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Out of interest, do you use the Teleport pool for a main travel power? I can't think of any possible use for recall friend after level 14 - Everyone's got a travel power!

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It's somewhat useful in the empathy set as you can tp people away and rez them safely.

You don't need to unlock Moonfire, perhaps that's Hess you're thinking of?

Good luck getting the team together

My defenders current attacks are Subdue (ok damage + chance to immob), TK Blast (good damage + high chance to knockback) and Will Domination (good damage + sleep). Mental Blast is not on my power tray, this may change in i8 when the animation will take less than 3 days to complete as is currently the case. I also have the nuke but that's mainly for PvE (Fulcrum Shift then Wail ftw).

Scramble thoughts is a disorient but does virtually no damage. It's not hugely useful imo as, in PvP, you can already drop a squishies toggles with WD.

If you are going the Psychic Mastery route then consider Telekinesis. Not many sets resist it but it's high endurance usage (I'm kinetics so I tend to push them away while draining their and and topping mine up.)

Some trivia for you. The dinosaurs shown in Jurassic Park were actually modeled on Deinonychus. Velociraptors were much smaller, about the size of a turkey.

I know, I should get out more...

Use Hyper Phase and run through them if you don't want to log out then back in.

I like my Kin/Psi Defender. Even tho he still runs a PvE build he does reasonably well in team PvP. I've had some fun with my Ice/Dev blaster too although telemining is a wee bit easy.

Not done much PvP with my villians yet so it's hard to say.

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I've found Kinetics/Elec very slow to solo. Pretty safe, the heal is so powerful. But it takes ages to defeat things, especially pre-32.

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And post-32. To get decent damage out of fulcrum you need lots of mobs and you just don't have the damage mitigation to stand in melee range of 10 mobs and live. You can faceplant in one combat round and even transfusion isn't enough.

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If you take the Psychic Mastery pool and take Mass Hypnosis, large groups become something less of a problem, especially as the Siphons and FS don't wake them up

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At higher level I have to be honest and say with the right mix of primary, secondary and ancilliary sets, all Defender/Controller teams can manage just fine on damage without, and I find them a lot of fun.

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Sounds like time for another all squishies invincible respec

Back on topic..I was part of an all ill/ controller team back when we played on the US servers, although we all had different secondaries. We never did find anything that presented much of a challenge

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PA drop team-led by paragon Girl, so far compromises Massatron, Okton, kilamonjaro, Chaotix, Stage and possibly Wyx

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Wyxie doesn't have an illusion controller. You may mean me (the OV logo confuses people). I'll be there if i can.

ID actually has a very decent resistance to smashing and energy as well as its other qualities. It's well worth putting on your tank before (s)he goes in if you are fighting mobs that do those damage types.

As for SB, I like to buff people just as they arrive at a train station then watch them run smack into the opposite wall. *chuckles*

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While CoV needs more content

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Last new content added to CoH was Croatoa iirc, and that was 2 years and a half ago, which doesn't say much of any MMO that is not admitted to be dead. CoV was just released one year ago, and all the new content since has been directed to it (one of the reasons why CoX has lost most of its customers imo)

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Just one point, Croatoa was added with issue 5 which went live at the end of August last year.

Well, with some AVs being resistant to gauntlet, Taunt has become pretty much necessary at high levels but that's a different matter.

A question for those who say tanks shouldn't attack: What do you do once everything is taunted and/or sat in your taunt aura?

Being able to take a lot of damage and control the agro should not not preclude you from doing some damage yourself.

5 Hours?

Grats on finishing the TF

Storm/Dark works quite well. The cone immobilize of Tentacles stops stuff running out of Freezing Rain.

Happy b'day Phil

I agree with the other posters, you get more bang for your buck with OG.

In a choice between Siphon Life and ToF, personally I would take ToF. Tis a nice power

For a while I ran with Short Circuit slotted for damage rather than End Mod. Combined with Ball Lightning and Static Discharge from the Elec Epic, I put out a shocking amount of AoE damage.

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Last question.. just for kicks, can you SB and ID the Spectral Terror? I guess no but hey it might do lol

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'fraid not. It doesn't need ID as it can't be damaged anyway

Slows with -recharge work well against him (kinetics, rad, ice control to name a few). If you don't have anyone in the team that can help, try using a Crey pistol after he uses a self heal to slow down the recharge on it.

And the recharge, don't forget the recharge

I would also go with SB

I have 3 level 50 Defenders: Kin/Psi, Dark/Dark and Rad/Sonic.

All are great fun to play but my favourite has to be the kinetics especially on big teams

I also had a Storm/Elec in the mid-30s but she had to go to free up a character slot to try other things.

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Telemining rather changes the tactics around though - rather than working a mobile hunter, you need to find a safe place, cloak up as much as you can, build a nice patch of mines and wait. Remember to put (a) caltrops and (b) yourself in the mine patch as a guard against Stalkers.

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It works well in dumpsters although staying in one place too long can be a bad thing

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looking at this again is aid self needed with dark regen?

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Possibly not. I don't have it on my claws/DA and he gets by fine without it. It may be more useful if you plan to PvP. Either way you have 10 levels to decide after getting Dark Regen, whether that is enough or you need to start on the medicine pool (which you have at 32 in your build).

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regarding cloak of darkness i've been informed this gives the same protection as combat jumping so i'd much rather use that. i spent alot of time on my cossie and i found i just wasn't enjoying the character if i couldn't see him jumping around and slashing at stuff

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CoD is probably more useful in PvP than PvE with the +per helping to see pesky stalkers. Having said that the immobilize protection from CoD will stack with CJ which is handy when you come up against death mages and the like.

Consider taking Radiation Infection early. I don't see it in your build anywhere. RI will cut down on your need to use your heal especially once you have 3 ToHit Debuffs in it.