Earth/Narture

[IUIXIUI]

Focusing on an 8 man team/TF build

 

I like to hang out in the back of the fight so am less concerned about my own survivability. Just want to avoid mez and kb.  Trying to maximize recharge rate for my big buffs and my AoE debuffs and status effect abilities. Cost of build is not a concern, open for suggestion on how to improve or change for the better.

 

This Hero build was built using Mids Reborn 3.2.17
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Level 50 Magic Controller
Primary Power Set: Earth Control
Secondary Power Set: Nature Affinity
Power Pool: Speed
Power Pool: Leadership
Power Pool: Sorcery
Ancillary Pool: Primal Forces Mastery

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Fossilize

• (A) Unbreakable Constraint - Hold
• (3) Unbreakable Constraint - Hold/Recharge
• (3) Unbreakable Constraint - Accuracy/Hold/Recharge
• (5) Unbreakable Constraint - Accuracy/Recharge
• (5) Unbreakable Constraint - Endurance/Hold
• (7) Unbreakable Constraint - Chance for Smashing Damage
  

Level 1: Corrosive Enzymes

• (A) Accuracy IO
• (7) Accuracy IO
  

Level 2: Regrowth

• (A) Preventive Medicine - Heal
• (11) Preventive Medicine - Heal/Endurance
• (11) Preventive Medicine - Endurance/RechargeTime
• (13) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime
• (13) Preventive Medicine - Heal/RechargeTime/Endurance
• (15) Preventive Medicine - Chance for +Absorb
  

Level 4: Stone Cages

• (A) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Control Duration
• (15) Superior Will of the Controller - Control Duration/Recharge
• (17) Superior Will of the Controller - Endurance/Recharge
• (17) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Control Duration/Endurance
• (19) Superior Will of the Controller - Accuracy/Control Duration/Endurance/Recharge
  

Level 6: Super Speed

• (A) Blessing of the Zephyr - Knockback Reduction (4 points)
• (19) Celerity - +Stealth
  

Level 8: Wild Growth

• (A) Panacea - Heal/Endurance
• (21) Panacea - Heal/Recharge
• (21) Panacea - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (23) Panacea - Heal
• (23) Panacea - +Hit Points/Endurance
  

Level 10: Quicksand

• (A) Ice Mistral's Torment - Endurance/Slow
• (25) Ice Mistral's Torment - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance/Recharge
• (25) Ice Mistral's Torment - Damage/Recharge
• (27) Ice Mistral's Torment - Damage/Slow
• (27) Ice Mistral's Torment - Accuracy/Damage/Endurance
  

Level 12: Spore Cloud

• (A) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
• (29) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
• (29) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
• (31) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
  

Level 14: Maneuvers

• (A) Karma - Knockback Protection
• (31) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

Level 16: Lifegiving Spores

• (A) Panacea - Heal/Endurance
• (31) Panacea - Endurance/Recharge
• (33) Panacea - Heal/Recharge
• (33) Panacea - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (33) Panacea - Heal
  

Level 18: Tactics

• (A) Adjusted Targeting - Endurance/Recharge
• (34) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff
• (34) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
• (34) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance/Recharge
• (36) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance
  

Level 20: Earthquake

• (A) Achilles' Heel - Chance for Res Debuff
• (36) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff
• (36) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge
• (37) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Endurance
• (37) Dark Watcher's Despair - To Hit Debuff/Recharge/Endurance
  

Level 22: Wild Bastion

• (A) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance
• (37) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Recharge
• (39) Doctored Wounds - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (39) Doctored Wounds - Heal
• (39) Doctored Wounds - Recharge
  

Level 24: Spirit Ward

• (A) Panacea - Heal/Endurance
• (40) Panacea - Endurance/Recharge
• (40) Panacea - Heal/Recharge
• (40) Panacea - Heal/Endurance/Recharge
• (42) Panacea - Heal
  

Level 26: Volcanic Gasses

• (A) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Hold
• (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Recharge
• (42) Basilisk's Gaze - Accuracy/Endurance/Recharge/Hold
• (43) Basilisk's Gaze - Recharge/Hold
  

Level 28: Rebirth

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 30: Hasten

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (43) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 32: Salt Crystals

• (A) Fortunata Hypnosis - Chance for Placate
• (43) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep
• (45) Fortunata Hypnosis - Sleep/Recharge
• (45) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Recharge
• (45) Fortunata Hypnosis - Accuracy/Sleep/Recharge
  

Level 35: Stalagmites

• (A) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Stun/Recharge
• (46) Absolute Amazement - Accuracy/Recharge
• (46) Absolute Amazement - Chance for ToHit Debuff
• (46) Absolute Amazement - Stun/Recharge
• (48) Absolute Amazement - Stun
  

Level 38: Overgrowth

• (A) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff
• (48) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Recharge
• (48) Adjusted Targeting - To Hit Buff/Endurance/Recharge
• (50) Adjusted Targeting - Recharge
• (50) Adjusted Targeting - Endurance/Recharge
  

Level 41: Conserve Power

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 44: Temp Invulnerability

• (A) Steadfast Protection - Knockback Protection
  

Level 47: Power Boost

• (A) Recharge Reduction IO
• (50) Recharge Reduction IO
  

Level 49: Vengeance

• (A) Luck of the Gambler - Defense/Increased Global Recharge Speed
  

Level 1: Brawl

• (A) Empty
  

Level 1: Containment 

Level 1: Sprint

[IUIXIUI]

Anyone have any constructive feedback to improve it?

[Wimbochismo]

Whoops! Looks like your post kept getting buried but I remembered seeing it. This forum is movin' and groovin'. Hopefully you're still enjoying the character.

 

There's a couple of aspects to talk about here. You'd like to avoid mez and there's a few ways to do this. Some low hanging fruit are powers such as Rune of Protection and several Incarnate powers at the high end. If you can't fit those into your build, there is also ranged defense. If ranged powers aren't hitting you in the first place, ranged mezzes won't hit you either. Also, diligent use of Control powers to lock down enemies etc.

 

Next up is recharge. Unfortunately it is almost impossible to get Wild Bastion and Overgrowth 100% perma without going after unreasonable amounts of recharge. This will end up causing you to make sacrifices in other aspects of your build for minimal gain. Fortunately you can still get them down to ~5s off without fighting for every second. It's also not life or death to get them perma'd. On the other hand, Wild Growth is easy to make perma and is more important for the resists.

 

Right now your build basically has no defense and low resistances. Even if you have access to heals and try to stay back, in harder content where your controls might not be effective you're going to be taking crippling hits. 

 

Advice breakdown:

• Cut back on the recharge and boost ranged defense. You can probably get to around ~5s off perma Hasten and then use an Alpha Incarnate that boosts recharge to get over perma Hasten. You'd have to pick up defense toggles and drop some other powers to go this route.
• Beef up your resistance toggles and Wild Growth for resistance. Nature boosts resistance well and you should try to take advantage.
• Salt Crystals is skippable. Sleeps are weak cc and its only addition is -def.
• Quicksand is skippable but nice to have. It's autohit which can help for some enemies.
• Entangling Aura is very nice on Controller's unless you can't stand it. The hold stacks with itself and gives you good survivability. Entangling Aura + Fossilize should hold most melee attackers.

I'll attach a build with my idea's for reference. It has about ~5s off perma Hasten, with Agility Core it's over perma Hasten. Wild Growth will be perma with or without Agility. Ranged defense is 41.8, s/l resistance 75, other resistances are at a better baseline. I tried to keep all of your powers with a few exclusions. This is a no dmg build and Stone Cages is typically used to setup Containment, so it is skipped here. Quicksand and Salt Crystals were also dropped. If you hate Entangling Aura you could drop it for Quicksand.

Controller (Earth Control - Nature Affinity).mbd

[Doomguide2005]

Have to get the builds on my computer to get a good look.  Leveling one right now, they're about 30th as recall

[Uun]

• Slot Wild Growth to max resist first, then slot for healing. I typically slot 3-4 pieces of a resist set and 2-3 pieces of a healing set.
• While the set bonuses are nice, Quicksand doesn't need more than a recharge or slow in the base slot.
• Earthquake is fine with 2x recharge IOs.
• YMMV, but I'm not impressed with Lifegiving Spores. Skippable in my book.
• Spirit Ward is completely unnecessary, especially if you're not going for Rune of Protection (which would give you some mezz protection).
• Drop Salt Crystals.
• Take Animate Stone. Very sturdy and will take aggro off you (all its attacks taunt).
• Take Entangling Aura. Very effective and doesn't need more than 2-3 end/hold IOs.

[LyraLangston]

It is good, thank you so much for the information.