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bigspeer

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Siphon Power as a troller

I was playing my mind/kin troller, Hypno Master, this morning and someone asked why i didnt take siphon power. I am 14 and had no plan of taking it until later on.

How good of a power is it? i've taken more mind powers and other things and just skipped it over. i plan on taking it, i just dont know when.

01/21/07 14:58

Warron Peace

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

In my opinion, its very good to have. On a large team, controllers end up being more buffers (in my experience) to avoid drawing too much aggro. Having another significant buff is very valuable. It also helps the solo controller survive incoming damage as well as put out more damage. I would advise you to pick it up as soon as you have room in your build.

W.P.

01/21/07 15:06

knickknack

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

It is a very nice power to have since it decreases the damage the target does and increases the damage you and your team do. I would recommend taking it whenever you can fit it into your build, and you will be glad you did.

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01/21/07 15:26

LordStarwolf

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

I personally don't have much use for this power. I never noticed much of an improvement in teammates attacks or decrease in the enemies attacks. I respec'ed it out of my 29 ill/kin controller.

Guardian
Avant Guard = Emp/Rad/Psychic Defender Lvl 50 (Dedicated Healer)
Astral Plane = Peacebringer Lvl 50
Spica = Fire/Em/Energy Tank Lvl 50 (Scranker)
Avant Spines = Spines/Regen Scrapper Lvl 50 (AOE King)
Beliskner = Eng/Eng Blaster Lvl 42 (Blapper)
Avant Kin = Ill/Kin Controller Lvl 39
BMG = AR/Dev Blaster Lvl 28
Avant Psy = Psychic Blast/Empathy Defender Lvl 20 (Offender)
Avant Def = Kinetics/Energy Blast Defender Lvl 16
Avant Stone = Stone/Storm Controller lvl 15 (Super Controller)
Umbral Plane = Warshade Lvl 14
Triumph
Lord Yu = MA/Regen Scrapper Lvl 24
Protector
Electrostun = Electric/EM Blaster Lvl 21 (Sapper)
T-99 = Ice/Ice Tanker Lvl 20
Starwolf = Katana/Inv Scrapper Lvl 18 (my very first toon, 3 1/2 years ago)
Pinnacle
Avant Claws = Claws/Regen Scrapper Lvl 18 (Non-power pool toon)
Champion
Avant Dragon = Fire/Fire Blaster Lvl 20
Freedom
Avant Arch = Archery/NRG Blaster Lvl 50
Avant Char = Fire/Kinetics Controller Lvl 50

And many, many, many more....

01/21/07 15:59

pathofwrath

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

Posey Punk is my L30 Grav/Kin and she has it. I like it lots. The effect isn't huge, but for a troller, every little bit helps.

Path of Wrath - Storm/Elec/Elec Defender - 50
Miss Trinidad - Ill/Storm/Ice Controller - 50
Miss Cote d'Ivoire - Dark/Regen/Dark Scrapper - 50
Posey Punk - Grav/Kin/Stone Controller - 50
Mr. Azerbaijan - Kin/Psy Defender - 50
Laccolith - Earth/Rad Controller - 35
Geriatric Justice - Willpower/SS Tanker - 38

01/21/07 17:31

G-pa Wisdom

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

It's good till you get fullcrum, then it's like why play with this toy?

01/22/07 20:54

Valentine

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

Its a great power to use and gets more effective the tougher the mobs from what ive seen. It does give a noticeable difference on my kin/dark defender allowing me to have a chance to take enemies down.

As for post-FS its a good idea to keep it. FS gives you a massive dump of dmg onto melee chars and a small one onto rangers near to the kinetic. This power allows you to give the rangers who miss FS an extra bit of OOMPH.

Oh, Hello Mr. Jurassik! Sorry about that arrow, it wasnt aimed at you. I'll just be on my way now... *flees*

01/22/07 21:10

Variety

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

I would see no use in Siphon power if you solo alot(Which is rare for a Low level controller) But it's very effective with teams,work nice.

A man with no Fear is a man with no Hope

01/22/07 23:10

pathofwrath

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

Siphon Power is helpful when soloing, though I don't solo much with my Grav/Kin. I would recommend slotting for Accuracy (DUH!) and EndRed as it's a little end heavy until Transference.

01/23/07 00:57

Thundarpants

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RE: Siphon Power as a troller

I used it a lot in the early levels to boost up the ranged players like Blasters. Being able to kick back and hang with the ranged crowd. But, with all of the uber powers I had to choose from in the later levels, after I got Fulcrum Shift I ditched it.

It is a good power, and at the level you have to ditch it it's usually Repel you have to pick up, and that has it's own set of issues. For me it was a humor based issue, so that's why I keep it.

Ranged characters will like you having it if your Troller is mostly team based. It's a lot better than the alternative, but with Gravity/Kin, Repel does go along with the theme. And hangin out with the ranged guys while keeping everything from getting into melee range has it's merits as well. Having run a lot of Blasters, I can tell you that the Singularity is awesome Blaster protection.

As for people asking you why you didn't get it.... that is a pet peeve of mine. Just tell them you lost your cookie cutter when you thought up the character.

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01/23/07 13:35

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