Obscure Blade

The toxic DoT from /Thorns might not work well with Static Field from Elec/. You might want to go with the classic; Plant/Thorns. Just toss out Seeds of Confusion and wade in spamming Thorn attacks.

For the heroside SSA 2, having Manticore go full on Vigilante would fit the character. He's already leaning that way with Wyvern; he could start gathering more ruthlessly inclined heroes to his side of things and create a Vigilante-aligned faction with the power to be genuinely dangerous to Arachnos. They could even borrow the Morality Mission mechanic, and give you a Moral Choice at the end of each episode of whether or not to help him (Vigilante) or try to stop him (Hero).

The main problems I can see with a /Regen is all the Psi users in Praetoria flooring your recharge, and Praetorian Clockwork having a fair amount of -regen. That said, I've gotten a Kin/Regen all the way through Praetoria. She had Hasten and the Winter's Gift unique to help with the -recharge, though.

A Leader AT, complement to the Mastermind AT. They'd have modified versions of the MM pets; the pets would do less damage and more support. The Leader Primary would consist of henchmen summoning and basic armor powers, the Leader Secondary would be a melee attack set. The Inherent would be sort of a combination of an inverted MM Supremacy and Tanker Gauntlet; being near your pets boosts your attacks and defenses, while attacking the enemy draws aggro to you and away from the pets. The idea being that you have a pet control character who leads from the front; you attack, and the pets support you.

I laughed out loud today when just as I entered a mission, a Beast Mastery MM named Little Red Riding Hood exited the same door, surrounded by howling wolves.

So does one of the Ninjitsu defense toggles.

As others have said, if it gets me more powersets faster then I'm fine with it. The new system has pretty much justified itself in my eyes; I'm getting more of what I want than I would have under the old.

I've made two so far. Sarah Wild is is BM/Traps and Praetorian, a scavenger that goes out into the Hamidon-devastated wilds and brings back gadgetry and mutated wildlife. Looks kind of like Doc Delilah, but shorter and with a backpack.

And my BM villain is an Evil Shaman Beast/Storm named Wildwrath:



The Imperial Dynasty helmet makes a very nice shamanic headdress, I think.

Keep in mind that the Umbral Beast is also bugged and stuck in "defensive mode"; damage should go up when the Beta patch goes live and it become more aggressive.

34: Drain his blood and sneak it into the Paragon Blood Bank to be "accidentally" given to one or more people. That's a Superhero Origin Story just begging to happen!

35: Dismantle him and transplant the organs into an entire supergroup called the Statespeople.

36:Turn him into a batch of the very highest quality NutriPaste.

Looks great! Love the glass helmet.