I want a rare combination...
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Posted on: 2010-08-22 15:54 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion
Traps/Ice Defender.
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@Starflier
Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Mace Mastery.
No idea if it'll be any good, but it'll certainly be rare.
If you team, how about an Earth/FF controller? My namesake is Earth/FF and I've not seen another in game. I say if you team though, because until you get Animate Stone at 32 you will have very little damage output. You're Shields buff the team's defense and your Earth gives -Def so your team can effectively fight higher level foes faster.
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All that redraw? Yikes.
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Originally Posted by Katie V
Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Mace Mastery.
No idea if it'll be any good, but it'll certainly be rare. |
What about a Fire/Kin?
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Tanker, that is. 
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I actually really like the idea of DP/TA, or TA/DP, but I've noticed quite a lot of posts about it on the forums.|
Originally Posted by Katie V
Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Mace Mastery.
No idea if it'll be any good, but it'll certainly be rare. |
Traps/Ice sounds cool.
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Originally Posted by Dirtball
If you team, how about an Earth/FF controller?
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I forgot to mention that Earth/FF is a great set and seems like a lot of fun, but actually Earth/FF and Earth/Storm seem to be the most common Earth pairings I've seen. Although, Earth/* in general is rare. Hah!
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Originally Posted by Dirtball
If you team, how about an Earth/FF controller? My namesake is Earth/FF and I've not seen another in game. I say if you team though, because until you get Animate Stone at 32 you will have very little damage output. You're Shields buff the team's defense and your Earth gives -Def so your team can effectively fight higher level foes faster.
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Radiation Emission/Energy Blast Defender (or Energy Blast/Rad Emission Corrupter) would be an interesting and rare combo.
Thematically it matches, in that both are very science-y "Atomic Man!/Nuclear Dude!/Cosmic Guy!" powersets. Mechanically, you have the opportunity to make or break your own usefulness, either by scattering mobs out of your debuffs if you play badly, or keeping them hemmed in if you use it well. You've played Storm, so I guess you understand knockback a little bit.
Mastermind - try Ninja/Force Fields. They need bubbles more than any other pet, and don't need much in the way of damage boosting. The fire and forget nature of FF would work well with pets that need a lot of attention. This combo is rare for concept reasons I guess - an ancient/magical primary with a futuristic/science secondary.
Not that either robot ninja or magical barriers are unheard of... 
Grav/Sonic is also interesting. It's one of the two controllers I play (Girl Crush in my sig), and is definitely rare.
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Believe it or not...the redraw on this combo isn't all that bad. I've got a lvl 26 TA/DP defender and there are times when i'm going from a TA shot to a DP attack that the draw animation for the pistols is skipped entirely. It's not 100% of the time...but enough to be quite noticible.|
Originally Posted by BBQ_Pork
All that redraw? Yikes.
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Plus...the combination of Disruption Arrow+Oil Slick Arrow+Incendiary Ammo loaded Bullet Rain is just too effing sweet. Can't wait till post lvl 38 for HoB...gonna be glorious.
Edit: Especially now that OS Arrow has been tweaked to light more reliably. Oh YEAH! Let's burn somethin!
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I have never in 2 years of playing seen an Ice/Trick Arrow Controller. There is one guy on the boards I know of who plays one and says its good, but I've yet to actually see one.
I've played Ice/TA but Earth/TA or Plant/TA is a better combo for controllers. Fire/TA is fun but hard to get the hang of at first for most folks.
I have a hurricaneless Fire/Storm/Stone Controller that's lots of fun to play and solos or teams well.
Another extremely rare combo is Ice/Rad. It's not really good at soloing because the damage is extremely low. But it is excellent on a team for locks down and debuff.
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I might just roll a Rad/Energy. I dunno why I never thought of it, but that does really appeal to me. Yeah, I definitely understand knockback. My stormie was actually my first toon ever, but I kind of stuck her on the sidelines once PvP debuted and everyone suddenly saw just how l33t a Stormie could be for the first time which seemed to lead to a sudden influx of them in PvE as well.|
Originally Posted by DrMike2000
Radiation Emission/Energy Blast Defender (or Energy Blast/Rad Emission Corrupter) would be an interesting and rare combo.
Thematically it matches, in that both are very science-y "Atomic Man!/Nuclear Dude!/Cosmic Guy!" powersets. Mechanically, you have the opportunity to make or break your own usefulness, either by scattering mobs out of your debuffs if you play badly, or keeping them hemmed in if you use it well. You've played Storm, so I guess you understand knockback a little bit. Mastermind - try Ninja/Force Fields. They need bubbles more than any other pet, and don't need much in the way of damage boosting. The fire and forget nature of FF would work well with pets that need a lot of attention. This combo is rare for concept reasons I guess - an ancient/magical primary with a futuristic/science secondary. Not that either robot ninja or magical barriers are unheard of... |
I agree that FF goes amazingly well with Ninjas and yet is rarely chosen with them which makes it a rare set, but part of the reason I enjoy rare sets is because I like to try to mesh together iffy combos, whereas, FF is arguably the most recommended secondary to Ninjas and meshes extremely well. So, I don't see the fun in trying to make it work.
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| Grav/Sonic is also interesting. It's one of the two controllers I play (Girl Crush in my sig), and is definitely rare. |
Edit - BTW I looked over the wiki page you set up for the character after I finished posting and was thoroughly impressed.
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| I have never in 2 years of playing seen an Ice/Trick Arrow Controller. |
Dark/energy defender also seems pretty rare
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I played one of them. Theme was a Magic controller of dark and light before color customization (of course). It worked pretty well actually. Lots of KB into my tar patch YAY!.
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Originally Posted by Death_Badger
Dark/energy defender also seems pretty rare
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Dark Blast and Kinetics, Defender or Corruptor.
I saw a couple of them about a year ago, and none since. Tried one once myself, but never cared for the survivability and speed of either AT early on.
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My Rare but very effective suggestion.
Trick Arrow / Sonic / Soul Mastery
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Acid Arrow, Disruption Arrow and Howl = -60% res !
Poison Gas Arrow + Sirens Song stacks and can be powerboosted
Sonic does energy damage which ignited Oil Slick Arrow
Soul Drain is a PbAoe self +dmg +tohitt which will make the -res powers even more effective.
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Oddly, the only controller I have is Ice/TA. I think he's around level 40. He works really well, but I suffer from having too many things I can do in battles. Sometimes I wind up favoring TA powers, sometimes I favor Ice. Not a lot of offense in the combo, but you couldn't ask for a better teammate.|
Originally Posted by Oedipus_Tex
I have never in 2 years of playing seen an Ice/Trick Arrow Controller. There is one guy on the boards I know of who plays one and says its good, but I've yet to actually see one.
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It's a strange combination for sure. I didn't pick it for any weird reason, or because it was rare, or anything. It was just what I came up with at the time of creating the character. I don't think I've ever seen another one but I admit I haven't looked very hard.
EM/EA (stalker/Brute) at 50.
Good luck.
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I have, quite literally, never seen a MA/Dark Armor character aside from my own.
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I have an old one on Virtue, about level 22 or so. Keeps getting pushed behind other alts though. It's too bad, as she actually has a fun description.
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Originally Posted by Vermain
I have, quite literally, never seen a MA/Dark Armor character aside from my own.
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That is one of the only Scrappers I've ever made.
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Originally Posted by Vermain
I have, quite literally, never seen a MA/Dark Armor character aside from my own.
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Originally Posted by Katie V
Dual Pistols/Trick Arrow/Mace Mastery.
No idea if it'll be any good, but it'll certainly be rare. |
I have a 'Dread Pirate Redraw" with DP/TA and a hook hand though hasnt got to mace yet.
I don't suffer from altitis, I enjoy every minute of it.
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I am very addicted to playing rare or very uncommon powerset combination's. With Going Rogue I feel like I have a lot of options on my hands and am looking for something new. I generally like Defenders, Dominators, MM's, Corruptors, and Controllers. I can never seem to get into playing Brutes, Blasters, Tanks, Stalkers, or Scrappers. Also, my main is a Sonic/Electric Defender and I also have a TA/Ice, and Storm/Psy that I play often. Not sure if I am willing to repeat any of those sets because I also like trying new things. Any ideas what might be good??