What's your favorite powerset?
By
Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2012-02-06 13:06 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Dark Miasma
Dark Melee
Time Manipulation
Psychic Assault
Electric Control
On again off again with Dark Blast (Defender/Corruptor version).
Love/Hate Gravity. I want to love it on theme alone, but I absolutely hate it's poor performance. (No, the Beta changes don't really fix this.)
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Invulnerability.
Close second: Martial Arts.
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Archery.
Regeneration with toggle IH. 
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martial arts. also most likely to have a embarrassing typo when spelling.
Plant controll!
I seriously can't grow bored of it now matter how many different characters i make that use it, it's so versatile, it has awesome powers and it looks as good as it works.
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Willpower is my favouritest shield set.
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Primaries:
Scrappers: Dual Blades; it's just such a freakin' beautiful ballet of death.
Brutes: Electricity; teleporting while riding lightning and doing massive damage.
Blasters: Fire; because of the snipe alone. OMG.
Stalker: Ninja Blade; sneaky thrill-killer.
Tanker (secondary, I know): Energy Melee; wham, bam, go to jail, ma'am.
Defender: Kinetics; talk like a god, walk like a god.
Probably a tie between Dual Blades and Blaster Fire for all-time fave.
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That's hard, but I have to say that Storm holds a special place for me. These days, Time makes me happy. For Melee: Dual Blades (I love how athletic and dancey it is) or Earth Assault (SMASH!!!!)...still out on that one.
Yeah, I seem to have the most fun right now with my Earth/Earth Dominator and my Plant/Time Controller.
- Ashley
[Rocker Girl (Earth/Earth Dom); Sweet Venom (Plant/Time Ctrl)]
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Originally Posted by Vitality
Super Strength
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- Ashley
[Rocker Girl (Earth/Earth Dom); Sweet Venom (Plant/Time Ctrl)]
Illusion Control. Or Claws.
Fire Melee, /INV, and Katana. DM is getting up there too.
Umbral Blast, Umbral Aura, Fiery Aura.
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After all the times we've teamed together...that hurts...
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Originally Posted by AshleyHudson
And all this time I thought you were Street Justice. Oops! What a shameful friend I am. =/
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I neglected to mention my Honorable Mention powerset: Gravity Control
As a concept I fricking LOVE telekinesis. Rachel Summers was my favorite character growing up in the 80's with her particularly direct and aggressive applications of the power and when I was in COH beta the first character I made was a gravity controller/FF controller.
And in seven years I haven't made another. I got caught up in numbers and boom, moving from my first 50, a blaster, to an Illusion/Rad controller (I wanted to kill AV's all by myself), and an ice/kinetic corruptor, to a regen scrapper, and now my current obsession with Brutes and Tankers. I tried to subsume my psi obsession into my Fortunata, but...it did not feel right. My Fortunata felt like Superman to me and I couldn't get beyond it.
So after seven years I finally made a FF/Grav and thanks to the good folks on VIRTUE he is a blast to play and level up. He's not as self sufficient as my brutes (especially my current one) and Fortunatus, but he's my pure concept telekinetic and I love playing him on teams, which since I'm finally actively searching out teams instead of falling into them out of necessity, makes all of the difference of why it took till now to finally make one and play to 50.
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I know! /shame
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Originally Posted by Vitality
After all the times we've teamed together...that hurts...
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- Ashley
[Rocker Girl (Earth/Earth Dom); Sweet Venom (Plant/Time Ctrl)]
I've been testing out a lot of different powersets recently and so far the one I like the best is the one I made my first toon with, Super Strength.
Im not quite sure why its my favourite, as I really like playing with powers that aren't close combat, but I just cant seem to detach myself from SS. Maybe because its the powerset I made my first toon with, or maybe its just the cool red animation that I customised my power with.
Dual pistols. My DP/Traps defender is so much fun to play.
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Whatever I am playing at the time.
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Originally Posted by Blood Red Arachnid
It is really hard to pick just one set, since there are so many fun ones. I've only tried out a few sets, too, so this is all subject to change. Right now, my two favorites are Gravity Control and Storm summoning. But not together.
... Storm control has a similar set of toolbox powers. But the thrill of storm summoning isn't the particular usefulness of the powers, but the feel of the powers. When you let lose Hurricane and Tornado and Lightning Storm, you just feel like you're indestructible. Though those powers can be a tad bit annoying for a group, they both feel powerful and are powerful. Hurricane can easily be slot for enough -tohit to let you tank as a troller. Tornado can either scatter aggro and mez enemies, or it can do a ton of damage when paired with -KB or against EBs and AVs. Lightning storm throws enemies about, does damage surprisingly quickly, and can even mez when paired with the right procs. Combine that with Freezing Rain and Steamy Mist, and to enemy groups the Storm troller/defender/dom must look like the angel of death. |
i LOVE storm. half my toons are storm, i cant help it. i play ranged/support/control and i somehow end up coming back to /storm despite it filling all my slots already. i just wish gale [and force bolt for that matter] had a tiny tiny bit more dmg. but what evs. now i'm just waiting for a wind blast set to pair with it instead of ice or sonic. dark control/storm will be my new love.
otherwise i play doms and /thorn is AMAZEBALLS. but not spines, it just isnt the same to me :/
With 125+ characters I play them all, but for sheer awesomeness and feeling truly super it has to be Storm.
My Storm/Ice offender is about the only defender I play regularly, and he is an uber-tank (thanks to Hurricane) calling down the wrath of god on his enemies who are usually too busy flying through the air and picking themselves up off the ground to ever hit back.
My Stormies don't get to unleash their full power often on teams, but when the pancake hits the fan and the team starts dropping like flies, Hurricane, Tornado and Lightning Storm keep my stormie alive and clear out the bad guys long enough for everyone to rez and jump back into it to fight whatever is left.
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