OhGodtheRats

Cool stuff. See you there out of morbid curiosity of what the winning line-up will be.

Ok. So I finally got my 1st Blaster on Heroes to the "golden" level (that's the level where I have the powers that make him fun and all the rest are gravy on top of the rest) so it's time for me to try out another archetype. Since my Villain love was Domination, I figured I'd give their blue cousins a try.
I like my toons to have a little synergy between their Power Sets and I guess I wanted a veteran's or just a regular Controller player's advice. What I plan on rolling this afternoon is an Earth Control/Radiation character. Now my question is are the synergies worth it? I'm sure the Radiation Infection/Any Earth Control Power debuff combo isn't an issue, but I don't know what debuff caps are but I do know that the combined slows from Quicksand + Lingering Radiation might hit it. Maybe. I don't know.
General advice would be great, particularly on this combination.

Other questions: Would a 6-slotted Accelerated Metabolism (3 End Mod, 3 Recharge) make my need for Stamina negligible?

I know that there are....issues...with Salt Crystals, but does anyone have a Screenshot of what that looks like? I know it's pretty iffy to have on a team, but the description tempts me beyond words.
Thanks!
-Jared

A little off topic, but god bless whoever made the Elektra clone with 2 sai named "Electric Nachos". That was hilarious.

My DB/Regen had the Scimitar/Gladius combo....the asymmetry was fun to see dancing across the screen.
-jared

Whatever you decide, definitely add me to your call list. Moment i11 hits, I'll be rolling my first Scrapper who will, without much doubt, be the flavour of the month. In each hand.

-jared
Global @billy horrorshow

Oh Sandwich, how your Alt has grown. Congratulations man. See you in-game soon, I'm sure.
-Jared
(Billy Horrorshow/Longbone)

Got mentioned in the Poison Traps discussion thread in the Corrupter's section. It was sort of an off-hand comment but I'm still playing catch-up at the moment and wanted to be sure they hadn't gimped the signature move of TNT. Though, admittedly that might have changed now that you guys all have explosives.
-jared

Edit: Oops, I mean the mastermind section. The thread confused me a bit by comparing trapper poison trap to Mastermind Poison trap....did the Mastermind Poison trap used to be the same as the Corrupter version?

Did I read that right? Did they remove the puke part from Poison Trap?

Congrats Amber from Billy Horrorshow. I take it the Debt Hunting is at an end?
-jared

Just to chime in (a little late), I have a lot of fun with my Dark/Dark brute. It's a little weird but the combo is all about Mez auras and out-healing your enemies during fights. I've found it blows at higher level pvp (which might just be me), but in PvE it's a pretty exciting combination. After level 18 you've got an endurance recharger and a hp recharger that makes most "oh [censored] I'm almost dead" moments spin around very, very quickly. And once you get the fear/disorient auras you'll be rather popular when leading the charge with squishy teammates.
-jared

If only I had more time my less than secret love could be declared throughout the Rogue Isles.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v2...omritalove.jpg

Oh Rita, you make my monster GROW.

I don't know. That Regen bonus would work pretty sweetly with Drain Psyche. You know, if you're into stacking Regen bonuses like a fiend and all.
-jared

I'll do my best...methinks I'll just have to try to snag them when the ball gets rolling at 9.

I'll be along for the ride for the first hour, then the TF mentioned in the thread below goes down and I'll have to vamoose. I've no idea if that's a real word or not, but I'm pretty sure it means to leave.

Been trying to catch up with my trapper...he's 2 bars short of 31 now. Woot.
-jared

I've got two friends that TOLD me they'd be joining me on this but they don't seem to have logged into the forum and signed up here. They're always on so, if there's room my friends the fire/fire dom (level 50) and the Sonic/Kinetics Corrupter (level 40-something) will most likely be available.

The only toons I have that are any good at pvp are the ones with Teleport. Being squishy and ambushed is a bad thing and even if I'm immobilized by whatever I can still 'port away like a fiend.

Of course, it doesn't help me kill anyone but it does prevent many of those follow-up Assassin Strike moves from being able to hit.
-jared

My Radiation/Traps Corrupter is nearing the 30's and I've been plotting out my Build. Turns out, I sort of want to skip my level 32 Atomic Blast. Sure, I understand with Traps already out and no toggles the complete endurance drain isn't as bad as all that, but I was just sort of wondering if anyone out there swears by the Atomic Nuke/Hold that lurks as the final power in Radiation Blast.

I've skipped decent powers before for the sake of theme before but since my theme is really to lay down traps and then spam AOE & Cosmic Burst like a fiend...the idea of the Nova is at least a little seductive. But I keep reading how Nukes bite donkey here and there....well, am I crazy for wanting to skip it?
Just asking for anyone with an opinion.
-jared

Man, now I need to go watch those episodes. I loved "Welcome to Paradox."
-jared

Thank Christ! I was thinking I'd gone crazy for a minute there.
-jared
"who tries not to believe everything he reads, even if the person sounds stupid confident"

Ok that's just nutty. My Mind/Psi dom gets set bonuses from my Mass Confuse power and all I have in there are Malaise & Perplex, both Confuse sets.
Unless I'm understanding you wrong (which seems unlikely with your clarification) I think you've found something hella wrong with Mid's planner.
-jared

edit: Either that or the last patch just screwed over all Group Mez characters. No Set bonuses for group slows, confusions, fears, immoblizes, or sleeps? That's just retarded.

So Tuesday is out this week but I should be able to swing by tonight for trapper fun. Any room?
-jared

PS: Just respec'd my trapper...man is trapping fun with a Taunt.

Not a problem. The Dom is more of Team Utility anyway. I dont' know what McCabe and the Dr. are, but if the team's swamped with Doms then I'll most likely swap over. Experience from the Dom team tells me you only need to hold/confuses/slow/immoblize/fear a mob so many times before it's overmez.
-jared

Considering how I've made up my schedule for the next weeks and have never done this one....sign me up. Not sure who to bring, but here's the options:

Level 38 Dark/Dark Brute (Longbone) runs Tactics and Vengeance. (This toon is always on Relentless, typically it's cake. When it's not, I use vengeance on my dead friend and all works out fine.)
Level 36 Mind/Psi Dominator (Billy Horrorshow) sort of fear themed...spams Terrorize, Intimidate and Invoke Panic in addition to the usual Mind Control tricks. (Also has Heal other and Rez Other from the Medicine Pool)

I'm thinking the Dom might be better since confused CoT are fun temporary allies, but my Brute is infinitely less squishy. Depends on the team.
-jared

Since I don't use mids (I just play with the wiki) I wasn't aware AOE sets don't give set bonuses? Which....confuses me.
Could you paraphrase what you just said, because right now it reads like "Mass confusion is an area of effect power, so you can't get set bonuses from it."
Maybe Mid's has Mass confusion screwed up or something?
-jared

All the veterans who were sitting on piles and piles of infamy but were saying "those young whipper-snappers can keep them gosh darn tootin Invention Origin Enhancements to themselves" have sort of changed their tune and started stocking up. I used to be able to buy lots of rare IO"s for under a million...now that's much less likely. If you can price a rare thing at 20 million and it'll eventually sell, of course that's what you do.

But you guys know what I'm talking about, right? How many of the veterans on this forum said "IO's don't add anything to the game, I'm not to be bothered" and now almost all the build guides presume IO use as a must?
:sigh:

My pet theory. Because we've stopped seeing people post about how much IO's suck.

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Ps. @OhGodtheRats the whole point about this spec revolves around the set bonuses.

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D'oh.

Looking at the build...good stuff. PowerBoost with the mez diversity of Mind is going to be the stuff of nightmares.

A couple of thoughts. If you're up for completing sets, most of the sets you've left almost completed give fairly decent Psi Defense/Resistance bonuses. Still, if you want to completely round out like you've done here, it looks like it works. If it was me I'd make a few sacrifices and get the Psi Defense to 7.50 and the Res up just a bit for the name of a gimmick.

By the by, no Mass Confusion? Gotta ask.
-jared