Plant Theme w/o Plant Control or Thorns

...yes, my altahalism strike again...

Here's a question for those willing to put some thought into their characters...

I want to make a plant-theme character. A mutant who was killed by (well, I haven't decided what group is responsible yet), but whos conection to the life around her casued her to regrow out of plants.

Okay... now here's the challenge: I don't want a Controller or Dominator. Spines Scrappers and Stalkers are also out. The first because I'm not really big on the Control sets in general. The second because I've never been able to get into Spines.

So... for this lovely little living tree, what kind of AT and Powers would you suggest?

Fire/Fire Tank/Scrap


The Burning Bush

I was going to suggest illusion control, since most hallucinogens come from plants.

You can always be an Emp Defender, being a medicinal herb and whatnot

I have a kin/electric defender who's basically a plant. Entropy and lightning are nice and primal.

I'd suggest Dark Blast/Empathy or Dark Blast/Pain Dom. The tentacles and energy balls and things could represent vines and such, while the buffing aspects play into the medicinal plant angle mentioned a few posts up.

First thing that comes to mind for me is Claws/Regen. The fury claws could be seen as some of the large wicked barbs on some vines, or the widow claws as the smaller thorns on things like roses or blackberry bushes.

Regen, since it's green and health related, and you described the character origin being having regeneration in it.

When I16 goes live, a tintable earth armor set, changing the lava set specifically, to something resembling moss covered stones could also fit... so.. Stone/Warmace. Give the character the big stick mace.

Blaster-wise, I'm having trouble thinging of anything, and you said no controllers.. Dominators after I16 and some color changes... an earth/earth set...

Other than that i can't think of much without tinkering around on the costume creator...

Hope it helps, good luck.

I'd say go with a sunshine blasting energy/energy blaster.

Photosynthesis ftw.

Depending on how seriously you want to take the powersets, you could try rad/rad defender. Explain the Rad Emission as various plant-derived toxins and the rad blasts as whatever you like: tiny venomous projectiles, clouds of toxic spores...

I went this route for my plant/rad controller: the /rad powers are thematically toxins, grown and released from his own body.

Back in the early months of CoH, me and some pals formed The Ivy League. All plant themed sg on Victory. It didn't last long but a few characters from it are still active today. Most costumes made heavy use of green shades of Bio option.

1. Kudzu, D/D defender made believing the rumor that color customization was around the corner.
2. Saguaro, spine/regen
3. Peppa Head, a fire blaster
4. Peyote Haze, an ill/kin
5. Da Grassy Knoll, an AR/dev blaster
6. Poinsettia Doll, mind/rad
7. Evergreen, inv/ss tank
8. Blackest Lotus, D/D defender
9. King Sequoia, an earth/storm and still my main to this day

Lotus and King were absorbed into my WW2 sg Atomic Brute Squad (odd to remember that it started as that) and still see alot of action to this day. The rest no longer play or have been deleted.

Make sure ya follow up and tell us what ya decided on.

Stone Melee Tanker (or Brute) and pretend/color the stone as big hunks of Wood, speed-grown to the purpose.
War Mace Tanker (or Brute) can take a wooden club.

Super Strength... why bother with an implement, when you can tear them apart with your bare 'branches'? Same for a Martial Arts Scrapper.

I wonder if the Demon Summoning in GR can be colored? Make them 'wood sprites' you lead in the battle for a green peace.

Archery for the green Ranger.

You could put the toon on hold until they proliferate Thorny Assault, it seems like a fine fit for Defenders, possibly even Corruptors.

Be creative and you can explain anything! A green Warshade sounds... Hmm! Okay, I'd better quit before my own alt-o-holism kicks in!

Be Well!
Fireheart

Have a member of my SG who's a plant themed superhero with Claws/Regen, where Claws is RP'ed as Vines.

You could make almost anything plant themed if you think about it enough.

MA/Regen: You come back to life as a plant, which gives you regenerative ability, but it doesn't grant you any other abilities, forcing you to rely on skills learned before your death.

WP/DM tank with green tinted DM attacks. Same sort of idea as above, but you also have the ability to surround your fists with spores that have an effect on the vision center of the brain, reducing their accuracy as their vision dims. Midnight Grasp can be recolored and RPed as vines. Touch of Fear could be a naturally produced hallucinogen, causing unreasoning terror.

TA/Archery Defender: Your arrows are actually sticks produced from your own body. Various chemicals can be implanted into them for different effects. If you use the arcane bow you could RP that as actually being part of your arm.

Fire blaster: Your plant-like body produces a flammable chemical that requires an outside source to ignite.

Fire tank/brute/scrapper: You literally light yourself on fire, and due to your exceptional regeneration it never consumes your body. Alternately you could go with the flammable substance idea I mentioned for a fire blaster.

I could come up with a plant-like origin for just about any powerset, these are just some examples.