Oathbound

I love misfits. I can't wait for Series 3.

Little bit wary of a new character coming in, but ah well.

Honestly, even as busy as the background is I think it works really well with the logo.

The logo is so bold that the business of the background kind of fades, it mostly just ends up as a vague pattern, while your eyes are mostly drawn to the large red lettering.

Looking at the Perfection bonuses, AS THEY ARE PRESENTED HERE (unreleased beta numbers and all that) I can't really see any reason anyone would run anything other than Form of the Body.

Think about it, the bonuses for Form of the Body are Foe - Res and Self +res, but very useful effects.

The bonuses for Form of the Soul are a ToHit buff and a Regen/Recovery buff. While the regen/recovery are very nice bonuses, the ToHit buff is useless,.. since you have to already be able to hit them to build perfection to use the ability**. It's completely superfluous.

The bonuses from Form of the Mind are even worse. You have -Defense, which runs into the same problem as the +ToHit from above, you have to already** be able to hit them to build up to the power. The other bonus, -12%movement/recharge is such a trivial number, particularly as it's the only Recharge slow in the set, as to be pointless.



**This is assuming you only gain Perfection on a successful attack, like combo points.

I would prefer to see a 5th power in Presence fix the two powers in the pool that are complete junk at the moment(the fears).

You know, the ones that aren't worth the time of day?

Have the 5th power be a substantial boost to Fear duration, either as a clicky like Power Boost, or just a moderate bonus as an auto power. Maybe have it act sort of like Domination and enable an added +1 magnitude, so they worked on anything higher than a damned minion.

The Taunt powers in Presence are good enough for what they are, the Fears are abysmal. We've asked for improvements to them for years and gotten nothing, maybe they'd finally give it to us if we spent another power on it.



Obviously I'd prefer it better if they're just make them worth using power and enhancement slots on in their own right... but I'm not holding out hope on that.

Chrono Shift grants each ally within it's radius 15 Endurance upon activation, this End bonus is not enhanceable.

It also provides +30% End Recovery for 30seconds, this bonus is enhanceable.


Also note; the enhancement is Endurance Modification not Recovery. It improves Recovery, flat Endurance gains, and Endurance Drains, as long as those aspects are not flagged as [Ignores Enhancements and Buffs], which Chrono Shift's +End bonus is. (and +Recovery bonus is not)

Some more thoughts/suggestions:

With Ring being a Sleep patch, Lullaby should be dropped to a Single Target sleep (no other control set gets two AoE controls of the same type to self-stack, plus the set needs another single target Containment enabler).

Since Lullaby would no longer be an AoE -Dmg ability, I'd add the -Dmg component to Ring. I'm doubtful a control set would ever get the ability to directly protect itself from Mez, so if anything Ring would only provide Mez resistance (shortens duration, where Protection prevents mez under a certain magnitude from taking effect at all).

With the idea put forth of a Liquefy like power, and Ring being a Location AoE already I'd say bump Ring up to tier9 as the Liquify like power, toss in a few more debuffs, and add in a new power in it's old spot. Run with the Knock* theme and put in say, Sonic Boom, a PBAoE Damage/Knockdown.

I'd also suggest a new name for Ring. Ring doesn't sound very controllish to me. Harmonic Field? Acoustic Damping? Damping Field? I lean towards Damping field.

Then I'd reorder it to :

1) Lullaby: Single target, Moderate damage, Foe Sleep, -Dmg
2) Pulse: Single target, Moderate damage, Foe KB, -Res
3) Sonic Seize: Single target, Moderate damage, Foe Hold, -Res
4) Whisper: Single target, Foe Confuse, -Res
5) Reverberating Aura: PBAoE Foe -res, Self +res/target
6) Deafening Shriek: PBAoE, Minor Damage, Foe Disorient
7) Sonic Boom: PBAoE, Moderate damage, Foe KD
8) Cacophony: PBAoE, Foe Hold
9) Damping Field (Ring): Location AoE Sleep, -Res, -Dmg, -Def, Team +Mez Resist

This set up makes it one of the heavier control sets, you've got 2 AoE hard controls [Hold/Disorient] plus 2 AoE soft controls [Sleep/KD], and with Lullaby/Pulse/Sonic Seize it's got a decent single target attack chain, like Mind and Gravity. Sonic Boom would add a moderate amount of AoE damage, in the same way Terrify in Mind provides.

While it may seem that Sonic has everything, since it wouldn't have a pet, which generally contribute a good deal of damage to other control sets, I think it work out okay.

The -only- power that gets a damage bonus from Targeting Drone is Assault Rifle's Sniper.

That's it.

I pretty much like the entire set except Go Down Fighting.

I dislike Go Down Fighting for two reasons, 1) I feel it kind of rewards you for doing your job (support) poorly. (Same argument as many have with Vigilance.) 2) I really don't like powers you can't use until someone dies (Rez excepted, because it returns them to the fight, instead of capitalizing on their demise).

It's a power than makes you better for each teammate you let die. Or alternately is completely useless until someone dies.

I used to work at a seasonal (Christmas) store.

We opened in AUGUST.

If you want damage, a Controller's not exactly the best way to go. I'd say just reroll your Dominator with a different secondary.

I have both Elec/Psi and Elec/Energy Doms. The /Energy Dom deals very good single target damage, which allows you to really leverage the sleep field. Keeps the spawn nicely contained while you mow them down 1 at a time. Energy's not the best for AoE though. (Possibly the worst.)

I play the Psi more or less the same way, Sleep>Single DPS. The fun comes from combining Conductive Aura's -end and +Regen/Recovery with Drain Psyche's -Recovery and +Regen/Recovery. Not as good at single target damage as the /Energy, but better AoE and endless endurance/good-very good HP recovery while Drain Psyche is up.

Praetorian Carnival Lightstaff powerset. I'd buy it.