Forced Indoctrination
Forced Indoctrination is the first ever Universal Control Duration set with effects available from levels 10 to 50. It can be slotted into any power that accepts immobilize, sleep, stun, hold, fear, or confuse. This unique enhancement set features Control Duration which enhances the power of any control effects, and also enhances a power's Damage, Accuracy, Endurance Reduction, and Recharge Time Reduction. Its proc is a chance for Psionic Damage, further increasing the set's damage-mindedness. These enhancements can be obtained by completing the Secret Master of the Lady Grey Task Force.
Enhancements:
- Control Duration/Damage
- Accuracy/Control Duration/Damage
- Control Duration/Damage/Recharge
- Accuracy/Recharge/Endurance
- Accuracy/Control Duration/Damage/Recharge
- Chance for Psionic Damage
| | Set Bonuses:
- 2-piece: 1.8% Maximum Endurance
- 3-piece: 2.5% Damage
- 4-piece: 6% Immobilize and Sleep, 3.3% Fear, 3% Confuse, Hold, Stun.
- 5-piece: 11% Accuracy
- 6-piece: 8.75% Recharge Time
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While a Psionic damage proc may
seem like a good idea at first blush ... it is fundamentally flawed with respect to Sleep and Confuse powers. Adding damage to Confuse will negate the value of powers that do not automatically draw aggro (and the same is also true for some Sleep powers too!).
Additionally, why are you mixing Damage into this set? NONE of the mez sets mix damage into their enhancements! A significant fraction of mez powers do not do any damage at all. So building damage enhancement into this set is inherently "wasteful" in terms of potential for a lot of mez powers.
Speaking just for myself, you could turn this set around by removing the Damage buff from it ... and replace those modifiers with
RANGE (think about it!).
Likewise, drop the 3-piece global damage buff in favor of a global range buff.
Remove the Psionic Damage proc ... and replace it with a hybridized
Build Up/
Power Boost proc (+to hit and +special, instead of +damage) that has 1/2 the (usual) buff value and 2x the duration (10s instead of just 5s) of the Gaussian's Build Up proc (so as to make it different) ... which would have
ALL KINDS OF INTERESTING SYNERGIES with Snipe attacks and other powers that have variable behaviors under different thresholds of +tohit as well as enhancing buff/debuff values and mez durations temporarily (10s).
So my preference would be for something like this:
Forced IndoctrinationForced Indoctrination is the first ever Universal Control Duration set with effects available from levels 10 to 50. It can be slotted into any power that accepts immobilize, sleep, stun, hold, fear, or confuse. This unique enhancement set features Control Duration which enhances the power of any control effects, and also enhances a power's Damage, Accuracy, Endurance Reduction, and Recharge Time Reduction. Its proc is a chance for Psionic Damage, further increasing the set's damage-mindedness. These enhancements can be obtained by completing the Secret Master of the Lady Grey Task Force.
Enhancements:
- Control Duration/Endurance
- Accuracy/Control Duration/Range
- Control Duration/Range/Recharge
- Accuracy/Control Duration/Range/Endurance
- Accuracy/Control Duration/Range/Recharge
- Chance for Power Up
| | Set Bonuses:
- 2-piece: 1.8% Maximum Endurance
- 3-piece: 2.5% Range
- 4-piece: 3% Confuse, Fear, Hold, Immobilize, Sleep, Stun
- 5-piece: 11% Accuracy
- 6-piece: 7.5% Recharge Time
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= (0.625 SO * 1) + (0.5 SO * 2) + (0.4375 SO * 2) = 2.5 SO Control Duration
= (0.5 SO * 2) + (0.4375 SO * 2) = 1.875 SO Range
= (0.5 SO * 1) + (0.4375 SO * 2) = 1.375 SO Accuracy and Recharge
= (0.625 SO * 1) + (0.4375 SO * 1) = 1.0625 SO Endurance
= 2.5 + 1.875 + 1.375 + 1.375 + 1.0625 = 8.1875 SO equivalent
Remember that for PPM Procs, increased Recharge Reduction enhancement (direct on the slotting, not global set bonuses) reduces the chance to proc when the power is used ... so you actually want LESS recharge reduction on the enhancement values and MORE recharge reduction from global bonuses. Arrange things such that this set can be slotted
multiple times in a build because none of the enhancements are unique single only "1 per build" ... so Controllers and Dominators can slot up to 5 of this set into their build ... and we'd be off to the races!