Moomoosaur

Alright. You've all been a tremendous help, so thanks to all of you.

In the end I opted for the EMP/DP powersets, I'm lvl 11 and having a lot of fun, BUT! ... Being new at this game all the DP powers seem pretty good to me lol, so if anyone could tell me which are pretty useless (despite appearing otherwise) I'd be mighty grateful.

Thanks again

I think that pretty much answered everything. Thanks a heap!

Hi guys I'm starting to get the drift that MA is kinda bad, but nonetheless I find the set itself cool if nothing else.

But seeing as MA isnt the best powerset to begin with I was wondering if anyone would be so kind as to give me a quick rundown on which powers are musts, good fillers, and otherwise absolutely redundant. For secondary I opted for super reflexes and the same question counts for that powerset.

Thanks in advance.

Thanks again DrMike. Certainly sounds like DP is gonna be my secondary power. You mention Dark Miasma as an alternative healing powerset, so now I'm curious. How do the different healing powersets stand out from one another, and which one is generally considered the best, and why?

Thanks again.

Ok from what you said DrMike it definately sounds like I'm going with defender. "Combat Medic" sounds like just the thing I'm after, but that brings me back to the secondaries. I was aiming for DP, but read some complaints about it in the blaster forums. Is it crap for Defs? In that case I could be willing to go fo AR or Archery. Any thoughts regarding this would be much appreciated.

Greetings.

I am completely new to the Defender class, and was hoping for a bit of help. I want to create a main healer, now I realize healers work a bit differently then WoW (which I am used to), but was thinking of getting DP for secondary powerset for concept reasons, however I'd be wiling to go the way of archery or assault rifle instead.

What I'm interested in knowing is if any of these combinations are any use at all for a group (as this toon will be geared mainly towards grouping). And if so which powers would be absolutely necessary, and which are absolutely skippable.

Finally I been hearing people talk about how controller is almost as good a healer... What shall I do!?

Thanks in Advance.
- Noobiesaur

Hi all.

I'm quite new to CoH, and was hoping for a bit of help on creating a blaster with Pistols as primary power and electricity mastery as secondary power. Also I was thinking of chosing Electricity as my ancillary power.

What I'm looking for is some thoughts on which abilities within the powersets that are absolutely needed, and which can be skipped.

Thanks in advance from a poor noob

Thank you all for your contributions. I have been reading a bit around on the different powers, but most sites I found seemed terribly outdated, but I now feel pretty confident that I can actually make a BS/FR scrapper without people rolling over the floor laughing at me.
I found your "wall of text" particularly helpful Muon, so double thanks to you

I think I will follow your suggestions more or less to the letter, just to wrap things up I was wondering how Electrial defense compares to Fire Defense, with Broadsword still as the main powerset?

Hi guys.

I'm not really very much into how things work in CoH yet, so I was hoping to enlist a little help from the wiser sages of the game.

I'm thinking of makinga scrapper with the broadsword offensive powerset, and the fire defensive powerset (eventually Darkness as the ancillary pwrset).

Broadsword is simply my preference for the character due to the models (looks means all right? and I was thinking the fire pwrset as I read somewhere that it's scrapper def pwr that enhances your dmg the most.

So I was just hoping if anyone had any ideas they could tell me if the build is viable at all, and if so which abilities would be musts in such a case?

Thanks.