Tiny Bolt

Er, while I'm kinda a newcomer to actually posting much, especially in the Infinity forums...I did used to lurk quite a bit.

If I am remembering my Infinity history correctly, Chris used to be a pretty active member on Infinity. Helping with the community, and whatnot. Or he was one of our lolzdrama people who helped dub Infinity the 'drama' server. Either or...

He isn't exactly bashing CoX, just mentioning that he was moving on (permanently or not, I'm not sure), and asking if any of the people he's been playing with for umpteenump years are going to be there as well. Given that both Chris and the OSHA's have 'left' the game multiple times (again, relying on memory, apologies if I'm wrong), I wouldn't really be getting my panties in a bunch over them doing what amounts to a goodbye post and asking if friendly folk will be going where they are.

And given the revolving door that seems to be attached to the game, I'm betting they'll probably stick their heads back in, in the future. It happens. And also given quite a few people will probably be doing trials of CO while simultaneously playing CoX...it, in a roundabout way, does relate to the community.

Though the idea of CoX forumites forming a community outside of CoX in the rival's game makes me chuckle.

And tl;dr, No one asked you to read this thread, and no one is forcing you to continue reading this thread. There are other active threads in the Infinity forum. If this is really pissing you off that bad--GO READ THOSE.

Thank you, and this friendly PSA has been brought to you by the color green, for envy, and the letter D, for drama.

I wouldn't recommend taking /storm and not taking either Freezing Rain or Snowstorm. But, I'm biased, I love Freezing Rain to death (and to a lesser extent, Snowstorm). I'd look into recoloring Freezing Rain, like suggested earlier. It's just that good of a power.

That being said...it is a possible build, but you'll get more bang for your buck if you're skipping those to focus on micromanaging the other powers to make up for lack of mitigation and debuff from them. For example, learn how to brush badguys with Hurricane, and then switch it off and use the 'run away!' in Hot Feet to keep you relatively safe. Basically, it'd make your life harder.

Not impossible, say, but harder.

'Course I also love bizarre builds (I've been known to take Jump Kick and use it in my attack chain, a completely 'natural' scrapper with no travels and only Fitness as a pool power, and I have Provoke on a corr), so...take my advice with a grain of salt.

Your other option? Therm with none of the buffs. Except for maybe Thaw or Forge. I understand not liking to buff, though most of my characters are buff heavy...but sometimes, I just want to shoot/control/smash things in the face. And before people get cranky, I actually will occasionally duo with someone with a therm corr with nothing but Forge and the heals. He actually works well, and can keep himself and others alive. It's just different than normal.

And I have a high fire/rad cont. I refuse to bother giving people warning for AM. Either they're close or they're not. Tough beans, they should be ok without my buffs. If I'm feeling nice, I'll try to get next to someone with end issues. ...maybe. Buffs are nice, but not vital to playing, and are certainly not what my fire controller is about. I made her to burn things up, not wait for people to gather around me while I fire off my AoE heal or buff.

Put me down as a 'maybe'. I'll need to wait for work schedules to come through to see if I can make it on Tuesdays at that time...

And I'll probably be a VEAT (Crab/Wolf/Bane) named Operative Curmudgeon.

I didn't have hover...I went with a 'concept' toon, and basically made her as fast as I could. Hasten, SS, other SS, attacks actually got +recharge slotted into them...and no IOs when I was leveling her, so no mez protection/resist/etc, and she still has no KB protection.

For many, many levels, Beanbag was my bestest friend. Oh Beanbag, my love for you shall ne'er wane.

Depends.

I do have one villain who actually arrests other bad guys. Amusingly, it's my traps. She's not really evil, just a poor tinkerer who has to beg, borrow and steal the parts she needs to do what she loves best--building stuff. If I'm around for GR, she'll be the first to switch sides, most likely.

But all my other villains? Oh yeah. There is none of this namby pamby 'arresting'. I am shooting you with bullets, ice, fire, blasts from the netherworld...I'm not arresting you.

Janus is actually right, this really is a team friendly build. You can solo, and traps is a VERY safe solo'er once you get PFG and everything else, but it can be slow (set up times, etc).

On a team, it's kinda nice because you can just drop your traps and then blast, because whether or not your teammates take damage is kinda up to them, you can just focus on killing things. ...I mean, "arresting".

Anything/traps isn't talked about much since they nerfed PT. Still a viable set, sorta, but just not as awesome as it was for a short while. Rad is an alright powerset. Not my favorite blast set, but solid, and I do play it on concept toons.

Powers you want from traps:
FFG
Acid Mortar
PT (nerfed, but still useful)
Maybe Triage Beacon (depends on your playing style--I toe bomb and find it useful, also can be useful on teams)
Caltrops (useful as a OH NOEZ power)
Seeker Drones (useful for safely toe bombing)
Trip Mines (zomg awesome)

Powers you want from rad:
Neutrino Bolt
Irradiate
Aim
Cosmic Burst
Neutron Bomb
Atomic Blast (the nuke)
And, according to a friend of mine who actually likes rad blast--the snipe is awesomesauce on a chocolate chip pancake if you can fit it in.

Possible pools I would recommend:
Stealth (if you want to get up in their faces while setting up a trap or three)
Speed (Hasten. Yum)
Flight (Hover if you get the kb cone, makes it kd)

The AoE nature of Irradiate and Neutron Bomb fit nicely with the AoE debuffs of traps. You may even want the cone--Electron Haze--to knock baddies back into the debuff zones, but that's more a personal playstyle type of thing.

The one thing to know about rad blast is it's a fast set--it's low damage because in the time it takes people to fire off one or two attacks from other sets, you're in your fifth or sixth attack. Procs are your friend. It is a clicky set, kinda like kin.

Irradiate will make you happier than it should. And that is good and right, because Irradiate is amazing. If you choose to use Irradiate like it is meant to be used (jumping into the middle of a large mob and using it whenever it recharges, maniacal laughter is optional), you'll probably end up toe bombing a lot.

Fun random fact--both sets are end bar friendly. You can probably go quite a while, or even all 50 levels, with no Stamina if you slot occasional end reducs. That being said, I did a pretend build in Mids just to see how this build would pan out, and I started running out of powers to take if you don't take Stamina.

If you toe bomb (ie, run up and start dropping traps and attacks, rather than pulling like a sane person), PFG is your frieeeend. PFG is your bestest bud. 3 defs, and maybe a end reduc. You don't need recharge.

Triage Beacon is nice if you like playing on the edge, but it doesn't shine til it is six slotted with 3 heals and 3 recharges. Maybe a heal IO set would be good in here, not sure, I haven't IO'd my traps yet.

And you are going to be kinda squishy until PFG. I'd say stick with it until then, then make your decision about whether or not you like it.

And whatever you do...do not take Time Bomb. There is no point to burn a perfectly good respec because you took this power.

That's all I can think of off the top of my head. I'm sure others with more experience will have better/more exact advice.

Can we talk about college football too, or just NFL?

Huzzah--Mr. DJ's handle is now properly punctuated!

Punctuation--all the cool kids are doing it.

Yay for them having the option now!

And... o.0, that's one weird way to do it.

Mmmmm....and now I'm hungry. Thanks DJ!