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Here is a break down of the general goal of this build. It is to destroy the team's effectiveness by breaking every mechanic of the fight they are used to apart, and replacing it with your pacing and playstyle. Years of testing went into refining this strategy, and I crunched more numbers than an Arcanaville Clone Calculator Party.

Getting to 50: You certainly don't start this game at lv50, so first you need to get there. Beg for money, beg for farms, afk on sewer trials, do whatever it takes to get the fastest exp with the least amount of effort on your part. Ideally you can not acquire any actual experience with your build, while also funding your entire build's IOs from your tickets. This ensures that you can arbitrarily affect the values of items on wentworths and inflate prices by selling the same ticket-rolled items repeatedly, which equates to SEVER-WIDE Helposity. I am all about helposity guys, especially when you guys help me get to 50.

Managing Aggro: Use Grant Invis on the Tanks and Brutes, but nobody else. These guys love a good Invis, and have NEVER complained about not being able to get Aggro or generate Fury. If executed correctly you can ensure that mob Aggro is focused on those who deserve it, your team's Blasters and Dominators.

Controlling your team's Movespeed: Always leave Group Fly toggled on. This is one of your most important powers and if your team can't fly then they might be able to move at differing speeds of their choosing. This is a problem, because free will leads to choice, and choice leads to differences. Everyone must be the same for a proper strategy to work, it's like a Centipede. ALL the legs must be moving towards the same end, so MAKE them all move at YOUR pace. If they don't like it, they are simply too dumb to understand the principle.

Controlling your team's Location: You have Team Teleport for a reason, with this amazing tool you can bring all the squishies directly into the center of a hostile mob for maximum team wipe potential. This is strategically balanced around ALREADY having made the Tanks and Brutes invisible. See, I'm no noob and I'm putting these instructions in order, by helping you help your teams as I have helped my teams, we ensure maximum helposity. That's a lot of help, so how can what I say possibly be bad? Be warned, particularly stubborn people will try to evade your Team Teleports, but just Spam Recall Friend on them untill they either click Accept or go mad with bloodcurdling ragefury, at which point you have won this battle of wits.

Controlling the enemy locations (Simple): This might be hard for some of you to grasp, so I'll split it up. Your basic essential tools will be easy to use, Teleport Foe allows you to bring enemies directly to your location... a Useful tool if used effectively and a great way to break up mobs unnecessarily. Telekinesis is an excellent power because of its Repel effect, allowing you to push enemies into the stupidest locations possible. Remember if your team complains about Telekinesis calmly explain to them that "IT HOLDS THEM NOOB" and you are "Mitigating Damage" ... whatever that means.

Controlling the enemy locations (Advanced): This section will concern all of your primary and secondary powers, as well as your two Knockback Toggles, and Knockback in general. It is widely understood that KNOCKBACK IS THE BEST THING IN THIS GAME D00D, and the more you have the stronger you must be. For starters, Gale is a great opening power that inflicts high magnitude and wide reaching Knockback on a mob, accurately scattering them to the winds. Immediately after this (or sometimes as your first action, use your best judgement) you should Team Teleport the entire forced flying, half invised, team directly into the mob so your AMAZING KNOCKBACK TOGGLES can do their work and stop the enemies from attacking. This almost ensures a Victory and will not get you or your allies killed horribly. Once in a good position, you may summon storm pets and start attacking with your blasts. Don't pay any mind to which targets you attack or your position relative to them, just have fun with it. With all the Knockback in your sets you will "mitigate so much dmg gaiz" and surely be praised by your teammates for making the game so much easier for them.

Summary: So in conclusion, by forcing your team into submission to your will with a wide range of powers and amazingly brilliant strategy, you can keep the flow of battle thoroughly under YOUR control and focused sharper than a Laser Carved Diamond Nanoblade Tempered in the Fires of Mount Doom. Make sure to remember all the tools you have at your disposal, failure to keep up the use of Grant Invis or Telekinesis can be detrimental to the team. This build works. This strategy works. You are RIGHT. Don't let anyone tell you that you need to solo and test how well the build works, because it WASNT BUILT TO SOLO YOU DUMBOARSE. This is a team build. You didn't slot for damage because you don't NEED to do damage, you are above that; Plus everyone knows Defenders can't do damage, it's scienmathematilogically unpossible. You have so many irons in the fire with all your toggles, positioning, teleports, invises, knockbacks, ALL OF THE IRONS GUYS. You have ALL of the IRONS in the FIRE. The team should be grateful for all that you do and just do the DPS (that is a fancy term that means kill stuff, I don't know why) since that role is much easier anyways. You do all the heavy lifting, what do they have to complain about? This build took years to achieve the level of perfection I have attained with it, and anyone who can't see that is clearly blinded by ignorance.


If you have any questions about this guide, feel free to ask and I will do my best to update the FAQ Section on a regular basis. You shouldn't have any questions about a build this perfect and a guide this well written though, and you may need to feel ashamed for even asking one.


FAQ Section (Updates Regularly)


Bonus Points to Tenjoy for his question:
"What is my best judgement? The first Cryonic?"

Which pokes holes in me using "best judgement" as a figure of speech by using Judgement as it is now known in the game, an alternate definition that I had not intended. You winvictoried at wordspeechums this time, but the finalast laughaha shall be mine.


Alpha6 makes a good point in this reply:
"i would like to add to this guide that if you PL to 50 in the AE you will acquire all the necessarily experience you need to run this build insuring your proper place on incarnate trials. while also funding your IOs from tickets. This in turn has the side effect of lowering or increasing the value of recipes and salvage on your server furthering your helpoisty."

As you know I am all about helposity and have edited the section to reflect these changes, thank you very much.


Arcanaville takes it to the next level by making her own Tank build specifically to help me out, way to go!
"As you can see, I've thought of everything. First of all, this build has significant complementary soft control. Second, to make sure you don't aggro too many things too quickly this build's maximum movement speed is 1.4 mph. Don't worry, I have teleport foe to deal with runners. I also have recall friend if you get too far ahead. Also, if things get too rough I have invisibility and phase shift. And since you don't have phase shift, I have vengeance. I was a little worried my attacks would recharge too slowly to be able to continuously attack, so I made sure to have a very well slotted brawl."

By our powers combined, I am Captain Planet!


Hey Treees, you say that:
"My friend made this build five years ago. Here's his commentary: ..."

Well I made this build six years ago, I just didn't think the community was ready to handle it untill now.


Santakid is ready to take it to the next level, TURNIN IT UP TO ELEVEN!
"See, sometimes enemies are just far too powerful to even look at, and as the best solo character out there…a controller, it is my duty to control them. And what better way then to send them to another dimension?"

Yes Yes Yes a thousand times Yes! People need to strategize, and they need to be told what to do or else they will do the wrong thing, cus it's not what YOU want them to do. By forcefully pausing the fight, you accomplish two things. One: The focus is on you, where it SHOULD be. Two: Now everyone has time to plan how to fight the one boss you left alive, planning is gewd brah.

I'm sorry but in my experience in this game and many others beforehand, the quality of names is a good guesstimate of the quality of the player behind it. Stereotyping is unfair, but I see CAPS LOCK IS CRUISE CONTROL FOR COOLS named characters eating dirt and without any set bonuses a lot more often than people with Proper Spelling and Clever Costumes. Everyone knows about the concept of a "First Impression" and how important it can be.

To me, DARK-DAEMON-420 with his Black and Red "match colors across costume" made up entirely of one pre-set selection and with no biography or IO sets, he seems to me to be someone who I don't want on my Master of the Tin Mage Task Force run. Yeah I just totally judged a book by it's cover, something my mommy told me not to do... but in my experience I think I made the right decision to ensure a greater chance of success.

Freedom now, I moved to it long ago during the great Victory population crash. I also play on Exalted since it has a nice mid-game community and lots of teams going, but all my "good" 50s are on Freedom. I like Incarnate powers -> I don't like not being able to run Incarnate Trials because there aren't people around -> I must play on Freedom.

Energy Aura and Elec Armor are the absolute most endurance friendly armors in the game. Energize by itself coupled with high recharge makes impossibly toggle heavy builds feasible, and then you always have Energy Drain / Power Sink for when you actually need to refill that endurance. I have a Spine-Elec Scrapper who has Obliteration sets in the damage auras like Quills which is a terrible way to slot them (18% end reduction only). Additionally he runs Tough/Weave/Maneuvers/Assault. I don't have endurance problems, and went Musculature Core Paragon and Barrier Core Paragon because I didn't need to rely on something like Vigor or Ageless when I already had the god-mode endurance armor. I have a hard time seeing an Energy Aura build that could possibly need an endurance reduction alpha...