Dark/Emp or something else? - Trying to pick powers for a ghost
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Darth_Khasei,
Posted on: 2012-05-12 10:26 in Controllers
Emp is a pretty busy secondary. Having played a mind/emp to 50, I'd rather pair it with a more passive primary such as ice. And it is indeed fairly useless when solo.
Maybe storm? It has 02 boost, and you can negate all the knockback with living shadows. While you can't make it a dark color scheme, you might be able to make it look ectoplasmy.
Go Ill/Dark and don't even look back it is perfect for your theme.
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Dark/Rad would solve most of your issues and you can color your rad powers to fit your theme.
Edit - add in the concealment pool for Stealth and Phase shift and you "flesh out" you ghost theme.
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Thanks for the responses everyone! I hadn't actually given /Rad any consideration at all; but I've decided to give it a shot. I was unusually impressed at how well I could make it look by turning it turqouise and dark.
So we'll see if I stick with that or reroll yet again <'x'> hopefully I can stick with it.
@Darth_Khasei - I should have mentioned >_< I had tried Illusion at one point and it was close but not quite what I wanted. Dark and Gravity end up being pretty much 'on the mark' for me, with Getting the win by a hair.
Thanks again all!
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I'm not even locked down to the powers in the title, I'm just tossing around ideas because I have never been happy with this particular character's powers. >< I've rerolled her at least half a dozen times and it's getting to where I just want to lock something down and be happy with it.
Dark/Emp - My thoughts here are it fits the "Friendly Ghost" theme I'm after; Dark I've heard is a good control set, and I love the animations for it, so that's a big plus - and Empathy lets me heal and buff, which is something I generally like doing.
The only things stopping me from just doing this are -
1) Fortitude - I know it's one of Empathy's big features, and I like to be a good team mate so naturally I'd want to be able to spread it around as much as possible. The problem is given the short duration it looks like I'd be re-casting it pretty much constantly. Is it as obnoxious as I'm thinking to keep Fort up on multiple people?
2) Solo play - I'd rather group with this character anyway, but I can't always find a group when I'm on (I tend to play at off-peak times); Empathy isn't exactly known for being a good soloing set and controllers start out pretty painful to solo as is. I've heard it gets better, but I've never taken one above 25 thus far.
Dark/Dark - An obvious choice and one I'd probably go with as an alternative except that I hate Shadowfall - or rather more specifically I dislike the cloud it places at your feet. It just bugs the crap out of me. I'm also not keen on Fade visually - not that it doesn't look cool, but between that and Shadowfall it's sort of hard to see your own costume.
It also lacks direct heals, which while not essential does (imo) hurt the concept just a bit. I'm willing to put up with that, but less happy with the other elements.
On the other hand it would be a lot stronger when forced to solo, there's no constantly spamming one buff except the occasional AOE. Visually it's also a good match for Dark Control (naturally), so there's that too.
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Ultimately I'm open to all kinds of ideas; I'm just stuck trying to pick a secondary I'm going to actually enjoy both playing and conceptually.
<x.x> So yeah, if you've got an idea, I'd be happy to hear it.
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