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I have to say that I am very impressed with the new Water power. I don't know who has taken over COH but they need to keep up the good work. These type of additions are nice and welcoming. The power looks great and doesn't seem gimped at all and it seems so far this seems like a great addition for COH. As long as these type of additions continue to happen I will happily pay for them which is a win/win.

Well Done!!!

"As for your point about the devs using as many reasons as they can to implement their shiney new 4 legged model, I'm sure you're probably right, but so what? The theme fits, or can be made to fit with a bit of creativity - it's not like it's a giant mouse, or giraffe or something. "

Giant mouse sounds better than a dog.

Sounds Like Traps/Cold Domination/and Time are the top of the lists of Defenders that are the best/most prefered or at least power pools that you can't go wrong with.

I agree that every defender can bring something to the table, but I still feel that SOME power sets are overall/all around more effective than others. Of course if a six year old or someone comparable in IQ is controlling the toon it doesn't matter what power set they have.

I like that Build Kyriani!!! Time is something that is new.

Plainguy "I will tell you if you take the time to learn it though, it just about will break the game for you. You will have your holy cow moments because you will be amazed at the amount of mobs that are attacking you and your not dying and your not a tank."

That is why I am on the forums asking questions. Never new there was a soft cap until now although I'm sure I probably reached it pretty easy with my very first toon being a FF/RAD. I probably helped my buddies reach the defense cap also. I"m reading a lot of these guides while I am at work. Some of these guides though are very outdated so I've learned to not consider them to be 100% correct. The game changes.

I'm also on these forms so I can learn from people who has already been there and made the mistakes I don't have to make.

I started playing since Beta and got really bored after Issue 3 came out. Me and my hero friends would just farm our next hero up to 50. There was no content after 50 it seemed… I still haven’t created an invention yet since coming back so I’m not real familuar with them yet.

I don’t understand what you are referring to when you say “2/8” “2/6”.

A lot of people will say “Play what is the most fun” I agree to an extent but to me have the strongest most effective hero I can is my goal and to me is the most fun. Effectiveness=Strong Hero=Win=Stronger Hero . My daughter plays on her hero and she will add slots to the “Rest” ability. I tried to tell her that it wasn’t the best thing to do and she said “I don’t care I use it all the time and I want it there. “ So I just say “ok” …I doubt you are going to have much fun fighting next to my 10 year old daughter who slots her rest ability. Fun to her maybe but not fun to me. You would probably be better off telling her to just put herself on follow. Effectiveness=Fun It was fun when my Phantom army was overpowered. (Then they nerfed them ......)

It sucks that support classes just are not needed anymore. It seems like the only time people team up is to farm. The LFG feature seems like a really nice feature, but it seems as I am the only one that regularly has “Looking for Anything” up and even when I do it seems I am more likely to get a blind invite from someone I run into on the street doing mission than I am from the LFG feature. What you are saying makes a lot of sense. If everyone built a hero that didn’t need someone else to survive, then it just doesn't matter what classes the group is made up of and it doesn’t need to wait around for a support class to survive.

So I came back to COH after going to play WOW and I have to say I love all the changes that have been made to COH over the years. In the past I was disappointed. My last main toon was a FF/RAD defender and I loved it!! I noticed he still sucks at SOLOing but I built him for team support and seemed like the team would rarely take any serious damage if any at all.

I know that powers can get nerfed or buffed over time. So what is the best Defender Primary/Secondary power set to go support a team with? (From what I have read on the forums it sounds like Force Fields is not the best support defender to roll.)

Plainguy,

That was Awesome!!! I'll team with you anytime.

How about instead of a boombox, the villian could pop out a metal drum that would be on fire. Everyone could also have a soda bottle/beer bottle emote, and they could all be standing around drinking and laughing around the flaming barrel.

Another one I thought of was to have one where you would grab your shirt or tank top and rip it off and throw it to the ground, followed by a couple of pounds to the chest with your fist. Would work great for guys and girls.

Or you could be chilling with a bottle and then right before you fight you could break off the end and say something villianous.