Good AT/Powersets for a Pixie?

Hey all,

I've gotten it into my head to make a fairy/pixie/sprite character, but I'm having trouble coming up with powerset choices for him/her. I was thinking of maybe going Fire/Rad Controller, and coloring the powers to look sort of like pixe dust, but I was hoping to get some other suggestions from people.

Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Adam

When I think "pixie", I tend to think "nature powers". I'm not sure how well the visual effects would work with what you want, but my first impulse would be Plant/Storm.

Personally, I've used DB/SR and SD/WM in the past for warrior pixies. Although my 'fey' creatures tend to borrow from the literal 'fated to die' definition of the word, and end up a little darker than most people would go with..

Hehe.

Plant/earth dominator, with the smallest body size possible. You have the obvious forest and earth connection, then for giggles you have the tiny sprite shaking the earth, throwing boulders, and smacking things silly with stone hammers.

Perhaps more 'warrior'-ish, but could be fun.

As a pure coincedence, I started levelling up 'The Silver Pixie' (Pix to her friends) over the weekend.

She is actually an Energy Melee/Energy Aura Brute. I wanted someone who looks small and inoffensive and then opens a can of whoop-$$$ on ya. Plus the glowing EA shields look rather nice.

Just be mindful of the "must be on the ground" powers if you go with Earth or Plant.

This is a little tough, mainly because I think of different things for those words. "Fairy" definitely conjures the typical Tinkerbell type image to mine. A small, winged creature with magic powers. "Sprite," contrarily, calls to mind a woodland creature, with powers based in the elements or in nature some way. (Nymph and sprite are interchangeable for me.)

If it is the former, perhaps a Kinetics Defender, with non-specific secondary blast, easily colorable to be "mystical energy" (I'm thinking Energy, Radiation, or Psychic). Coloring both the Kinetics powers and the blast powers in a multi-colored spectrum could end up looking quite "magical" and "pixie-like."

If it is the latter, I think a controller would be the way to go. Nearly all the primaries except Illusion would work here, if colored and justified correctly. For secondary, I'd either go with a complimentary secondary (i.e. if it is a fire fairy, go with Thermal Radiation), Kinetics (for reasons listed above), Rad (if colored well), or Force Fields (again, coloring can go a long way here).

What about an Archery/rad corr/fender. Lot of bow options that look magical, and can still color rad to look like pixie dust. Maybe could do some coloring stuff with dark miasma for pixie dust as well. And if you squint a lot I guess you could make pain dom look pixie-ish but that might lead to eye strain.

Archery/Energy blaster.

Also, the traditional Pixie can be rather skilled with a bow, so I tend to think about archery for them as well.

You could go with a Defender /archery... Kinetics can actually be a good choice. Not a bad way to mess with people with a bit of faerie dust... speed 'em up... slow 'em down... hehe.
Storm works. You mentioned Rad, so that's there too.

I believe my wife's Pixie is an Nrg/Nrg blaster.

My "anti" Pixie (or should I say Pixie gone wrong/bad) is a Mind/Psi Dom.

I have 3 pixie/winged small fairy type characters right now. My plant/fire/fire dominator, Argent Rose, a DB/SR brute, Jade Thorne and a Plant/Trick Arrow controller, Autumn Sprite.

If you are looking for something specifically pixy like, any archery or TA character would seem to work, as would anything with dual blades, plant control or anything else you could work as a nature oriented - earth control, storm, etc. However with the right coloring almost any powerset could LOOK nature oriented (green energy blasts, mind blasts etc). When I think small winged fairies I also think of sylphs (air elemental sprites) so any of the electrical powersets would work - electrical melee for a scrapper/brute, electric blast for a blaster, defender or corruptor, or electric control for a dominator/controller.

My fairy character is a Willpower/Dual Blades (fantasy blades) tanker. I thought it would be hilarious to make this cute girly fairy who could take a punch to the face from Back Alley Brawler! She didn't disappoint.

Mine is an Ill/TA, Illusion specifically for Deceive and other mental trickery, but I also wanted Invisibility (with a Flyer) which combined with the fact I was leveling a Mind/FF at the time led me to go Illusion over Mind my second choice. I went Trick Arrow for the bow/arrow and what wee small fae creature doesn't need a bow for shooting things for various effects beyond straight up damage?

Since the entire concept of faery magic derives from the glamour, which is the deception of the human mind...or illusions. I need to support the Illusion Primary...as for a secondary, Storm would work, considdering most fey things are elemental in nature.

That being said. I am currently playing a pixie blaster which is Rad/Energy all colored like the sun, and called her Glitter-Bug. Because all of her powers look sunny!

There are many options though really.

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If you have a daughter ask her.......

My Pixie is an Earth/Storm controller and pre-dates wings (which it has now) and the Plant Primary.

If you believe Walt Disney then Plant/, Earth/, Ice/ controllers.

/Storm, /Cold for controllers.

For Doms:

Plant/, Earth/, Ice/ and /Earth, /Ice, /Thorn (and possibly /Energy as water)

For Defenders:

Cold/, Storm/, (possibly force fields as water) and, /Ice (and possibly /Energy as water and /Elec if paired with Storm/)

You could also do an Energy/Energy/Force Blaster as an All water Pixie

Aett, i would say anything Rad, the Rad emission set is kinda grainy/smokey and passes well for "dust" type effects, i've used myself for the same thing. i just colored the emission set a sparkly blue, and brightened up the rad blasts to look like light blasts/stereotypical magic energy, hover works well with this, the rad emish animations work with the whole throwing dust concept..... it just worked for me. and as an added bonus, you provide other players with a rad/rad corr or def to have on the team, never a bad thing!

IMO Mind/Radiation Controller would work very well for the traditional "magical pixie," as would most variaties of Mind Dominator, especially Mind/Psi since it is almost entirely ranged except for 1 or 2 powers. The reliance on sleeps and confusion is what seems "pixie-ish" to me, and the set can be played from Hover without any issues.

My woodland sprite character is a Plant/Kin controller. Plant for the nature aspect and kin to represent the faerie magic. Something about making people run faster, healing, and sapping the will (i.e., endurance) of the enemies just sounds like the sort of chaos a fairy would enjoy making, IMHO.

My first instinct, without giving it any *real* thought, was Mind/Emp controller. Mind because powers to put people to sleep or confuse them seemed quite appropriate. Empathy just because quite a lot of settings depict faerie types as having beneficial magic (possibly not the actual folklore, but certainly fantasy settings for various books, games, etc), and heals/buffs fits that.

On reading the thread, Plant seems a good fit too. Illusion as a general concept fits better than Mind, except I don't really think the specific depictions of decoys and phantasms in this game feel very pixie-ish.