Captain Fabulous

There's at least one mod that significantly reduces the density of VFX, and when combined with lowering particle count they make most effects barely perceptible. But yeah, I get it. I find myself occasionally on teams with people who thought making their powers neon green or pink was a good choice. It's a choice all right, but not a good one. Now stack two or three of them on top of one another (yes, it's happened) and even with particle count at minimum it was too much. I had to bail. PSA: please don't do this. For the love of all that's holy pick colors that aren't going to burn out people's retinas.

Controllers' inherent is Containment, that doubles most of their damage. Any critter that is affected by an immobilize, sleep, hold, or stun is considered "contained". So establishing Containment on critters as quickly as possible should be your priority. Electric Fence is a single target immobilize while Chain Fences is AoE. I personally don't consider them redundant because in order to contain bosses you need two applications of a status effect, meaning you'll need both.

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I guess it depends upon which effects you want protection for. Evasive Maneuvers and Combat Jumping give immobilization protection. Tactics and Steamy Mist have confusion protection. Vengeance gives repel, KB, and fear protection. Faraday Cage has repel, KB, sleep, stun, immobilize, and hold protection. Shadow Fall has fear protection. There are global IOs that give KB protection.

I did on my nigh-unkillable Invul/SS Tank, but otherwise, no.

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Willing to post your build?

Only 2 things that stand out to me, I would put the Panacea set in Life Drain for more healing and more +recharge (move the slot from Health into Life Drain and add an accy IO), and Winter's Gift in Fly for the slow resistance. Domination gives you a decent amount of mez protection including knock. Slows can cause issues with keeping Domination perma.

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SS is superior to EM. That's all you really need to know.

You can get pretty close on a Dominator. Illusion Control has holds and a confuse, and illusion has always been a mage staple. Take Icy Assault as your secondary to get ice powers, and then either Fire Mastery or Mu Mastery as your APP for a blasty AoE fire or electric attack plus a shield.

As someone who got dragged into square dancing by an ex I can say this is completely legit. Tho I found gay male square dancing to be far more enjoyable than geriatric square dancing.

Dominators don't shine until you have permadom, so make +recharge your #1 priority. Not sure I agree with not taking the melee attacks, they are by far your hardest hitting attacks. And since so many of the powers in Dark and Soul are PbAoE and you have to be in melee range anyway. IMO Mass Hypnosis is a waste and easily skippable. Telekinesis is a bit of an oddball power that takes a lot of practice to use well and not piss off the team (think Hurricane). But once you get the hang of it it's amazing. As a Dom you can skip the single target Confuse and Mesmerize (tho the latter is fine to take for the flavor of being a mind-controlling vampire). Terrify is a another iffy power for a Dom. You have other powers that deal damage and fear is of questionable value if you have a ton of AoE attacks. Even if you wouldn't normally slot Life Drain for healing on other ATs, do it here, as it's the only damage recovery power in your kit. Just my 2 INF.

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Sorry, typo. Fixed.

Well yes, but that's not what was asked for, as it's not guaranteed to re-target the same critter you were targeting before. But it would be as close as you can get. Pretty sure you can leave out the "+$$target_enemy_near$$". The + is what makes it activate on the downstroke.

One thought, the new laptop is likely using a faster WiFi protocol than your old Mac, which could make the connection unstable at a distance. Try playing the game very close to the router to rule out distance as an issue. You could also try connecting at a slower speed/lower protocol, see if that helps, e.g. 2.4 GHz instead of 5 GHz.

No matter what you do you're gonna lose the target. Your bot needs to be targeted in order to cast a buff on it. There is no way around this.

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This has been happening to me occasionally lately. Doesn't seem to be character-specific. Seems like a networking issue on the server end.

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