MaXimillion_Zero

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If you plan on not taking shadow fall then why the heck are you playing dark?

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Everybody attacks the cyst and hits it as hard as they can. Works more often than not

Drop resilience, get hasten earlier and 3 slot it...instead of resilience, get superspeed.

As a Mind/Emp you will have three roles.

1) Controlling foes. This is what your primary powers are used for.

2) Healing people. This is more important in the low levels, but you'll still be doing it higher up, at least when you're not in really good teams fighting easy foes.

3) Buffing. This will come later on, with Fortitude, Clear Mind, RA's and Adrenaline boost. This will be what you'll secondary will be mostly used for in the later levels.


Playing properly...

Use your control powers, they'll cause damage mitigation far better than anything else.

If somebody on the team is not in full HP, heal them if you dont have anything more critical to do. If they're at really low HP, heal them even if you'd have controls recharged.

After you get fortitude, keep as many people forted as you can, it's a great buff.

USE mass confuse and confusion, while many people tell you not to use them because they decrease XP per foe, they do not understand the maths properly, since confuse powers still do increase XP over time, and also make fights much easier.


Must-Have powers:

Everything from mind set apart for either levitate or mesmerize. You could also drop telekinesis since it can be hard to control, but if you take the time to learn how to use it, it's a very powerful tool.

From empathy... Most things, ones you could possibly skip are res, absorb pain, and regen aura.

From pools, Stamina and 2 pre-requisites from the fitness pool, and a travel power plus one pre-requisite for it. (Get the pre-requisite for travel power by L12 to get travel at 14, and try to get stamina by 20.

As for power order, here's a sample build from L1-40:
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Exported from Ver: 1.7.6.0 of the CoH_CoV Character Builder
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Archetype: Controller
Primary: Mind Control
Secondary: Empathy
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01) --> Mesmerize==> Empty(1)
01) --> Healing Aura==> Empty(1)Empty(9)Empty(13)
02) --> Dominate==> Empty(2)Empty(3)Empty(3)Empty(5)Empty(5)Empty(7)
04) --> Heal Other==> Empty(4)Empty(9)Empty(13)
06) --> Confuse==> Empty(6)Empty(7)Empty(15)Empty(15)
08) --> Mass Hypnosis==> Empty(8)Empty(17)Empty(17)
10) --> Hasten==> Empty(10)Empty(11)Empty(11)
12) --> Hurdle==> Empty(12)
14) --> Super Speed==> Empty(14)
16) --> Health==> Empty(16)
18) --> Telekinesis==> Empty(18)Empty(19)Empty(19)Empty(25)
20) --> Stamina==> Empty(20)Empty(21)Empty(21)
22) --> Fortitude==> Empty(22)Empty(23)Empty(23)Empty(37)Empty(37)Empty(37)
24) --> Total Domination==> Empty(24)Empty(25)Empty(31)Empty(31)Empty(36)Empty(36)
26) --> Terrify==> Empty(26)Empty(27)Empty(27)Empty(31)Empty(34)Empty(36)
28) --> Recovery Aura==> Empty(28)Empty(29)Empty(29)Empty(40)
30) --> Resurrect==> Empty(30)
32) --> Mass Confusion==> Empty(32)Empty(33)Empty(33)Empty(33)Empty(34)Empty(34)
35) --> Clear Mind==> Empty(35)
38) --> Adrenalin Boost==> Empty(38)Empty(39)Empty(39)Empty(39)Empty(40)Empty(40)
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The empty's and numbers behind the powers show when you should put slots in the powers, but I didnt label the slots, as that's down to personal preference in most powers.
Mes is swappable with levitate, hasten and superspeed with some other travelpower, in which case the slots from hasten can go elsewhere.

Final tip, when in-game, join the 'forumites' global channel, it's a good source of help, and insane banter ^_^

They wont be hidden with shadow fall, just stealthed. Stealth and Hide are two different effects.

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build looks good apart from night fall and...PROVOKE!?

Try to fit in shadow fall and maybe something else that comes in handy.

[/ QUOTE ]Shadow fall is in there already
Provoke is to gain full benefit from bodyguard mode.

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If you're necro/dark for PvP then you shouldn't really need provoke since your uber powers and uber minions will debuff him your opponent to hell.

And besides doesn't BG mode seem to decrease your minion's offensive potential.

[/ QUOTE ]First of all, novody said anything about PvP.
Second: Provoke is there so that foes attack you, and thus your henchmen will attack the foes, even in bodyguard mode, thus making BG very effective.

See, BU is a damage buff. Damage buffs are added together (enhancements are also damage buffs), and then used as a multiplier for base damage. Containment however isn't a damage buff, but it directly doubles base daamge. This means it'll always also double the end damage, while a 100% damage buff won't if there are other damage buffs affecting the char as well.

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However, Howl can't be 50 feet only. It looks like 60 feet at least.

[/ QUOTE ]NoFuture says 50, I trust that until you have test results to prove it wrong

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Is there any character that doesn't need Stamina, sigh?

[/ QUOTE ]DM/Elec brute temed with a kin

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I think your best bet, if you really want to go non melee, then Ice/Ice might be your best bet, with the ranged from primary and the slows from secondary. Although I may be wrong.

[/ QUOTE ]/Ice is still pretty much a melee secondary, I'd say /dev is propably the best ranged one.

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Plus point for Sonic/Dev, I've noticed Sonic suffers from Accuracy penalties, so Targetting Drone will really help out with that.

[/ QUOTE ] Sonic has no accuracy penalty, apart for the AoE control powers.

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Up to you. Try fire breath or howl if you think it's one of the longest ones, though.

[/ QUOTE ]Haze = 40 feet, Fire breath = 40 feet, Howl = 50 feet.

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Controllers, who are supposed to be the low damage AT, get straightforward 100% more damage in PvE and 200% in PvP, and that's not even off base damage, that's off REAL damage.


[/ QUOTE ]Actually, containment is 100% boost to base damage, which means it's also a 100% boost to the damage after all buffs have been applied.

[/ QUOTE ]Biggest.. contradiction... ever.

You just said it's base... but not base?


[/ QUOTE ]No, I said base. It double the base damage, and since end damage is Base damage*Damage buffs, it ends up doubling the end damage because of that.

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I was talking with regards to individual defenders not power sets. Even so it does not change the fact that being a healer is NOT bad.

[/ QUOTE ]If the only thing one does is heal, then it is, since there's no set with more than 33% of the primary powers being heals, and that's not even mentioning secondary.

1) I don't like outlevelling content
2) I like only having to slot one ACC SO, so I can use 2 non-dam/acc slots in my attacks, making them more efficient.
3) I don't see a point in facing things one level higher, if there's something that's going to be challenging it'll usually be challenging at a lower level as well.
4) I don't want to change my rep every time I get an AV mish

Whatever primary you take, /Dark is the only true secondary.

Only for the time you spend in that zone, though.

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The arsonist joins the party at level fifteen. First he'll use moltovs, then when you give him a lighter, (upgrade ) he'll breath fire using alcohol.

[/ QUOTE ]18, not 15.

Ever heard the term 'overkill'?

I recommend getting hasten and superspeed, hasten will stack with siphon speed nicely, and superspeed will provide you fast movement when you need it, since it doesn't have activation time like IR, and can be used anywhere unlike siphon.
You should also take fitness pool and get stamina at L20, it will help with your endurance until you get transference.

As for powers to take, I'd get everything but repel, and possibly ID, from kinetics, and all but voltaic sentinel from elec.

All powerset combos work

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Yeah exactly, you cant be a good pvp blaster without energy,

[/ QUOTE ]Oh, the ignorance...

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I see. What dyu reckon on those guesses though MaX? About right?

[/ QUOTE ]Less TA, poison, more FF, maybe more dark.

I play mine on 1st-3rd setting, and find it fun. I know I could play on relentless, but I do not want to, like I don't with any other character either, even though lots of them could do it.

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No doubt there are official numbers somewhere on the net, but I dont know where to look.

[/ QUOTE ]There aren't, NCSoft and cryptic aren't too keen on giving much player statistics out.