Plant Control

Overview

Plant Control is a standard power set that is a primary set for Controllers and Dominators.

"You can call forth and control the power of plants and flora to control your foes. Animate and control vines, roots and spores to entrap, entwine and utterly dominate your foes. Many Plant Control powers are only effective if the target is near the ground."

Power Table

The Plant Control power set is available as a primary set for Controllers and Dominators. The following table shows the level at which each power is available:

	Power	Level	Effect
	Entangle	1	Ranged, Moderate DoT(Smashing/Lethal), Foe Immobilize
	Strangler	1	Ranged, Moderate DoT(Smashing), Foe Hold
	Roots	2	Ranged (Targeted AoE), Minor DoT(Smashing/Lethal), Foe Immobilize
	Spore Burst	6	Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Sleep
	Seeds of Confusion	8	Ranged (Cone), Foe Confuse
	Spirit Tree	12	Place Tree: PBAoE, Team +Regen
	Vines	18	Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Hold
	Carrion Creepers	26	Summon Creepers: Ranged (Location AoE), Foe -SPD, -Fly, -Jump
	Fly Trap	32	Summon Fly Trap: Ranged, Control, Special

Powers

Carrion Creepers

You can create a Creeper patch at a targeted location. The patch will snag foes, slowing their movement, and preventing them from jumping or flying. Additionally, a Creeper Vine will burst from under each live and defeated foe in the area and start attacking your enemies. Creeper Vines do minimal damage, but they can knock down your enemies and its poisonous thorns can slow your foes. Any foes that are defeated in the Creeper patch will also produce a growth of Entangle Roots that will Immobilize any enemies near the defeated foe.

Editor's Note: Carrion Creepers summons a Pseudopet, referred to by the power tooltip text as Creepers, which is invisible, untargetable, has a 2 minute duration, and follows you via the ground with limited jumping ability (it cannot fly). The Creepers entity summons Carrion Creeper Patch and Carrion Creeper Vine pets, which are the visible entities that appear in the game. The power hierarchy of these pets is detailed below.

Recharge	Very Long
Minimum Level	26 (Controller)
	26 (Dominator)
Effects	Summon Creepers: Ranged (Location Area of Effect)
	Foe -Speed, -Fly, -Jump
Creepers Powers	Bramble (Auto, PBAoE, -Fly, -Speed)
	Carrion Creepers (Summon Carrion Creeper Patch on each enemy corpse within range every 10 seconds)
	ResistAll (Auto, Self, Untouchable)
	Vines (50% chance to Summon Carrion Creeper Vine on each enemy within range every 10 seconds)
Carrion Creeper Patch Powers	Entangle (Ranged, AoE, DoT(Smashing/Lethal), Immobilize, -Knockback, -Fly)
	ResistAll (Auto, Self, Untouchable)
	Self Destruct (after 2 seconds)
Carrion Creeper Vine Powers	Resistance (Auto, Self, Res( S-1 L-4 F-4 C-2 E-2 N-3 P4 T4 ), Def( P25 ), Immobilized)
	Self Destruct (after 15 seconds)
	Vine Smash (Melee, Single Target, Smashing, DoT(Toxic), Knockdown, -Fly, -Speed)
	Vine Thorns (Ranged, Single Target, Lethal, DoT(Toxic), -Fly, -Speed)
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Damage
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Immobilization Duration
	Enhance Knockback Distance
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
	Enhance Slow
Set Categories	Targeted AoE Damage
	Immobilize
	Slow Movement
	Universal Debuff
	Knockback

Entangle

Immobilizes your target by Entangling their feet in a twisted mass of thorny roots. The roots do smashing and lethal damage to the target over time. More resilient foes may require multiple applications to Immobilize. Entangle can immobilize flying targets, if they are near the ground when attacked.

Damage	Moderate Damage over Time(Smashing/Lethal)
Recharge	Fast
Minimum Level	1 (Controller)
	1 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged
	Foe Immobilize
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Damage
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Immobilization Duration
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Ranged Damage
	Immobilize

Fly Trap

You can summon a giant carnivorous Fly Trap plant beast. Fly Trap may be an understatement, as this plant beast has a taste for flesh. The Fly Trap will viciously attack any nearby foes; biting, hurling poisonous Thorns, and even casting its own Entangle Roots. The Fly Trap will fight by your side and can be healed and buffed like any teammate.

Editor's Note: The Venus Fly Trap is highly resistant to Smashing, Cold, Energy, Negative, Toxic, and Psionic Damage. It also has a high defense to Psionic Attacks. It is, however unprotected from Fire and Lethal Damage. Its tendency to regrow quickly when damaged also grants it a boosted regeneration rate.

Recharge	Very Long
Minimum Level	32 (Controller)
	32 (Dominator)
Effects	Summon Fly Trap: Ranged, Control, Special
Fly Trap Powers	Bite (Melee, Single Target, Lethal, DoT(Toxic), -Def)
	Entangle (Ranged, AoE, DoT(Smashing/Lethal), Immobilize, -Knockback)
	Fling Thorns (Ranged, Cone, Lethal, DoT(Toxic), -Def)
	Resistance (Auto, Self, Res( S30 C30 E30 N30 P30 T30 ), Def( P25 ), +Regeneration)
	Thorny Darts (Ranged, Single Target, Lethal, DoT(Toxic), -Def)
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Damage
	Enhance Defense Debuff
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Immobilization Duration
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Pet Damage
	Defense Debuff
	Recharge Intensive Pets
	Accurate Defense Debuff
	Universal Debuff

Roots

Immobilizes a group of foes by entangling their feet in a twisted mass of thorny Roots. Roots is slower and does less damage than Entangle, but it can capture multiple foes in one attack. Like Entangle, Roots can immobilize flying targets, if they are near the ground when attacked.

Damage	Minor Damage over Time(Smashing/Lethal)
Recharge	Fast
Minimum Level	2 (Controller)
	2 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged (Targeted Area of Effect)
	Foe Immobilize
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Damage
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Immobilization Duration
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Targeted AoE Damage
	Immobilize

Seeds of Confusion

You throw a handful of seeds from a rare Baffle plant at your foes. The seeds spread out in a wide cone and release a dusty chaff that contain a number of alkaloids and hallucinogenic compounds. Foes that come into contact with these seeds become violently confused and will turn and attack each other, ignoring you and all your allies. You will not receive any Experience Points for foes defeated entirely by Confused enemies.

Recharge	Very Long
Minimum Level	8 (Controller)
	8 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged (Cone)
	Foe Confuse
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Confusion Duration
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Confuse

Spirit Tree

You can tap into the elusive and powerful energy of the World Tree and extract a Spirit Tree at a targeted location. The Sprit Tree is immobile, but possesses incredible regenerative powers. The Regeneration Rate of you, or your allies, will be greatly increased as long as you are near the Spirit Tree.

Recharge	Very Long
Minimum Level	12 (Controller)
	12 (Dominator)
Effects	Place Tree: Point Blank Area of Effect
	Team +Regeneration
Enhancements	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Heal
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Healing/Absorb

Spore Burst

You hurl a large fungi pod at your foes. This pod is full of Spores that burst on impact, engulfing the target and all those around him. All affected targets may succumb to the narcotic effect of the Spores and will fall asleep. The targets will remain asleep for some time, but will awaken if attacked.

Recharge	Slow
Minimum Level	6 (Controller)
	6 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged (Targeted Area of Effect)
	Foe Sleep
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
	Enhance Sleep Duration
Set Categories	Sleep

Strangler

Holds a distant foe by Strangling him with massive root-like vines. The target is held helpless, while he is slowly crushed by the vines.

Damage	Moderate Damage over Time(Smashing)
Recharge	Moderate
Minimum Level	1 (Controller)
	1 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged
	Foe Hold
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Enhance Damage
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Hold Duration
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Ranged Damage
	Holds

Vines

Creates a field of Strangler Vines that can Hold multiple foes at range. The affected targets are held helpless by the massive root-like vines. Unlike the power Strangler, this power does not deal any damage, but it can Hold multiple foes at once.

Recharge	Very Long
Minimum Level	18 (Controller)
	18 (Dominator)
Effects	Ranged (Targeted Area of Effect)
	Foe Hold
Enhancements	Enhance Accuracy
	Reduce Endurance Cost
	Enhance Hold Duration
	Enhance Range
	Increase Attack Rate
Set Categories	Holds

Historical

This section contains information about changes that took place in City of Heroes: Rebirth. The content provided may refer to City of Heroes Freedom. It is provided for historical purposes.

• This set was added to the game with the original release of Dominators in Issue 6.
• This set was proliferated to Controllers in Issue 12.
• Carrion Creepers originally did not properly use slotted enhancements with exception of Recharge. This meant Carrion Creepers' accuracy, damage and slow did not increase despite any slotted enhancements. This was fixed in Issue 14.

External Links

• Plant Control for Controllers at Titan Network's RedTomax
• Plant Control for Dominators at Titan Network's RedTomax