DreadShinobi

Without factoring in anything about dominators...

The reason Mind Controllers are 'less good' (notice how I didn't say bad) than other Controllers is their lack of a mass immobilize power. Mass immobs just add so much to controllers both offensively and defensively (especially with Grav Anchor proc) that the lack of it does set back Mind quite a bit. Yes, they have other ways to set up containment, but its in no way comparable to the utility of having a mass immobilize. Immobilizes also help enormously in situations with ambushes (Katie and Apex are a good example of where having a troller with a mass immob can make a massive difference), as well as keeping AVs from running around.

Illusion doesn't have an immobilize. It sucks that it doesn't, but the unique properties of PA make up for this loss more than certain things in mind control make up for its lack of a mass immob.

1) It keeps it even across all ATs and power sets.

2) Required Damaging Ability

3) Part of Having a Primary set and a Secondary set is that you have just that, and not 2 equal primary sets. Your Primary is supposed to be stronger than your secondary in addition to it progressing faster. Part of it progressing faster means having more options at level 1 (and all the way up to tier 9 you will be unlocking primary powers faster than secondary powers)

using OG to stack stun magnitude works well. I use a similar strat on my dark miasma toon stacking OG with Howling Twilight for the mag 4 stun.

I'd say Nightfall is overkill on aoe since your primary is fire, and I'd only use Soul Tentacles for the immob (slot it for damage though, unless grabbing set bonuses). You could probably do something like Soul Tentacles-> Fire Breath while jumping into melee->Dark Pit while OG triggers->RoF/Fire Ball. If you are worried about alphas, you could lead with dark pit and use soul tentacles while jumping in for OG to go off, then use RoF/Fire Ball. if needed you can jump out to use Fire Breath, then jump back in. Being able to use Cones quickly while moving in to a mob will make your toon alot more effective.

Just cause you have cones doesnt mean you have to stay at range, especially if you're using combat jumping you can easily use your cones as you are running into melee, then use your Fire Ball and Rain of Fire while you are in melee. Everything should be pretty much dead at this point sans bosses which will be stunned. At this point you will want to be in melee anyways so you can use Smite and Midnight Grasp to down bosses faster.

I agree completely with any changes made to Synapse, currently it is the most annoying chore in making another toon, knowing that I have to spend 60-90 minutes of grinding at lvl 20 through defeat all after defeat all of clockworks.

Really all it needs is changes to the strings of defeat alls and/or removal of a couple defeat alls. The TF should be completable in under 60 minutes by most groups to put it more in line with the completion time of other TFC TFs.

I don't really ever say that I can solo +4x8 cause I think it's a pretty silly way to back up an argument.

But if I were to say it, it would definitely mean not dieing while doing it and specifying what enemy groups you were fighting and what kind of insps you used (if any) to make it possible.

I would also say your killing speed would be important as well, as saying you can solo on +4x8 is basically saying you consider X enemy group farmable with Y build, if you can't kill them consistantly fast there isn't much point to it.

If kill speed wasn't a factor you could make a Stone/SS tank, IO it out for pure survivability and only take Jab, sure you could probably solo many enemy groups at 4/8 and come out on top, but you're not going to be killing fast in any sense of the word.

Now a days, the cool kids are getting perma hasten with only the base slot in hasten.

Still no titan weapons, which means waiting another week unless you guys do another weird thursday release. I am disappoint.

It's really unfortunate that Shield isn't an option, because playing a Scrapper without a taunt aura sucks, and playing a secondary without some form of offense also sucks. With that said I'd go /WP (or Invul if you don't like WP), cause everything else doesn't have a taunt aura and with all the AoE in Titan Weapons you will want a taunt aura.

Where is my titan weapons? >: (

What is EM? I srs. I haven't seen anyone playing an EM Brute in I have no clue how long. Really, no one plays it any more and for good reason.

Indeed, base raiding was alot of fun.

Fire/Em.

Fire provides all the aoe you need, EM provides you with st abilties to chain with blaze as well as stellar mitigation when solo.

It's a known issue, you will have to watch for the floating text above your head and the red text on your status bar to see disintigrations until its fixed.