[What's the deal with Controllers at 50?]

On 6/15/2019 at 2:31 PM, Sovera said:

Though I was shouted down when I said it it's still my opinion that controllers are completely obsolete in the game as it stands now. Even as we level I don't feel it matters if we are there or not. We can be all proud of ourselves by locking a pack down and the team is killing it without a problem, but then go AFK and come back to see the team kept on going and had no problem in our absence. We do not add damage and our control is hardly needed.

 

We may *feel* we are useful, but in fact we are a lot of flash and little substance.

 

At 50 it just gets worse when people start slotting up for real. So what I do is work towards buffing and damage. We may not be *needed*, but we can speed things up to it takes less time. Taking less time is always appreciated. We work damage in so that we can help some, because, again, speed things up.

 

Playing a corruptor or even a mastermind is more useful than a controller, in my opinion. A MM in particular can set their pets on aggressive on a pack along with the team, do damage, and just focus on their secondary to do some locking up or add buffs/debuffs. A corruptor will do this but with even more damage and no need to re-summon things.

 

Me, for the heck of it and because I like the imps, I'm playing a fire/kin. Notice how it works with what I said. I'm buffing the party so they mow down faster, and with containment and pets and hotfeet I'm adding damage. And, yeah, I guess, I can do a bit of CC for the heck of it, but as you've noticed no one really cares about it. Even half slotted teams will mow down a TF.

 

Now that said you picked an unfortunate combo. FF is weak nowadays. You could have gone for Cold and achieve just a smidgen less defense in your shields but also add a brutal -regen on AVS which *would* help the team defeat an AV faster, and a nice combo of CC and -res to help kill faster with Sleet. Nothing in FF is really helping PA either though neither will Cold.

 

Time is a good baby since you buff your party, debuff the enemies to take more damage, has a heal you can spam and keep everyone topped off, and important, helps you boost your own defenses so you are not squishy (you can reach the defense softcap with it). Squishy is just a bad idea.

 

There are those here (because we are in the Controllers sub-forum, and those who are here do so because they love their characters) who will say that no, Controllers are useful, but, eh, I say join a group, help them kill a few packs, then say you need to pick up the phone and watch them. Does their HP dip? Does anyone die? Is their progress slowed?

Absolutely agree with the above. 'Trollers were my thing back on live, but i just can't see the point on homecoming. 

[Ice / Ice Blaster question about Ice Storm and Proc]

I slotted a chance for immob and a chance for -dmg res in Ice Storm and after testing it against large groups @-1 lvl and below, ive only ever seen either proc trigger once on a single target. It's like you only get the chance to proc on the first hit, or maybe a missed dmg tick in Ice Storms attack cycle creates a cancel on miss that kills any chance for further procage?

I dunno what gives, but id say based on the above that procs in Ice Storm appear to be a waste of time.

[Ice Blast guide?]

Given all the talk about PPM, are there any blasters out there that can offer advice on effective proc slotting in Ice Blast?

I'm at the stage with my Ice/Nrg build (lv34) where most of my attacks are now 4 slotted and im looking at what kind of juicy proc action i can add in for the 5th and maybe 6th slot.

There appears to be lots of options. There's a unique 'Chance 4 Buildup' in one of the ranged sets that i want to use. A 'Chance 4 -Dmg Res' that id like to slip in to a couple of powers. Plus there's multiple 'Chance 4 Additional Dmg' procs available in toxic, energy, negative and smashing dmg flavours.

I was thinkin' of putting the Chance4BU and Chance4-DmgRes in the 5th and 6th slot of my cone. Im also thinking of adding a Chance4-DmgRes to each of my aoe's, but im just running and gunning here.

Any seasoned ice blasters or wisened ppm masters out there with an angle on all this? Penny for your thoughts, thx.

[thinking of making new blaster, but...]

Water Works

[Howdy from @Riff]

Hiya, i recognise your chat handle from old times.

Im currently playing as Night Shield (previous global was Thelema), we've teamed up a couple of times already :)

 

Let the good times roll!

[Hero Designer for Mac OS?]

Hi guys,

 

Is there a way to get Mids Designer to work with Mac OS? Or is there another planner out there that will?

 

I used to love tinkering in Mids back in the day, but unfortunatley i don't have a pc at the moment.

 

Sorry if this has been asked before.

[Defiant Roll Call]

Hi all. Just rejoined yesterday and it's great to be back in business again :)

 

I used to have the global handle of Thelema or Thelema418, I can't remember which. My mains on hero side were Thelonius Monk (scrapper) and Babalon (controller), Zechariah Rush (Controller), Rinkydink (scrapper) and a few others I can't remember. Also long time member of the 47 Ties.

 

I now go under the global of Necessity Bear. Current main on Hero's is Night Shield. Hit me up if you remember me!

 

Also, came here looking for Niko AKA Herald Of Glory and Song AKA Lil' Crazy (sorry can't remember your handle  exactly, but you know who you are!). Also Deja Who if you're out there. Get in touch!

 

See you in game!