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To be clear, you need 122% global recharge, on average. Taking Hasten and using it on CD will make up for about 40% of your global recharge needs towards permadom. So it's worth it even if you're not pushing towards perma Hasten.

It's live, it's just considered a beta feature, so it's not turned on by default. Dig into the Options menu and you'll find it.

Those are new in the latest Homecoming builds. Under options, window, beta options. You can toggle between off, top, middle and bottom of the button.

I've only played Ice/Atomic to 20 so I don't have a ton of insight beyond my Ice/Energy main on live, and an Ice/Kinetics corruptor. I wouldn't skip Bitter Freeze Ray. They added quite a bit of damage to it, and having a third hold will be useful. I haven't played with Radioactive Cloud, but I could imagine the CD not being worth it. I'd be surprised if you couldn't fit both though.

I had so much recharge that I was running into Endurance issues, so I went Cardiac for Alpha. If you're not, I'd go Musculature. Ion Judgement works fine for me. I took Reactive Interface. Enough of your damage comes from confused mobs that you don't want most of the other debuffs. Lore seems to be mostly Flavor. I took Carnies, but anything with a good buff/heal should work. I took Ageless Destiny for more recharge. Barrier is probably a good option too if you want to push to full softcapped Defense. Lots of other ATs like Clarion, but Domination already does most of what Clarion does. Hybrid Support for the defense and accuracy buffs has worked well for me. Assault is probably the next best.

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I really like the current state of Ice primary, it *is* a ton of fun. I made a /Time, but the numbers for /Time seem off compared to the buffs the other secondaries got. The Hold doesn't do any damage, and the duration is very short compared to the other secondary Holds like /Atomic and /Plant. I ended making an Ice/Atomic instead. The Hold's almost 100% uptime out of the box, combos well with the Ice holds, and the Recharge from /Atomic seems better overall.

I've been playing AR/Plant and enjoying myself. I'm only 26 or maybe 28, but all the discussions I've seen have been positive. I'm also partial to Ice/ as a primary, and having 3 solid Holds that you can chain should be fun. The Hold is solid and reasonable damage. definitely grab it. And Wild Fortress is good, but all the Blasters have the equivalent sustain. I haven't played with the higher level powers.

They've got Hasten. Perma-dom needs 123% global recharge average across its duration, but they've got Hasten up 80+% of the time, which will give them enough recharge to cover the rest. I usually skip a travel power as well. Beast Run, Mission Teleporter, Team Transporter and Base Teleporter and Jetpacks/Flying Carpets cover most of what I need

Ah, then maybe the APP Mind Link being unbuffable is a separate issue. Mind Link doesn't take Damage Resist enhs/sets, but's still un-buffable. :(

Well the Psi resistance is already unenhanceable so there's no reason it couldn't work with power boost now. It's likely an oversight where whoever did the proliferation originally went for the full on ignoring buffs rather than just tagging the resistance part as ignoring buffs. Oh? I thought the issue was the the whole power has to be marked to ignore outside buffs? And that's why Cold shields are kind of weak in a power boost world? If they could just mark the resist part of the cold shields as unbuffable, there's no problem, right?

1. there should be two different channels, not one mixed channel. 2. sort of. blueside is a set of content that was connected to heroes originally, now there's no limit on who can access it. same for redside. 1/2 my characters are villain ATs, most play blueside most of the time (but can switch to redside content in seconds by talking to one npc). specific example: my brute has never been redside. my defender has done considerable redside content. Ah, you mean the villain ATs don't need to play redside content? Yeah, got that. The problem is the Villain alignment power is really good for the Villain ATs, and you lose it for a week if you switch to blue to run some content or get a team.

I'm not sure what you mean ed_anger. Certainly on the in game LFG channels, blueside means heroes, and redside means villains?

Does that mean if they removed the tiny Psionic resistance from Dominator APP's Mind Link, it would work with Power Boost? I thought there was some balance reason. If so, please drop the 1.75% Psi resist!

I'd really like this too, but I imagine the animation problems would be hard to overcome.

Combining it with PvP makes sense. Unfortunately, Indomitable is current tied for third (aka tied for second to last place) in terms of redside population. :( So we'd be fighting an uphill battle if it's not Everlasting.

Ry, that's absolutely why I want to play Redside! There's no other good way to prime the Perma-Dom pump! But it would be nice to be able to get groups while playing with the power. :) If there was some way for blueside to get Frenzy, or for Redside to keep Frenzy if they went Rogue/Vigilante to groups with Blue, I'd be happy. Maybe a Null the Gull option to choose your alignment power? But losing Frenzy and having to wait 7 days to get it back runs counter to the changes to make faction swapping for groups easier.

Totally agree, and I don't expect to change that. :) I'd just like a little help getting more redside onto the same server, and a forum area. Redside feels kind of like Roleplaying: not everyone wants to play that way, but it's better when the people who do are concentrated. And we have a Roleplaying forum and unofficial RP server.

I think extra support for Redside community would go a long way. A "Villains" top level Forum, and picking one server as the unofficial Redside server, seems like it would help a lot without requiring any dev time. If most redside toons moved to whatever server has 238 in that pic, we'd have the population of one of the blue servers and a reasonable shot at getting groups.

Your contribution to this thread before that was one link to YouTube with no explanation, and "Lol." I tried to understand what your video was showing. If you can't be bothered to explain what you thought your video showed, I don't really care what point you thought you were trying to make.

Red side is pretty sparse nowadays. Can we get a Forum for villain specific discussions? Is there already one out there somewhere? And any chance of designating an unofficial Redside server so we can accumulate in one place and get a little more grouping going. I would just give up and go vigilante or something, but I want the Villain alignment power on my Dominators.

Now I want to try the Gravitational Anchor chance for Hold proc in Creepers. Has anyone used it?

How does the Electric Control Confuse work? Does it spread pretty quickly through a pack? Does it have some sort of cap on how many mobs it will jump to? Will it stack onto a Boss? Does Domination do anything for it? I'm really trying to get a sense for how it compares to the Plant/ or Mind/ AoE confuses.

That's good info, I'd only really been trying FF. I'll try adding a couple of damage procs. :)

It doesn't seem like Plant/ or /Martial are doing anything in that video except having a couple of AoE attacks. Unless I'm misunderstanding, that video is just "if you overcap Fire defense in a Fire farm and spam AE, you can kill a lot of things"? I don't see why any Blaster/Corruptor/Defender with the same pools and similar APPs couldn't make that same video, regardless of Primary/Secondary?