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If you play a Team Buffer (I don't think you do but anyway) there's one in my Sig for controlling which icons you see in the Team, pet and/or your own Buff window. What makes it useful though is that it has one option which right-clicking on them doesn't, the ability to hide Toggle powers. My Plant/Emp loves this set of menus / commands. Since most melee types can have 3-5 toggles running it helps cut down the clutter you see on those windows. I'd still kill for a way to hide Insps and hide any buff which didn't originate from you though.

Here's the Slash Command for setting Stacking to Numeric and hiding all Auto and Toggles in the Team window :

/optionset buffsettings 1250067

And for defaulting everything :

optionset buffsettings 0

obviously you can Bind and Macro it as well.

When leveraged right Storm is a monster. Unfortunately with Storm there's a bit of disparity between the sets which can leverage it right and those which can't. On something without -knockback it can be awfully disruptive, especially its Tier 8 (and to a lesser extent its Tier 9). If you've got an AOE Immob with -kb though those two become out and out monsters again, especially Tornado.

I wouldn't be against giving Tornado Knockup instead of knockdown. You can overcome that by jump-casting or hover-casting LS above the enemies, although changing that to knockdown too would be nice.

Giving LS Jolting Chain on a 10 second timer as extra soft AOE control would be nice too.

Burn is a bit of both from what I can tell. There's frontloaded damage which counts as a standard PBAOE and therefore uses the Casters damage cap and the DoT flame patch which is a pseudopet and does about 50% of the damage of the initial pbaoe over 10 seconds with the 400% cap.

Hurrah for Block Content, blocks both the background image and the top banner image for me (a banner which eats up 25% of the verticial space available is obnoxious).

When this new image appears it too will be fed to the Block Monster.

There's no challenge even if you're level 29 in Talos on one. The sheer number of Incarnates and Lore Pets makes it a pretty pointless exercise. I just moved to Talos 2 and ran Radio missions instead.

For a genius with intricate plans-within-plans why does this one sound like something Zapp Brannigan came up with? ("I'll send wave after wave to a pointless death so that eventually the heroes will get bored and give up"). One would hope the real Nemesis is off doing something cunning and sneaky while his men and bots do their pointless Zerg.

Every 10 seconds you've a chance of giving your enemies back some Endurance. Because they're the ones affected by the End Mod.

ie Bad Thing

Corruptors wouldn't need this, but I always thought that as the Defender inherent a modified version of this would be really cool (Defenders getting some sort of minor, appropriate non-stackable buff when they use 3 or 4 of the core powers in their set).

That really puts into perspective how hideously overpriced these were. 70 quid!!

Bars of chocolate can be trained?

The stop KB point is also a good one. Normally past the first 5 seconds I don't want things knocked back out of the patches I've placed, or in the case of my GunCrab I don't want to Frag Grenade things away from the main melee, so firing off Web Grenade makes sense.

It sets up Containment (and also gains from it: Useful for Plant). Also for my Dark/Time it's got a 7.5% to hit debuff which stacks with Fearsome Stare. And I've a few procs in there.

If I'm on a team with an Ice or an Earth I move it though (unless I'm on my plant because Plant can't help it anyway, Creepers and Flytrap also have AOE immobs, plus Plants does decent damage). I have a few Ice Dominators so I understand what a pain in the **** it is to have someone Fire Cage your Patch. Most depressing is when it's an Earth Control person doing it : "You should know better! *sob*"

Ice Slick really should have something extra though. It trades the -ToHit Earthquake has for a bit more slippyness. Some useful debuffage would be good (I think -damage as no Controller primary has that and it's a nice counter to the -toHit in quake). That or a Chance to Stun or something (something like Shadow Field but with Stuns)

Aye, but you can get the AOE power 3 levels after you get Fluffy

Most controllers don't get meaningful AOE damage suitable for containing until the APPs anyway (Fire, maybe Plant and maybe Mind) and you do notice the lack of Containment damage in the 40s. PAs are great but they're a bit too random to be true AOE damage.

Aye, Loki comes out with one of the most withering one-line insults I think I've ever heard and said with such malevolent relish.

This. Saw it last night and it's just an excellent action movie. There are some small Josh Wheldon-esque things in it but they're for the most part pretty funny.

My favourite thing about the whole movie was Banner / Hulk. Mark Ruffalo is excellent and the character finally gets to be fun for a change (with some pretty dark one liners thrown in by Banner as well along the way).

I'm kinda sure that Thorns is one set which doesn't actually suffer from redraw. It's more like a Fire Sword or Stone Mallet, the animation is baked into the power. Hence why the customisation is done on the powers screen for it.

Mind you a Bow set wouldn't have that advantage. The worst offender is going to be the single target hold though, so I wonder if they could just do weapon-carrying alternate animations for those and at least alleviate the issue?

Avast or AVG, Hijack This and Spybot - Search and Destroy. Although apparently the Windows antivirus is quite good too so I've heard. All of em are free (free is good)

McAfee came on my PC too and I've had it with its renegade ways. Twice in the last two days it's decided to restart my machine to update itself, even though I told it not to, both times I was leading 8 man teams.

I ran DFBs up to about level 15, by then I had a couple of AOEs so things were less boring and moved to Cap. After that a few teams got me to 20 and I ran -1x0 Rogue Tips to get me to Rogue quickly. Since then I've just been forming or joining 8 man teams in Talos and it's pretty good fun.