Want to create a mage - stunned by options

I just returned after a 2 year break. I am amazed at how much Paragon has put into this game - having a blast. The new emotes and color combos for powers literally make this a new game for me.

That's the problem - too many choices.

I'd like to make a mage but with that Dr. Strange / Dormammu / Clea / Enchantress feel, not the traditional fantasy feel.

The problem is that now that every power can be recolored (and many have that new 'dark' option) that almost anything can be made to look like Jack Kirby magic now. In just some quick tinkering I found that fire, rad, and a few others set to 'dark' graphics looked very comic magic like.

Any ideas on what might look good given your more extensive experience with the new options? I'd like a blaster or defender - and concept is more important to me than min/max.

Thanks so much for any help or advice.

Mash

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You should head over to the Costume Request Thread and make a request there.

http://coh103.gtm.cityofheroes.com/s...d.php?t=204518

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Welcome back Mash.
You may want to specify male or female (you listed Dr.Strange and Enchantress as possible refs so... maybe you don't care which?) or huge.

Also there is a costume design thread that is stickied at the top of the forum where this kind of post might get more attention from the costume people (the ones who like to share their designs that is) around here.

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Here's my master magician, sorcerer supreme, way-cool warlock, Dr. Omen. Street clothes and then a formal go-to-meeting outfit (using the Magic Booster pack).

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Thanks for the advice all. I think I mispoke. I am hving more trouble with my powers than costume. I know that literally ANY power can be considered 'magic' with the right story, but have you found the new power color system to really shine on certain sets? For example, I found that giving the Circle of Fire power the 'Dark' graphic made it look much more magic-ish than fire blaster-ish.

The standard comic enchannter tends to throw bolts of arcane energy in addition to all the ice blocks and such. I've been playing with changing colors on Sonic, Fire, and Rad to get that 'arcane bolt' look. I was wondering if you found that tinting certain sets certain ways looked cool.

Thanks again.

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When you see yourself in a crowded room / do your fingers itch,are you pistol-whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch / can you fall asleep with a panic switch

In the ranged attack sets, I'd say a Fire Blaster with differently-colored attacks would look the most magical. Electric doesn't look very arcane to me, while both Rad and Sonic are mostly invisible in the "throwing bolts" arena.

Going a different way, I think the Kinetic Melee powerset looks like it could be magic. The animations are based on Tai Chi, but you can rationalize them as making sigils in the air.

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Especially if you use the new arcane symbols aura and set it to "combat only" on a kinetic melee hero. That way when you start making the movements to attack you will get arcane symbols swirling around you.

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I have two characters based on a DnD Warlock I used to play for a while. One's a fire/energy blaster. Both Fire Blast and Energy Manipulation are colored black primary, purple secondary. The other's a fire/dark corruptor with the same basic color scheme. Looks like DnD Eldritch energy to me.

As for other options, I'd say radiation or energy blast for a blaster; or dark if you go defender or corruptor.Fire works for a blaster secondary. If you go defender or corruptor, dark would be easiest to repurpose to magical energy; but just about any of them could be used. All depends on what kind of mage you want it to be.

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I have one mage character, a mystical mercernary, and used an Elec/Dark scrapper for powers. With Lightning Rod and the control auras from /Dark it certainly gives me the mage feeling.



It also gives me the click KABOOM feeling.

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Thanks again all! I'm going to mess with some of the new color settings on some blaster powers and see what I like.

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When you see yourself in a crowded room / do your fingers itch,are you pistol-whipped
Will you step in line or release the glitch / can you fall asleep with a panic switch