Halloween Character Reroll!

Hey gang,

Looking for advice on my reroll of a long standing Halloween themed character. He's a lanky guy normally, invested with the power of Samhain and can change his image into classic Halloween monsters such as a ghost, werewolf, vampire, Frankenstein's monster, a mummy, etc.

Before he was Necro/Dark MM but since we'll very likely never get customization to change fantasy based undead into modern undead, the concept just never meshed with the power.

My thoughts on new powersets so far are:

Thugs/Dark MM
Dark/Dark Blaster
Dark/Mental Blaster (for the concept of feeding on people's psychic terror to power his abilities)
Fire/Dark Blaster (magical jack o lantern flames?)
Dark/Dark Stalker
Dark/Dark Brute
Mix in any with Fire as a primary for magical lantern flames (fire/dark stalker, fire/dark brute)

Fire/Dark or Dark/Dark Corruptor

So as you can see, definitely want dark but not sure if I should incorporate any melee into it due to the Werewolf and Frankenstein's Monster brutish forms. Originally I just tried to use builds that has Air Superiority and a Super Jump travel power for those "forms" he took - although I could get away with Beast Run for free for the Werewolf at least.

Thanks for any tips/advice!

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A new dark/dark blaster some some nice melee blapper type attacks. It's a decent pairing.

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Lovely idea. I personally have one myself. Halloween Havoc- Devil, Scarecrow, Skeleton, Werewolf, Ghost (saved zombie clown, robot, frankenstein, Vampire, and Witch for future costumes when I decide to unlock them.) FM/WP Scrapper, coloring the flames based on costume... Devil: Bright Red Hellfire, Scarecrow: Default Straw Fire, Skeleton: Yellow Bone, Werewolf: Silvery Bue Moon, Ghost: Haunting White (With further colors being Zombie Clown: Pink cotton candy, Robot: Multicolor plasma, Frankenstein: Green Chemicals, Vampire: Dark Red Blood, Witch: Black Magic.)

The only drawback is that I am very hard on myself with limitations on each character. His story was that he found a pair of boots and gloves in his grandfathers attic, when worn during the month of october, he is granted the powers of Halloween Havoc... A mischievous imp who shifts from one form to the next at random, bearing the signature gloves and boots (Samurai) in each form. So I can only play him one month a year. :P

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Thanks! Yah, I thought Dark/Dark blaster for the blapper stuff. I just didn't know how I felt about the darkity dark aura in my melee attacks for the Werewolf and Frankenstein's Monster. Coloring them red for Dracula and white for Ghost seemed a win at least.

Think the only way around that is to use MA, Super Strength or Street Justice OR use power pool melee attacks with a ranged AT like Blaster or Corruptor that I only use on builds associated with those costumes (and maybe some APP stuff like Electricity APP for Frankenstein).

I only play him in October too, for the last 5 years or so. Though if I really like this reroll I may be more lenient on myself this year.

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How about a dark blast/poison cor or */pois MM. I think goes well with Halloween. Mad scienctist, aka Dr. jekyll and Mister Hyde. A cursed mummy or diseased zombie.

I'm thinking about seeing if the wife wants to create Halloween themed toons. Thanks for the idea.

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I too am now thinking of suggesting Halloween themed toons to the wife.

It's a shame that the HEATs have that shape-shifting mechanic. I tri-form warshade would be a great way to get melee for the werewolf & Frankenstein monster aspects.

This concept keeps suggesting Blaster to me.
Anything/Dark will give you some really good "evil" or "monstrous" melee attacks as well as some Fear if you want to go that way. Fire/Dark will give you excellent DPS, but you will have trouble not using the Fire blast powers in your "melee" forms because the damage is just too good.

Dark/MM sounds really effective, but will have minimal melee. It really depends how much that matters to you because this combo could be quite lethal.

Another good thing about a Blaster is that the Secondarys are very mix and match to your liking so you'll have an easier time layering in Pool Powers like Fighting and AS.

Dark/Dark or Fire/Dark Corruptor could work but you'll need to get Melee from pools and you're going to be more limited in your pool power selection because you're going to want more of your Secondary set for survivability/thematic reasons. Poison is also a decent suggestion from above.

If you go melee, I'd recommend Scrapper, Brute, or even Tanker over Stalker. What's the point of having all these cool Halloween themed costumes if you're character is invisible most of the time?

Dark/Dark is thematic, but you'll have end problems early on and need KB protection from IOs or Acrobatics.

Fire/Dark or Dark/Fire (depending on AT and what you want to be primary) is also thematic and very strong for DPS. Obviously the KB issues will persist with any version of this combination.

Any of the above would likely be fun and thematic. It really just depends what you want to do.

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Great feedback, thanks! Confirmed much of what I was thinking, I guess I'm just torn on all those options. :P

I wish Warshades could be different origins (I'm sucker for being stuck on origin limitations) and could have their colors and auras changed. If I could be a Magic origin human form Warshade with orange glows coming out of my eyes when I used my powers, I'd give it a go. I love how the powers look, I wish Dark powers would get something similar as a visual upgrade one day. But yeah, if you could do triform w/o shapeshifting into set forms but into costume slots that would be *amazing* too.

So you're saying that if I went dark/MM blaster that I could mix and match some stuff into the melee power pools or is there too many awesome things in MM that I'll need (I think there's quite a bit of awesome in that set hehe).

Thug/Dark is appealing to me in a few ways, I'd just have to pick up AS and melee to do something other than shooting while in those "melee" forms. Having an urban posse drawn to him ala Joker would be cool (especially if we could ever customize the minions to look like cheap Halloween costumed criminals). Seems much more modern than fantasy Death Knights that I have currently. /sigh

Good point about the Stalker visibility thing. I feel that pain with my Spring Heeled Jack toon, he looks so cool. When I can see him. :P

I guess I'm limiting it down to Blaster with some Melee stuff, Thugs/Dark MM with some Melee stuff or maybe a Corruptor with Melee stuff - I think the Melee classes are too tough guy for the majority of the forms. Bah. That didn't narrow it down too much. heh

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And watch Doms get Dark control/Dark Melee or some such in November. :P

Because if Doms get bonuses to melee powers in power pools (I forget if they do or not) then that'd be a nice pairing for the overall concept.

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