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I don't know either.

Only on Pinnacle.

I have a 50 dominator. I'm guessing those are useful for this.

I miss Hamidon raids too. It's the one place where people ask me to heal with my storm summoner.

This thread needs to be stickied so that people know how to make quote pyramids on the new forums.

As far as I know yes.

A misspelled signature.

If I remember right, the flier respawns on a thirty minute timer. The part that's confusing is that the thirty minutes isn't based on when it's destroyed. Every thirty minutes the mission checks if the flier is alive and if it's not it pops out a new one.

Or you could just turn assault off when it's not needed.

cold, rad, or storm as the primary and sonic as the secondary. If you were trying to make the best 1v1 pvp character ever I'd suggest a different AT, but defenders can hold their own.

The inherent is just one of many things that contributes to archetype balance. VEATs have an absolutely terrible inherent, and yet they're clearly better than most other archetypes.
Having a poor inherent doesn't automatically make defenders in need of a buff.

At low to mid levels, controller controls offer very little in a team environment. There aren't a lot of slots available, and even once you get them fully slotted your area controls are on such high recharges and such low durations that they are not in any way a reliable form of damage mitigation. Unless you're one of the powersets that has been blessed by having its area control be a disorient, this often continues into the upper levels too.

Oh, someone finally pointed out that defender vs. controller imbalance only occurs at high levels once epics and inventions come into play? Awesome. This thread's finally getting on track.