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There is precious little that we actually know will never change. There are numerous things that we once thought would never change that have in fact changed. Of course, being demanding and rude about it. It’s never a good idea, but it doesn’t mean that there’s anything wrong with making a suggestion.

ALL the early game nerfs, Defensive reductions, Control nerfs, ED, etc, were predictably good for the game in the long run.

What I want is for the archetype to be good before you load it up with sets. EDIT: So yeah, your suggestion sounds pretty good. Even with just Hasten the downtime wouldn't be too bad.

Well, I preferred (past tense) doms until the most recent changes, and now I think I may like controllers better. The reason being: I mostly solo, using not terribly strong builds, and doms do damage that controllers don't (or didn't). Also, "prefer" is a strong word, I play every AT, but I've got many more Doms to 50 than Controllers. But, that may now start to balance out. I agree Doms should get a buff. Something I've noted recently: Only two ATs don't have either Armor or Buffs, and those are Blasters and Dominators. I wish Domination worked more like Fury. You get your bar filled and Domination is up, and it stays up as long as you keep your bar filled.

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Plant Control, and specifically Seeds of Confusion absolutely WAS “broke”. Game breakingly broken.

Not really. I was there at the time, I didn’t quit. Because I could see at the time, that ED was a good idea.

Shortsighted quitters.

That may be true, but the basic concept is still sound. Dark souls bosses are like that. Final Fantasy XIV bosses are like that. A lot of games are like that, and they are often fun. Jack was an absolute dog shit communicator, but his ideas were actually not that bad.

Yeah, it sounds like the power is implemented poorly.

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Is it bigger than a breadbox?

This is the answer. Theft of Essence is an Accurate Healing set, so its effects will only apply to Accurate Healing powers. Cauterizing Aura is not an Accurate Healing power. The fact it's slottable at all is probably a bug.

I use Pyronic for such characters...but I can see it wouldn't work for everyone.

Sprint IS Combat Running. Literally. If you want a speedster in combat without Quickness or set bonuses or Kinetics, use Sprint. Heck, slot it for max speed! I've never tried that, but now I kind of want to just to see what it's like.