JordieLc

Originally Posted by Nemu_

The answer is yes. You won't be softcapped to S/L anymore but you can have softcapped psi def while IW is up. You can still be softcapped to range and aoe and that lends to a ranged playstyle which is perfectly fine for earth/storm.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

Your build has some sigificant problems, from my point of view. Maybe your playstyle is quite a bit different than mine. You have fallen into a trap of slotting for bonuses rather than slotting powers to make them effective.

First and foremost, the endurance use exceeds recovery BEFORE any use of powers, and that's even using the Cardiac Alpha slot. That will make it unplayable unless you leave many of your toggles turned off. There is no way you would be able to attack and maintain all those toggles.

You have actually slotted for way too much Defense on a build that really doesn't need all that much Defense. Perma-PA is far more important than Defense. I play my Ill/TA from range, sending in PA and then shooting my arrows from a distance -- the PA pull the aggro and the foes usually don't notice me. Once my Debuffs are out, then I chose a single target foe to take down with my Blind-SW-Blast-SW attack chain. If any foe decides to take notice of me, I use Deceive to turn him around back to his buddies and PA.

You have underslotted PA. You have enough global Recharge for Perma-PA, but you don't have enough Recharge in the power itself. PA is by far the most important power for an Ill/TA, possibly more important than other Illusion combos. My recommedation is 4 Expediant Reinforcement (leaving out Dam/End and the Resist proc), and then add the Dam/Rech and Chance for Build Up from Soulbound.

You have also underslotted for damage. Oil Slick Arrow is mainly a damage power. It provides a large amount of Damage for a build that would otherwise be lacking in AoE damage. You need to slot OSA for Damage and Recharge, and then have a way to light the slick. (I use the Fire APP set, with Fireball and Fire Blast.)

There are a lot of problems overall. Here are a few of them --

You have 6 Luck of the Gambler Recharge in the build. Only 5 of them will provide the Recharge bonus, and the sixth is wasted.

Spectral Wounds: You are not capped for Damage. Try to get a 6th slot in there for additional Acc/Dam. An Acc/Dam Hami-O works great.

Flash Arrow: An Enzyme is a waste. Replace it with a common ToHit Debuff. After re-thinking your build, you may be able slot it differently, or skip Flash Arrow completely. If you are invisible and PA are drawing the aggro, do you really need it?

Blind: 4 Baz Gaze are a good start, but the Accuracy is a little low. Add two more slots to add some nice Damage. I like an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage IO.

Glue Arrow: 6 slots to add some defense when you are already way over the cap is a waste of slots. Enhancing Slow only affects Run Speed an nothing else. Put one or two Recharge here and you're done.

I'm not a big fan of the Fighting Pool on a Controller. Three power picks for a fairly small amount of Defense that does not benefit anyone else. Some folks like it, however, especially if they mainly solo. I build my Controllers for teams mostly, but to be able to solo if needed. Instead, I prefer to build my Controllers to, well, Control. Take Deceive, EM Pulse Arrow, or even Ice Arrow or Poison Gas Arrow. Deceive lets you take the Coercive Persuasion set for nice Recharge and bonuses. PGA takes the Fortunata Hypnosis set, the cheapest purple set.

Hasten: Membranes? Why? The other aspects of the Membranes do NOTHING in Hasten. 3 Recharge, or 2 if you have enough global Recharge for perma-hasten.

Combat Jumping: The Damage and Dam/End add less than 1% Defense in this power. The endurance reduction is .03%, or virutally nothing. Maybe the bonuses are worth it to you, but see if those slots might be needed somewhere else.

Superior Invis: This power needs to be slotted up for EndRdx most importantly. The Defense in it is nice, but half of the defense supresses when you attack or click a glowie.

Weave, Maneuvers, Tactics: I didn't take any of them, as I took control powers instead. If you keep them, they need more EndRdx.

Spectral Terror: I'm not sure that the Lyso does anything other than Accuracy. The ToHit Debuff is supposed to be 15% unenhancable, but I have never tested to see if the ToHit Debuff can be enhanced with a Hami-O -- if it can, it is an exploit.

Phantasm: You slotted for the Defense bonus. I slotted 4 Expediant Reinforcement and an Acc/Dam Hami-O for Recharge.

Disruption Arrow: This power can only be slotted for Recharge, Range or EndRdx, and you put an Enzyme in a power that does Damage Resistance Debuff. That Enzyme is only enhancing the EndRdx. Slot this for Recharge.

Oil Slick Arrow: Slot for Recharge and Damage, not Defense Debuff. And take a power than can light the slick. Your build shows a Natural Origin, so you can't use your Origin power (Magic and Tech can use the Origin Power to light the slick.) Therefore, you may need to go with an APP or PPP set that does Energy or Fire Damage. (Fireball on an Oil Slick is wonderful.) Your only other option might be to stock up on the Plasmatic Taser Temp power, and re-craft it after you use it up . . . ugh.

Vengance: Not only is Vengence a situational power, but the LotG Recharge in it is wasted due to the "Rule of 5."

Stone APP: Fissure is a short range AoE damage power . . . you would do better slotting it for Damage does a lot more damage than slotting Procs. Rock Armor is ugly but otherwise good. But Stone does not have an Energy power to light the Slick. If you really want a Defense armor power (I don't think it is needed, but some people want to go that way), then go with the Mace PPP. Disruptor Blast will light the Slick.

Originally Posted by Local_Man

Your build has some sigificant problems, from my point of view. Maybe your playstyle is quite a bit different than mine. You have fallen into a trap of slotting for bonuses rather than slotting powers to make them effective.

First and foremost, the endurance use exceeds recovery BEFORE any use of powers, and that's even using the Cardiac Alpha slot. That will make it unplayable unless you leave many of your toggles turned off. There is no way you would be able to attack and maintain all those toggles.

You have actually slotted for way too much Defense on a build that really doesn't need all that much Defense. Perma-PA is far more important than Defense. I play my Ill/TA from range, sending in PA and then shooting my arrows from a distance -- the PA pull the aggro and the foes usually don't notice me. Once my Debuffs are out, then I chose a single target foe to take down with my Blind-SW-Blast-SW attack chain. If any foe decides to take notice of me, I use Deceive to turn him around back to his buddies and PA.

You have underslotted PA. You have enough global Recharge for Perma-PA, but you don't have enough Recharge in the power itself. PA is by far the most important power for an Ill/TA, possibly more important than other Illusion combos. My recommedation is 4 Expediant Reinforcement (leaving out Dam/End and the Resist proc), and then add the Dam/Rech and Chance for Build Up from Soulbound.

You have also underslotted for damage. Oil Slick Arrow is mainly a damage power. It provides a large amount of Damage for a build that would otherwise be lacking in AoE damage. You need to slot OSA for Damage and Recharge, and then have a way to light the slick. (I use the Fire APP set, with Fireball and Fire Blast.)

There are a lot of problems overall. Here are a few of them --

You have 6 Luck of the Gambler Recharge in the build. Only 5 of them will provide the Recharge bonus, and the sixth is wasted.

Spectral Wounds: You are not capped for Damage. Try to get a 6th slot in there for additional Acc/Dam. An Acc/Dam Hami-O works great.

Flash Arrow: An Enzyme is a waste. Replace it with a common ToHit Debuff. After re-thinking your build, you may be able slot it differently, or skip Flash Arrow completely. If you are invisible and PA are drawing the aggro, do you really need it?

Blind: 4 Baz Gaze are a good start, but the Accuracy is a little low. Add two more slots to add some nice Damage. I like an Acc/Dam Hami-O and a common Damage IO.

Glue Arrow: 6 slots to add some defense when you are already way over the cap is a waste of slots. Enhancing Slow only affects Run Speed an nothing else. Put one or two Recharge here and you're done.

I'm not a big fan of the Fighting Pool on a Controller. Three power picks for a fairly small amount of Defense that does not benefit anyone else. Some folks like it, however, especially if they mainly solo. I build my Controllers for teams mostly, but to be able to solo if needed. Instead, I prefer to build my Controllers to, well, Control. Take Deceive, EM Pulse Arrow, or even Ice Arrow or Poison Gas Arrow. Deceive lets you take the Coercive Persuasion set for nice Recharge and bonuses. PGA takes the Fortunata Hypnosis set, the cheapest purple set.

Hasten: Membranes? Why? The other aspects of the Membranes do NOTHING in Hasten. 3 Recharge, or 2 if you have enough global Recharge for perma-hasten.

Combat Jumping: The Damage and Dam/End add less than 1% Defense in this power. The endurance reduction is .03%, or virutally nothing. Maybe the bonuses are worth it to you, but see if those slots might be needed somewhere else.

Superior Invis: This power needs to be slotted up for EndRdx most importantly. The Defense in it is nice, but half of the defense supresses when you attack or click a glowie.

Weave, Maneuvers, Tactics: I didn't take any of them, as I took control powers instead. If you keep them, they need more EndRdx.

Spectral Terror: I'm not sure that the Lyso does anything other than Accuracy. The ToHit Debuff is supposed to be 15% unenhancable, but I have never tested to see if the ToHit Debuff can be enhanced with a Hami-O -- if it can, it is an exploit.

Phantasm: You slotted for the Defense bonus. I slotted 4 Expediant Reinforcement and an Acc/Dam Hami-O for Recharge.

Disruption Arrow: This power can only be slotted for Recharge, Range or EndRdx, and you put an Enzyme in a power that does Damage Resistance Debuff. That Enzyme is only enhancing the EndRdx. Slot this for Recharge.

Oil Slick Arrow: Slot for Recharge and Damage, not Defense Debuff. And take a power than can light the slick. Your build shows a Natural Origin, so you can't use your Origin power (Magic and Tech can use the Origin Power to light the slick.) Therefore, you may need to go with an APP or PPP set that does Energy or Fire Damage. (Fireball on an Oil Slick is wonderful.) Your only other option might be to stock up on the Plasmatic Taser Temp power, and re-craft it after you use it up . . . ugh.

Vengance: Not only is Vengence a situational power, but the LotG Recharge in it is wasted due to the "Rule of 5."

Stone APP: Fissure is a short range AoE damage power . . . you would do better slotting it for Damage does a lot more damage than slotting Procs. Rock Armor is ugly but otherwise good. But Stone does not have an Energy power to light the Slick. If you really want a Defense armor power (I don't think it is needed, but some people want to go that way), then go with the Mace PPP. Disruptor Blast will light the Slick.