Nighmarisly bad builds: hall of fame.

About a month ago I teamed with an Ill/Emp controller who only had Spectral wounds and I think Group Invisibility from their primary. Every other power was either from their secondary, a power pool, or an ancillary power.

One attack and that was it. On an ITF. And people still died. Rock that Aura baby...

*Shakes head*

I once was on a team in the Hollows looooong ago with an Ice Tank that will forever be remembered as the worst tank I've ever played with. Sure the Hollows are low levels and you don't have quite as many powers at that time. But this Ice Tank took ONE power from their Primary powerset (probably only because they had to to make the character) and NEVER TURNED IT ON!


Oi.

The worst build I ever saw was a team mate during a PUG.

She was a "dedicated healorz" who had all the Empathy primaries and only one from her Secondaries. Now, I can live with that. I have made a dedicated team healer myself on occasion.

However, my Empath never took anything from the Medicine Power Pool... much less ALL the powers from that pool.

She also took all four travel powers.

The others in the team ragged her about her build so long she ended up quitting the team, as I recall.

my main toon a ninja/dark mm, skipped tar patch, fearsome stare, and darkest night

for nostalgia sake i left his primary build alone with minimal IOing, but have been working on a 2nd build which is more...practical lol, as of now i usually only use him for badging, and then i let him rest when hes done his badging to play my other uber toons

The only thing that jumps to mind is a Stone Tanker I had where I followed bad advice.* Of course, that remind me that I was introduced to this game by a friend who hated every choice anyone ever made.

"Your Energy/Devices Blaster will be ubergimp." My first and easiest 50.

"No one will want to team with your brother's Kinetics/Electricity Defender." & "Sapping is not an effective defending strategy." I'm sure I don't need to explain why these are so funny.

(To my girlfriend) "You made a Fire/Fire tank? Was your goal to be completely ineffective?" Her first 50. Her damage output is eye-popping for a Tanker.

*"Don't bother taking or slotting any shields on your Stone Tanker, you'll be in Granite all the time anyway." I actually tried this advice for awhile...boy was that dumb.

"I got to lvl 50 to make a Warshade, and they suck." I love my Warshade! I admit this one isn't as black and white, though.

Back when I first started playing, I wanted a Melee/Debuffer so badly that I made a Corruptor, Sonic/Cold to be exact. Now, I didn't avoid either my primary or secondary... too much, but I was so much into concept that I took the following: Flurry, Jump Kick, Air Superiority, and Whirlwind. I think the powers I didn't have were the shields from /Cold (but I did have the +HP one). Good times, good times indeed. Even though I did end up getting to 32, I deleted him once I could actually make a /Stormy redside. His concept was a werewolf shaman (so yay for the Beast Pack).

Some of my characters

My first character, from just before i4 release, was an Invulnerability tanker, because the old Prima guide told me that was an "easy" set to learn the game with. (It also claimed that Kinetics is only useful on teams. The sad thing is that I believed it for years.) I didn't take Unyielding until 44 because I wasn't aware that it had been tweaked to enable the tanker to move while it was running. Fortunately, I ran with an Empath much of the time, with Clear Mind taking the place of real mez protection, but soloing was a challenge at high levels. That build made me pretty good at "active defense," though I'm embarassed to admit that I learned about that concept from playing a tanker.

I got so tired of my Earth/Storm controller's low damage (Gale.. Gale.. Brawl.. Gale.. Gale..) that I dropped half her Primary/Secondary powers and respec'd her into Boxing, Kick, Flurry and Air Superiority figuring that I'd switch her out at some later date once I no longer needed this wealth of melee damage options.


Ummm.. yeah. The "later date" came about two hours later. Wow, that was a bad choice. At least I realized it before embarrassing myself on a team and was low enough (lvl 22-ish?) that I just restarted her from scratch on her secondary build and bought all new enhancements.

The other day I was doing an STF and we had a widow on the team who only had one attack.

Oh sure, they were level 50. And had other powers. But only one of them was an attack. They had the entire leadership pool, and all the powers you could think of, but not attacks. In combat, they just stood there. Looking pretty.

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Originally Posted by PRAF68_EU Dispari has more than enough credability, and certainly doesn't need to borrow any from you.

• On my first tanker, I skipped her Mez protection because she kept getting "stunned" (by Tsoo), and the list of effects that Indomitable Will didn't include the word "stun". She also had Acrobatics (to stop her getting knocked back) and Jump Kick. She also had no Taunt.
• I didn't discover the difficulty settings until she was in her late 20s
• On my first dom, I skipped her ST hold (because it did less damage than the immob. I also spammed Fire Cages as often as possible, and wonder why I'd have to out-level a mission before I stood a chance of running it without dying a bajillion times.
• I always took every attack power I could. Regardless of whether it was a good power or whether my character had a full attack chain or not, if it did damage, in it went.
• If a power did damage, no matter how little, that's what I would slot it for.

I don't think I ever made any really bad decisions on my characters, though some other people...*facepalm*

Emp w/ no Fort or Regen/Recov Auras, but had Stimulant and Aid Other
Stone Tank w/out Earth's Embrace and Rooted (It made him slow...)
Invul w/out Unyielding, but had Acrobatics

My 2 worst (and favorite) builds were petless Masterminds, I just got tired of getting kicked.

One was an undead gunfighter, wihtout all that nancy panzy DP flipping/dancing annoying gunfu ridiculousness.

The other just used his pulse rifle, and WHEN are we gonna get a decent high tech Praetorian style animation rifle, btw?!

I was on a team once months ago where there was a Stalker in the team and I noticed he kept getting held/disoriented/etc....then noticed in his build he didn't have his mez protection power.

This stalker also had Whirlwind....and used it (sometimes to start the fight with a group of mobs).... >_>

I did /tell him asking why he didn't have x power (forgot his secondary by now) and he thought it didn't do anything but I told him, "it stops you from getting held/etc"