Stygian_Warlord

My Bane experience is limited, but I have 50's of other VEATs, and I had the easiest, fastest, and most fun with my NightWidow on the trip. My Fortunata was probably safer due to the mezzes, but I didn't have as much fun, the Crab has great AoE ability, but can solo slowly due to a much lower ST damage capability in my experience.

All of em get team invites.

Bells and whistles(pre-respec)-Widows pretty much get damage, and lots of it. Soldiers get some damage, some debuffs (well a debuff in venom grenade) and an immobilize.

I might go with Widows for survivability..IIRC they get superior mez protection, and the high ST damage gives enemies less time to hurt you.

It might just come down to preferred playstyle;
Forts get good controls with good damage, Nightwidows can play a bit like scrappers or stalkers. Crabs can be MM-ish (though with less refined pet control) or built to tank. Banes, got me. My only bane is a 2nd build for soloing when I can't find a team on my Huntsman build and is only 35..

Good luck and have fun, from what I've seen, all the VEATS have excellent survivability & good damage potential, they just tend to differ in role.

To help clear up any confusion I might have caused and hopefully help others to get their glitched characters back in the action. Heres the entire e-mail I received:

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Hello,

Thank you again for being so patient during this ordeal. At this time the Development Team is still unsure what caused this to happen but it does seem as though powers and items that may have been lost are being corrected automatically. This means that anything that you may have lost access to should have become available again. If you lost access to something that you've paid for that you have not regained access to (powers, costume parts, etc), please let us know as soon as possible and please include the specific items that are missing.

We are aware that certain Vet Rewards have also been affected as a result of this issue. While it doesn't appear as though access to Vet Rewards was lost, we are aware of some cases in which players gained access to Vet Rewards that they were not yet eligible for. If you have gained access to such rewards, we encourage you not to use them as they could cause problems with your character in the future when the bug is corrected. It is perfectly fine to use the characters themselves, however.

Please let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns.

Take care,
GM Alura
City of Heroes Support Team
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Hope its helpful!

Not a huge amount of blaster experience, but the first blaster I managed to ever get past lv 24, after 5 or 6 attempts, and still great fun to play, Fire/fire/fire. Solo'd her most of the way to 50 accompanied by the smell of singed and smoking villains.

And why? hmmm, she just seemed to kill everything that got in her way, very rarely encountered anything that even made me pause.

This just in, posting a snipped version for others who may not have gotten this info yet...

-copied from an e-mail received just this afternoon (June 9)-
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If you have gained access to such rewards, we encourage you not to use them as they could cause problems with your character in the future when the bug is corrected. It is perfectly fine to use the characters themselves, however.
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Yeah!

Well, if all you want is "be patient, we're looking into it" I give you my last e-mail communication from my petition on this:

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Hello,

Thank you so much for your continued patience while we work on this issue. Our Development Team is still trying to determine what caused this to happen and we will update you as soon as we have new information.

In the meantime, please keep posted to the City of Heroes website at www.cityofheroes.com for any additional updates.
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and that was an e-mail received 5/29...I'm sure with issue 15 on test, and this affecting a relatively small number of people (at least if the size of this thread is any indication) this may not be a real high priority and it might be a while.

Haven't heard a peep.

I'm fairly certain (crosses fingers) this won't be an issue of having to delete a character and redo them, just a matter of how long before they say "OK, we've fixed it, you can use them again" At this point its not even an issue of not being able to log them in, just that they've asked for us not to. 5 days since /petition for me and have received 2 emails from the GM's..the standard we got your Petition email, and a follow-up saying "Thanks for your patience, it is being worked on." With I15 in beta, its starting to look like it may be a while

I would just like at least some idea of how long this is going to keep my favorite new villain sidelined. If it's going to take 2 weeks I might as well re-roll her (she's only lvl 20), but if they are gonna fix it in 2 days I'd really rather not go that route. And since I sent in the petition yesterday, I've only received the basic auto-email they send out saying "Yup, we got your message"

First..did you remember to turn off the button that filters out content you've already played? Second, I gotta find this, it sounds like it could be hilarious.