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The rarest powersets combo

Alphane

By Alphane,
Posted on: 2008-09-15 13:38 in CoH and CoV General Discussions

 

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Blizzaria has a level 50 Inv/Ice, it works good

Hmmm what else can I spot from the list. I have a Fire/Dark brute and Nightmarer has a Fire/Dark scrapper.

Ice/Fire tankers and Fire/Ice tankers were both really popular for a while, I think that FIre/Kin controllers have impacted both of them somewhat though

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They were appropriately appalled
at the discovery of the eight victims
They're now putting it all together.
Women wrapped in silk
with one leg missing
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Still think the rarest combo must be the troller that illusion master mentioned a year or so back. Storm/Kin or something similar iirc - so rare that I still haven't seen one yet (though give power proliferation a couple of years and I suppose it's just possible...)

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Emp/Storm Defender it was

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in all seriousness.

It depends on the level, you see are far larger range of sets at low level than you do at high level.

I think the rarest set high level are the non-healing/non-debuffing defenders, esp Trick arrow, Force field and sonic resonance.
ok TA is a debuffer but it's patch based and in the higher levels mobs tend to die too fast, coupled with the longer recharges it means the defbuffs are not ready for the next mob.
A friend of mine has basically given up one his 40ish TA/archary, he said it feels too much like a lose wheel, the occasional debuff and a 2nd rate blaster impression (defenders damage does fall off noticeably in the 40s)
Granted I've managed to get my sonic/elec defender up to 44 (I think or might be 47) But they are tough going in the 40s, the damage fall off is noticable solo and there's not much call for them.
Pre-20's a sonic defender can make a big impact on a team's survivability.

However I think force field defenders are the rarest of all.

I would sudgest Force field/Archery as a good set, none too common but the two should work well together, one of the best things about this combo is that the nuke power doesn't drain all your end so you can keep the large bubble and other toggles still running
It's one thing that annoies me about sonic/elec if I use my nuke then I drop my toggle buff and debuff and I don't tend to do enough damage to drop mobs to 50% hp let alone kill them

PS if you're used to playing defenders esp emp's then ether type of bubble defender is going to be a shock, once you've bubbled every up you've nothing left to do but attack, none of this staying out of trouble while spam healing, you'll be with the blasters dishing out damage and pulling agro.

 

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Well I've been a hardcore vill for a couple of years now so dunno what'd be rare hero side but a short lit of rarities from the red side:

Brutes - elec/invun, elec/dark (I rolled one of these recently because I've never seen one and its actually real fun lol)
Corrs - sonic/dark, AR/ice
Stalkers - anything with elec primary or secondary
MMs - mercs/poison, necro/FF

And lastly doms get a special mention. My first char and first lvl 50 was Starscreamer himself a gravity/thorns dom. In 2 years I've seen 3 other gravity/thorns doms - 2 of those were my mates making them to test the build out like my main. And they both deleted them lmao