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this is what I said, yes. e: and the cowering effect already stops them from moving, immobilize does not affect that (although if the immob does damage, as most of them do, it will allow them to counter attack) again this isn't synergy, you may like the outcome, but it's directly negating the obvious intended effect of both CC statuses in question (i.e. stopping them from running away, or allowing them to counter attack).

crab pot mentality, sorry I don't agree with this at all. the time to have fought against the change to axe cyclone was prior to it being rolled out and welcomed by pretty much everybody.

you are thinking of Terrify, this isn't the same as Fear. e: the wiki refers to these separate effects as "Afraid" (i.e. running away from things, the annoying and not super-useful effect) and "Fear" (cowering and not attacking). Whatever name you want to apply to these effects, they aren't the same, and rains/snow storm etc. don't inflict the cowering variety.

It's good and everyone likes it, baffling reaction imo I have thousands of hours in this game and I have never seen anyone use it in this way (and almost never at all), I don't know what to tell you. This isn't synergy, it's working around the annoying downside of Fear and is mechanically no different from just Immobilize.

There's a few powers AOE that should logically do a trawl effect to pull things towards their center, and now that Homecoming has come up with a way to have multiple exclusive powers available at a particular tier, it doesn't even mean the existing powers have to be changed or removed, a new power with different mechanics could be placed alongside the existing ones! Here's a few very obvious ones: Storm Summoning/Hurricane - should pull things inward Storm Summing/Tornado - should pull things inward Psychic Blast/Psionic Tornado - should pull things inward Water Blast/Whirlpool - should pull things inward Leviathan Mastery/Water Spout - should pull things inward And here's some moderately appealing ones, where I think you can make a case for it/it would make sense: Kinetics/Repel and Force Field/Repulsion Field - These powers are very unpopular because they have a huge area and scatter mobs. While some people might like them, I literally never run into anyone using them because they're just really annoying. An alternative version that pulls mobs to its center would be wildly popular. Perhaps make it a targeted toggle that can be placed on an enemy the way Mind Control/Telekinesis works. I think this would be insanely popular even if it had no Hold crowd control effect (perhaps justifying a lower cooldown). Gravity Control/Gravity Distortion Field - while the current version makes sense (manipulating Earth's gravity to pull things down) it would make just as much sense and be really nice to have an alternative version that pulled things to its center, the way Dark Miasma/Black Hole does Dark Armor/Dark Regeneration and/or Dark Armor/Obscure Sustenance - Tankers and Brutes would be overjoyed at this, and it would make sense. Energy Aura/Energy Drain - The whole gimmick of this set is manipulating kinetic energy, again this would make sense, and Tankers/Brutes would be delighted to have it. "Area Denial" powers that make mobs scatter - A lot of players dislike this whole category of power because they make mobs scatter and often annoy other teammates. How about some exclusive choices at their given tier, that creates an area effect like Water Blast/Whirlpool, or a burst of a more powerful effect like Battle Axe/Axe Cyclone, and have them do a pull effect as alternatives? Fire Blast/Rain of Fire Ice Blast/Ice Storm and/or Ice Blast/Blizzard Cold Domination/Snow Storm and/or Storm Summoning/Snow Storm Traps/Caltrops and/or Devices/Caltrops Related: Gravity Control/Dimension Shift - I have never seen anyone use this power, very unpopular. Similar to how "Area Denial" powers work, this just never developed a popular use case among players and the content. How about an alternative ranged AOE power that "warps space" and pulls mobs in its radius to a specific point.

Really not a fan of this diminishing returns scheme on targets over 5 / 10. Too complicated, no real justification for it. Just lower the AOE damage if you're going to lower AOE damage, applying diminishing returns to targets I can't control the selection of just sucks.

Please consider adding a trawl effect to GDF similar to Black Hole, it makes sense and would be fun. Thanks.

Big approval to the change to Synaptic Overload, the current version on live servers is very frustrating if you misjudge the radius between targets and it only lands on one (or it misses), this is much more friendly. Feels a lot more comfortable overall and more in line with the other control sets.

Good changes today. I was a little iffy about Psychokinetic Barrier, I think this is much more appealing.

I mean, it's not called Aura of Sanity

yeah I can not imagine skipping Aura of Insanity, it's the signature power of the set. everything else is just un-flashy "make me less likely to die" - not that any of that is bad, it's just all really basic numerical stuff without a big blatant effect on enemy behavior. e: it interacts in very nifty ways with Cognitive Interface and Control Hybrid, it's going to be a really interesting armor set late game 🤷‍♀️

It sure doesn't feel like a good opener, it just feels bad to try to leverage. I feel like it should be more like 10-15 seconds or more, especially in a team you would have to have super tight coordination for it to be at all helpful. Oh hey guys wait, let me open with this power and then all of you immediately blast away in the 3 or so second window it creates imagine trying to use this in a team of 8 people, like on a task force. imagine everybody knows what to do and is playing hard ball, not just following the controller passively. where is the "oh wow what was that?? that rules!" power in this set?

That's neat, I hadn't noticed that but yeah I agree that's pretty great as it is. Thanks for the info!

Glittering Column feels very bad, it just aggros enemies and immediately poofs and then they turn on the caster. Puzzled at what it's intended to be used for. Sparkling Chain doesn't seem to give any feedback when it misses, nothing in the log beyond "You activated the Sparkling Chain power." Would be nice to know what the chance to hit was or whatever. e: I'm looking for an analogue to Ice Slick, Bonfire, Static Field, Earthquake, or any of the other sets' staple "OH WOW CONTROLLERS ARE AWESOME" big showy power with high uptime and there just doesn't seem to be one for this set.

One thing I'd like to see is a Universal Control enhancement set, akin to Universal Damage.