Who Are You Re-Rolling?

Now that Issue 21 is coming around, we're getting three new powersets, lots of power proliferation and the ability to start wherever we want with any archetype we want, in addition to the new Atlas Park and Mercy Island content, who are we re-rolling, and for what reason?

Personally, I'm re-rolling three, which is why I brought this up, that's a big number for me, considering the fact that I've only got 8 characters.

Qorta, my Dark Blast/Dark Miasma Resistance Corruptor (and future villain) will be transformed into a Dark Blast/Darkness Manipulation Blaster - because Darkness Manipulation is awesome, and because Defiance fits his being a non-corporeal entity only inhabiting a body temporarily (being able to attack even while the body is immobilised). Plus I've already got a Corruptor.

Caged Animal, my Broadsword/Willpower Scrapper will be re-rolled to a Broadsword/Willpower Brute because I've always felt he has far more rage than precision, but could never swap him because Brutes didn't have Broadswords. Now they do, and they can start in Paragon (woot) I'm over the moon.

Finally, Solomon, my Dual Pistols/Pain Domination Corruptor will simply be re-rolled. He's only Level 8, I'm not going to be creating another villain anytime soon, but I want to experience the new Mercy Island content, so he is reborn (despite the fact that I spent a couple of horus yesterday getting him the Mercy Mariner accolade, Fortified was so annoying to find, the coords in this game are completely messed up).

Oh, and feel free to contribute any new characters:

Personally, there's just one. Bicarbonate of Soda. That's right you heard me correctly, a Time Manipulation/Beam Rifle Defender from the past, who stumbled on crash-landed alien time-travel technology and salvaged it for himself (but it's still steam-powered, because steam is ultimate source of energy). He jumped into the future, and has decided he likes it here because his wife can't find out what he's getting up to. His name, I'm sure you're wondering, is due to him deciding it encapsulated everything about this world, and would consequently be the perfect hero name: "futuristic, complicated, wondrous, and it gets rid of the worst stains".

For about a year, I've been playing a Grav/Kin controller called The Hour Thief. I will not be rerolling him - he's too much of a perpetual motion machine for me to want to do that, and he's also level 40 or so. I will, however, be making a second version of him that uses Time Manipulation, and if it proves fun enough I'll spend some Paragon Points on name changes so I can swap the primary name of "Hour Thief" to the new version and the secondary name of "Edmund Templeton" to the old one.

Still wish Time had been default-colored gold...

I was under the impression from the 8/10 dev chat notes that Street Justice is not going live with i211 but shortly thereafter? Was that Synapse and Zwill just joshing us?

I'm considering re-rolling Clockstopper my Clockwork Mace/Shield brute as a scrapper; I'm not sure if the improved damage from scrapper Shield Charge will be worth it though.

Rerolling my main for, oh I don't know... the twelfth time? Maybe more.

It's finally getting the powersets it was always supposed to have: SJ/Will. If only those powers had existed 6 years ago...

If the devs do not fix stalker kinetic melee I will be re rolling it as a street justice.


On live concentrated strike recharges build up from a hidden state, on beta it only works on base crit chance. Its a rather massive nerf/bug.

I hope they fix it

I am not re-rolling anything. I do have plenty of new characters planned, but I tend to pick an AT and powerset combo that seems interesting, then I create a concept to fit. I am just responding since "none" data points seem like legit responses also.

Lewis

Same about the "not re-rolling" response. I'm looking forward to the new powersets and I actually do have a character or two that might have been better off as one of the new ones if it had been around. Still I have no plans to re-roll - I'm just going to give the new sets a try with new characters.

I've got a couple reroll plans. One reroll is an energy/energy Blaster to a Beam/Energy Blaster-it fits in with the original concept for that character just a bit better, and he's not so high level right now that it causes me fits.

The other is a Mind/Emp Controller to a Mind/Time Controller; as he's currently at level 50, it does cause a bit of a wince to do; thankfully, with the free character transfer per month around, I can simply transfer the level 50 version to a "retirement server" on the outside chance that I end up truly hating Time Manipulation.

Let's see... the slots per server are going from 36 to 48. Why would I re roll anything? That is madness!

Re-roll? This is not the dark ages of 2005. Times like these call for a new alt!

I do happen to have at least 3 characters I'm gonna be rerolling:

Not Wolfen Frost - Considering he was my first 50, I hate to see him sitting on my character list as a Martial Arts/Regeneration Scrapper I don't play. I don't have anything against Martial Arts -or- Regeneration, but Not Wolfen Frost was never meant to be a Martial Arts master or something with Regeneration, just a tough beast man with a healing factor. I'm still deciding between Scrapper or Brute though.

DJ Pokemon - This is my low level Kinetic/Electric Defender that I've had to roll twice now. Thankfully, there's this nifty little new powerset called Beam Rifle coming out. I always envisioned DJ Pokemon as more of a "techy" type character, so I will be having fun with Beam Rifle. Tacking on Time Manipulation for added flavor and changing him into a Corrupter.

Blood Sister Leader - My first level 50 Mastermind. Being Thugs/Traps, she's not all that bad at iTrials, that's for sure, but I can't get the feel for Masterminds anymore, sadly. Instead, I'm gonna retcon her into a Super Strength/Regeneration Brute (with a multibillion inf build to boot) with a different name that I haven't come up with yet.

Considering how I feel about Titan Weapons, I might reroll another one too..

I'm likely going to be re-rolling my main, Wild Claw. He's wandered between Scrapper and Brute, MA and KM, Regen, WP, and DA, but none of the current combinations have really 'fit' the character. He's a character I've had since before CoH, so he had a relatively fixed concept that CoH seemed to have difficulty with.

With SJ added, though, I'm looking at a Regen/SJ Brute, with a few IO procs to get the minor perception and stealth boosts that would fit the character concept.

I've got an electric/kinetics controller alt named Mender Vitruvian, so, yes, particularly since Ouro access is being opened to lower levels.

I'm rerolling my namesake: Hqnk. He's a claws/regen scrapper, but he SO should be a claws/regen brute. (Tank would be better, but I'll take what I can get.)

I'm not deleting the 50 scrapper, but I'll just exile it to a holding server and bring him back as Hqnk's rival.

My Mind/Radiation controller is supposed to have time-based powers; not a Time Lord but something similar. I should re-roll him as Mind/Time Manipulation. But I don't have the strength. I've never re-rolled and re-leveled a level 50 before.

I may reroll Sieglinde as a SJ/WP, haven't decided. The original would be transferred off.

I don't see any of my other characters being rerolled. I'll have to go over the roster. And I really, really need to redo my web page now that the Vault is Deader Than Disco.

I will be re-rolling my EM/EA Brute as an SJ/EA Brute. EMelee has become a massive disappointment and I'm having so much fun with SJ on beta, that instead of trying to salvage his build for the 3rd time I just want to start fresh and have fun with him.

All my other characters will be new new new.

Re-Ro....?!

::Begins stomping feet on the ground while plugging ears with fingers::

LALALALALALALA...

I'm not listening...

LALALALA...

I'll re-roll City Hall, my Grav/Sonic Controller (level 22) as a Grav/Time.

I *might* re-roll Grarg, my Axe/WP Brute as Titan Weapons when it goes live, but I'm not sure.

And I'll probably make a third version of Biowraith as a Dark/Dark Blaster.

That's about it. For the other sets I have placeholder characters (some that have been sitting there for years) that I'll be using (I suppose technically that's a re-roll, but it's a level 1 re-roll ).

Da Krusha: Level 23 NRG/NRG Brute. I've finally realized I don't like Energy Melee. He'll become a Titan Weapon / something Scrapper.

Jezzail: Low level Elec/Elec Dom. Being rerolled so she can start in Paragon instead of Preatoria.

T3h N1nj4 Fr34k: Level 10 (I think) MA/Regen Scrapper. Probably go with Street Justice / Invuln

Make Stuff: Level 4 bots / Storm MM. Might reroll as Bots / Time, might leave him alone.

I don't reroll characters.

Ok, I do, but it's rare.

What I do often is create multiple versions of the same character.

My claws/dark brute, DB/dark scrapper, necro/dark mastermind, spines/dark stalker are all the same character with different names.

Dechs Kaison, my bots/traps, also has AR/nrg blaster, huntsman, and DP/traps defender versions. I plan to make a Beam Rifle something out of him next.