A Really Bad Idea

So, I was taking a look at all of these new temporary powers that were placed in the Invention system. They all look like they're really good secondary powers.

So I just had the worst idea ever.

What if I were to raise a character from 1 to 50 using just temporary powers created through the invention system, veteran powers (for when I run out of temporary power charges during a mission), a secondary armor of my choice.

This would be rolled on a Scrapper so I can have decent survivability.

So here's my question to you.

Should I include the attacks from Fighting in this challenge?

hmm, if you were going for a pure natural themed toon you cuold use brawl and power pool powers such as jump kick, air superiority, and fighting pool attacks for when you have no temps

sounds very interesting though

I ran 2 task forces today, so I have approximately 82,491 temp power recipes I'd be happy to donate to the cause!

Oh, and one Tempered Readiness recipe.

This is very similar to the MAN builds from years ago.

To have a MAN build, iirc you had to be;

Natural origin
Only use powers avail to everyone (pool powers, temps)
Had to have MAN in caps in the name
No powers from Primary
No powers from Secondary (including shields)

Never sounded that fun to me but they did have a 'following' for a while there. Ranks up there with Petless MM's for annoyance factor though.

Man builds used Tough and Weave combined with Stealth and Invis and the medicine pool to augment survival.

Still, I wouldn't want to try it. Your plan at least doesn't sound as annoying having shields from secondary and all.

Well I'd like to keep at least half of my hair by the time I'm done playing.

Anyways, I'm officially starting this challenge as soon as I get home from school. Pardon my lack of time zone conversion, but that's 3-ish pm Central time.

If you make an "Alternate Build" (Access it at the trainers) you can stay "Level Zero" with no power selections at all, you won't even have your Tier One power from your Secondary.

That way, you could have a "Pure Temp" build!

Fun, huh?

Not to thread jack...
But in the same camp as really bad ideas.

I have convinced a couple of friends to build No-Die characters and level them to 50.

If you die, remake character and start over at level 1
Only veteran power allowed is Flight at level 6 (soon to be 4).

Your name must have the numbered 'version' you are on.

To date, one of my buddies is on version 28.
He almost quit the idea when he toasted out at level 33. We all thought he would make it to 50 with that one.
After his anger subsided we prodded him into keep going.

I am on version 17 (sigh).

Another player thinks we are nuts because our general playstyle is .... less than tactical... and more CHARGE!!!!

We do adjust but always maintain some degree of Charge

I've made a character like this before, when I was trying to make a real "fist fighter" before the alternate animations were added.

I think I took MA/Will but I skipped all of the kicking attacks. Instead, I took any melee attack from the power pools that wasn't a kick. Boxing, flurry, air superiority.

I filled in my attack chain with temp powers - Revolver, Gabriel's Hammer, St. Louis Slammer. That's all there were at the time. I guess there are more now - A tazer, at least. I also had my vet powers, which I allowed on the basis that they fit all builds and Sand of Mu was a punching attack anyway.

All in all, it wasn't half-bad. I doubt it would win any contests for "best performing build of the year" but it was playable. Those melee temp powers deal a reasonable amount of damage.