Oni
First Post
Controllers, on the other hand... They generally have subpar damage to everyone else, have bad defenses, and have minor buffs. The "controlling" effect of their at-wills are, in my opinion, pretty minor. They're certainly not flashy, and it doesn't seem to be a glorified role. A lot of their powers don't do anything at all if the target follows the "control" effect (see Storm Pillar for instance), so it feels like a wasted turn even if the control aspect was useful.
Yeah, I can understand how they might not be so popular. I'm playing a wizard right now, but I think I'm going to retire him when his current adventure is over, I'm just feel like I would be having more fun and be more helpful to everyone else if I was playing a different class. The little damange spread all over over the place, or not once things get mixed up, isn't very exciting. I know some of their dailies can completely destroy encounters, I've seen it first hand in other games, but at this low level the 1/day whammy just isn't cutting it for me especially since you don't want to waste it at the wrong time. Frankly my favorite feature of the class is the cantrips, if I could play a sorcerer or warlock with cantrips they would be favorite hands down, as silly as that is. Despite my above comments I think I'm going to trade in for a warlock.