One character to rule it all. What would you choose?

I'd have to pick fortunata. I wouldn't say it's the most powerful character in the game, but it has almost everything I would want for the content that I'm interested in doing:


Lots of control: AoE hold, AoE disorient, and AoE confuse can be rotated constantly. One of the main blasts is also a hold.

High damage: Very fast animating single target chain melts targets quickly. Decent aoe. Exotic damage is occasionally useful.

Reasonable durability: 50%+ def vs all, and minor scaling resists. Tiny HP pool keeps me on my toes (or on the floor) though.

Decent support: Double stacked leadership and perma mind link. Very handy when exemped, but still nice to have at 50 for filling in gaps in a team.

For my toons it would have to be my psi/ment/force blaster. His build is hard to breakdown the why of it working as I have shared it with no few friends over the years but all have found it hard to still do what I do with it.

I dont fear going in solo in pretty much anything. No mob type scares me or possess tricks I cant counter. About the only thing that can get me killed in a +4X8 is if I am actually in a team and thus play intentionally sloppy just to let the rest feel useful.

With the further advantage of having multiple incarnate powers to switch between as needed I can go against control heavy foes while running clarion or switch to something abit more fun like ageless to also make sure no sapper alive can burn through that and a big mob fueled drain pscyhe.

I really dont think there is a one AT or power combo to rule them all. Some comboes are abit sub par but the list of those is far shorter then the list of truly effective builds.

BTW one thing i never saw anyone really bring up here was doing exemp play. To me a true do it all build can do exemped content to. I love for example on my psi ment going and doing the old posi tf via flashback solo set for between 6-8 men typically. Thats a tf so hard so many couldnt get it done that they had to make the new one.

I'm surprised no one has said Spines/Dark Scrapper yet. It's extremely End heavy but with all the PBAoE and Def/Res v everything I have no trouble soloing anything. It takes a couple of KB procs to be really effective, but other than that I've been running him with basic IOs.

Open with Spring Attack
Spine Burst
ST attack the Lts or Bosses.
Impale them as they run away.

Move on to the next mob.

Going off this seems SS/Fire is one of the most powerful now. My question is, I've looked at the numbers in game for Street Justice, do you think it will out perform SS? It has some faster animating attacks, the AOE while smaller in radius hits for nearly twice the damage of Footstomp at 3 charges, the Extreme attack at 3 charges does nearly Energy Transfer level damage, it has -res in a charge builder, and two if its primary attacks are .83 and .97 animation times like Dark Melee.

It doesn't have perma-rage but perhaps the other aspects could make up. The only downside I could see is how does it work with Fiery Embrace? Does it go off the base off the attack for the damage bonus or will the damage bonus increase with the amount of charges used?

It sounds like SJ is more similar to claws than it is to SS. At least in terms of AoE, but that's all that matters for farming. Claws also has a stronger AoE attack than SS, but with a smaller radius. And while claws is great at AoE, it's not considered to be on the same level as SS.

Therefore no, I don't think SJ will overtake SS as the #1 set. When farming, the extra size of the AoE tends to be more important than the extra damage with a smaller size.

People dont seem to understand how spinning strike (is that what its called?) works.

It's actually pretty crappy. It'ss like thnunder strike, both of which can be summed up as "Super cones" which are better than cones (kind of) but not as good at a PBAoE. Both are medicore at best, and lets not forget that you will need to build up a combo level of 3 to get that nice dmg. So SJ wont come anywhere never SS/.

SJ has really good STdps though, its AoE is just lacking. Of course, it looks WAY cool and it really really fun XD

While it is true that getting a combo lvl 2 is still good. If i remember correctly a combo lvl less that three will actually result in less (or possibly equal) dmg to claw's spin attack. Which, being a PBAoE is more likely to hit its max amount of targets with less set up.

The problem with TAoE melee attacks is that they rarely, if ever, hit all 10 of their possible targets (even in an AE mission setting) unless you position yourself correctly, which is a waste of time.
Of course, its possible that SJ might have some pretty big changes between beta when we saw it and when it goes live.

Dont get me wrong though, i love spinning strike. I find it fun having to line up correctly to hit as many targets as i can. And i love SJ, i plan to make an SJ/regen and /fire as soon as it goes live. But its still not better than SS.

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Originally Posted by Ultimus Not to mention STJ's buildup not only increases ToHIT/DMG it puts you at combo level 3.

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