Suggestions on Pool powers for Forcefield/Psychic

Tommy_Saf · 09-19-2006 07:52 AM

My newest toon (which I may or may not play that much) is a FF/psy and I was wondering what pools to take to make it playable as a SOLO toon....

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Cunundrum, Defender (Generic Supergroup 101)

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Avalanche_EU · 09-21-2006 08:24 AM

Definately get stamina at 20 because you'll be mainly blasting during a fight with a bubbler. Every two fights you're going to have to rebubble the whole team. People don't stand around for bubblage or your endurance bar (and they shouldn't have to) so you'll need to bubble on the move ready for the next fight and then have endurance yourself for blasting.

Maneuvers will help you cap defence on squishies and most FFers would tell you to get it. If you're getting one leadership power then you may as well get tactics as well.

I went with combat jumping/acrobatics to stack with dispersion bubble and up the MAG on my immob/hold protection and to stop knockback.

Which leaves one power pool if you really need. Some people take medicine but I didn't. I wanted more blasts because that's what I spend 90% of my time doing on my bubbler.

EDIT: *sigh* I really should have read the entire post. Forcefield is the absolute worst defender primary to solo with.

Psygon · 09-21-2006 08:59 AM

I don't think Forcefield is the worst defender primary to solo... at all. If you built the toon to play in a team and then tried to solo it then yes, that is going to make it a terrible toon for soloing. Otherwise, like all defender types, there is a chance you will be able to solo reasonably if you build it to solo. Sure, you are never going to be storming through missions like a scrapper but it's perfectly possible imo...

I would look at Leaping, Leadership, Fitness and Medicine for soloing

MaXimillion_Zero · 09-21-2006 09:59 AM

FF/NRG used to be great for solo, then came Ed... :/

I still wouldn't class it as worst, that would be sonic, since it has more ally-targeted moves.

Avalanche_EU · 09-21-2006 08:04 PM

With sonic blasts, once you have siren's song and screech, I would put sonic primary ahead of forcefield for soloing because you can survive with your secondary alone just fine against large spawns. I would then want sonic siphon to boost damage.

FF would have a slight edge vs tough bosses due to force bolt but for grinding solo missions you would be looking at minions, lieuts and XP/min. Sonic wins there.

I have a 36 FF/sonic and played a sonic/sonic to 14 before deleting her, even though her pink and white, patent leather costume... owned.

Okton · 09-22-2006 05:16 AM

I agree with MaX. The worst for soloing has to be sonic since it has 5 powers which are dependent on a team-mate. And although the debuff from Sonic Siphon stacks with sonic attacks, it's mainly useful for bosses/EB/AVs, not for clearing large spawns of minions/lts.

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