Can't find that "perfect" AT combo. Your thoughs?
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AnElfCalledMack,
Posted on: 2011-01-18 19:05 in Player Questions
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Hmmm, if I were inclined to make a Dark Miasma + Sonic Attack character and take a certain leadership power, I'd have:|
Originally Posted by Fulmens
I'd vote Rad/Sonic defender, except for that whole "intuitive concept" thing. [You could also go Dark/Sonic which might be slightly easier to crowbar past the plausibility police; I've got E K Nachtmusic, myself. Awesome orchestral-conductor-in-armor look.]
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My very first thought reading the OP was a Controller of some sort (Ill/Storm
came to mind first) - a bit squishy by themselves, but they have a lot of tools
to mitigate that.
That said, I also like the Fort & Warshade recos others have mentioned as well.
Seems like there are a few choices that more or less qualify.
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I am definitely going to muck around with these combo's, including the most recent one to surface Fire/Ice Corruptor.
However, I also am going to maybe take a step back and try to chill out the perfectionism a bit, and maybe not try to be so picky, and spend a bit of time thinking what I really want to do, instead of trying to do it all.
Thanks for responding and continuing to respond to this =)
The Fire/Shield scrapper mentioned above is a really good combo; I have one at level 48 and it's an engine of destruction.
Nothing in the game offers the force multiplier effect that a team of Fire/Rad controllers do, by itself it's competent but if you put 8 of them together you'll go through huge groups of +4 mobs like they're gray.
Ill/Rad controllers are capable of soloing virtually anything up to and including Giant Monsters. They're strong on ST damage but outside of the APP pools they're lacking in AOE.
SoA (Villain epic ATs) can offer tons of damage coupled with great team buffs. There's so many ways to build them that you can pretty much make them into anything. Claw/Super Reflexes scrapper with defender level team buffs? Sure. Blaster with team buffs and SR scrapper level defenses? Sure.
I think you'll enjoy that Fire/Shield once you get some levels on him. Like all defense sets Shield has some growing pains but once it matures and you add IO bonuses it gets very good.
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I have one of those! It's one of my characters with an "unconventional build" that would get me kicked out of most PuG's cause the leader hates variety!
Originally Posted by Inno
...including the most recent one to surface Fire/Ice Corruptor.
You see, I don't like being a shield-bot! I wouldn't like people constantly telling me to shield them, and I'm certainly lazy enough that I wouldn't wanna do it every 4 minutes. Not only that, but cosmetically, I find the Cold Domination shields to look disgusting! People have spent hours and hours on their costumes in the tailor...and then I'd suddenly poop on it by putting their characters in a dumb-looking ice cube.
So! I took the crazy route! I made a Blasterruptor!
I skipped all the shields and instead got Aid Self and Hibernate (this is before Inherent Fitness). I aimed for +Damage and +Recharge. I also skipped Inferno. When I was finished with her relatively cheap build, I easily fell in love with the character. To this date, she's my most fun character.
Near-Perma Heat Loss -> Perma Sleet -> Perma Rain of Fire -> Fire Ball -> Fire Ball -> ... -> Fire Ball -> Giant Pile of Corpses
That attack sequence made her easily compete with a blaster in terms of raw damage output if you counted all the -RES and Scourge. And thanks to Sleet, the team really wouldn't need any other debuff OR buff to just rip through the generic spawns. And if a fight went wrong, or a big meanie was in our way, I'd just start using the REST of my debuffs to just bring them to their knees! And when the team leader who was like "lol u noob u haz no shields" actually saw this, would suddenly be like "O_O I want one!"
Don't even get me started on how she just decimated Masterminds for the short period I tried PvP with her!
So if you do roll that, I say go crazy and do what I did! If not, with inherent fitness, you should be able to be crazy and still have those stupid shields everyone has this obsession with! Pffft. Buffs. Those shields are really gonna protect all ya'll against all those dead or otherwise debuffed to oblivion enemies!!!!
My guess would be:
Not counting IOs: Probably Fortunata or Widow.
IO'd: Probably Fire/Kin. My Fire/Kin is build for S/L Defense and I can Speed Boost, Transfusion, Transference and Fulcrum Shift on teams (and I have Leadership) and I can get right in the spawn with Hot Feet, Fire Cages, Fissure, Flashfires and Seismic Smash. He's a ton of fun to play and feels very smashy for a controller.
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