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What to pair with Mind/Thermal controller

DMystic

By DMystic,
Posted on: 2011-12-21 15:35 in Archetypes and Powers General Discussion

 

Posted

Ok,so I have a friend trying the game and I want him to stick around.
He went ahead and made a Mind/Thermal Controller and I'm wondering what can compliment his character without overshadowing it. This is going to be on Hero side so SoAs are out and I have an aversion to Tankers. Any ideas?

Also I want to avoid TW, StJ and Beam Gun as I don't have the sets and I'm not ready to buy any of em.

 

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Easily a Scrapper. I just love Controlling for Scrappers. I think thats a gorgeous to have duo. I would control vast numbers while a Scrapper deals with them, whatever breaks for me that I can't control a Scrapper could save for sure with a confront. If your friend picks thermal then you could go Fire/Fire or for something more layerable /SR. From a Controllers perspective Scrappers are my favourite team mate. Another Controller might just overshadow, a Blaster might not help in covering certain holes as well, Scrappers are better at raw DPS...or you could go Brute but then for furys sake you would be tempted to be controlling perhaps too much anyway and with your friends buffs have alittle too much survivability losing a bit of the "how did we survive that" excitement. Make ya friend work abit and be needed.

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Scrapper definitely.

Your friend won't be providing any psi mitigation, but will be providing healing. You'll be bringing the bulk of the damage.

This probably works very well with Shield Defence. You dont have a self heal, but your friend can heal you. You have some basic resistance which gets boosted to the godly realm by thermal shields. You have an aggro aura that allows you to tank.

The only problem I can see is your friend feeling overshadowed once you get Shield Charge. Although run in, soak aggro and saturate Against All Odds, Melt Armor, Shield Charge will be pretty cool.

Primaries - take your pick.