cages.