Help with AT/Powerset choice...

...okay, what AT/Powerset BLUE (HERO) Side, do you think of when you think of, "The Four Horseman of the Apocolypse".

That would be War, Famine, Death and Pestilence.

I have the concept...I have the background...and I can't quite get the powers I had envisioned for this character, way before CoH came out.

Sooo, I'd like to hear what AT/Powerset (you can include epic if you so choose), using blue side, you'd use.

One condition...Dark Miasma is out. I have it at 50, but I don't mind repeating some of the other sets.

Oh, and this is using current sets, not the ones coming in i16.

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Fire/Rad 'troller.

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rad blast/traps blaster

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I'll give a whack at this...


War I see as a Scrapper or Tanker... any set but Ice would fit.

Death... hmm, no Dark Miasma? Well, how about... man, this is hard... maybe a Warshade?

Pestilence I see as either a Rad or Trick Arrow, though TA fits better due to having no buffs at all.

Famine fits great into an Elec/Elec Blaster... the enemies won't be able to do anything when starving for endurance.


*edit*

Ah, one character? That, my friend, would be Chaos!

And I have just such a solution... a Gravity/TA Controller... don't take Crushing Field, Dimension Shift, or Gravity Distortion Field, as they'll only add Order to the mix. Wormhole will be your friend.

*goes off to play their Grav/TA/Primal Controller... mmhmm, Chaos*

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I'll give a whack at this...


War I see as a Scrapper or Tanker... any set but Ice would fit.

Death... hmm, no Dark Miasma? Well, how about... man, this is hard... maybe a Warshade?

Pestilence I see as either a Rad or Trick Arrow, though TA fits better due to having no buffs at all.

Famine fits great into an Elec/Elec Blaster... the enemies won't be able to do anything when starving for endurance.

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One AT/Power Set Combo to fit all 4 into one though

Edit: And yeah, no Dark Miasma. I thought about it as well. But I really don't want to play through that set again. It's a nice set, just not for me.

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OK, my best shot...

Rad/Elec def. (rad=Pestilence, end drain=Famine, as suggested above). Military appearance and Leadership pool for War. Presence pool fear powers and/or Dark Mastery for Death.

That's all I got.

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War? Katana/Dark Armor, personally. Or dual blades/dark armor...

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I'm not sure I can see them all crammed into a single character. Each horseman has a different job within the team; much like PUG members.

Of course, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse would be the PUG to end all PUGs... Pun intended.

Okay, so let's not go all four, let's divide them up 2 and 2.. Stay with me.. I have my reasons.

War and Death most obviously go together. As do Pestilence and Famine. Excellent; we're on our way.

War and Death are out and out offensive; they do damage and that is all. Pestilence and Famine are your hardcore debuffers. They don't do damage directly; they weaken an opponent until they can't even breathe anymore.

So... War and Death... the most common theme associated with both is Fire. Fires of War is practically a cliche. And death is often associated with fire religiously for reasons of purification or ascendance to a higher plane.

Famine and Pestilence are powerful debuffers, as I've mentioned before. So we want a set that strongly weakens an enemy.

Fire/Radiation Emission Controller.

I would also suggest making him a Dual Build so you can divide responsibilities between the two sets. The horsemen of the Apocalypse ride flying steeds so Flight is a must for the travel power. They work alone, they don't lead others, so forget leadership. War creates battle and conflict, he doesn't lead armies or glorify generals who do.

They walk unseen... so Concealment would be a good Pool set from which to draw. I might also suggest Presence to represent sheer force of will.

tl;dr version: I agree with enrious2

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My mind wanders so often you've probably seen its picture on milk cartons. - Me... the first person version of the third person Steelclaw

Apocalpyse? Hah, they're old timers. Behold the Pedestrians of the Forumocalypse!

Disaster: I was a shoe-in for this role, naturally. Everyone that can and does go wrong, will! Kin/Rad comes naturally of course, every time I Speed Boost someone they fall down a ravine, and nuclear power plants always melt down at the worst of times...

DOOM: Grav/En Dominator. Nuff said.

Dead Horse: Whatever Bad_Influence last played.

Delay: We still haven't decided yet...

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War would be BS/ Shield, Pestilence would be poison or rad something, Death would be dark. I don't know what famine would be though.

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War, I woud make a SD/Mace Tanker. Pretty self-explainatory.

Famine...Plant/Rad Controller. Diseased crops.

Death...I would say Dark/Dark Defender, but you are against Dark Miasma...

Pestilance...???/Dark Scraper or Dark/??? Tanker. Dark Armor representing clouds of flies.

EDIT: ...Except you want all 4 in one. In that case...No clue.

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The off-beat space pirate...Capt. Stormrider (50+3 Elec/Storm Science Corruptor)
The mysterious Djinn...Emerald Dervish (50+1 DB/DA Magic Stalker)
The psychotic inventor...Dollmaster (50 Bot/FF Tech Mastermind)

Virtue Forever.

Yes. I know. Little hard to cram all for of them into one person. But, like I said...was based of stories written along time ago by me.

1 host, who lead the four of them (pretty much against all 5 of their wills)...more complicated, but that's the jist.

With Science Booster, I can get that character, part way, there

She can't split off into all 4 of them + herself at once. But *shrugs* still can shapeshift into one of them at a time (though...I can easily RP it the other way )

I decided on Fire/Rad. Also did the poll in my SG.

RAD just kept poping up on almost all of them. Dark Miasma and/or Dark Armor popped up quite a bit. I thought the Cold/Elec Defender seemed interresting.

But Fire/Rad...as Pestilence was to lead a swarm of demons in it's path (fire imps).

Rad/Archery was a popular one in my SG as well, sinse Pestilence uses a bow.

Thought about that one and Rad/Ice (throw ice blasts = bow...RP Ice Sword...or possibly get it when Defenders get an Ice Epic)...but the leading of demons led me to Fire/Rad.

Thanks for all the replies.

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OK...w/o looking at anyone else's ideas.

War: WP/SS Tank (the "never quits" and just "keeps on pounding" entity of destruction)

Death: Fire/Dark Scrapper (DA gives the appearence of doom and the fire damage is a prelude to hell)

Famine: Plant/Storm Cont (using your food as a weapon agaisnt you and even the weather prevents you from surviving)

Pestilence: Rad/Rad Def (toxic radiation to weaken your foes...to slowly drain them of life)

Edit: Oh...One toon?

Tri-Form Warshade.

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