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Originally Posted by Yogi_Bare

last 2 (alien blood hound):






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Originally Posted by Eiko-chan

You know, the ability to do more exotic damage types might alone make Mercs a much more balanced set against the rest of the AT. Not much resists Cold, and no other MM set offers it, for instance.

Originally Posted by crazyhorse2

So I ended up going fire/earth. I'm really enjoying all the smashiness of it and how every attack shakes the screen. I just feel powerful.

I'm currently level 18. So far I havnt taken stamina, instead relying on domination to fill the bar every time its p. I do find myself popping blues more often now. My question is do most builds that go for permadom with hasten also take stamina?

Originally Posted by RedSwitchblade

LOL +rep for you, saying what I was thinking

Originally Posted by Rintera

Thematically, illusions/anything would be stupid for my character.


fire/kin is fine, and it's not like this is my first toon, I'm not a new player...I just don't specialize in builds. so far, fire/kin is fine for me right now.


plays alot like a lock-down version of my fire/mm blaster.

Originally Posted by MaxLongstreet

There's no greater evidence one can present of a power set's gimpiness than fire minded pronouncing that there's nothing wrong with it.

Originally Posted by Patteroast

Yeah, he's a tri-form. I also decided that I'd be fine without Stamina, since there were so many powers I wanted, and Stamina took up too much space. It's probably my biggest regret, as I enjoy playing him much more with it. I don't regret being tri-form, though... after I learned how to utilize all three forms, things got a lot better for me. Which form would you say is better to skip?

Originally Posted by Patteroast

In my experience (highest Warshade 50, highest Peacebringer currently 22), Peacebringers seem to be easier to manage and more fun at low levels. They seem to be quite blastery.

I've had some trials over time with my 50 Warshade, so that might color my opinion that they're especially difficult to play well... I don't seem to have done as well as others in this thread, at least. Still, it's a unique and very interesting AT... worth trying just to see stacked Mires, Stygian Circle, and the glory of Eclipse.

Originally Posted by Frosticus

Your thoughts on Illusion wasn't all I saw while I was in there. Get some help, your obsession with Salma Hayek is bordering on disturbing...or was that while I was in my head?

Originally Posted by Frosticus

I've thought a lot about illusion on doms and trollers.

Trollers: like you say it has no readily available aoe containment. In a troller world dominated by contained damage this is a pretty major drawback. And yet Ill controllers get by just fine.

PA under high recharge is pretty amazing and is a large part of the draw to such combos as ill/rad and ill/kin. However, PA does not benefit from external buffing so the only way to improve them is via enemy debuffing. Controllers with res debuffing make PA very impressive because of the heal back mechanic of their attacks. Basically once you fully damage slot PA it has a 35% heal back ratio that you can only improve through resistance debuffing. Something like an ill/cold can make the heal back as small as 17% of the damage they put out. Amazing stuff really.

Dominators: won't have many powers that are boosted by the +mag+duration of domination. In fact they'll have 1 less than sets like earth and fire. This could be seen as a setback, but we know Castle reworked doms specifically to rely less on domination than before. I'm of the mind set that illusion is not a weak control set, but rather a weak "lock down" set. Complete lockdown is irrelevant to doms.

Regarding PA and dominators: it is of little doubt that it would be a very strong combo. While active it would allow a dominator to focus almost entirely on damage output. Pretty big advantage. That said, it is significantly more difficult for a dom to reach perma PA than it is for a troller. Not impossible, but much more difficult. Additionally doms have no way of making PA more effective while they are out like trollers do, with the exception of a single target debuff in one patron choice.

I think it goes without saying that anyone who truly believes illusion would be overpowered on a dominator is by default saying it is even moreso on a controller as they can leverage the strengths of the set better than doms.

Conversely, people with concerns that it would be too weak due to little benefit gained through domination need to look up the status on spec terror.