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I've used SS has a travel power on a Kin but never when in or near combat. That's what Siphon Speed is for.

As someone who ODed on Kin on Live, my Kins play next to the tank or other melee ATs. If you have cone shaped blasts, that can be dealt with via doing hover blasting or popping into the air and then using the cone blast. I only used SO/generic IOs on Live and never really got into Incarnates so I have no concept for needing Ageless.

Series started slow. Writing has been okay. Kids actors was a sore spot, but I assumed they were going to be one offs and they were. It's not like Star Wars has a great track record with kid actors anyway. The show has gotten better and the last one was terrific. I think it would be hard for them to not at least land the show at a decent spot for me. Is it the best thing I'm watching? No. It might not even be Top 3, but that's better than what click-bait Youtube is saying. I still don't get how something they said was going to happen actually happened. We are must be watching different shows. But hey, it's the land where things are the best things in recent years or ever or complete trash. Average is not allowed damn it. Seriously, I recently watched something deemed the best in years by multiple reviewers(non Youtube even), and it makes me wonder what else they have watched.

This isn't a Defender issue. This is a game issue. Welcome to CoH, where no build or AT is required but all are welcome. I got on a team where we were doing +4x8 content with a team of 4. One was an Emp Defender. Everyone else was sub 50 and poorly slotted or not slotted at all. We rolled mission after mission due to that Emp.

I haven't played Ill on a Dom so I'm basing my opinion from others back when I was previously on the forums(see before the last Issue, but I did read the patch notes), and that was it played better on a Controller. Mind was deemed better on a Dom. I've loved playing a Mind Controller, but never got one to 50. I've done Ill to 50 twice on Controllers. They are the odd duck of Controllers as how they mitigate damage is rather outside of the box for the AT, but end game is one of the strongest for Controllers. Back on Live, I played support a ton which meant I have a lot of experience with it versus Doms. For the life of me I keep rolling Doms only to delete them. My favorite run was a Plant/fire, but it was part of a hardcore SG, alas, it didn't make it to 50. Favorite Controller? (gets out list) It really depends on what playstyle suits you. Earth/storm and Ill/dark are two different beasts but beasts none the less. Which one would anyone want more on a team? We don't care. No really. We don't. Gameplay in CoH is more steamroll than ever. You can get on +4/x8 teams where one of the characters could solo the map, so realistically the others are there as an audience and to make it go faster. Again, I'm a huge support person. Teams will seek out having at least some support. The real truth of the matter is teams will seek out the support secondaries of a Controller versus the secondaries of a Dom. There isn't a Dom secondary getting called out like /kin does for Controllers. #Notsorry. But again, it's a playstyle thing. As someone who ODed on playing Kin, I get why people don't like playing the energy drink click fest that is Kin. There's an argument to be made for how much additional control do Doms add which is needed for a team which is steamrolling. I've literally played Controllers who felt like subpar Defenders due to how little my controls felt needed. On the flip side, I've seen how much smoother a Dom can make things for a team. A case can be made for adding more than one Controller for controls. A Dom who can go perma can cover controls by themselves. The game simply has annoying things in it, see Sappers. Having controls can be a solid part of that steamrolling. Putting it another way, lets say a team has a single defender on it for support. That team would benefit more from a Dom. If the team had a single Controller, another Controller would help more. IMO, etc. At the end of the day, teams are vastly steamrolling anyway, so play what you find fun. Some days you might want to giftwrap a mob for your teammates. Sometimes you might want to lock things down. run in, and beat the crap out of it. I really should do a Plant/sav some day. About the only advice I would give if you went Ill Controller is pick a debuff based secondary. PA can't be buffed, so using a buff heavy secondary offers less for Ill. An aside, a different take on Doms with a side of support would be a Widow. Part of me wonders why I don't play Doms more due to how much I love my Widow, but also I would just rather play my finished Widow versus leveling up a Dom. P.S. Anyone saying Controllers have low damage are ignoring certain combos for Controllers.

I haven't finished Echo yet, and the less said about Secret Invasion the better. I actually liked it better the Cap and Winter Soldier, but it looks like I'm in the minority on that. Seriously, that series is so forgettable no one talks about it anymore.

That video was far longer than it needed to be. The error was spending GoT money on a show without a GoT audience. The end. While yes, the twerking scene was not needed, but calling it "sh*t" is just wrong. It was overall decently reviewed. I felt like the TV show did the character justice. That final episode is going to hold up even 20 years from now. I know when they added the one actress as basically a scene stealer people on Marvel's social media loved that character. I also find their point about targeting women when their fans base is really men odd. Did they not see the Wonder Woman film which did over $800 million? Yes, the film was really good, but you can't tell me they weren't doing similar in the film versus the show in terms of poking fun at the patriarchy. Plus, they brought up the whole 'woke' nonsense. +90% of people complaining about Disney or anything being woke just proves to me they don't know what they are talking about and make me yearn for the days when people didn't value some randos on Youtube and followed actual journalists. In the end, She-Hulk I thought was one of the better Marvel shows.

Fire/rad Brute could work, but it lacks much in the mitigation department. Granted, I have a Savage/rad Brute in the similar vein.

I would go Fire/rad for Corr, Controller, or Blaster. I find /fire to be not worth my while on a Brute unless I am farming. Rad melee is a bit on the slow side for me as well.

I'm not sure how many of these series need to keep going, but I enjoyed it and thought it was one of the better Marvel series they did. The reality of the situation is Mark Ruffalo isn't getting younger, so at some point even if he is brought in, it would likely just be for voice work. My guess is this is why Skaar was done along with Red Hulk although I don't expect that to be a long arc.

X-Men are being covered this year via a new cartoon and Deadpool 3. Technically Ms. Marvel is a mutant in the MCU. IIRC, they literally couldn't use the word mutant until last year.

I can't fathom any actor being tied to an X-Men character which Marvel has to use due to a contract. The X-Men trilogy was completed. Wolverine is done. Hugh Jackman even said he was done with Wolverine until Ryan Reynolds/Marvel essentially begged him to come back. Also, this would be similar to FF or the Defender characters from Netflix. Once you switch studios, there is no contract which goes between the studios. Hell, there were like 3 different Punisher movies, and I think they all used different actors for Punisher. I watched through E3. I find the series solid, but in the 6-7 range which feels like a default for anything D+ these days.

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Since you are on the newer side and might not have the currency for IOs, here's my general rule for starting out. For Single target attacks you want 1 acc, 1 end reduc, 3 damage, 1 recharge. For AoE attacks you want 1 acc, 2 end reduc, 3 damage. For virtually any toggle, you want an end reduc in it. If you are under level 22, double the number of slotting for what you have so lets say 2 acc and 2 end reduc. BA is fantastic, but is absolutely sucks end. I would also do this with common IOs. You can use level 25s all the way to 50.

I'll also toss in Fire/rad, Fire/dark, Fire/time. Those work for Fire due to offering End management tools. If you are specifically soloing certain things, ie GMs, then yes, Ill is better, but Fire has a lot more AoE damage which I find works well enough for teams and general soloing. Note, I'm not saying Earth/storm is bad because it is a genuine control monster and one of my favorite controllers ever, but if you want damage, it will be later in the build and using procs to do so.

SB? Yes. Alone? Hell no.

For solo, I would pick Ice over Fire, but Fire/rad is going to still do wonders. I would also go /dark over /rad, but /dark also doesn't have a way to deal with End like Rad does, so it might take a bit more to get to a happy place.

I never finished the build, but I feel like a possible way to do Def for Regen is via Positional Def. Add in DA and you can see about capping Melee Def.

I didn't see the others but I thought Soul was pretty solid.

Just watched the first episode. I think my biggest take away is having a show which isn't being done in a metropolis as being a nice change.

Not exactly a terrible move to rerelease things which came out curing the pandemic.

IIRC, Disney was expected to run in the red this year as well, and then be fine in 2025. In all honestly, Disney+ is still slow at putting out new content compared to other services. I think it is still way too early to know how the streaming wars will work out as various services buy out others.

The only Blaster I have gotten to 50 is Water/temp. I did enjoy my Ice/ice on Live. I also got an En/en to 41 on Live until it died, and I was playing it hardcore.

Well, It's already banked more than The Marvels, but that likely says more about how bankable the leads are versus quality of the film.

Soon.