Mezmera

Running the arc all the way to the end I got a significant damage buff that lasted me like 5 months on a character I play quite often. I don't remember that reward from live lasting so long, it's pretty nice they tinkered with the reward to make it feel like a meaningful decision to obtain more powah at the end of it.

It looks like you have the standard optimized powers for control but there's a few things that need reworked. That pbaoe toggle power can not have your aoe hold in it, the toggle should have lower rates on it due to being constantly on so taking away an instant cast-able aoe hold is not attractive in the least. You'd have to replace the hold aspect with something else and then make the level 18 power your standard aoe hold, I don't like target location powers as they are clunky in the thick of fighting so I'd want it to be instant cast. The t8 power that has a chance for confuse just needs to be a certain confuse, I see you're also adding in the new attraction mechanic, that'd help keep your confused targets from running off so they just fight each other I just wouldn't want that gravitational mechanic preventing them from attacking each other is all. If it doesn't then yeah this would be fine as is. I'm not too much interested in pets so do what you will with the t9. I've played Wind Control on some other servers. They used Plant as the baseline and boy is that control set OP. It has an aoe confuse that recharges way too fast plus it also replenishes your endurance. There's a self buff mechanic with the t9 power which is neat. Then there's also a couple of aoe controls that benefit from stacks of a mechanic that you can expend for real strong aoe damage through something like say your aoe immobilize. Wind Control is a very busy set that's just too good since everything recharges way too fast. But I did find the use of a damage release mechanic in the aoe immobilize pretty nice and the self buff was a novel idea just sometimes hard to take advantage of since you had to have all of your stacks then target your pet with the t9 power, sometimes it's hard to stop and spot your pet in the middle of a fight. As long as it seems fun and not too OP with something that makes it unique to itself then that should be attractive enough to try out.

Since we're in a generous mood I'd also like to ask for a buff to Darkseid, Thanos, and Superman as well please.

Yes you're a little naive, just a smidge. If you're able to slot it well for resistance it would net you 30% resistance to all for 90s, down for 30-45s and then right back with 30% more resistance, that's real strong. Plus then yes you'd also get mez resistance. Now with the change yes it's a glorified break free and orange. I also like being able to affect powers through building myself with set bonuses and enhancements. Removing a way to enhance myself with any of the attributes like recharge for instance is dumbing things down. This is going to be the solution to various other worse offending powers going forward methinks.

They just wanted to reduce RoP because they thought it was OP so they took the possible max up time which you yourself could control of 75% to the training wheels easy math version where now it's arbitrarily set for you at 33% uptime. Quite a drastic change. Max 75% is too good I have no problem with that reduction but not letting you have any say in the recharge I don't like when 33% is too low which good builds would have that uptime of 40-45%. If I was digging that deep into Sorcery I would slot Rune well to get the best bang for my buck so that either means a full set of Gladiator Armor's or at least 4 of the Unbreakable Guards all +5'd with the IO's that have recharge in it. Which right there with Hasten already works out to be equal to or better than that 33% uptime. It's a big nerf to a niche power using a mechanic that'll set a precedent for using this locked in recharge for powers that are actually OP.

Now that's a Boomer if I ever saw one. Look at how smug he looks in his fancy Golden Age getup.

It's funny I used to just not give two licks about that always overly cheerful hopeful fellow. I always found Batman and that universe more compelling and interesting, especially the Nolan movies. But my word there's just an over saturation of that edgy batguy. With all of the hating on Superman nowadays I've come to appreciate that cheerful fellow now. I still hate all that "Martha" stuff though.

That's how twitch/youtube streaming works. Subscriber count added with advertisements on their channels. The bigger the subscriber count the more money that streamer makes if they are streaming things like games.

Be sure to forward that message on to the streamers who ARE looking to make money off of this endeavor. They, after all, will be the ones putting things into a more precarious position, even if they're not playing themselves as a copyrighted character, they may likely run across Jane-shmo on their Harley Quine-esque gun toting character. I get it kids nowadays need to see streams of games they'd like to play which means we may have more people to play with but it IS the streamers that need to be held most accountable since they're the ones with monetized streams.

With the new streaming rules I can see where it'd be more treacherous to have a Superman named character in all the guise in the background of a stream. But the first thing to be reprimanded would be that twitch stream as that's the first thing easily identified as monetized. Don't get me wrong I won't be having a "Wonder Woman" character running around but I will have one with "Woman" in it with one costume being a red and blue one. I'd think the same rules would apply to these servers as they would to art sites when people make homages of the copyrighted characters, if they're not blatantly making tons of money off of it there's no action even with the ad revenue the sites generate, hence why there's so much fan art out there, which again goes to further popularize these properties. If said Wolver1ne claws/regen scrapper in yellow/blue tighties player wants to stay as they are then I'd hope they'd remain low profile and try not to appear on any streams or then yeah they are openly leaving their fate to the gods.

I'm not really feeling the pettiness of labeling anyone that wants to make homages of characters they enjoy in real life onto this game as tacky or any other label you'd like to portray onto them. This is just another avenue of release for our fiction by the way. I don't find it tacky in the least if someone is creative enough to use this extensive costume creator to recreate the look of some of their favorite characters. What I don't like is all of a sudden companies stray into ownership of words and colors. Like say I have a tank that has "Woman" in it and has a sparkly gold, red and blue costume, where does a company get to say they have any leeway into any of that? Sure if it is "Wonder Woman" with all the glitzy look that may be treading on thin ice but I'd still air on the side of this is a not-for-profit entity so I can RP as I damn well please, plus it's more engraining these characters into culture so all the better for these companies. This being a not for profit business model business entities will have very little legal legs to stand on if they should take offense to someone using the full name and look of one of their characters. Likely they'd see it as a waste of money and resources chasing down something that doesn't make any money for them to profit off of a copyright infringement case. Anybody can draw anything they like for fun, they just can't sell Superman comic books with the same name and look without giving the companies that own said characters a cut. To each their own basically sums up my take.

If you'd like me to PL you with my Mind dom @VV I'd be more than happy to. I'll even let you pick whatever group of enemies you'd like and the settings then you can go make some popcorn. Confuse on a dom should neither be considered a hold nor soft control. Nor should any loss in xp/influence be considered when the time spent killing said group is amplified way more than a little loss in xp. If you're doing it right though you should be dropping that mass confuse and blasting them with your aoe's as they blast each other so there's minimal loss in xp/inf. Tweaks to Mind sure but this defeatist attitude is loathsome when I look at how strong my Mind dom is it makes me wonder do people play the same game? Maybe it's me, I've been playing a Mind dom since day 1 of villains but we are way past the learning curve where anyone worth their salt should have caught up by now, especially with all of the new toys that have been added on that doms can take advantage of.

It's highly probable there's some old devs playing on HC. It was great of them to leak out the code so their baby didn't just die off and yeah I'm happy to have their expertise aiding the game. They should remain in the shadows, they're not the heroes we want but the heroes we deserve. I would though like to take this moment to stare menacingly at them while asking where's the last 4 incarnate powers and content they promised? Hopefully that'll scare them into divulging details into making the stuff that was planned happen. Thanks to the anonymous ones out there!

You guys are crazy! Good builds can get that down to 2 mins or so. It's a big instant stop all things power, gets great set bonuses since it can slot the purple set to 5 with the proc plus the pvp proc for very good aoe damage since the procs are almost sure fire plus there's the benefit of holding a large group in place along with that damage. You could also even proc it out with all kinds of hold damage procs for a mini nuke. Lots of wasted potential not taking your standard aoe hold.

Plant likely as a control since it does good damage plus the vines each hold their own aggro. There's a few ways you could go with assault, either great ST damage for finishing the tougher targets faster or more aoe. I'd highly recommend Soul Mastery though, Soul Drain amps up your damage plus it does good aoe damage on use then you can get a good ranged aoe and also if that's not enough the end drain also does decent aoe damage too, fills your endurance, and procs well since it's a long recharge.

Before IO's I used to run this sf with my mind dom using the perma sleep method and 2 kins to keep me perma. Understanding that this thing might actually be hard especially if you don't have any level 50 teammates might have been the first indicator of potential failure. Nowadays my dom can just alpha zerg it so out went that sleep. But yeah for sure try to separate them and at the very least Numina HAS to go down first even if it costs all of you you're demise.

Don't get too comfortable with that, the most likely day to be fired is Friday even if it's your day off, they even made a movie about it.

I'm not against tweaks to Mind Control since it is an original powerset and Plant being a later set does outclass it. For someone that knows how to play Mind Control well though the limitations are not what some perceive them to be and we can do quite a bit more than Plant in some areas. I do agree it is bullshit that Plant gets a very large cone confuse at level 8 that recharges faster than Mind's signature power. I would not reduce the recharge on Mass Confusion in any way, I can see it being OP as soon as that would hit the market, but I wouldn't be against adding some kind of other affect to it be it a damage proc or debuff or something. Then the Seeds recharge would have to be raised quite a bit. I'd also like to see TK get some tweak to something like that new gravity pet and likely the target cap raised from 5 to at least 8. No allowable IO sets still though, pulsing procs would be too strong I'd think. And then maybe move levitate down to t4 and up confuse and dominate to t2 and t3. No pets needed though.

I aim for 85-100% additional recharge on top of hasten and then I'll dedicate usually that last slot to picking up defense bonuses from the sets that can do so. Recharge first, defense bonuses and then also hp once you're comfortable with your recharge situation.

Yes it was even kind of a tough fight even for level 50's with IO'd builds. Things changed with incarnates but even a good team of 50's minus incarnates would have to tread carefully on the last fight.

You could amp up the patriotism and make yourself a Shield tank. A well designed shield is a great looking accessory and if you're worried about looking too much like Captain America to hell with him, shields were around way longer than comic books. As for assaults pretty much what fits your fancy, the mace of justice would look cool. I know we have staff's but I do wish we had some kind of spear assault that could be used with shields, I'd love to make a badass Spartan.

Oh yeah looks like you do have Rune. What I'd likely do is drop Propel since almost every attack in Energy is better (but it is neat to throw a garbage can at someone, but effective?). Total Focus is a must like @oedipus_tex says, it makes Power Burst into an animal of a power, but that also means you'll need to adapt to play more melee hybrid. Whirling Hands after the latest nerf is meh again, for that animation I usually just have it for the Winter set bonuses and use it little or I trade it out for the Soul Mastery aoe blast which animates much faster with near the same damage and also does -tohitt. I also have been getting used to taking Bone Smasher since it does -special with it's release which is good against AV's if you team a lot and do lots of tf's. Oh and yeah definitely tactics over assault every day, it's better to instantly lock all critters down than missing some so that +tohitt power helps tons plus you can slot the Gaussian +build up effect.

I have to agree vengeance is a nice power to have and a nice little LotG mule but if your build isn't hanging by a thread for that 7.5% recharge bonus then I find some other teammate will likely have vengeance so you can find yourself another stronger more active power. Like Rune of Protection yeah if you're going Sorcery for Enflame anyways.

Make whatever association you will about them and whatever connotation you think being 4chan related even means. I recently gave them a try and within a day a few people found out I was new to their server and emailed me money to get me going. I didn't have that happen to me on this server, although this was a while ago and I do feed new people money on this server, so it's good people on each side. They may be cheeky but if you don't go around being offended by everything Thunderspy is just fine, they have their morality code just the same as here, one of their codes is not to come to other servers and trash them, live and let live pretty much. Within the first days of playing there I found out I was playing with their powers dev testing their new shotgun attacks. That's pretty great to just randomly play with the person adjusting your powers. I don't play MM's but I'd think the option of being able to craft your own henchmen's look would be fantastic even if you do have to use a few of the 10 costume slots you get, it's better than not even having that option. Edit: I also didn't realize this topic was this old and necro'd

Of the 1st 3 powers in the primary and secondary your lvl 2 power should be either Dominate or Bone Smasher, depends on how much control or damage you prefer, I will not have both powers. I'll also skip Mass Hypnosis, you're more than fine with Mass Confusion, Total Domination and Terrify with your aoe control. You'll also want Hasten, it's too good of a power and it's a free 70% recharge which is huge for doms. My controls I go with Mesmerize, Confuse, Total Domination, Terrify and Mass Confusion. The assault I take the t1 but don't slot nor use it, then I have Bone Smasher, Power Up, Whirling Hands, TF, Snipe and Power Burst. My pools are Speed, Fighting, Leadership, Force of Will and Soul Mastery. They fit my play style very much. I play on Excelsior if you ever want to see how it performs.