What would be your dream team?
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Posted on: 2009-08-11 08:32 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Pffft, if you want us to get creative, don't limit us to just 2 of the same AT.
My dream team would be:
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Storm/Sonic Defender
Each with both gale and shockwave. We'll give a new meaning to the word 'herding'.
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Have to say that, that has been my best team experience but I like anything desperate looking ie someones worst idea.
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Originally Posted by BillZBubba
8 scrappers. Any/Any
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My dream team?
- Invul/Fire Tanker (Screw Stoners!)
- Elec/Shield Brute (Teleporty Goodness)
- FF/Dark Defender (The *Other* Dark/SR)
- Dark/Sonic Defender (Die Fighting Ability, Die!)
- Dark/Super Reflexes Scrapper (Nyah Nyah You Cant Hit Me!)
- Claws/WP Scrapper (Oh, I Have An Endurance Bar? Thought It Was Infinite)
- Ice/Emp Controller (Well, At Least I'm Not A Stalker...)
- Fire/Psi Dominator (You No Live Live)
Can you say challenge level 100? :P
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My worst idea?|
Originally Posted by Shannon_EU
Have to say that, that has been my best team experience but I like anything desperate looking ie someones worst idea.
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Heh...
- Stone/Ice Tanker (You know this is going to be bad..)
- DB/ElA Stalker (DB on a Stalker?! Seriously? No...)
- FF/Arch Defender (Lulz.)
- Rad/Energy Defender (Defeating the purpose of your own existance)
- Ice/Thorny Dominator (Just sounds sucky)
- Energy/Storm Corruptor (**** Flies)
- AR/Ice Blaster (Loldamage)
- DB/Stone Brute (Barely Worth a Server Spot)
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My worst idea is extremely similar to my best idea. The only difference is that everyone on the team has now taken Tornado.
2 fire/fire brutes.
2 fire or plant/kin trollers
2 spines/fire scrappers
2 sonic/rad or dark defenders.
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My dream team?
Can you say challenge level 100? :P |
THAT team is way too worried about getting a nosebleed. As the kids say, :P
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Limiting myself to 2 per AT? And nothing Fulmens' wise counsel....
- FF/Sonic Defender (Screw "Mitigating" Tankers! EVERYONE'S a tank!)
- Sonic/Sonic Defender (MOAR DEBUFF!)
- Fire/Fire Scrapper (Burn baby, burn!)
- Dark/Regen Scrapper (Nice to have a less resisted damage type)
- Fire/Empathy Controller (For endurance/health buffs AND moar damage)
- Warshade (Pure Awesome with all the rest added)
- Warshade #2 (And I can't believe that no one else mentioned them!)
- Psi/Mental Blaster (To add that final piece of less-resisted damage)
2 Elec/Fire Blasters
1 Fire/Kin controller
1 Fire/Sonic controller
2 Fire/Psi Dominators
1 FF/Elec defender
1 Kin/Elec defender
The end drain is probably overkill, but AVs without endurance make me giggle.
Why Blasters? Empathy Sucks.
So, you want to be Mental?
What the hell? Let's buff defenders.
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I also have spare character slots on most servers, if we wanted to do this from level 1 up.
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Simple. Me and 7 others who know how to play their characters. What else is needed for steamrolling?
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I've been leading/playing on some high level teams both in AE and out, and I've found a good range for me for a very smooth running team (assuming everyone is decent at their characters):
1. Tank
2. Defender
3. Controller
4. Controller or Defender
5. Controller of Defender
6. Scrapper
7. Blaster
8. Scrapper or Blaster
Of the controllers defenders, I've found having 1-2 kins, and empath, and/or radiation to be very helpful. And as people have mentioned having one of the controllers be a fire is quite awesome.
I like having a kin defender (that's what I usually play), because I feel Kin controllers need to focus on their controls first and their buffing second while I tend to focus on buffing first and blasting second.
In any case, that's my two cents.
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Nice to see that someone else appreciates the sheer ubery goodness of these two builds. A Mind/Kin can single-handedly control 3+ groups while keeping his team SB'd and topped off on Endurance. Oh, and they also have this power you might have heard of before called Fulcrum Shift. My Earth/TA is in her high 30's and she has 10 powers that have/include AoE debuffs. I don't have an attack chain; I have a debuff chain.|
Originally Posted by DechsKaison
Two controllers, one mind/kin and the other an earth/TA. Damage capped team and a control powerhouse. If anything moves, it's confused.
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Originally Posted by DechsKaison
Throw in two corruptors, fire/dark and sonic/rad. So far we have fire, energy, smashing, a little psy damage and -resist.
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Personally, I've been on an amazing 7 Warshade 1 Peacebringer team, but my idea of a dream team is me + 7 friendly people who know how to play their toons well. I'd especially like to see a team consisting of the least played/"weakest" builds to show that any team with any toons that are built well and played right can accomplish anything. (Plus, I like the novelty of unusual builds).
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Rules of the thread though:
2 Trollers
2 Defenders
2 Corruptors
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Having all those buffs, debuffs, and mezzes are great to a point, and I would never try to devalue the contributions of Dark, Sonic, Earth, or Mind, but if you're steamrolling I think you get to a point where you have too many things to even use before the enemies are dead. You can mez all the enemies and apply large amounts of -RES and +DMG, but they're probably dead long before you finish using all those powers.|
Originally Posted by Zanthyna
Nice to see that someone else appreciates the sheer ubery goodness of these two builds. A Mind/Kin can single-handedly control 3+ groups while keeping his team SB'd and topped off on Endurance. Oh, and they also have this power you might have heard of before called Fulcrum Shift. My Earth/TA is in her high 30's and she has 10 powers that have/include AoE debuffs. I don't have an attack chain; I have a debuff chain.
Fire/Dark corrupter = AoE death machine Personally, I've been on an amazing 7 Warshade 1 Peacebringer team, but my idea of a dream team is me + 7 friendly people who know how to play their toons well. I'd especially like to see a team consisting of the least played/"weakest" builds to show that any team with any toons that are built well and played right can accomplish anything. (Plus, I like the novelty of unusual builds). |
I think a real Steamrolling team would be all Elec/Shields, especially Scrappers since their BU and AAO will be higher than Brutes (who can't put Fury into their telefrag powers). Just one of those moves is enough to kill all minions, so if you have 16 of them and alternate them intelligently along with all the other AoEs in Elec, fights should be almost nonexistant.
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A lot of people are saying stuff like this, and it is unequivocally true. If you have 8 people that know how to play, it doesn't matter what ATs and powersets you choose. I admit that it is hard to find 7 other people who know how to play most times, so I guess this does qualify as "dream team" material.|
Originally Posted by DSorrow
Simple. Me and 7 others who know how to play their characters. What else is needed for steamrolling?
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Could a team of 8 FF/rad defenders work? Yes! Will they be able to run STF? Probably, I dunno. It will take a while, that's for sure. I'm sure there are worse ideas that still work.
I'm not arguing that any team can work. I'm looking for what you would consider to be a truly epic team. What could steamroll any content? What would have something for every game scenario? With GR in the pipeline, we can assume that any team can do any content, so no holds barred. What kind of team could not only handle every TF/SF/GM, but do it with ease, no faceplants, and quickly?
Maybe the two of any AT restriction is too much, but I didn't want to see "8 X, built the same."
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If eight stalkers all did BU+AS at the same time to the same target, would they be able to take down an AV?
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Originally Posted by Star_Empath
I suggested to my SG that we play 8 stalkers for double xp weekend....but they didn't want to...
Rules of the thread though: 2 Trollers 2 Defenders 2 Corruptors 1 Scrappy 1 Blaster |
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good question Dechs, but, having never played a scrapper past lvl 10 or so, I have no idea...
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My dream team is a pick up team with lots of different builds and personalities that are played by competent players that have their toons built around their ATs strengths. Having an experienced leader is always a plus.
Happens more often than you might think and alot more fun than the systematic min/maxed teams in my opinon. But to each their own.
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Done it twice on TF's and yes it is that fun then again I am a scrapper|
Originally Posted by BillZBubba
8 scrappers. Any/Any
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All different builds etc ITF and STF (bugged repairmen and all)
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My Dream Team
Kin/Ice Defender
Ice/Psi Blaster
Spine/Dark Scrapper
Fire/Rad Controller
FF/Sonic Defender
Dark/Dark Corrupter
Elec/Shield Brute
SS/Invul Tanker
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Why not get a troller if your wanting the debuffs, and then since its a troller you get the added bonus of mez's|
Originally Posted by Bubblerella
Guess you've never played with a cold/sonic defender
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Why not get a Blaster or Scrapper if your wanting damage. The issue at hand is Trollers are more useful because of buffs/debuffs are added to controll. If the enemy cant attack, then noone takes any damage. If you are wanting damage, you must be joking id you think a defender is a replacement for a blaster.
Then again I'm a bit spoiled. My wife runs a kat/SR scrapper, and I run a Sonic/MM blaster, so we debuff both def&res quite a bit more than a defender really ever contributes.
The team that usually rus with us:
1:Kat/SR Scrap
2:Sonic/MM Blaster
3:Ele/Dev Blaster, or a Stone/FF troller (this player switched between the two alot)
4:Fire/Rad Troller
5:EM/WP tanker
+3 others. We do everything from GM's to AV's w/o a problem. Its not my "prefurred" team, but its a great team.
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