Lady_Dee

I wanted to send this out:



Thank you all that came to the event, we had a fantastic turn out!


A BIG Thank you for the volunteers. You made things go a lot smoother!


And Congratz to Froobs for being the last person standing with his WP/Stone Tanker.


Froobs has pacific eating habits so instead of getting the basket full of goodies, he got another 30 day COH Time Card!


I had a wonderful time and once again thank you all for coming and for those that helped!


I hope in the not too distant future to have another contest.

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Dee and I were talking about the event earlier, which I sadly will not be able to attend due to work, and I had a -really- funny idea for it....

I won't go into details yet, but for now, I'd like to ask if a few people would be able to demorecord the festivities from various angles and distances, making sure of course to not get themselves or the contestants killed...once that's done, I'll be needing the help of someone well versed in editing of said files...assuming this works, I'll fill ya in later unless Dee would like to now?

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no, no, no....its quite alright.

There was a question regarding Dark Scrappers if they can use there heal.

The answer is yes.

To make things easier for myself and the volunteers of this contest the following rule will be in place


***Hibernation is allowed to be used. PFF and Phase Shift are not allowed. If you are seen using either of these powers you will disqualified.


*******Getting Ready for the contest********

(The contest is in 4 days so make sure your character you choose to use is ready for this.)


Read the Rules before coming to the Ferry; failure to do so will be your problem not mine.


Make sure you bring what you need for this contest. Once it starts at 8:05 you cannot leave for any reason. So don’t come to me and say you ran out of inspirations or go to the hospital and try to come back, it won’t work.


When you arrive at the Peregrine Island Ferry Dock make sure you remove all your attack powers, rez powers and any buffing powers. Remember if you attack for any reason accident or other you will disqualified. Buffing other people will get you disqualified as well, so it’s best to remove these so you don’t screw yourself.


People may start arriving at any time before 8pm. As soon as it hits 8:05 PM we will head to the second Island. If you arrive anytime after 8:05pm you cannot enter.


Before we head to the Island at 8:05pm, I will be taking down your names, levels and looking over your character.


If you die or break any of the rules you are disqualified.


Remember your goal is to be the last one standing (alive) there are no prizes for second or third place.


Please do not send me or any of the Volunteers’ during this contest tells complaining about another contestant. First time you send us a tell you will be ignore. Send it again and you will be disqualified. This isn’t second grade playing the game of tattle tale.


Lastly remember to please come and have a good time.










All volunteers of this contest please contact me as soon as you can before the contest so I may write your names down and count the number I have.

Take Care
Dee

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It may sound like I'm going against what I just said, but your plan to eliminate them all together was a better option. An Ice tank with Phase/Hibernate will NEVER die...that's the simple truth. A Controller/defender/blaster with PFF fully slotted will NEVER die, especially if it has aid self.

There is no answer to this problem aside from what you stated previously, that they need to be removed. However, I think I have an idea that would smooth out this issue a bit...Remove the ability for tanks to use tier 9s and remove the ability for all ATs to use epics. In addition, rule out Phase/PFF AND inspirations. This seems like a rough idea, but it would ultimately even the odds.

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I can’t win with this can I?

There on there off….I’m about to go nutty.

OK, answer me this. How am I supposed to tell if someone used an inspiration? Someone could hit a heal inspiration and say that was myself heal etc etc. Which is why I choose to allow inspirations but they cannot be restocked.

I really don’t know how many people are going to show up. I could possibly create teams with a monitor on each team to check for inspiration use. But again, I don’t know if I’m going to have enough helpers if 20 people show up to do this contest.

I can see your point about Phase and PFF. I really don’t know that much about PFF honestly, I know what it does but I don’t or didn’t know how strong it is.

So why don’t we go the way of allowing Hibernation but no Phase Shift or PFF. Would that be better?

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At first glimpse I was really looking forward to this...and then...

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Would it be much more fair to add in....cant use hibernation, phase shift or personal force field?


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Goat is tough, but without Hibernate I don't stand a chance. PFF I can understand, that in my opinion is a "I win" power considering it overpowers all other in-game defense/res. Phase I can understand too to an extent...but robbing a squishier tank of the main power it needs to survive...that's just wrong.

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I’ve been thinking about, Hibernation, PFF and Phase shift and if they should be eliminated from the contest, the answer is no.

The reason being is these powers are used to keep people alive as long as possible in missions, why should it be any different in this contest? Hell I have an ice tank and I know without hibernation I’d be a sitting duck in some situations.

I have stripped away some powers that cannot be used already and I cannot keep telling people they cannot use this or that either; all it’s going to do is make people not come.

My goal is to do something interesting with Pinnacle and try to keep our server interesting. Some of my past contests did have flaws and complaints so I started putting more time and more of an effort to make it much more interesting then the last contest.

I want as many people to come and enjoy this contest but still be strict as possible with my rules. I refuse to make this contest which took me months to plan out be ruined all because of a few powers that have been nerfed already.

I will not add these powers to the list of powers that cannot be used. You want to use hibernation, phase shift or PFF, go for it. Your job is to “Take A Stand” so if you think these powers will allow you to stand longer and be the last man or woman standing, knock yourself out.

Just a reminder that the days for this contest are ticking down.


I'll repost the rules a week before the contest starts. So i beleive it will be the 15th.


Cheers!

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To end this um "argument" will just not allow, Hibernation, PFF and Phase Shift.

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You can't attack at all but that doesn't mean you can't move. If you superspeed around, Fly above, superleap over monsters while surviving, this is not an 'attack')

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Actually you cant move. If you read the rules it clearly states you must remain in mele of the monsters. So you cannot super speed around, hover, over leaping around like a bunny. I knew some people would do this which is why I said "remain in mele"

I really need to clarify this in the rules now.



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So, won't this contest boil down to which ill/ troller takes the longest to get kicked after going afk?

Is this supposed to be like those contests where a bunch of people have a hand on a car, and the winner (of the car) is the last person to take his/her hand off of the car?

This contest could last for days. Just join a TF, turn on hibernate, then hope your internet connection doesn't fail. Throw in scheduled server maintainence and we have a recipe for some unhappy people. Alternately, another player can't cause you to loose your stealth status, so anyone with stealth proc + stealth + SS should be just stealthy enough to go unnoticed by GMs, assuming paragon wiki is correct about perception values.

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Would it be much more fair to add in....cant use hibernation, phase shift or personal force field?

I'm not sure if you understand this contest correctly. People are not going to be taking punishment from ONE GM on that island, but A LOT of them. Just one GM did 500 hps of damage to my scrapper in one foot stomp. I highly doubt this is going to last days.

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Hah. My illusion/ff troller with powerboosted personal force feild and aid self is gonna win fo sho.

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PPF is not allowed, it's a bubble that does bubble other players. Sorry!

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PFF = Personal Force Field = Only Affecting Self = not affecting other players....

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Oh wait I was thinking of something else. Damn sinus infection!

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SORRY!!!!!!!!!!!!

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I'm in.... I think. I still don't quite understand the contest but my blaster should be perfect. We're good at taking GM damage, right??

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Ok. I'll try and explain this as simple as possible. On Monster Island you'll be standing in mele of the Giant Monsters. Your goal will be to stay standing as long as possible. You cannot attack them at all. If you die your out of the contest. The contest will keep going until there is one person standing and they will be declared the winner.


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Hmm, so how does that work with a Kin Heal? It's just a side effect that my heals hit others. I don't want to buff the competition.

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If it hits other players it cannot be used-Sorry.


I'm taking this contest very seriously since there are prizes going to be given out with my own money.

If you have any more questions or concerns. Feel free to post them.

On February 23rd in Peregrine Island at 8:05pm (central time) my next contest will start. We will head to The Second Monster Island and your goal will be to stand there and take as much punishment from many Devouring Earth giant monsters as you can without dying and without attacking them.

We will all meet at the Peregrine Island Ferry; I will take count of the number and names of people who are joining in the contest. We will then all head to the Island and then you will move in and piss off as many Devouring earth monsters and try to keep alive.


********Rules********


*Any level character may join this contest. There is no level limit.


*Contestants that are entering will be looked over. The only AT that is not allowed to join is stone tanks (sorry reason being is stone tankers can take a lot of damage, we want to see how the others hold up). However stone tanks are welcome to come and keep the load of GM’s on the contestants. This means moving the GM’s in place of the contestants and then backing off to watch and see if there are any GM runners and to get them back to the contestants. Any stone tank that helps will receive an amount of 2mil influence, maximum number of stone tankers helping is four.



*You may NOT attack the monsters at all. You are to stand there and try to stay alive as long as possible. If you are seen attacking at all, even by accident, you are disqualified.


*To clarify the point of standing there and taking as much punishment as possible this means you cannot super speed, hover or fly above and leap around the monsters. You need to remain in mêlée of the giant monsters. If you are seen super speeding, leaping, hovering or flying around like a crazed maniac you will be disqualified. (This does include temp travel powers.) This is a contest to see how long you can stand without dying this is not a contest of who has the coolest travel power.


* Contestants once entering the contest may not leave the island once the contest is started. If you choose to leave the contest, let me know. You are disqualified from the contest: if you die (using the hospital or any rez is forbidden), running in the water around the island, having a friend give you inspirations, moving out of melee from the Giant Monsters.



*Inspirations are allowed in this contest. Contestants may pass inspirations to other contestant but are not allowed to receive any from friends who are not participating. You cannot leave to go restock on them, once they are gone, they’re gone.



*Players that have any powers such as buffs are not allowed to buff other players. If you have any powers that can heal, SB or bubble other players they are not allowed. Each player is to rely on their own powers to survive as long as possible. It is suggested that if you have a character that does these things it’s best to enter another character for if any buffs are seen going off you will be disqualified and the contest will have to be restarted.



*People with any type of pets if they are your character’s power or a temp power are not allowed. Nukes are not allowed either. If any pets are seen out during the contest you will be disqualified. If any Nukes are used during this contest you will be disqualified.




The person left standing at the end of this contest will receive:


10million influence

A piece of ALL the rare invention salvage in the game


A basket filled with goodies! (you need snacks to keep gaming!)


1 Month City of Heroes Time Card


The First City of Heroes Guide Book (This book was released shortly after the game was launched. Take a step back four years ago and see how much the game has changed and your character. It’s a fascinating read for any City of Heroes fan.)


The winner after this contest will be contacted by me. You will need to send me your name and address for these items to be sent to you. If you have any food allergies or cannot have sugar please let me know and we will work something out.

There is only one winner, there are no prizes for second or third place!





***This contest information is being released early to allow you to get your character ready. Please note these rules can change before the contest begins. So make sure you reread them before entering. ****

Ok, I’m going to spill about how I feel about the ToTing event in one word-dumb. Now before you start in on the bashing just keep reading. I’ve been here a long time, more so then most of you people.

First Halloween event was fun and then the one after, but I get back from my honeymoon and see it’s the same damn stick as last Halloween with a minor change.

The whole 60 second wait time to click on a door is old as hell, why not 20 seconds or 30 seconds or hell I love it if it didn’t have a timer at all. I find it rather boring especially soloing standing at a door and waiting and waiting until it finally pops open. But then oh look out this year we get costumes, but the catch is you cannot keep them; you do however get some badges that count out the number of costumes you got.


Ok, look I’m really glad the DEVS have taken the time to give us a Halloween event but it should be different every year to give us especially those who have been here a long time something new and exciting and something unexpected to look forward to. ToTing in the game shouldn’t feel like a chore, it should be fun and exciting, I seriously logged on after my honeymoon, did the whole ToTing for 5 minutes, got so bored, I logged off and went and watched a movie.

The main thing that bothers me is after 3 years are we always going to be subjected to the same event year after year due to the sheer lack of imagination on behalf of the DEVs?

And please don’t tell me if you don’t like it, you don’t have to play it, that line got old 2 years ago. New people may enjoy it, but if the event is the same like this 3 years from now, I’m sure you’ll be sitting in my shoes thinking the same thing.

Events are something the DEVs give us out of the kindness of their hearts, but it should not be the same bag of stale popcorn year after year and then they coat it with salt and saying it’s different.

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Thank god I'm way more swifty nimble than Dee. That and my fur pelt is impervious to all forms of shaving.

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LIES! <shaves lemur>

You know Tel with the way I am those questions would have been answered in ways you couldnt even post on the boards. But I still wuv you!

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Love it! Only thing I didn't like was almost all of your "too"s should have been "to"s.

Other than that, pure genius.

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...and YOUR is something you own, You're is a contraction saying YOU ARE as in You're going to "skool".

Ack, so many free spell checks available, proof reading is a good thing too!

eh, great story!

Concept: A
Language: D

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Well I tried my best at keeping my spelling in check. I sat there on "Word" for over 3 hours typing this out to the best of my ability. I didnt pass English and I didnt go too college for my English degree. I just type the best I can with what I have avaliable. I did not think people would make a big deal out of a few small spelling errors.

Thanks for your repsonses.

This guide is more a less too show people how you can be rude and too avoid being rude in game. Also this will help you too try and avoid getting people mad. No need to kiss butt all the time and not stand up for yourself. This is mostly a way of showing you manners do go a long way even if it is a game. Manners are not over rated they actually can gain you respect. No one is perfect really; hell I have done a few of these dumb things early on in my gaming start. Of course if you feel as though you and you alone only count then you will have plenty of friends…..on ignore.



(1.) You know everything about the game.

Seriously you do (nods). You may have just purchased the game yesterday and read all the guide books but some one is trying to help you out with your build or a certain tactic in game. Usually a person with manners would take in consideration of their opinions. But see their opinions don’t matter at all because you are the god or goddess of all knowledge. So you end up yelling at them with every curse word you can think of then put them on ignore. You walk away knowing your right and they are wrong….so very very wrong.



(2.) The Leroy Jenkins Maneuver.

Ok so you’re on a team and the team sees a room full of baddies. Now logically the team wishes too come up with a plan and buff people before making any drastic moves that may make a trip too the hospital. But you don’t care so you rush in and start beating on everything. The team sees you moved in and they rush in after you too try too help out. Next thing you know your all dead. Now again logically you would fess up to your mistake and apologize for your stupidity. But once again you don’t have manners and their not even considered in your book. So you pop up on the team window cursing at the team blaming them for not paying any attention. You go even further by whining and complaining that you now have debt and it’s all their fault. So you quit the team, put every person that was on the team on ignore and walk away with out an ounce of remorse of how much of a jerk you are.



(3.) Hit and Run.

So you’re about 5 bars from getting the most awesome power in your set. You’re really sick and tired of trying too beat on the baddies that you feel are too low for you. So you think to yourself I’ll go some place else, Grandville looks good even though I am level 37. So you head their and fight some lovely high level bugs too beat on. Well they are 5 levels above you but you really don’t care because in your mind you are the uber! So you start beating on the boss barely putting a dent in him and you start popping inspirations like candy. Ok, now you’re out of inspirations and you’re almost dead so you take off running. In the middle of your jog you see another player standing by a contact minding their own business. So you make a quick decision and run the baddie into them. Well the person ends up killing the baddie instead of taking off. You just now make a rack load of XP and realized that was sure fun as hell. So you repeat this method until you feel it’s boring. Then of course too that one person sending you a tell cursing at you did not help either. Hmm I wonder why I am on their ignore list now.


(4.) Spammer.

So you’re bored as hell and cannot think of anything too do. Oh wait I can go too a zone like Atlas and sit in on broadcast and just start spouting off of how much I hate pies. I really do like pies but that’s besides the point I need to complain and get noticed because I need attention, I crave it like beer on a hot summer day after a long day at work. Then after a while you notice a lot of people getting angry and putting me on ignore. Success! I finally was able to piss of an entire zone now I can sleep better at night.


(5.) Just can’t stop arguing.

So you got booted off another team because you decided too do another Leroy maneuver and too add you ended up telling the tank that your hamster can do a better job at keeping arggo. So you send the leader a tell with words of wisdom “Why was I booted?” “Huh” “You going to answer me you, you useless piece of...” Let’s leave it there shall we. So you log in a different character to continuing your ranting until you used all characters on your one account and now have too switch over too your other account. By this point you realized buying two accounts was so worth it. Extra ranting for you and of course you feel much better for being a jerk.


6.) Begging.

Your character is just starting out in the game and you need enhans really bad. Of course if you had manners you work your butt off to buy your own enhans, but that takes work and your too lazy to work on your charrie that hard too buy any thing. So you see a high level character in the zone. You end up sending numerous tells such as “Will you PL me plz?” Or what you want “Can I have influ plz?” You continue too do this until you finally realize you can’t no more because you’re on ignore. So you sit and wait keeping a look out for the next high level character that come along. Until then you will sit there with the “Panhandle” emote on hoping too get a few “pennies” dropped in your cup.


(7.) Blind invites.

You really want a team badly, you need a team badly. You could sit there with the search window open looking for people then asking them if they want to join. But see that’s too much work, why sit there and ask them when you can just whip them an invite instead of asking politely. So you start whipping out invites like crazy and each one is declined. Ok, so that’s not working so after you send the invite you then send them a tell asking too join with you. For some reason they don’t respond of course you don’t think nor want too believe it’s because you sent them a blind invite and they are now mad at your rudeness. So now your mad, you have steam coming out of your ears and send them a tell with every curse word you can think of. They finally respond. Success! You stop cursing and then ask them “You want too team with me plz?”



(8.) Drop and Go.

Ok, so the leader of this SF or TF is looking for people too join. They finally ask you and you go ahead and agree with it. Half way through the first mission you start whining like a 5 year old “How much longer is this damn thing? Then when it goes further in too the 3rd mission you ask again “How much longer is this damn thing?” “How many more missions are there?” You finally cannot take any more by the 4th mission and decide its time too go. Oh you don’t say why you have to leave or tell the leader before you start you don’t have a lot of time. You just leave. When the leader asks you the next day why you cut and run you reply “None of your freaking business!” Then continue with some lovely curse words. Why should they need to know you’re just a stuck up brat who really doesn’t care about anyone but yourself. I mean seriously why should I need too explain my reason for leaving, its not rude ok, it’s perfectly normal in my world. I never tell my boss why I just up and left work with no reason said, doing the same too a team is no different.



(9.) Debt Complain.

Most people know that debt really isn’t that big of deal especially with the exemplar system. But you don’t care you got debt and the world will soon know your anger. Oh and I got debt because I choose too run into a lot of baddies on my own accord earlier; but see now I’m on a team and shall use them as my personal punching bag! “I got debt earlier this sucks, how the hell am I suppose too level now!” You continue on with your ranting which leads you not paying attention to you surroundings. So you run into a group of baddies and die because you where too busy ranting. You now have more debt and soon the world will know how angry you are-again. After about 5 minutes the leader cannot take much more and gives you the boot. So you once again send them a tell with words of wisdom “Why hell did you kick me, I need to work off my debt, this debt sucks, can you invite me plz?” Of course the team leader ignores you and now you have to find another team to rant off too. Man does this debt suck.


10.) Leader me this.

So your on a team, you really really don’t like the leader, you think it’s his costume given off the bad vibes. Well hmm the leader is nice I wonder if this will work “Hey can I have the star for a second I really want to invite a friend?” So the leader asks “What’s his or her’s name?” So you have too think of something quick and long to confuse them so you can get that shinny star. Uh it’s “PwnedPies.Com234567867432.” Yeah that’s it! So the leader is busy and hands you the star so you can invite your buddy. Success! Now you have the star you could take the leader’s trust in you and just invite some one randomly or hand it back but it’s too late now for that. So you boot the leader and tell the team you are their god now and all will worship me! Some things wrong, where did every one go? Guys? Your god is speaking!! Then you realize the only person who is listening too you is a Malta sapper who is now showing you how bad you suck by draining your end and sending you too the hospital. Wait aren’t gods invincible?


11.) XP for Me!

For sheer blind luck you managed too get on a team. Well sum of the members are getting inspirations for the next mission. The mission is up on the navigation bar; you scratch your chin and think to yourself about how you could get ubber xp by yourself. So you enter the mission (which is not yours) and start beating the crap out of everything as fast as you can before your team enters. The team enters after a few minutes and is pissed off you cleaned the first floor. So they ask too restart the mission, you don’t want too restart the mission you want to continue on. So you stand there refusing too move out of the mission as every one exits. So there gone just you again and you kill a couple of groups before the team leader asks if you’re going too come out. Bah your not coming out this is too much fun! So you kill some more mobs then you realize your just been booted once again from the team. Well that sucked but hey I got a rack of XP!! But your still mad and send the leader a tell with words of “wisdom.” Once again you’re now on ignore and have no choice but too find another team that doesn’t have you on there ignore list.


(12.) PVP Idiocy.

So you enter a PVP zone because you want those cool looking blobs of radiation jello. So you start moving along but wait some thing is wrong, you’re dead so very dead. You check your combat log and find out another player just beat the snout out of you. Now logically this is a PVP zone and entering it is risking you own player too be killed by another. But you don’t know logic you say the hell with logic and the hell with manners. So you flood broadcast pissed off because you got killed just trying too do your own thing. You continue too do so until everyone in the zone put you on ignore. So you try your chat channels same thing happens. “Why won’t any one listen to me?” “All I wanted was Radiation Jello dudes and some jackass owns my [censored].” “This isn’t right man, this freaking sucks!” So after about 3 weeks of game playing you soon realize that everything sucks but you and announce too the world “That’s it I am canceling my account!”

(Please note all views and opinions are based on my game play and no way is this a PVP build or near a PVP build. Please feel free to add in any input you agree or disagree with since everyone’s gaming style and opinions are different. Also know this is a guide with no number crunching at all)


So you’re thinking of rolling a Plant/Thorn Dominator before you role this build read this guide or anyone else’s guide. It will save you headaches in the long run.


Pros-

If you’re a vet player like me you’ll view plant dominator as a breath of fresh air. We went a long time seeing the same holds such as ice, fire etc. With plant one pro it is different above the rest and you get the ability at level 32 to have a Fly Trap as a pet. Plant domination has good controls making nice to lock down on enemies and when your Domination is going deceiving or holding a boss or E.B. really helps. There are numerous powers in this set that makes it fun such as Fly Trap and Carrion Creepers. Any Illusion controller could tell you deceiving the enemy is fun and the same thing applies for Plant. Nothing is more fun then deceiving that Malta Sapper and watching him drain his buddies end or watching a Ruin Mage get knocked over and over again by his own Earthquake.


Cons-

These are my cons of the plant control set and one of them is patience. Plant takes a lot of patience to solo. You can most certainly solo with this build but I have learned sliding that slider up on anything beyond Vicious and your going to be seeing a lot of the hospital. If you’re the type who’s in a group most of the time you really don’t need to worry about the whole patience part. However if you don’t have Domination up when fighting that boss when you are solo it’s going to be very rough for you. Further more when you solo with a Plant controller you don’t get pets like Masterminds do right off or have a lot of damage output like Brutes. You hold the enemy throw thorns and repeat thus making it rather frustrating for sum that first roll a Plant Controller.

The other down side Plant control could become boring as you get to 40th level reason being is that a Dominator isn’t as favored in groups as Corruptor, Mastermind, Brute or even a Stalker. Masterminds come with pets, holds and debuffs and same for a Corruptor but they have shields and heals. Brute output of damage with a Stalker makes a Dominator sort of useless to sum groups. Don’t get me wrong people find that Dominators are useful but if they can find a Corruptor first you’re pretty much out in left field. If you can over look these Cons and ignore the boredom and patience you’ll like Plant Control.



Plant Primary:


1.) Entangle- Is a signal Target hold meaning it grounds a signal enemy with roots around there feet making them unable to move but still can attack you.


Skip This Power!


Seriously this power is pretty much useless and as you continue to climb in levels it will become more useless.


2.) Strangle-This is a signal target hold that wraps an enemy in vines making them unable to move and attack you at all.


Take This Power!


This power is a must to have and is your bread and butter of the bunch. It’s also very useful when you’re starting on in the game and continues to do so through the rest of your levels. It’s nice to have this in your attack pattern by holding an enemy with strangle then wail on him or her. This hold is crucial to a Plant/Thorn player and it works wonderful on bosses and E.Bs when you have Domination up and going.


Slots-Accuracy, Hold, Hold, Hold, Recharge.



3.) Roots- Is like Entangle except it can hold multiple foes instead of a signal foe. They can still attack you but cannot move.


Skip This Power!


Roots is one of those powers that any Plant Dominator can most certainly skip. Later when you get vines this makes Roots useless to have, Further more your Fly Trap comes with Roots allowing you to free up a power spot of something else that’s more beneficial to your player.



4.) Spore Burst- An AOE sleep affect that targets multiple foes but will awaken when attacked.


Skip This Power!


I am probably one of those people who hate sleep powers in this game. Granted it’s nice of the DEVS to incorporate sleep powers in a hero/villain game but when it comes down to it there rather useless. First off when you in a group using sleep powers is rather dumb because everyone rushes in and beats the crap out of everything waking the baddies up. When you’re solo having people sleep on you contradicts your hold powers since they do damage. Then you gain access to Carrion Creepers which has knock back makes this power even more worth not taking. Yes, take a sleep power then get a pet with knock back, its fantastic-for N0obs =P!




5.) Seeds of Confusion- A cone power that deceives multiple enemies in to fighting each other instead of you!


Take This Power!


Ok so if you’re a Plant Dominator and skipped this power do me a favor k? Turn off your game, walk over to your wall and bang your head on it repeating after me “I am a moron and should go back to playing Pong.” Repeat this as many times as you think you need too before you realize you need this power. Seeds are not only a life saver but super fun to use. Adding Aim+Seeds+Domination=Nasty Combination on a group or E.B. It’s fun watching that Sapper drain a Gunslinger’s end, or a Death Mage debuffing all his friends or even seeing that Rikiti Guardian give you AM or bubbles or both!


Slots-Accuracy, Confuse, Confuse, Confuse, Recharge



6.) Spirit Tree- To put it in lay man’s terms this is like the “Tree of Life” Devouring Earth Herders drop down. However you cannot teleport this tree to a different location like Herders can, once the tree is place it stays where it is untill it's time is up then you can summon another one.

Your Call!


This is a power that people will disagree on taking. I feel as though it can be a good asset if you’re in dire need of healing or want an extra buff for you or anyone’s pets. So I am told the healing % isn’t all that great on this power however if you have a chance to take something with healing I for one would.


Slots- Recharge, Recharge, Heal, Heal, Heal (or 1 recharge yer call)



7.) Vines- is like Strangle but is an AOE hold and can grab multiple foes instead of one.

Take This Power!


People will say this power is useless and I really want to whack them on the back of the head. Look at this way Strangle and Vines is similar to Blind and Flash in the Illusion set. Strangle is the signal target hold just as Blind is and Vines is the AOE hold like Flash. So if you choose to skip Vines in a round about way your saying Flash for Illusion controllers is useless too.

The only down fall is Vines seems to take too long to recharge but it does help instead of trying to hold group with you signal target Strangle. I usually pop up Vines and then target those that got missed by it and use Strangle. Some will say "Whats the point of Vines if you have Confuse?" First thing is you don’t get full bonus if a Confuse enemy kills someone and secondly a confuse party tends to run off and then comes back unconfused and can take you off guard hitting you or going back to there spot. So if you walk off and he or she comes back and it’s a “Defeat All” mission it could pose to be a pain back tracking through that 3 elevator lab mission to find them. I usually hit them with Seeds, wait a minute then pop up vines and repeat for the next group.


Slots-Accuracy, Hold, Hold, Hold, Recharge, Recharge



8.) Carrion Creepers- Basically this is a patch of vines that seems to be well a patch of vines. Then out pop a handful of long vines and start knocking enimies over. They do minimal damage but have a good chance of keeping the enemy flopping over and over again. They also will follow you for sometime before dissipating.



If you skip this power you will be getting many, many, many, many, many tells with the question “Why the hell didn’t you take Carrion Creepers?” For good reason Carrion Creepers is you first damage pet who will contribute greatly to taking down enemies especially E.B.s and bosses. You don’t know how much fun it is seeing that E.B. get smacked on there butt over and over again until you see C.C. in action. Plus they make this weird monster noise too which is kind of well weird.

Slots-Accuracy-Damage, Damage, Damage, Recharge, Knock back (for fun)



9.) Fly Trap- A plant with anger issues, legs and a taste for flesh. He follows you around, can be healed, buffed and teleported to your location. He can fling poison thorns, bite and even immobilize with Roots.

Take This Power!!


The fly trap is your second pet he is your friend, you may not want to hug him but you’ll love him. This is little guy zips around biting enemies behinds, holding them down with Roots and flinging thorns at him. The only down side too the Fly Trap is you cannot name him and cannot control him. He’s just a renegade with flies buzzing around him.


Slots- Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, Recharge, Immobilize



Thorny Assault (Secondary)


1.) Thorny Darts- You fling a small handful of thorns at your enemies dealing toxic damage and can reduce the target’s defenses.


Take This Power!


This is one of you first damage dealing powers aside from brawl. Nothing too much to say about this power other then it does moderate damage and is useful in your attack pattern.

Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer



2.) Skewer-A signal thorn comes out of your arm
allowing you too shove it in the enemy. Deals poison Damage and the additional toxic damage can weaken you foes defenses.

Take This Power!


Skewer deals moderate damage and is really nice too have in your attack pattern. Hitting them with Strangle the sticking it too them is fun because they deserve it.

Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer



3.) Fling Thorns-A Cone power that hurls a handful of thorns in front of you striking multiple enemies. It deals poison damage which can reduce a targets defense.


Take This Power!

Nice range, moderate damage good too have in your attack pattern. Your Fly Trap comes with this power too.

Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer



4.) Impale- You can hurl a cluster of darts at your enemy. Any enemies hit by this cannot run, jump, fly or even move there completely immobilized for a short duration. These thorns deal a lot of toxic damage when they hit.[/b]


Take This Power!


Impale is another nice damage power to have in your line of attack. It deals moderate damage and it’s nice to drop foes to the ground. It works great on those Longbow Chasers, Juicer Freaks, Air Thorn Casters and a lot more.


Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer



5.) Aim-Increases you chances to hit for a few moments and slightly increases your damage output.

Take This Power!


Aim works great with Seeds of Confusion allowing you to get a “Strike” more times then a “Gutter.” Hitting Aim then Seeds every time before engaging in a group makes things all the better and less inspiration accuracies you have to carry around. Plus as I said above hitting Aim+Seeds+Domination=equals devastation =).


[/b]Slots- Recharge, To-Hit-Buff[/b]



6.) Thorn Burst-You can explode a lot of thorns in a short distance striking all foes around you.

Skip This Power!!!


For thing the Prima Guide tells you that a Dominator job is too keep the enemy away from you. Funny considering this power you need to be close to the enemy and having any extra enemies added makes this power more of a headache. The animation on top of it is just too long for my taste. Basically it looks like your character is trying very hard to let this fart out and instead out comes thorns.



7.) Thorntrops- Is basically Caltrops with a different name. You throw a handful of thorns on the ground causing the enemies to be slowed when they step on them and take damage.

Take This Power!

I love these little guys. Nothing is better then holding them with Vines, throwing down a handful of Thorntrops. If Vines drops Thorntrops is there as a backup. It keeps enemies from running, great for throwing down in doorways and if you get in those “Oh Crap” moments you can throw these down to keep the enemy from catching up with you. There great to have on hand for E.B.s bosses and even some monsters.

Slots-Recharge, Enhance Slow Movement (Damage if you so choose)



8.) Ripper- Is basically like Eviscerate for scrappers, Blood Widow baddies use a similar attack. This is a cone attack done in a back flip doing massive damage to the foe you’re fighting and or around him or her.


Take This Power!!


This power does a lot of damage and it’s great to use when there immobilized. Nice power to add to your chain of attack pattern. If you however get too many enemies around you better off trying to hold them first them use this or if some one has arggo. Remember the key to a Plant/Dom is trying to keep the enemy held and or away from you so if the enemy isn’t held when you use the power could be a good chance for them to use there high attack power. Course you could just say “This lime chick is off her rocker” and use it when you want too. Good for Bosses and E.B.s you need all the damage you got for them =)


Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer



9.) Thorn Barrage- You can shoot thorns out so fast that it has a chance to knock the baddie(s) on their butts. This attack maybe short range but its devastating and deals toxic damage reducing your target’s defenses.


Take This Power!

[i]Not too much to say about this power it deals a good amount of damage sending your foes on there butts even if there held.[i]

Slots-Accuracy, Damage, Damage, Damage, End Reducer




Pool Powers-


Leaping

Flight

Teleportation

Super Speed


Out of these pools I took Flight for my Dominator. Hover is a good way for me to give out holds and sum damage while not taking too much of it. When I solo I don’t use hover as much as I would in a group. It’s entirely up to you which travel pool set would be most beneficial for you and your play style. I did take Teleport Friend because I have the Medicine set and to help my friend(s) even my pet get too me if need be. Hasten isn’t necessary in my opinion for Plant/Thorns but its not going to hurt.


Concealment-

I don’t have this set at all with my dominator. I personally saw no room or reason to even bother with getting this set for her. Plus Poor Phase Shift and that crazy nerf =(.


Fitness-

No need seriously. I had this set and respected out of it when Issue 7 hit. Reason being I really wanted the medicine set and just added in a few end reducers in my attack powers. I don’t really run out of end if I am in a super heavy fight I might drop in end but that’s rare and even if do a few blues fix that issue.


Medicine-

This is only pool power I can really stress too you to make room for. It has saved my butt numerous times when I ran out of heals. I am trying hard to fit in my MM build. I cannot express to you enough how happy I am dumping the Fitness set and getting this instead. Plus its nice being able to heal your friends and your crazy Fly Trap.


Fighting–

Never took this set saw no need plus I heard the % rates for Dominators are really pathetic. Sides my job is keep that enemy away from me, if I need this set then I guess I shouldn’t play a Plant Dominator.


Leadership-

I did start out by getting this set and dropped it. For on thing I felt as though it wasn’t doing too much for me since I solo most of the time and use AIM when I can. I choose to take a defense power in one of the E.P.P. sets and for me it works out great.


Epic Pool Sets-


Personally I don’t know which one is the best set for a Plant/Dominator since I choose Ghost Widow out of all them. The other sets just didn’t seem to fit my character and her back round. So this is where you need to figure out which one fits your character, play style and build.



And there you have it folks my build for a Plant/Thorn Dominator. Take Care and good hunting

Main Entrance

Med Room

Teleport Room

Energy room

Control Room

Workshop room

Another Badge Confirmation:

Electrician- Defeat 100 Gremlins in C.A.D.

This also unlocks the "Gremlin" Gladiator Badge.

Heres a Badge Confirmation.

Gangsterbuster (Defeat Family Bosses) It's 150-200 of them.

Why is this Badge so important? Because it unlocks the Slot Machine Contact in St Martial in the Casnio. (BTW the Slot Machine is a 30-35 level contact)


Also Weed Wacker is Confimered.

100 Succubus Bosses.

Mission Customization – Many existing missions have been updated with hostage escort missions, villain wave attacks and more


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About Damn Time! To be blunt this WAS needed in the game in previous missions. I mean there is only so many times you can go in to a mission and rescue the hostages in the same manner but with differnt missions with out it crossing your mind once or twice that this is lame.

You know the assasin missions should involve a shorter time span and creative thinking other wise, well there going to get shot.

I cant wait to move hostages out of the mission as alive as possiable. Question will be if there going to get their own health bar AND too add if your able to heal them. Be neat too once you rescued the hostage an alarm goes off and more baddies come out -yeah that would be sweet.

As for the Giant...

Honestly I think all the D&D geeks are wetting their pants right about now. No D20 needed


Cheers~

LMAO! Yeah that much true, but hey at least it mostly accurate on Villians Bios'

NO! Jurrasik is NOT suppose to Spawn in Eden. People atuomatically asume that because of the DE roaming in every corner of that place.

According to the COH gudie book it says the following:


~This Giant Monster was dubbed Jurassik by a hero some time ago, and the name has stuck (though the hero has regretably disapeared). It appears that Jurrassik has been mutated by the many pollants and chemicals in Crey's Folly. Now, it is a creature of pure violence.~


Heh Jurrassik is just ticked at Toyota

What REALLY sucks about RSK is the runners. Yeah try to fighting COTS RSK in a lair and try to chase them with yer SJ shut off. Now that makes me go up a wall.

The only thing I am hoping for with RSK for TFS is the following.

1. You do get XP and Influ for doing the TF.
(That would just suck if I run through the TF getting nothing but influ.)

2. I hope the Devs Devised a system that once you are RSK for a TF it's locked in until you click QUIT, TF was Failed, and or TF was completed.
( I certainly don't want to do a TF with other Reversed SK peoples and end up entering the mission and having to leave to do some other higher drop his RSK and finish the mission and we go on are merry way doing this through out the whole TF.)

RSK is good. I am happy now that I can play with my boyfreind in his 32 level misions. Yeah the influ sucks and I don't get no drops. But hey look at this way, I rather know now I am getting at least something and seeing Colors on baddies instead of greys and actually having fun and not being bored.

Before RSK it was run passed those baddies FAR lower then you get the blinkie or whatever and move on. It's far more of a challenge to run into a lower level mission and fight your way through just as you would for you missions.


In any case I look foward to RSK for TFS, Just please fix them from running from me. That would suck if they ran from you on the TFS


Cheers~

~RSK Just needs some love and some understandment most of all be pacient, in due time RSK will kick butt~