Mizzer

My ice blaster doesn't have build up, and I still have never had a problem with minions.

I have inspirations for damage boosts.

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Ice blast itself is pretty low on the aoe side for blasters, which i'd beg to differ is the main reason for having trouble on the ice/ice blaster atm is creating aggro without killing off the minnions without both aim and build up normally.

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Typically, Aim+BU+Ice Storm+Frost Breath (aimed correctly) = no minions left standing. You can still be effective when alternating Aim & BU for the sake of moving faster.

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This.

Until you get blizzard, then it's Chilblain+Blizzard+Catch a Breath on the off chance something escaped you. I have never had a problem mowing down minions. A friend of mine (who plays a fire/fire btw) calls my ice/ice blaster "The Reapsicle".

I married my DM, and got to 50 before he did. I let him be my sidekick.

I love helping new folks.

I like this one for Citadel.

I love all my trollers.

My grav/kin is fantastic on teams and tfs. The sets have great synergy. I've had more fun playing her than almost any other alt.

My plant/storm can solo well, or team well. Love the druid.

My fire/therm plays well with others and is nice thematically.

My ill/emp is always popular in big groups, especially with all of the invisibility powers.

My earth/TA is fantastic, and I haven't even got to oil slick arrow yet. Rock solid control.

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Ice/Ice is my happy place. I love the build for its potency, practicality, and for thematic reasons as well.

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This.
Add Cold Mastery from the epic pool set and you have ice armor, hoarfrost (self heal), hibernate...what's not to love?

My husbands first 50 is an elec/eng/elec. Tons of damage.


My oldest alt is an eng/eng blaster. She's still at 20. Fun set, but people do gripe about the KB.

I have a SD/Axe tank I am having tons of fun with. I love the knockup axe gives you and the Viking vibe of the shield animations (Brawl is smash enemy in the mouth with shield! Taunt is smack axe on shield!).

Also on a more serious note, I love the powers in SD. Against all Odds and Shield Charge are great. This alt is sailing through levels faster than most of my other alts.

Welcome to the game!

Link to Brute Player Guitdes.

There are good guides for both of your choices. Have fun, and welcome to the game.

Perfect!

I've had a windfall lately helping a friend get to his first 50, doing the Praetorian Arc again. I can afford to start frankenslotting freeze ray (six slots). I have Unbreakable constraint, chance for smashing already. Suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

I've found plant/storm fun and not a challenge to solo with, even in low levels.

I can see both sides too. The ice tank in me loves the boosties.

Sadly, the /kin in me has been subjected to outright rudeness regarding SBs. When on a team, I at once ask "who doesn't want boosts"? After that, I go down the rotation boosting everyone who wants them as fast as I can, then go back to the top and start over. I always keep an eye on team buffs to see when it's fading on someone. Still, for some this is not enough, I have had people spam "BOOST" over and over and over even when I have just boosted them. I don't get vindictive and not boost the rude jerks, but it is rather demoralizing.

Also, I will, as a /kin, stand as close to the tanks as possible so they can get the full benefit of fulcrum shift and siphon power, then go back to the rounds of boost, transfer, transfuse, lather rinse repeat.

YMMV

a definite plus!

Paragonwiki on servers.

I started on Victory. I've met fantastic RPers there. RP is where you find it.

Thanks, this was just the sort of advice I was looking for.

My grav/kin was my first 50. I had never seen one when I made it, as I made it my second day. She shines on teams.

I do hear what you mean about so many folks having the same secondaries. My fire troller's secondary isn't /kin just because.

This is just sad.

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He's not affiliated with me. That's a real karmic exchange, considering my avatar....

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*wipes diet coke off the keyboard*

Test drove the arc again, no Mary Sues. Just Biz's bitty bot guy.

I hope there isn't a cliche about using a known contact as a hostage...

*quietly shoves Tina Macintyre behind her*

I had been feeling shunned because I told it was "wrong" and "not appropriate" to have one of my husband's alts be a ally in one part of my arc, then other folks seemed to rally 'round the cause.

I've won awards on other sites for my GM storytelling, have a BA in Literature and Culture, and read Homer for enjoyment. I know hack story telling when I see it. However, when nice ladies would come up to buy "romance" novels from my book shop, I would not tell them not to read that trash, but rather be happy that they were reading at all.

I will finish my story, publish it with a disclaimer, then pull it when I feel everyone who I think gives a toss has played it.

Have fun.

He can't play it without me if it's not published. Thanks for the info. Have a nice day.

Where is it said that I cannot do this? I mean, times are tough and I thought it was a sweet idea.

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I've so far published one and am working on a couple other arcs that happen to involve some of my characters. I don't think this is a bad thing in and of itself. I don't include my characters because they're my characters. I include my characters because I think they either have, or can contribute to, a story worth telling. I don't consider that vanity any more than I consider it vanity for any other author to write a story about characters he created.

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If I write an arc in which the player interacts with a super-hero, whether as a contact, an ally, or an enemy, then yes I'll use on of my own. I like it when other people do the same. The idea that you might just see someone flying around Paragon that you interacted with in the MA is a cool one.

Playing a story about your toons, though (and by "your" I do not mean the person I quoted, it's a generic "your") doesn't interest me. I don't know your toon, don't care about your toon, and no matter how cool his origin may be it's not anything I really want to hear.

If you're going to tell a story about your character, you have to not let the player know that is what the story is about, so the story has to be able to be adapted to anyone.

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I'm not entirely sure how anyone makes a good story thats an origin story in this medium. No matter how much lipstick you put on it it seems to boil down to "Go back and live my story! It's kewl!"

Now, I originally thought that putting your own characters into a story was a decent idea until Venture came and told me otherwise. He cleared up a few things I had apparently been misunderstanding. It didn't matter how I used them, be it an origin story, a moment in the story where you bump into them and they help you, they are OOC put in as a helper against a tough enemy group or av, it's not appropriate. It's called mary sue, and idiot ball, if I recall. I knew neither of these prior to writing my arcs, but thanks to words and somewhat blunt demands, I began to understand what was wrong with using customer critters that are either mine or the supergroup I'm with. It's simply wrong and not appropriate.

I even started making one for one of my characters, but morphed it into something else entirely, so working with a existing issue where you are putting your characters in isn't too bad either ^_^

-C.A.

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I started out the arc I've been working on as a birthday present for my husband. One of the allies you find is his main. Now I have been told that makes me wrong and inappropriate. Spiffy!

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Following Venture's advice is a good way to get a good review from Venture. No guarantees, of course.

I think it's more important to identify what you consider good story elements objectively, then weave those elements together in a way that pleases you.

By "objectively", I mean, would this story still be good if you were playing it and had never heard of any of the characters before?

Be sure the end result pleases YOU. It doesn't matter how many glowing reviews, stars, or badges I get if I don't enjoy playing through the story myelf or feel that it is my own work.

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Thanks for this Kitsune9tails. I think I'll be making the people I want play it happy, which is what I intended to do.

Spears.