What sets do you never see anymore?

I'll throw my vote out there for anything/anything stalker above everything else. You just never see them.

hmm, speaking of, I guess I should log on my Energy/ice stalker...

I think Energy Melee is the rarest powerset in my experience. Most people I know with EM characters either deleted them, rerolled them, or transferred them to another server to die.

As far as support sets, Sonic Resonance and Trick Arrow are pretty uncommon... but support in this game is so valuable that neither could be classified as "never seen", at least on Virtue.

My main is an Invulnerability/Ice Melee Tanker, so I'm constantly on the lookout for other Ice Melee users. Seeing one really stands out, though it seems like almost all Ice Melee characters I run into are either Ice/Ice or Fire/Ice. And even those are pretty rare.

Wild Streak - Lv. 50(+3) Beast Mastery/Sonic Resonance Mastermind, Amnesty - Lv. 50 Staff Fighting/Dark Armor Stalker

I don't know every time I feel like I haven't seen a set in a while I end up team with one (go with PuGs a lot though, so I feel like that encourages some less desirable sets). But I'll agree with seeing fewer stalkers, I think that is the only AT I really don't have and don't particularly have a plan on starting one (nothing against them, just not my thing).

But stalkers, emp, arrows, and pain seem pretty few and far between. Does seem like anything that was shiny and new 4-5 issues ago doesn't seem so common now. While the main stays are always around and whatevers new is everywhere.

Have seen a rise of electric sets in general recently. I feel like those used to be pretty rare, but also could just be random that I never saw them around before.

I have to chuckle at the person up-thread who said that this conversation read like his character list... I'm in the same boat, it seems.

I have a sonic/sonic defender, an empath, a whole flock of assorted stalkers, a lot of Dual Blade characters, a war mace tank, a "double dark" blaster, two Trick Arrow characters, several KinMelee types, a Psi blaster, both a FF defender and a ninja/FF mastermind, and a trio of Peacebringers.

That said, it's true that some of them don't come out to play very often. Suzume and Kephren, my FF and Sonic defenders, honestly feel pretty useless on most teams and trial leagues with all the Barriers and other buffs flying around these days. My Trick Arrow defender and corruptor generally seem to be regarded as an underpowered waste of a team slot, and we all know what "players at large" tend to think of stalkers and peacebringers... Though mine have all done pretty well for themselves running iTrials.

The oddest bird in my crew isn't any of those guys, though... It's Tamlin, the Archery/Ice blaster I have over on Exalted. I've never seen another character with that combination, and I seem to get a lot of comments on how unusual he is whenever I play him.

Otherwise, I can count on one hand the number of Assault Rifle players I've seen in the last couple of years... I rarely see Ax tanks, either. (Even though, again, I have one myself- )

If I were a betting man, I'd lay money on Assault Rifle being the least used.

Ice Control: And this is the rarest pet. Ice Control's lower damage output has put it on the level of "stay away from this" for trollers, and doms usually take something else. Which is unfortunate since I get a kick out of Ice Slick.

Ice Armor: With all the cold domination out there, I'm not sure if I've ever seen one of these, either.


Really, a lot of the powers in the game fall into the rare category IMO.[/QUOTE]


Just for the record I currently play my Ice/Ice/ice/ (tier 4 cryonic radial jugment ) dominator. (also i use tier 4 polar lights incarnate pets)

I do use ice armor from the ice mastery pool and love using sleet and ice storm for extra area debuffing and dmg.
I agree i dont see many playing ice much but its lots of fun!
give it a try! You will be surprised at how much dmg you bring to the fight!

One thing I haven't seen around much lately is Beam Rifle. I saw one on a TF today and I'm pretty sure it's the first one I've seen in weeks. I still see a lot of Time Manipulation and Street Justice, which came out about the same time, but hardly any Beam Rifle lately.

I never see enough Sonic Ressonance players besides me. I never have, and I never will. Every time I randomly see one it's a treat, a special little achievment for the day. I see more Trick Arrow toons than I do Sonic Ressonance, and I don't think it's an exaggeration to call it the least played Buff set... even behind Poison.