Powersets that you won't play?

Mostly a question for the altaholics I suppose.

I've recently rolled a lot of new alts, and amongst them I've been trying various powers I've never used. Stone Melee and Stone Armor I can finally face since Power Customisation now allows me to change the visuals I really disliked, and the same will be true of Spines. I've found Gravity more enjoyable than expected (though I still dislike Propel) and Trick Arrow is a lot more fun than it seemed on the power select screen. There's only two powersets I'm still hesitating over.

Sonic Blast. For no better reason than I hate the sound effects.

Empathy. Even on characters who team I like to know that they can solo, and Empathy is a horrible set for soloing.

So, is there any powerset that you just won't play?

Any Scrapper secondary besides /Shield and /Invuln, Luminous/Umbral Blast, Energy Blast, Radiation Blast

I dislike sets that are heavy on single target ally buffs. I'm a Blaster/Scrapper at heart and my general plan is along the lines of "damn the torpedoes, full speed ahead" so I'm not comfortable with powers that require me to focus and target allies instead of enemies.

I can't say I won't ever play a set, because I've ended up playing some sets I thought I would never have any interest in (SS, shields, sonic blast). That said, a few things strongly deter me from playing a given powerset:

- Any set with costume-obscuring graphics that don't fit my concept (Ice armor, fire armor, stone armor)
- Any set with strong AoE but weak ST (elec melee, AR, spines); strong ST and weak AoE is fine
- Any set that underperforms relative to its peers (TA, energy melee, Blaster psi blast)

More a class I won't play.

So far, I can't get a tank past the mid 20s, and I've deleted most of the ones I created. Maybe it's because this is my first MMO, but I can't get into the mindset of tanking. It's a skill I've never learned.

The "survivor" tank is fire/fire, so she's really more of a scranker. And she solos and never teams.

Every so often, I try it again - but so far, unsuccessfully.

Any set where you just hit one sequence of buttons over and over is a set i'll get bored with fast - Tanks, Scrappers, Stalkers, Blasters tend not to be my cup of tea. I didn't try Corruptors for a long time because Blasters bored me, but now that I did I find them a hundred times more interesting with their secondaries.

Traps - its very pigeon holing on theme. Tremendous set that I want to play and I just can't ever come up with a Toon theme that I want to play that works for it.

Radiation Emmission -- Tremendous set and I hate anchors so much I won't play it.

Gravity -- I wanted to like this set, but I always feel like I'm playing in gimp mode. I have a Gravity Storm that I want to play, but just don't simply because the mechanics don't really work that well.

Sonic Resonance -- It eats endurance and it bugs me that Sonic Disruption can't be cast on yourself, so its useless solo.

Tanks: I can't stand the low damage.

Defenders: Same reason.

Electric Blast: Low damage to pay for a secondary effect that is useless without a specialized build.

Stone Armor: Only available on Brutes and Tanks; I can't stand Tanks, and the effects of Granite Armor work against the nature of Brutes. If they ever port it to Scrapper I might change my opinion.

Cold and Thermal, before they were ported to pet classes so I could solo properly with them.

Dark Blast: Sad graphics that make the blasts feel even weaker than they are, which is impressive.

Earth Control: Hate the graphics; you can't customize these like you can Stone Armor, can you?

Also, I just can't get into doms, which is weird since I have more controllers than anything else and it should be like a high-damage controller. Though, I haven't played them since the update, so I guess I should roll another one. Any suggestions?

Empathy
Most MM primaries
Electric Blast

Kinetics.

Actually I am lying. I do play it, but I can only take so much of it. Everything about it is great except one thing. Speed Boost.

Talk about a love/hate relationship with a power. I love having it cast on me. Maintaining it is something else altogether. Something about combining great effects with a 2 minute duration with a run speed boost that lets allies dart out of range constantly adds up to me wanting to set the Kinetics set on fire.

Although I always hope a Kinetics character will want to team with me.

Thats easy....... Demon Summoning.


"EWWWW look at me, look how dark I am.... now I dont even have to be creative and make up a TOTALLY original backstory to somehow make every single set in the game somehow revolve around being demon possessed. (yes even robots)."

Seriously all you guys playing the "im a demon possessed guy" toons. YOU ARE SOOOO LAME.
Its easily the most common backstory in the history of this game lol. I once formed a pickup group and NO JOKE 5 out 8 people on the team were either a demon, possessed by a demon, or made a deal with one.

S T U P I D.


/end rant

Most likely Energy Blast and Ice Control.

And almost any set that is primarily/all lethal and/or smashing damage (my exception is my Claws/SR Brute that I started a few weeks ago).

I always like trying new sets that I haven't played before but....I really don't like KB....and Ice Control is so 'meh' to me....maybe I'll do both at some point.

At the moment? Spines and thorny assault are two.The horrible visuals are no more thanks to power customization (the metal spikes especially look pretty sweet), but the butt-ugly animations on ripper and impale remain. Until the animation customization that SS and MA recieved gets to spines/thorny assault, the sets will remain unused by me.

Another is super reflexes. I know the set is the most awesome thing since sliced bread if you can pile enough on to softcap it, but I just am sick unto death of trying to achieve that without sacrificing the rest of my build, given that I don't have hundreds of millions of inf to toss at the problem. I've had a MA/SR sitting at level 13 for over a year, and literally 8 or 9 versions of her build in mids, and I can't come up with one that softcaps without unacceptable sacrifices. Only place I'd play it is if they port it to tanks, since their higher values would make it trivial, rather than a pain in the butt, to softcap.

Stone armor is probably the last. Outside granite the set is too squishy and end heavy, and inside granite you'd be lucky to solo anything inside a year (let alone climb a 2 inch curb). I don't want to trade off all my offense for the defense the rest of the set ought to be providing. Not to mention that, even with the customization, it's still pretty weird looking.

Until recently, super strength was off limits to me as well, simply because I signed on to play a superhero, not popeye the sailor man. Thankfully, the set has animation customization now. I still don't have one, but it's no longer because of any deep objection to the set.

Gravity. I'm not a DPS snob but Propel is too cool to not be more effective. Other sets seem more plug and play effective than this one. I never seem able to play it effectively or keep interested in it.

Sonic Resonance. I struggle with mostly buff other sets. I'm currently trying Cold Domination and running into the same issues. The final powers in Cold are worth playing the toon (the controller is level 31 currently) to get them, but I've seen people use Liquefy and just wasn't impressed enough to play Sonics. To be fair, I've heard friends say a Sonic/Sonic corruptor or defender was one of the easiest toons they've ever leveled.

Stone Armor. Spend 31 or 37 levels getting to the reason you play the set to forget about most of the other powers (unless you run into a Psionics-heavy mob). Moving like a granite snail to be impervious or toggle a bunch of armors to feel mediocre and still move slowly.

Assault Rifle. Dual Pistols boned my chance for ever playing this set.

Stone Armor. For many reasons. I think it is just awful. That and Energy melee. I guess that one doesn't count because I already played it through once.

Illusion. Cannot *stand* Illusion. Give me any controller except that. I've run most sets up pretty high - Illusion's the first one that I've said "Y'know, 32 is good enough, wonder if I can delete this - do I need the space?"

Not fond of most VEATs.

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