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i have contracted rat disease. in the last 3-4 hours. tickle irritation up the nasals, feels like you want to snort inhale all the time.yellow phlem with thick bits with saliva mix, blocked ears, minor headache, a bit weakened. damned eyes are sore. fabulous. hopefully it passes over the night, rammed up the heating.cough medicine expired 2y ago, no taking. i always worry people at work will think I'm lying, or that it illustrates a failure state to be sick. every interaction is a balancing act of perception, presence... doesnt matter if your productive and your quick. ...dont you know, the machines replace us all on 5-10. or someoght suppose... i did manage to get my seismic/kin 'goats cheese yes pls' to 38 before the sickness drew me low... are you supposed to eat or starve yourself? its feed a cold. but im not at all hungry. i cant go out of my room too long as its cold elsewhere in the house. its not covid, mercifully.

i skip the rez, everything else on the list is good. some people use the rez as a (highly, and wastefully) niche attack. i have to believe power choices go better elsewhere.

yay, earth/earth. to the other - on live, the whirlwind that was race to 50 on CoV launch, was a plant/thorns. theyre still awesome. thorns has def down and poison damage dots, it wrecks. spine burst is fantastic, as is flong thorns. the final ones good too. skip spirit tree - 150% regen isnt doing crap in a fire fight. enjoy creepers. i used to think the spirit tree let them move, but thats not true.

thermal. all the things. kin. it is superior. cold. some skills boring.

earth/earth really shines. force feedback everywhere, making permadom less build restrictive in some ways. elec is decent, but a number of the primaries dont benefit from domination because theyre pseudopet things. having said that, the sleep patch pulses, which makes melee less dangerous. /thorny assault is very good, despite spine pop animation delay. /savage is great with earth also, you wont miss.

ive tried fire (good), sonic (they tell me Id be happier as a defender), and... more recently seismic. seismic/kin is great. while not rad levels of def down, you do that. dont even bother with force feeback, you wont need it. the cone and aoe ranged are up almost as quick as you can cast them with hasten and siphon speed running. meteor is fun, the knockback is real. critically, animations are quick, and theres zero travel time for several skills. by that i mean theyre not a projectile and just smack stuff. like staligmites does. there is a delay with the aoe ranged upthrust, and for main nuke meteor, before it hits. so you can one two punch in either order and both will hit as the mobs were there at cast time. having a build up is nice, and so is having staligmites - one of the best controller / dom primarys from earth control. again quick, mag 3, AND its damage goes way up if it has an orange border because youve got seismic power stacks. its forgiving, you dont lose stacks for jumping or anything crazy, you just wont generate them if flying. so there's that - if youre a hover fan its not a good powerset. could not be more happy with seismic. quick, good enough, ready.

will it be wind sets? i hope it is wind sets. will it be cross faction invasions?! like they had in aion? i hope its cross faction invasions. thatd boost redside. same if they did xp boost by inversion of pop ratio, like planetside did. level range auto exemp it to prevent grief explode. will it be capes? I'd rather have more wings.

yes! people used to hang out in barrens or org to hear trade or global chat. what folk say, isnt always gonna fall to ordered focused comms, kupo. its flavor. kupo. so the more, the merrier we'll be.

i dont like how voltaic gets detoggled if you get cc'd, annoying to resummon. but aside, its good. thunderous blast seems to delete mob groups, and the zappy dot pbaoe one. whats good dps (dont say fire)? its gonna be nice for set bonuses having a good melee for hecatomb, a good pbaoe, a good ranged aoe, a good ranged, and even a pet. hell, i can put the fancy end ones that have damage in dynamo.

good mix of ranged and melee. perfectly viable ST chain in /elec. decent pbaoe. thunderous strike a bit slow on the wind up, but aside its nice to have a couple hitters to supplement dynamo. the voltaic sentinel is alright so far. if nothing else its filling while I'm occupied with a full menu of skills. did I get lucky picking elec/elec? it seems quick, and good @ ~30.

@lvl 26 - disruption aura is good (always on -15% res autohit, albeit at 0.52end/sec) the knockback cone is ok, but is only 50ft base range so you can end up clipping edge with 1 mob, or I do a lot, not being used to it. deafening wave is short CD, 20s, and is a mag2+2(@30%) hold and a bit of dmg. its nice. does not work with domination, but supplements tye long CD aoe holds. ended up, so far, with hasten, infiltrate, and stealth in the power pools. i worry about res. I'll make up an illu for comparison. with regard to sonic assault, its a mix of ranged and aoe, as youd expect. the ST ranged chain is good, and with mesmerize and dominate, your never short an attack. almost too much so, which may result in late respec. if i could choose a better assault powerset, so far, itd be thorns, or savage.

mind my fav on domi, and Im a telekinesis fan wheb its at mag 6 autohit pulsey.

savage is pretty amazing, and being able to tp (and damage) then flash, must feel good. the eagle is also fun, and i like the burdies. flies no so much, but power order changes let you skip that now i think. think i will try sonic tho, just as I never have. my next tanks gonna be savage tho...if i can stop thinking scrapper would be better... ty for infos @SeraphimKensai

Do you like /sonic assault? is it decent? cant seem to find a lot of talk on it. Ive heard anger, with illusion/, because no taunt PA. I say to hell with that, and was considering that as a primary with /sonic assault. anyone have exp with the /sonic assault 2ndary? any infos appreciated!

i sorta am. of a powerset, while having some silly abilities like inertial reduction, I'm not aware of a more impactful contribution to teaming I could bring. ya theres cold dom, but its always that, plus a /kin (kin/). dark/dark controller is awesome, its my main controller. i have a fire/kin corruptor sitting (with stripped enh 😞) at 47, a water/kin at 38. sonic/kin seems a good match up for 'that's useful!'. the other option is, 'f it' and roll up an illu/something dominator. ghosty dementor, yes. pa clones, yes (albeit inferior no taunt)... for me, its more about shifting 100s of millions / billions of inf about and stipping alts to (ideally) avoid farming.

well, reddit on same topic is going 2 ways with advice - corruptor, or defender if I take sonoc blast. controller wise, suggestions have been illusion. while the PA remains unbuffable, it does just wonder about killing things while you focus on kin'ing. also couples well with high global recharge bonus needed for pa, and what that means for overlapping fulcrum.

preview of walk style and some stances that dont work in the costume designer (for me anyway)

when did stalkers get stone melee? bet its the business.

hello controllers, As you're all aware, its important for the discerning Slytherin to focus ambition on power. when out and about near Croatoa campus, there's really only one thing for it I'm told... kinetics. /kin is great, theres skippables for power pools (e.g. intertial reduction). theres speed boost, fulcrum shift, and siphon speed. problem: you end up being a /kin more than anything, and tossing out the primary besides what you slip in. in an ever quest to get and keep people at damage cap. for fire, pets run about, bonfire, and lots of /kin. so is this something better on mm (undead got improved i heard)? or a corruptor for slipped in nukes (seismic)? or defender for a higher base (leaning no on this last)...? ive been levelling a elec/elec affin after returning to homecoming, and its ok, pretty good in fact, but the damge boosty skill doesnt seem to stack. that infuriated me! way i see it, putting a group to cap and providing massive end boost is probably the single greatest function i can play. so many pack def/res self survivability, well, those of good discernment do... the cold dom ends up a debuffer, the thermal too, the rest is icing. fulcrum shift really is that good. i'm not attacking other sets, but i've not seen anything that compares to the rampage enablement of /kin. so, /kin, where best at? Id thought probably controller, but am furrowed with doubts, and think maybe mm?

it is great. its annoying with redraw. it does need a pass. more annoying in the melee users, but thatd be a dom too. first at cov launch was a plant/thorn 'orphaned hope'. its been a very long time to get illu to dom. tks homecoming servers.

curses i misread quickscan like 'spectral wall', huh? well, if it works, thats a way to form groups into clumps/patches for tanks, so thats kinda neat and save skinnish too. that ranged disorient aoe better be mag 3 base. all in all it looks good and the damage scaling should be much better than controllers ?? think so, by a bunch. so, savage then? it has the hop at 32, if i recall. swear they gave that to dom. 'jumpy bash' or something like that, its called. doms get the eagle too on savage. ...that melts centurian man tf..... so character theme ideas for any who give a shit at 0418 - port mafia, stray dogs, and noir so its monocrome sepias, black ink stained blood: ((hint, dual blades has twin chainsaws))

earth assault. its close call against savage, but may work well with a less busy / quick anim except blind, powerset. spectral, blind, and then a melee or combo therein. id really try to figure 'how can spectral wounds make this attack chain on secondary work)... theres many options in earth assault. skip mud pots / hot footbath / whatever its called. play a bunch through 12 or so, get a feel. if it doesnt feel good by 12, it wont. and no, a lvl32 attack and nothing else on the way (elec melee) idn'nt'gonn'er'cut'it. also backing recommendations for /savage. just dont look back. get something like combat jumping with good height and abuse the range bonus on the tp leap. and..... thorns, is good. it has toxic. it has the awful impale flip tho. too slow, bad cone. sonic looks interesting, anything pbaoe, and same for the primary if you can swing it. illu can dance with superior illusion, and, even if powers not wonderous, also has options for early / easy lotg slots. whatever the hell, you just want dom style pa. tell me their mag gets boosted when you dom?? do they do it too if in clone mode (ultra blind!!!) i have to dl homecoming again. you have no idea the space fing oddyssey 8ve been on... good to see people are alive and well.

i dont play anymore for a while. fairy boy problems. hot with the plague and that, one might suppose

some might say (with their head in the sand): 'I can disconnect here, for me - all external concerns vanish, in fact are banned! you see other else, your suffering ends (doesn't exist) when 'I am online to relax'. more so it is not a thing we shall ack. make swift the way, the doors do open at command - for I have come to be in this place - you should be happy I am so beneficent, magnanimous, indeed 'the big man' - but allow me to endure in this line: the best you'll ever be (remember i am modeling your behavior, emulate this, if you wish to proceed!): * 'tolerated' as an element which must exist silently and unspoken' - such as this shall not be uttered here * you see... any less... it risks skism our 'community', make me feel 'oogy', or to my great ire - to furrow my brow in distaste, and recoil. 'not of this clique', one might exasperate.

Sleeps tend to get knocked off almost instantly. So they are most useful if pulsing (elec control, stalker bio aura), or as an interrupt/ micro halt exclusively with a fast cast and quick cool down hasted (mass hyp). But it's over in a flash. And a power pick. Salt crystals is quick, stacks more -Def for earth, but isn't pulsing, and is pbaoe... So it ends up falling of builds as situational, or imperfect and impractical. Sonic blast sleep cone on an empath, elec affinity or pain dom/thermal defender becomes a valuable few seconds of 'bad guys do a bit less damage', the attack becoming a 'make it slow down briefly' button as a control. But they remain relatively underpowered,wgen not pulsing. A nightmare, or extra damage on hit of the slept, buff all round (against players also) would be welcome imo. Or guaranteed crits... something that makes even the momentary application of sleep (to then be almost instantly hit) worthwhile.