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The more difficult Council/CoT don't come into play until level 40... I feel like at level 40 you should have some sort of ability to handle a challenge, even with SOs.

You can't make a Shield/Titan Weapon character, so if you decide to go Titan, then you're got one less armor to consider. You're picked three of the best armor sets in the game. Invulnerability and Shield are hybrid defense/resistance sets, while Radiation relies mostly on resistance and regen/absorb. Titan Weapon is a decent choice, if you can put up with the "momentum" mechanic. Radiation is a good choice, though a bit endurance heavy, if you want to go Radiation Melee, I'd probably pick radiation armor to offset the end cost (Radiation Armor has Gamma Boost, which increases endurance recovery). Mace is the most straightforward set in your list, again, a decent contender.

Just spitballing here, but I think a controller with aoe immobilize would *not* be wanted because the farmer wants mobs to move with them.

Most farmers are self-sufficent. When I do see a farmer wanting support, they advertise they want a Kin.

I've studied Shakespeare a bit. I remember at some point talking about his comedies and how some of the jokes were plays on words that no longer make sense because of pronunciation changes. Sadly, even in your example, the joke gets lost simply because people don't understand what is being said anymore.

Welcome to City! I'll make the controller/dominator debate simple... If you want to team more than solo, I'd go controller. If you want to solo more than team, I'd go dominator. That's not to say that a controller can't solo or a dominator can't team, but just that that's the way the ATs were designed. For primary, Illusion is my personal favorite control set. On controllers, it blooms a little later (23-26ish). On dominators, you get Spectral Terror early, which really helps. Mind is a late(er) bloomer for both ATs, it's not until you get terrify slotted that it really comes into its own control-wise. As for secondary, my suggestion is simply "pick what sounds fun/fits your character's theme"

I was going to suggest electric control... I recently rolled an elec/poison for this very purpose. Poison's version of poison trap does a bunch of -recovery.

I'll second illusion/Trick Arrow. Probably one of my favorite controller combinations.

At least twice

According to CoD, this is what I see... ((target>cur.kConfused > 0) || (target>cur.kHeld > 0) || (target>cur.kImmobilize > 0) || (target>cur.kSleep > 0) || (target>cur.kStun > 0) || (target>cur.kTerrorized > 0)) So, Confuse, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep, Stun, and Terrorize count.

Looks like TK Thrust got buffed and they didn't change the long text. here's the CoD data https://cod.uberguy.net/html/power.html?power=blaster_support.mental_manipulation.telekinetic_thrust&at=blaster

Nemesis and KoA while we're at it

Force Field is a pretty good set for that... Every 4 minutes you re-bubble.

I may be wrong, but I believe all of the DDR in SR is in the passives, so you don't want to skip them.

They do not give a bonus.

there's also the sorcery pool and Rune of Protection.

I'm still waiting on my always asked question on "should scrappers/brutes ignore their armor because it's their secondary and therefore not good enough"

another possibility is Ageless Radial, the idea being to give yourself the Defense Debuff Resistance that you lack in Rad. With MA, I'm assuming you've built at least some defense, so the DDR can be helpful.

Traps is thematic and you can easily make a build that caps Ranged/AoE defense with it while doing good debuffs. Dark is an awesome debuff set that plays at range, going well with AR being all about the cones. TA is a great choice as well, again, playing at range and having very solid debuffs.

I think we've all done that at some point.

You have rest toggled on

The servers go down for routine maintenance every Tuesday, you can see if they are up or not on the main forum (left right side of the page in web view, button of the page on phones/tablets)

If it was above the cap it would show in blue as 75%

I suspect you have 74.995 resistance or something like that

All patches like that create a sphere of effect, so yes, it's working as intended.