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Originally Posted by Psycho_Sarah

Ice is counter productive in building fury. Part of building fury is getting attacked, ice slows down incoming attacks. On my Ice/Ice tank I can just about lock mobs down. Would really hurt the fury building. That was the original reason that it was taken from brutes in CoV beta.

Originally Posted by Jibikao

Well, just a few things to throw out in case you haven't tried /Poison. I have a 50 Merc/Poison and quite frankly, it's my least favorite combo. /Poison in its current form offers very little aoe protection for 6 pets. Its debuffs, while potent, aren't good enough to protect the pets and the single healing is slow and costs 16 endurance. And the lvl 38 gas power doesn't work well on Commando since he isn't a melee-oriented pet.

From what I've read, they are going to add some "Splash" effects to both Weaken and Envenom. I think it should look like Acid Arrow. I don't know what the radius is going to be like. I am guessing 8' radius. Those that receive splash effects get "reduced" debuff values. We don't know the details yet.

Poison Trap in /Poison has 4s interrupt. Many people don't know this because quite frankly, nobody likes this power. Yes, it's very nice that they changed it Hold initially but the 4s interrupt + 5s casting time and the fact that /Poison has no stealth, may make it hard to set it off. I just don't understand why /Poison has a trap. I rather just puke a pile of !@#$ and put them to hold/sleep and whatnot.

If Venomous Gas is the same version of Noxious Gas, then it's going to be very good. This power looks weak on MM, but it is actually a great resistance debuff + puking power.

Basically from what I read:

1. AoE effect in Weaken and Envenom
2. Poison Trap causes Hold initially and it may have minor Toxic damage
3. Single heal is going to be better. We don't know the details yet.

I still think the activation time on Weaken is a bit long but we'll see.

Originally Posted by Amy_Amp

The recharge times on the buffs sets that got buffed were made so they could buff the whole team from day 1. The recharge on something like Fort meant it was never designed to be on the whole team in the first place.

Originally Posted by Emberly

Son of a *****. I joined a team on my unmothballed Kin and was promptly told "no SB please" by four members. I politely mentioned that they can now turn off the runspeed bonus with a quick trip to Pocket D. Three of them said in team chat some variant of they would eventually but right now please don't speedboost them. The fourth sent me a tell explaining that the onus was still on me to accommodate his needs, because he shouldn't have to change a setting in the game to avoid powers from other people.

Being as it's AoE now, I cheerfully targeted only the three that wanted SB and let the splash buffs land where they may. Now that there is a means to deal with the "problem" of speedboost, I am quite content in referring to these people as the whining **** that they are. I had a suspicion that the ability to negate the supposed downside of SB wouldn't eliminate the crybabies, and lo! I was right.

My Cold fender is rejoicing in ways illegal. On the MM end of things, my thermal MMs have become a joy to play where once they were tedium made flesh. Truly one of the greatest QoL improvements to the game since launch.

Originally Posted by ketch

I've playing all the control sets to 50 with the exception of Electric (I'll get to it). Gravity to me was the least enjoyable of them all. While Dimension Shift is certainly a sore spot in the set, I also had trouble with its bread and butter control: Wormhole. It has a full 3 sec animation vs. 2.3 and 2.1 secs in Stalagmites and Flashfire. It also has a significantly smaller radius, 15 feet vs 25 feet. There's also a very brief, .75 sec, intangible after the teleport, which usually goes unnoticed. Frankly, I think it needs its activation shortened, its radius increased, and the intangible moved to the beginning of the power rather than after the teleport in order to prevent enemies from firing back. Oh, and it would be nice to get the power at level 12 when other control sets are getting reliable AoE.

I will admit Singularity is a very nice pet, but the rest of the set needs touching up. Until it gets some attention, I won't be rolling another.

Originally Posted by JayboH

That's why we are commenting on web envelope so much. Ignite does massive, massive damage, and even if you don't get an immobilize and never team with another character that can immobilize or hold, I would STILL recommend Ignite, it is just that good.

Originally Posted by Solo_One

the best mez protection in the game, full endurance, and instant reliable boss level lockdown is as good as inherents get aside from scrapper criticals. even earth control has plenty of powers that domination affects, people just love to *****. imo you lost the right to complain about it ever since they removed the damage bonus to improve the appeal to new players. if you want random procs go buy them, dont complain to the devs and get another set changed because you suck at playing it.