Characters you love, but hate to play.

After a particularly fun mission of deaths and sheer, unenjoyable pain, I've come to the conclusion that as much as I love my Dual Pistols/Mental Manipulation Blaster, Fear Trigger?

The way she plays really sets my teeth on edge.

I love the costume, I love the concept and the powers behind the concept, but the powers themselves I just hate. I personally find Dual Pistols to be poor in damage and secondary effects, long in animation time and rooting, and Mental Manipulation I've never seemed to get along with. (Same with Psi Blast on a blaster, actually, which is why my Psi/Mental got deleted.)

I don't -want- to delete her. I want to enjoy playing her, but I just seem unable to.

What characters might you happen to have that you love, yet hate?

I have two, an ice/ice blaster named Diciembre and my spines/dark scrapper Murcielago.

I was about to start a dual pistol/mental manipulation blaster...
But now, Im not so sure.
People always complain about the weak damage and long animations for dp.
But I just love the set so much. I wish we could have martial arts as secondary.
I love my widow but I hate her right now, so sick of her, lol
Hope when I hit 47 and I respec her is getting better.

Blasters in general for me.

I don't know if it's that I'm not playing in the mindset, building for the archetype, or just plain bad at playing one, but I cannot seem to make a blaster that does well after the 20s end and the 30s begin...

My DP/Devices blaster was a DP/Traps corruptor during beta. Thinking of rerolling him just to get there again. It was a bit more monotonous, but at least it survived. x_x

Only characters which I loved thematically but didn't enjoy playing were my Kheldians. Consequently, I no longer play them. I haven't had that problem with any other AT or powerset combinations.

Legree, the Praetorian evil(er) twin of my Mastermind, is a Dual Pistols/Kinetics Corruptor. Nova Praetoria was fun, but the second half of Imperial City (lvls 12-15 or so) has been painful.

Like the OP I feel that some of the DP animations take forever to execute and do below average damage. Then there's /Kin, which is quite good for soloists compared with some of the other sets, but is entirely single target, which doesn't help when 3 +1 ghouls or resistance fighters are charging me.

Regardless, I will not abandon or reroll the alter ego of my main. One day she'll be awesome... I hope.

My Grav/kin 'troller, and my Ill/emp 'troller, but maybe that's because I mainly played them solo.

I have a Psi/emp 'troller that I play on a static team, and it's the first support toon I've been able to get past 30.

I still like those other two, but they might be badly in need of a respec and/or a server transfer.

I love Lounge Crooner's back story. I love his costume. Everyone I'm friends with in game loves him and thinks he's great. He gets nothing but praise.

After a year and change, he's still level 26 because I hate playing a Sonic/Mental blaster. I hate the sonic blast set and I'm not thrilled with the mental set either. Nor the way they play together. I could switch out the secondary but that won't make me like Sonic more. And don't get me started on the Sonic defense set with those stupid waveform bubbles so rolling him as a Defender/Controller is out.

I won't delete him though... someday I'm going to push through and level him up. Maybe.

Have one atm, a Plant Dominator who is oh-so-lovely to look at, I cant stand playing her. She's level 20 and I cant bear to delete her. However she is not on my home server so she's just rusticating.

As far as Dual Pistols, I had a blast - puns intended - with my DP Blaster until I hit about level 25. At that point the set became unplayable for me due to crap damage and I sadly deleted her. Really fun set.... crap damage. No thank you. Why would I put up with that when Fire Blasters exist...? *FIREBALL*

My oldest existing (second created) character is a Mind/Storm Controller named the Blood Countess; love the character and her costumes and her concept. Playing her is about as much fun as having my toe nails pulled out slowly. After 6+ years, I have slowly and painfully gotten her up to level 33 but haven't enjoyed a single second of it.

Golden Aegis is another very old character of mine; a FF/NRG Defender. I love the name and concept, but after 6 years he's still languishing at level 14. (My very first toon was also a FFer; I hated him too, and deleted him long ago.)

My Fire/Fire Tanker. Just.Too. Damned. Squishy. No matter what I do, despite having Tough, Weave, CJ, and all armors. Maybe I'm doing it wrong.

My DP/Energy Blaster. Cool in concept, terrible in execution.

My Kheldians. Again, cool concepts, but a completely un-fun powerset to play.

My Widow. Again, love the idea, the costume is excellent and I like the name I came up with, but dear lord do I loathe to play her.

My Warshade.

Love the looks, love the costume, love the name, love the powers.

Hate trying to level.

Only level 16 but at the moment I'm not able to take out the Voids/Quantums in solo missions, not able to take out the Voids/Quantums that spawn in open world areas, cannot find a team... ever and cannot stand farming AE to get to a point where I have Stamina and a few more attacks.

My Spine/Dark...lots of fun but massive end hog and having difficulty tanking massive spawns with him.

My Mind/Cold is great on teams but a little slow solo.

My Dual Pistols/Traps Corruptor gets left behind a lot on teams because of the setup times, but love him anyway.

My Stone/Stone Tanker "Redoubt". I don't know what I'm doing wrong, but 3 respecs later, he's still a chore to play at lvl 28. I've had him since 2004. I can't bring myself to delete him because of name, concept, and history.

/sigh

My Demon/Dark mastermind, Fluffy Handcuffs.
I love the character, her theme, story and all that.

But i absolutely HATE playing masterminds >< so darned boring.

If we'd ever get whips as a set of their own and not masterminds, she'd be rerolled in the blink of an eye.


Also my Elec/Shield char, Sapphic Shock.
Absolute insane brutish power, never played a char which decimates a group so quickly. But... shes just not that fun to play anymore, too powerful, and i hate teaming with her as it feels i steals the teams fun as well (which i do, i hate teaming with elec/shield chars).

After posting and reading this thread we got something in common.
Epics not so epic.
Dual pistols needs a boost in damage.
Hope any dev read this and realize epics and dual pistols need a boost.

My Dark/Dark Tanker. I want to love him, really I do. I can see from looking at my planned build that one day he will be awesome. The problem is getting him to that point.

I forgot my HEATS.

Got my Peacebringer to 30, and just...

Human form, found shields too weak and blasts too weak for the endurance costs I was using on them, and didn't like hiding my costumes in forms (And it just didn't seem right for his character)

Looking at my slotting was a pain too.

My Warshade, I loved Stygian Circle. Greatest move in the game. Would love something like that (And the Eclipse power I've seen friends using) on my Dark Scrapper but the power to endurance cost from above still holds true.

Oh, lack of Mez Protection in human form also.

I had an AR/Dev that I liked the concept of, but hated the sets. (Seriously, just give Targetting Drone a +Damage component to more than Snipe.)