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I made an EM/WP, and it's up to 8 I think. One thing I noticed that I really like, is when a mob is stunned, the assassins strike gets a red circle around it, I think meaning that it's 100% chance to crit or something. Not sure about that, but it seems like it's working that way. Pretty cool.

Ahh. That makes sense.

I have a StJ brute right now, and I like it.

Oh LOL! I made elec last night. Wish I had another slot on that server to try energy. Maybe I'll make on another server and transfer if I like it.

Sounds like fun. I'll give it a shot. Thanks BrandX.

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Not at all! I'm enjoying reading all the responses. Thanks for them. I never expected this thread to get this much traffic, so I'm thrilled.

We will probably try this if she wants to try something else as a second character. Thanks for the suggestion.

LOL! My 90 lb. black lab has learned how to tap you when he wants something. To get me out of bed, he climbs up next to me, lays one front foot on my stomach, lifts it up and lets it drop repeatedly. If I'm on the couch with the laptop, he taps the couch. Silly boy.

I totally agree. I can't remember what my emp defender's secondary was..... I want to say electric, but I'm not sure. All I know is, I made it with the complete mindset of buffing, main healing, and blast when that other stuff not needed and I had decent endurance. I loved it, although it's gone. In fact, that's probably why I liked playing a main healer as paladin, priest, shaman, and druid on WoW lol.

Say, if any of you are interested in an experienced healer/buffer, I'd level another one, though I would prefer to not have to solo it. That sux balz. I mostly play on Freedom, second on Victory, but I really don't care what server since we can send cash anywhere now.

I'm Eastern time.

All good suggestions. Thanks!

Sorry, I didn't mean to offend. I've just not seen any since I've been back. I loved my emp defender, so much so I did a lot of healing and buffing when I played WoW.

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Great suggestions, and I agree, thanks. We were talking about it at bowling tonight, and she's going to try what I do. I like to set my movement keys to the left hand home keys ASDF. F- forward, D - back, A and S strafe. Been doing that since Decent in mid 90s. Then I put next enemy on C and nearest on V. Everything else around the home keys are usually binds to macros or certain powers like MM robot commands. Commonly toggled stuff on MB4 and 5. We'll see how she does with that.

I think what they meant was in the context of my wife learning to play a video game that's more complicated than finding hidden objects. Kin/energy would be really busy and she's struggling just moving from point a to b lol.

I am a bit bummed to find emp defenders are like dev blasters these days. I remember when emps where really desired on teams.

Thanks for the reply.

I think what we are going to do is a Fire/Rad corrupter. That way she can blast away for a while, then throw in some debuffs once she gets comfortable. I mean, she literally cannot control the character just walking around. Add in targeting stuff and using powers..... she's overloaded already. I guess she could simply debuff while I kill with the StJ/WP brute if she wants too. One or the other. Plus she'll have a heal, AM, and mutation would be a nice panic button if I get overzealous (likely .)

I appreciate all the replies everyone. Keep 'em coming if you have any other ideas. Actually, leveling builds (or links to) for those ATs/power set combos would be absolutely awesome if you know of any. Most on the forums are 50 builds. I remember there being more leveling build guides in the past.... I'm a "respec at a certain point or two" type of player. Of course that was back when we had to do trials to respec. I remember getting to the one in terra nova with super speed sucked balz.




Thanks Z. I actually had to talk her into it. She's going to school for computer information systems, so I told her 'if you want to be a geek, you need to learn to play video games!' I think she likes the basic concept, but it's reminding me of when my Mom got her first computer and me trying to tell her what a double click was over the phone. LOL. "No Mom, you can't wait 3 seconds between clicks." "Mom! You can't let the mouse move when you do it." "No, the left button. If I want you to click the right button, I'll say right click."

I really like this idea. She could just blast for a bit, then throw in some debuffs once she gets used to that. Fire/Dev blaster was my favorite ever toon back in the day (but they got unOP'd while I was gone LOL. Actually, devices got red-headed-step-child'd IMO.)



Totally agree on the first point. 50 in two weeks? Holy crap! I must be doing something wrong on my own.

Yes, wife is on free account. Mine is pay. I could not live with two char slots..... or even 20.... lol

Grouchy, not a bad idea. Maybe after she gets used to blaster, I'll step her into a corrupter or defender. She really doesn't get the idea of buff/debuff, or really the basic principles of hit %, slow, or any of it yet.

I completely agree. I've already sent her an email at work to explain why, although she does not really understand how stuff works yet. I told her that a blaster would let her concentrate on one or two things, instead of 4-5 things she would need to think about with the defender she has. I think she was afraid of the glass part of the glass canon description I gave her about blasters, but like you said, I'll be there to take care of that. I think soloing a blaster as a first character would probably suck for a new player that has as few gaming skills as her, but she won't be playing if I'm not. I do agree that if you have a decent meat-shield with you, blasting can be pretty simple.

Thanks for the reply.

I've played a rogue in wow, and street justice sounds a lot like that. Might work well with the hockey player theme.

TW might frustrate me a bit I think. I'll make a couple on another server and try it out.

What do you think of StJ with WP? I always liked regen, but I know it does not play like I remember it in days of old.

BTW, I've read at least one of your guides. Good stuff.