Illusion or Plant primary Darkness secondary & Psionic Mastery

[Zizzy]

I'm looking for builds that revolve around these possibilities and I am new to the controller AT's. The main focus would be AOE lockdowns. Earth appears to be really good too as a primary, but for some reason not that popular?

[Psyonico]

Illusion isn't great at AoE lockdown. It's more crowd control.

 

Dark and Earth are both great for lock down.  Earth is probably slightly better than Dark.

[Zizzy]

I personally like Grav/Dark but can't see a way to keep things juggling properly. I must be doing builds wrong with this. Does anyone have some Mids of proper builds so i can understand this AT a little more?

[Riverdusk]

Earth probably isn't as popular as it is lighter in damage.  Illusion and plant are both at the upper end for controller damage (ST for illusion, AoE for plant).  Earth is going to be better at actual aoe lockdown potential though. 

 

As said, illusion doesn't really have hard aoe control (except flash which stinks I usually personally skip.  So you'd need to get it more from your secondary and /dark doesn't really have much in the way of hard aoe control either.   So, don't think that one would be what you seem to want.  My illusion/rad locks down big groups pretty quick, but that's thanks to choking cloud more than anything in my primary and you have to be willing to run into the thick of things.

 

Plant might work for you, although it is more about the aoe confuse.  Personally I consider that just as good, if not better, than locking things down with a stun or hold.   I tend to consider plant pretty much the easiest controller to play as well, so might be good if you are new to the AT.

 

 

 

[Riverdusk]

10 minutes ago, Zizzy said:

I personally like Grav/Dark but can't see a way to keep things juggling properly. I must be doing builds wrong with this. Does anyone have some Mids of proper builds so i can understand this AT a little more?

 

There's an illusion/dark build not too much further down.  

 

 

And here's a plant/dark:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Riverdusk]

And few more pages down found a grav/dark for you:

 

 

[mistagoat]

Dark is such an amazing secondary! It can really turn any troller into a tank with softcapped defense and hardcapped s/l resistance. I've decided to try every primary with dark, I only have 3 and a half left (half cuz I'm currently leveling an earth/dark) Plant will be the more traditional lock em down troller set while illusion will be more of an elegant chaos build. Both would be a blast and also very safe and effective builds. I'd give the edge to Illusion for its ability to take down hard targets solo. Even when an AV has their immunity phase where you can't get any holds or stuns off, your Phantom Army is still there taking all those punches for you and laughing!

 

Build em both! Or choose one and then pair the other primary with Storm! They both go great with Storm too and that really kicks up the damage quite a bit!

 

You can't make a bad choice!