SambaMike

Sorry about the no show. Got sick on Saturday, then slept until, like, 4 in the afternoon on Sunday. X.x

Anywho, I've got a few characters I've been wanting to make, just can't decide on their iteration yet. I have a Dark/DP Defender and an Ill/Storm Controller both at level 6 that I'd love to take out. Been also playing with the idea of making a Demon/Pain MM if you want more traditional healing on the team.

Think I'll just get most of them up to level 8/9 then pop my head in on Sunday to see what we need, then I'll go from there.

Wow, that build went in a completely different direction from what I was thinking of. Just had a couple of questions.

Do the benefits of Combat Jumping outweigh the benefits of Hover? Seemed like I'd rather be in the air than on the ground in some situations, but wasn't sure if Combat Jumping was more effective, since I haven't messed with it much.

How's your endurance on this build? It seems like you have a lot of toggles that would be running pretty much constantly, which doesn't seem to leave a lot of room to do much else. I noticed a lot of EndRx in there. Is it manageable? *Edit* Nevermind, just saw your edit about the toggles.

How effective is the fighting pool? I wasn't really considering it, as I'd kind of relegated myself to being the squishiest person on the team, but if this increases my survivability enough, I might just go with it. Still iffy about the toggles, though.

Are the other secondary blasts not worth getting? I figured I'd get most of them just to stack on a bit of -ToHit, but I'm not certain how large the debuff is. Curious if you didn't feel they were worth it, or if you just figured the Dark APP would be more effective.

How worthwhile are Repulsion Bomb and Force Bubble? Seemed like they would cause more chaos than they were worth.

Anyway, thanks for the quick response. You've given me something to chew on.

So, brief dirty history. I played the game for about a year a good five years or so back, then quit for a long time (while Villains was still in Beta) and just recently came back about a week ago. Been mostly messing with all of the new Villain and Praetoria stuff, but have also been taking a look at some of the old characters that I made and I'm trying to get back into a couple.

One character I made was an FF/Dark Defender that I remember being fond of at the time. Unfortunately, my mindset was a bit different at the time on how best to contribute to a party, so I had all sorts of screwy power choices. I basically took most of the bubbles, had one attack from my secondary unslotted, and had a bunch of random pool powers. Fitness wasn't inherent at the time either, so I had some stuff from there as well. At the time, I was perfectly content to just float along behind my team applying my bubbles every so often and healing as needed while watching them slaughter everything while wrapped beneath my little protective canopy. Needless to say, I wasn't really contributing much to the party, but I've since learned better.

Anywho, I was considering rerolling her into something else, perhaps a controller of some sort with /FF, or just taking a different secondary, but after looking at the powersets a bit, though I hadn't really thought of it at the time all those years ago (I mostly just went 'DARK LOOKS COOL! WAH!), FF/Dark seems to have a lot of synergy at first glance, what with the +Def from the bubbles with the -ToHit from all of the dark blasts.

Now that I have all of these random respecs from being gone so long, my question is, what powers should I be taking in these sets? Or should I reroll her into FF/*something else more effective? Or is FF even viable anymore? Or viable at "endgame" (if I ever get there)? She's just about to hit level 30, so it wouldn't be too tragic to reroll her, though I'd like to avoid it if I can. Just don't want to gimp myself.

Anyway, what I have going at the moment for my primary is PFF, the two bubble shields, and the dispersion bubble. The other powers really seemed situational at best, since it looks like time spent knocking people around could be better spent blasting with my secondary and lowering their ToHit. So far I've taken every power in Dark Blast except for the snipe.

I'm a little torn with the pool powers. I have Assault and Tactics from Leadership, Hover from Flight, Recall Friend from Teleportation. Was thinking either Medicine or Stealth for the fourth pool. I thought that Hover would be useful, but with my bubbles and leadership, that's already a lot of toggles to have going at once, so not sure if it's worth it. I only took Teleportation for the Recall Friend, though, since I'm still going for a primarily support focused build, but it's usefulness is in question, so I could drop it if it's really not needed. Medicine seems like it would just give me more mitigation tools and stealth seems fairly useful and fits my theme, though it's probably situational as well. I'm not particularly worried about the travel powers, as Ninja/Beast run and the jump pack mostly take care of that.

Anyway, any advice would be helpful. Mostly just trying to make myself a support juggernaut while not relegating myself to buff bot status.

Tl;Dr - Looking for a support heavy FF/Dark build that's not just a buff bot.

Surfing would be cool eventually, too. Any kind of surfing. Water, Ice, weird nimbus cloud.

Unfortunately, I use the Ninja/Beast runs a lot, just for convenience, but they don't fit any of my characters at all. I mean, I love the Ninja run on my Shield Defense Brute, since it looks like he's charging forward with it, but in all other instances, they just don't mesh with my characters' theme.

I think there're a lot of cool, potential ways that some of the travel powers could be customized. Hell, I'd be content of I could have my character just cross their arms in front of them Magneto style when they hover.

I'd be more than willing to do this as well. I'm really, really rusty though (as in, haven't played the game since Villains was in Beta), so I'm trying to find a way to get back into things. I haven't done any of the red-side content at all, yet.

I mostly play Defenders and Controllers, almost always built for as much support as possible. Most of my characters are still low level, so I don't mind remaking something that would be needed.

Anywho, give me a holler if you like and let me know what I should make. I've got a ridiculous number of concepts in my head, so I'm sure I could fit in with whatever.

I'm in kind of the same boat. Of course, I haven't touched the game since Villains was in Beta, so I'd be amazed if I found anyone at all who recognized me.

I feel you, though. I love to RP. It's one of my favorite things to do in these types of games. But I like to *do* stuff, too. I mean, there's a time and a place for long, drawn out conversation that bare your soul to the world, but half the time that's going on, I'm wishing that we were having the same conversation while bashing in something's face.

Anywho, I'm waaaay rusty (as in, just started again 4 days ago), so I've mostly been just creating, deleting, and experimenting with characters. My highest is only 24 or so.

There seems to be a couple of fairly like minded people here, though. Maybe we should just start something? Always seems like it's more effective than hunting for something that may or may not exist.

Anywho, message me whenever, if you want. I'm on a myriad of characters with fun little backstories at the moment (most of them just in my head >.<), but I'm more than willing to do something if you don't mind my rustiness.

@Jugs

This is brilliant. Most likely something I'll have to put into practice as well.

I just now started getting back into the game, so full blown altoholism hasn't hit me yet, but I know it's just a matter of time. I played for about a year straight and left while Villains while still in beta, but the highest character I'd ever gotten was 24, and I spent no small amount of time playing.

Now I have soooo many more options for everything. I've spent most of the last three days just creating and deleting characters, experimenting with new things, trying every set possible. I have a few characters that have hooked me so far, but I have a ton of concepts floating around in my head.

I definitely have to settle down to 1 or 9 characters eventually though. Think I'm going to try to get every support set to 50 (love support), but I'm afraid it might give me too much leeway since the sets can be put on Corruptors, Defenders, Controllers, and Masterminds. That's a lot of room to rationalize deleting a character for a shiny new primary.

I think my biggest thing at the moment is finding an SG to roll with that'll help me reach my goals. When left to my own devices, I tend to just roll alts, but it helps a lot to have an SG that'll just tell me, "Hey, jump on so and so for a bit so we can run whatever."

Anyway, excellent post!

Well....hell. I was actually just planning on making a Ninja/Pain the second I got home. Too much Naruto watching lately, got me in the mood for the 'Medical Ninja' thing.

Is it really that bad? I only just recently got back into the game. Wouldn't want to start back up with something that's going to have me chucking my keyboard at the wall or anything. X.x