Monster_Mash

When I16 gets released, I'm planning on making a Traps defender, but I've been torn on what to pick for a secondary.

The sets I'm considering are AR, Radiation, Sonic, Elec, and Ice.

AR seems like it could be pretty fun, but it could get pretty repetitive seeing as Defenders don't usually take a huge array of attacks right from the get-go (the Burst sound effect would get incredibly annoying), additionally, I am fully prepared to see a large amount of Traps/AR defenders, so I will probably go with something else.

I've never had a high level Radiation Blast defender before, so that seems like it would be something fun to try, but the reason I've never leveled one is because Radiation Blast seems rather underperforming. I realize defenders aren't huge damage dealers, but I don't want to feel like I'm throwing cotton balls. Am I wrong in my assumptions about Radiation blast?

Elec seems fun for the conceptual synergy as well as elec being an all-around pretty good and fun set. Not much to complain about with elec, but I may want to try something new (I already have a couple /elec defenders).

Sonic seems like it would be great to go with Traps for one reason: soloing with Siren's Song. Siren's Song would allow for me to put groups to sleep and place mines/debuffs without getting completely owned. However, Sonic seems like it might get boring; the powers don't look outstanding and there aren't any great AoEs..... I love me some AoE.

Ice seems like it could be fun for some controlling to go along with traps as well as some good single-target damage. Not much to complain about here either, except for maybe a lack of AoE, but Frost Breath is pretty decent.

So, any opinions about what would go good with Traps?

I guess I can see the redundancy in Trip Mine/Time Bomb. However, Time Bomb could still be more useful when soloing. Perhaps a stealthy placement of Time Bomb in the middle of a group? Trip mine wouldnt work in this situation because as soon as you set one, it would go off and not allow for multiple booms. I'm assuming one time bomb does more damage than one trip mine, by the way.

Why the hate on Time Bomb? I've never played a traps or devices character before but it seems pretty good in writing.

I recently made a storm/dark defender who has just recently reached level 25. I'm really enjoying it so far and I'm loving the synergy between the sets. My only concern, however, is that I am having difficulties seeing how a storm/dark defender is better than, say, an earth/storm or plant/storm controller.
The defender is probably better on in the early levels, but I feel like in the 30s, the aforementioned controllers would surpass the capabilities of the defender. Maybe I'm wrong, and I hope that I am because I rarely see storm as a primary for defenders.

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...I'll lose those two slots, even though I did was was required to get them...

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And that is ... ?

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Have an active account when I12 was launched.

Doesn't really make any sense. Do they force us to use free costume tokens before they expire? No, because I don't want to change my costume at this time, but I can always use a token later. If I don't want to roll a 13th character on a server at this time, why should I be forced to apply that slot?

Heck after getting one server full I tried out another one and actually am liking it better. (Names withheld to protect the innocent. ) I might not want to use my free slots until I fill up that server now. But that could be another few months or year down the road depending on what other powersets are proliferated or when shields come out. Then again my sg might talk me back into another slot on my home server.

I'd prefer to use it when I'm ready though and not be forced to at some date for no reason.

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Wow, talk about being afraid of commitment :P
But in all seriousness, it was stated that they will give advanced notice to when they will close the availability of the server slots; it shouldn't be sprung upon you without any warning.

Also, it's not the end of the world if you put one character slot on a server that you later wish you could have put in a different server. Look on the bright side, you still have a free character slot that the devs gave to you as a gift! Buck up a bit and look on the bright side of things

I just got the name Spiderweb

Ah ok, that makes much more sense now. Thanks!

I was looking at the costumes of all the heroes depicted in the poster and I was able to identify what each costume piece etc was except for one! And that's the yellow/red/green/blue girl up in front! It looks like the blend pattern, but the only ones I could find were Blend and Diamond Blend, but neither fits >.>

This is an awesome picture! I love your avatar btw too!

My Fire/Fire Blaster Chara, just hit 50 today!