Back from Iraq, returning to City

Well I've been away from CoH, and most of the internet, for about 8 months now. Really looking forward to getting back into the game, and I'd like to roll a couple new toons upon my return. Seeing as I'm 2 Issues behind, I have a lot of catching up to do. I'm wondering, is there an AT that's begun to stand out in the new content, or power sets? I know everyone plays what they enjoy, I've always done the same, but I'd like to get any recommendations I can. The more reasoning behind why you have been playing your specific toon, the better. I've been reading up for the last couple days and I've seen some threads on Fire/Cold Corrs and Invul scrappers that have grabbed my attention...

I can't help you too much on the question you asked, but I did want to thank you for your service.

Welcome Home!

A Fire/Cold Corr might be a good choice. Really good damage, great debuffs against single targets and AoE, and the shields would help the team out a lot to reach the incarnate soft cap for Defense, which is higher than in normal content.

Welcome back.

I've been wanting to roll a fire/cold corr for a few days now, but I get the the costume screen and realize I don't have a concept yet. No concept, no costume, no toon. And I'm currently working on dinging 50 on my crab.

Aett pretty much covered all the reasons why it's liked so much. It's pretty much that fire rocks, and so does Cold. Together they're awesome

Welcome home! Thank you for your service.

The beauty of Fire/Cold corruptors is that they are extremely good at lot of things. Fire Blast provides very high DPS. Whether it's Single target DPS or AoE damage. And recently with the T3 reactive Interface proc from the Destiny Slot Rain of Fire turns into a Blizzard clone (so do all rain powers). Cold Domination is another great set as well. As people mentioned above the shields will help your teammates (and league-mates) bridge the gap between their 45% defence toons and the increase base to Hit for the enemies in the trials (I believe their base to hit is 64% as opposed to 50% like the old content). There is also Sleet. Which is simply an amazing debuff with high -Def and -Resist in a large area of effect, and the chance to knock enemies down which also provides some measure of damage mitigation...plus works beautifully with the T3/T4 reactive DoT proc from Interface slot mentioned above. Then there's Benumb, which is (IMO) the best single target debuff in the game. -Regen, -DMG, -Recharge, and also minimizes the effects of the secondary effects of enemies attacks. For example Ghost Widow's hold and heal in STF will be affected by Benumb, so the hold will last less time and the heal will heal for less Hit Points (the latter holds true for the healer Nictus in iTF, too) and many other examples. And then there's the beauty that's HeatLoss. AoE -Resist, massive -recharge and -recovery, and a big Endo and Recovery boost to you and your teammates.
The only problem with Cold Domination is that it's expensive to get those debuffs down to perma level (or close to it), but once you get there, your toon will be awesome, even without all the new incarnate slots.

Wanted, you're like a Fire/Cold salesman. I feel like coughing up a down payment! After reading you post, is it safe to assume Fire/Cold Corr's get some work done trying to solo AVs? Not really worried about it as much as I want a well rounded toon that does well in the new content, but that's alot of debuff...

You seem pretty set on your fire/cold, but I'd like to offer my suggestion anyway. Try a warshade.

For what it's worth, my Warshade was far and away the most fun I've ever had playing this game. So much fun that I wrote a guide for it, as well as a few other entertainment pieces. The link for the guide is in my sig.

What server are you on? Welcome back. I'll be happy to help you get back in the game. PM me. I'm on Freedom and Union.

I will 2nd or 3rd or whatever the fire/cold corr. It is alot of fun and some really sick damage. Absolutely grab Interface - Reactive and go the fire damage DOT route in that slot.

The only thing I do not like about my fire/ice corr is no heal since my builds do not have room for medicine pool and my Destiny slot has the recharge path in it.


And welcome back and thank you for your service in Iraq.

The only problem I foresee for fire/cold corruptor relates to the sets being possibly too good.

Between all the primaries you'll want and all the secondaries you'll want, that leaves few choices for a travel power, Medicine pool (if you're into that), self-defense toggles, and other pool powers. Thank goodness for inherent Fitness.

From a fellow vet, welcome home, Goliathan!

Can't add more than what's been said for what you are looking for, but just wanted to let you know, we're proud to have you back safe and sound!

With the new content, you need to be able to dish out significant damage against +4s, AND survive their attacks. Someone mentioned Fire/Cold Cor, i might say Fire/Traps. You get some decent AoE buffs and debuffs and you don't have to spent time applying shields.

It should be noted though, that one of the Incarnate power types is all ABOUT AoE defensive abilities. And another Incarnate power type is a crashless AoE nuke. And another is Pets. So you can have the "worst" power-combo in the game and STILL be effective in the incarnate trials once you've gotten even the tier 1 abilities in each Incarnate tree.

Just my 2 cents. And, oh yeah, welcome home! I too, thank you for your courage and service!

Nobody said it, but I will add: Demon Summoning is very fun. Masterminds are not the end all be all of the incarnate content ( ok they kind of get the shaft :P ), but my Demon Summoning/Thermal mastermind is a juggernaut in the level 40 content. I think it's a lot of fun.

Another thing that may have slipped under the radar. Masterminds with dark mastery were buffed in that the twilight grasp heal radius is bigger at the corruptor defender radius.

Lastly, thank you for being our nation's hero in the real world. There is nothing like an all-volunteer fighting force.

Seriously, thanks for all the well wishes. Most appreciated.

Yeah, I will definitely give the Fire/Cold thing a shot. Probably gonna roll a couple others too, as I get 2 weeks off after I get home, I'll have time to play. Looking at a DM/FA Brute and maybe a Arch/TA Corr. I've been CoH Jones'n for quite a while and I've saved up a few names and concepts during what little off time I've had.

I play on Liberty and Freedom, Residentx10, so I'll keep that in mind. Thanks much!