honoroitisfantastic POLL: Controller - best of AT 2023

[honoroit]

POLL: Controller - best of AT

 

- best primary

 

- best secondary

 

- best epic power pool

 

¡you can choose however you like!

• Most Effective Tactic Available
• My favorite
• My desert island power picks
• If there could be only 1

[honoroit]

symphony/dark/mace for me

 

grav/kin/mace is good

 

fire / thermal / fire - joshua rosfield themed

[Procellus]

Storm Summoning is the Ralph Wiggum of secondaries. 

[honoroit]

1 hour ago, Procellus said:

Storm Summoning is the Ralph Wiggum of secondaries. 

 

is that good or bad? 🙂 

[egoprovince]

10 hours ago, honoroit said:

 

is that good or bad? 🙂 

Yes? /Storm is great but I found it exhausting to play.

[JStacy337]

Ill/Storm/Psi with as much KB as possible: Just make the battlefield one giant chaos bubble!

[Without_Pause]

This, as always, depends on what on defines as best. Plus, I think at what point does one try to take a look at the set and determine what its value is? I don't know enough about the various sets to really rank things, but I know Earth and Ill I would consider S tier for very different reasons. I need to IO out a few Plant builds, but I think that could join the list. Again, more work needs to be done, but I think /da currently is my favorite. 

[Ringo]

On 9/16/2023 at 8:28 PM, egoprovince said:

Yes? /Storm is great but I found it exhausting to play.

Pair it with Plant.  Roots keeps everything right where you want it, but still allows knockdown from Sleet/Tornado/Lightning Storm for mitigation

 

Slightly at odds with Seeds of Confusion, but by the time you're throwing all your /Storm stuff you really only use Seeds as a way to mitigate the Alpha strike

[biostem]

I have a very support-oriented earth/pain/stone controller - slow-going solo, but very fun to play while teamed.  You have a great variety of buffs and debuffs to work with, and it's quite amusing to turn your animated stone into a painbringer with enforced morale!

Edited September 22 by biostem

[nihilii]

I have a soft spot for Symphony. Really brings out some damage while being a fully fledged control set.

Illusion is probably objectively best.

 

Dark Affinity for secondary. The controller version is just too good, gets the best of Dark which was already a strong defender set, and stacks heavy buffs on top.

Psionic Mastery for epic is my favorite choice. Perma mez protection allows for maximum comfort. Controller epics are in a good spot overall, Psi isn't a clear winner with Primal and Stone offering sizeable boosts in other areas.