Hybrid for Illusion/Darkness Affinity

[Apparition]

I can't decide on a Hybrid Incarnate for my Illusion/Darkness Affinity Controller.  Does the Assault Radial Hybrid work on the pets?  Would either of the Control Hybrid Incarnate be "better?"  It doesn't feel like it would, because outside of Blind, Deceive, and Spectral Terror, there honestly isn't a lot of "controlling" going on with Illusion.

[Uun]

Assault will work on Phantasm (as well as Spectral Terror and Dark Servant, but neither does much in the way of damage). I don't know if Radial will have a chance to proc on Phantom Army damage. Normally Phantom Army ignores external buffs. Control Core will proc damage on confused and terrorized foes (in addition to held, slept, immobilized and stunned), but the amount of damage is pretty small. I don't think Control Radial is particularly useful. My recommendation would be Support Radial. It's a league-wide buff to damage, defense, healing and accuracy, plus it gives you an auto endurance discount.

[R jobbus]

again hate to revive an old topic, but does anyone know the best hybrid for illusion. I'm doing illusion/marine and it's great but if assault doesn't increase phantom army damage i may go something else.

 

no hybrid incarnates mess with phantom army damage? any up to date suggestions on this? If i'm soloing mostly

[Uun]

2 hours ago, R jobbus said:

again hate to revive an old topic, but does anyone know the best hybrid for illusion. I'm doing illusion/marine and it's great but if assault doesn't increase phantom army damage i may go something else.

 

no hybrid incarnates mess with phantom army damage? any up to date suggestions on this? If i'm soloing mostly

I've got Support on my Ill/Poison and can confirm that it doesn't buff Phantom Army, although it does buff Phantasm. Support is a league-wide buff however, so always good on teams. 

 

I've got Control Core on my Ill/Time. The status resistance and +1 mag work on you. Since Phantom Army doesn't mezz, they won't proc Waylay damage but Spectral Terror will. If you go Control Radial, Phantom Army should proc fear and immobilize with their attacks, but I don't think that's particularly useful.

 

I haven't tested Assault Radial w/ Phantom Army. 

Update: Both Assault Core and Assault Radial work with Phantom Army, however:

• Assault must be activated before summoning Phantom Army. If you activate Assault after summoning Phantom Army, it does nothing.
• Assault Radial doesn't double the heal-back damage when calculating Double Hit damage. (Note, Double Hit damage is energy, not psi.)
• The damage buff from Assault Core is more variable and depends on how many stacks are active at the moment. With the maximum of 5 stacks, Core seems to add more damage than Radial.

Edited October 30 by Uun
Update

[R jobbus]

1 hour ago, Uun said:

I've got Support on my Ill/Poison and can confirm that it doesn't buff Phantom Army, although it does buff Phantasm. Support is a league-wide buff however, so always good on teams. 

 

I've got Control Core on my Ill/Time. The status resistance and +1 mag work on you. Since Phantom Army doesn't mezz, they won't proc Waylay damage but Spectral Terror will. If you go Control Radial, Phantom Army should proc fear and immobilize with their attacks, but I don't think that's particularly useful.

 

I haven't tested Assault Radial w/ Phantom Army. 

Update: Both Assault Core and Assault Radial work with Phantom Army, however:

• Assault must be activated before summoning Phantom Army. If you activate Assault after summoning Phantom Army, it does nothing.
• Assault Radial doesn't double the heal-back damage when calculating Double Hit damage. (Note, Double Hit damage is energy, not psi.)
• The damage buff from Assault Core is more variable and depends on how many stacks are active at the moment. With the maximum of 5 stacks, Core seems to add more damage than Radial.

 

Thanks alot for the response. it sounds like assault core is what i'll do then. But the point about activating it before summoning is something I definitely did not know either.

 

 

[Uun]

1 hour ago, R jobbus said:

Thanks alot for the response. it sounds like assault core is what i'll do then. But the point about activating it before summoning is something I definitely did not know either.

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