[Savage guide]

On 5/6/2020 at 1:53 PM, Other Sensor said:

Reporting back after testing a fully kitted electric on beta. It is neat, but invulnerability's softcap defenses come out on top of survival from the feel of it. 

I know I'm wayyyyy late to the party, but needed to know if you ever dropped Hemorrhage after the 'nerf' of it?

[Longbow & Polar Shift]

This morning I was doing a tip mission where you need to save Polar Shift from Longbow. I've done the mission many times, and never had a problem. This tells me never be complacent!

 

The first problem is that even though Polar Shift and her Longbow captors are on the second floor, you 'hear' the boss talking to you while you're on the first. Again, strange, but normally not an issue. Today when I went up to the second floor, I could not find Polar shift. In fact, I ended up resetting the mission twice, because she wasn't there.

 

Then I found out why. Seemed that one of her Longbow captors was a spine character, who was constantly shooting spikes into her, while she stood there being impaled until she died. So, when you get to her, she's already been gone for a bit.

 

 

[100% Solo only controller options please]

On 10/7/2020 at 4:09 PM, Sovera said:

Something with a self heal would do you a world of good. Plant is the first option thanks to the immensely powerful Seeds of Confusion. It recharges so fast it is up for every single spawn allowing you to up the difficulty at will since not only are the enemies CCed but they are even fighting themselves which does a lot to help a Controller's low damage. It also starts at level 8.

 

Some might say Illusion but as someone who has leveled a few of those in the past I'm going to disagree. It's true PA is a great power and comes early at 18, but it shines when it can be near permanent which does not happen 'early'. It also suffers from not being controllable so they are out but we can't send them to hit the next pack and instead need to walk closer so that they will agro.

 

Gravity has some nice ST powers to make big booms which is always nice for a solo Controller and some people will swear by it. I felt the big boom fades quickly.

 

Fire is a staple and though Bonfire is not super early in being obtained it does perform more than adequately in terms of CCing once KB>KD is applied.

 

Overall I'm still going to say Plant.

 

 

Storm is a good choice, but no self heal which is a bit grim. Lots of damage but terrible endurance hungry which isn't very fun.

 

Time is a good staple too. Self heal, buffs, minor -regen, most of not particularly useful for a solo Controller since things are CCed and not bothering you.

 

Radiation isn't bad, but, not great either. 90% of the game is slapping normal enemies and the other 10% are AVs and EBs which is where Radiation shines. It does have a nice heal and nice self-buffs.

 

Kinetics shines as usual. Though it takes reaching 38 Fulcrum Shift mostly fixes a Controller's low output. It has a heal, it has an endurance recovery clickie, if you do team players will love you to bits.

 

 

Though I parrot myself I'm going to say Plant/Kin.

Oddly I never considered plant/kinetics, and now my mind is reeling!

[Earth/Storm build?]

On 8/25/2019 at 12:11 PM, Falsey said:

Here's something I've put together. Overall you'll get:

• Soft capped defenses to S/L AND ranged (technically it's 44,9%, but I'll count that as soft capped), mkay?)
• Great recharge to feed your stormy goodness
• A few awesome procs that will provide more control, more -res debuffs and more recharge
• Hasten will be perma (it's currently 4 seconds off) if you go with Ageless Destiny (you really should)
• At least 2 lightning storms and 2 tornados will be up all the time
• A very handy heal/+MaxHP or those "oh-sh!t" moments

Side notes:

You can replace the ragnarok set which a positron's blast until you can afford the purple set.

The Panacea enhancement in Earth's Embrace is just for when/if you can afford it. Until then you can use a normal heal IO.

Some people (like me) actually do find uses for Snow Storm. If you want it in the build, drop Thunder Clap and move the slots into Fissure.

If you are still leveling, you should bid on the most expensive enhancements right now. Just bid for 1/3 or less of the price and once you get to 50 you'll have gotten a few of them for cheap.

 

 

Yes, I know I'm pulling up an old thread, but hopefully Falsey is still around and can answer a question.

 

With this build, do you have issues with knockback by Lightning Storm? I don't see anything in there to mitigate it, so was curious.

 

Thank you!
 

[Here's a strange request (Psionic Melee/Bio)]

I see plenty of builds that have one or the other, but I've never seen one that has both. Has anyone come across one on the forums somewhere, or know where I might be able to find it?

 

I do greatly appreciate your time and assistance. 🙂