Arcadio

Most controllers are going to feel lackluster on damage early on. If you want you could try a Dominator that can also be Illusion/Sonic, their secondaries are just damage instead of buffs/debuffs.

I'd advocate for Ice. My Ice/Psi/Ice is still one of my most fun characters and also among the first I got to 50. Arctic Air really does keep you safe in melee in most content, even more so now with the buffs. It's an even safer set now with the fear in frostbite to open with, I was playing around with a Ice/Thorns on the test server and taking on 4/8 missions pretty comfortably even without completely understanding the playstyle. With that said, if you're thinking about soloing ITF mobs, once they start screaming it'll be hard to get confuses on them so you're in a lot more danger. But the slows should do some work still if you can get a decent amount of life recovery and play more scared.

With procs how they are now MC is the best blasting control set (maybe besides Gravity), I don't think it really needs more damage just better access to containment. I think it would be cool if Telekinesis instead of just doing what it does would unlock a couple different modes of telekinesis since it's such a general concept. Something like TK Lift (how TK is now), TK Crush (group immobilize to set up containment), and TK Flight (how it was in my CoH info booklet that I never got to experience since I didn't play in beta 😡). Also, giving containment to fear would also make Illusion much stronger which I don't think is really necessary.

I had a really nice experience soloing through Praetoria/First Ward/Night Ward with a Ninja Blade/Katana stalker. I'd recommend a stalker for two reasons: 1. The damage is a given for any of the primaries, 2. It's nice to always have to option of stealthing through anything you don't want to fight. The NB/SR pairing also let me crank the difficulty up to +2 in FW/NW with minimal IOing since Divine Avalanche is so good for pumping your defenses.

Even then there's using inspirations or not, relying on barrier or not, leaning on lore pets etc. People just have different opinions on what soloing 4/8 means to them that not everyone will agree on.

I've run through gold side solo a good few times. I'd say, unless you can IO your defenses to be decent as you go, you want something with good recovery. The missions are pretty difficult and for some of the bosses you're gonna need to play kinda hit-and-run. I'd actually recommend regen if you haven't been impressed by one yet, pretoria is a really good place to let its strengths shine. Sentinel or melee would both be good.

I haven't played this as a combo yet, but you might like Elec/Psi. Sapping will be your soft control, and drain psyche will let you sap some pretty strong targets especially at lower levels. DP also patches recovery holes that a lot of doms rely on incarnates for, so it's a pretty strong secondary for less-than-maxed play.

This is the build I've been running. I chose to go for more resistance rather than defense, skipped hasten, and went for presence mainly for theme (he's a demon type character). But invoke panic is actually a pretty noticeable crowd control option that helps quite a bit. And provoke is nice for keeping enemies in the burn. | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1855;773;1546;HEX;| |78DA75944B4F135114C7CFB4530A58908740A1200FE5511ED3369A2820A21148146| |A08B87063EA0446181DA74DA74DF46BB861851B576EFC00EEDC838F951AC0478C09| |F2D2C495AB7A7ACF1CB8944C93A6BFFECFB9E7FCCF9DB937F96422B4BE36730D94E| |A1B96EE38A979C3CE99B661056FEBB97C56B7003FA1A4B19CCDDB86D33137391F44| |A195B35273BABD642C6A1379DD4ACD9A4E2E6D3991C3E084F1C0B01D439B328DECD| |3D4752C0775B3E9B4A5DD312C2393CEE6F49C99B6AB8434652E2DE3AAA55AF12FA9| |DB66266F8978482833869EC170CB64C65CD08E3AE8D947A9A4EEE4B041188D0DE07| |7AB17E44F2100B0EE0348A81082323F405B1106FD42A986154CE92DC22A410FBC20| |B8D487BFCAB13231452C524163E8272883218241F8E77721AC885697B18C2295C19| |29D20528631E2977DFA619F16F7C01EC32E412FEC30FC62D826F886E306E4320178| |CCAE74F2500E376903CA79EE4A31A5805582EF582628F92C8CA0BD0A49F057F0D85| |11E3B0A030CEEFC3DF8769C92CCE09F97D4DA87912A3952853D0A0518C536A7E536| |A7799B6BB85F0DF7ABE3363FD06CAD3C732DBCC136F5C59404F53B0371862182306| |8042D102318C3DEF5470FB9A0D6C3AEEAA61C109C873D867D861D023F4ED4203B6F| |60E78DECBC919D87D9790B2E6A92B7A1097B89480423CD72A4992357D166449E360| |21FC8422BBC6758233807EB0C6F0912F0CECDC1066D5219B50DBE92A9B3B0C1B0C9| |B045D0015F087EE296B7CB26DA614B75533E316C1274C267860D86717AF15E4501B| |AA44D53BA70435DC32E3CC771BBE54EDD6050A41F1619EE33E80443B0C0B0ED132F| |FD3DECD42797E983319F9B72852006C30C233E77B34619DC326A906E9543C303E2A| |18B23FE97666AC4144D4ED1382506D394328E4EE2F2C38D8B478191875171CD040E| |CF5DAB7AFCFA12221E94190F7D5695AF2971C1087DBFF2C4C523F4030FFD77898ED| |C49E67D704B1157E29F93292BEEE9866704FD1E2EE31E7AC243BFE0A15FF4D02B6A| |8E5FA685693CD809F93EBBDB5422BCEE42415EF2B17805CAC246A9B0592AFC07827| |80A12| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

Ki blasts, ala kinetic melee. I wanna see some kamehamehas.

Either Illusion/Thorns or Illusion/Elec dominator for sure. Then I've got a DP/Fire sentinel that doesn't hurt to play anymore. Need to do several respecs for sure too.

I do wish Phoenix Rising was a little more impactful too. As it stands, the heal is pretty underwhelming in most cases, especially when you can hardly cast it at low life because of the animation time. And a 300 second CD is far too long for an ability with no lasting effect. Maybe if it gave 60 seconds of some damage buff 300 seconds might be fine, but as is now I still see it as kind of a gimmick power pick.

For my sentinel at least the added regen with +HP (and extra damage) has been noticeable for my survivability.

Ya 3 PAs, Sentinel, Phantasm, and Decoy. Could get a patron pet too.

I was thinking about using Elec. Could be pretty cool to have 6 pets blasting away, and some decent personal damage on top.

PA is definitely nice for single target, but without the taunt and no AoE immobilize the set has a problem with scattering. Despite gleam being a great control, without a way to stop enemies from wandering around while they're stunned I think it's probably the weakest control set for AoE. Which is a fine tradeoff IMO.

What exactly is obscenely strong about this set? Also, it plays nothing like Mind Control.

I preferred the previous burn. The bigger area and faster cast are well worth the extra CD to me.

I definitely prefer the clicky, and I think I would also like it more than just a passive addon to all attacks. I like managing what targets I want to focus down. If you don't want to manage the power, the absolute worst you can do is just put it on auto and let it run.

Even cooler they stack 😛

Also, the big burn AoE feels amazing ❤️

The radiating FX from phoenix rising is persisting indefinitely both when used alive and dead.

Added a scale 10 Fear cone that hits the near-half range of the power (30 ft base range). It's a lot easier to guess 45 degrees than it is to guess half the range. Before this skill could be used to at least partially break the alpha before you run in, and now you need to be almost in arctic air range before you can get the control out of it. I would not consider using this power anymore.

If the AT is supposed to be balanced around hover, then just make that their inherit. Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've never cared about my target cap being lower ever. Everything in the AT points to being good at damaging one/few targets. The lower target cap, the inherit, the buff to the ST utility blast. I would really rather sentinels lean more into that instead of moving towards another farming AT.

It looks like the confuse is still using the full recharge. I had 100% recharge reduction and was consistently casting 2 confuses for reverberant's 1.

If anyone else is thinking of a speedster, I highly recommend dual pistols. It's an unconventional weapon for a speedster, but you can't beat the complex animations with those after images.