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My most interesting (and fun) combination would probably have to be radiation armor/savage melee - lots of recharge and sustained damage, but lacking in the "burst" category.

It still strikes me as odd that they never updated his powers to be those of a Nictus.

I'm not going to use the spoiler tags within this thread, as I put a warning in the title. That being said, and even accounting for the cryptic, (no pun intended), note left in the crate on the final mission, just how did Requiem get his forces back to Cimerora? Since we clearly have to use an Aspect of the Pillar to travel through time, did he get a hold of one as well? If so, where is that one? It doesn't seem like he could sneak in and use the Midnighter's one, and I doubt he assaulted or snuck through on in Ouroboros. Is the note implying he used one from another dimension? If so, wouldn't that only bring them to that dimension's version of Cimerora, or can the Aspects be brought between dimensions? It is stated Requiem or Romulus were planning to invade the modern day, but by what means? Summary of the ITF from the Unofficial Wiki The note I'm referring to: "Dear Character... While time traveling into the past, you visit Cimerora and in a crate you find a hand written letter addressed to Character... Did you think I wouldn't find you? You were sly, using an Aspect of the Pillar that wasn't linked to Ouroboros. Did you ever stop to think where Montague may have acquired that crystal? Or how? I apologize. This letter was not meant for harsh words or recriminations. I merely meant to remind you that I can find you...anytime, anyplace, anywhere. That is all. Who am I? I know you have been asking yourself that question for a time now. Am I Requiem? Am I Silos? Am I...you, perhaps? You may even be asking yourself which one of those people I am. Have you ever met Praetorian Earth Requiem? He doesn't go by that name, of course, in case you were wondering. Have you, perchance, met the shadow version of yourself? What about the version of Mender Silos from Faathim's reality? It is a paradox. Try not to think about it. But again, my train of thought wanders. I'm writing you to tell you that, as surprising as it might sound, Mender Silos and his time traveling cohorts are actually succeeding in delaying the coming storm. Note, I didn't say preventing. There is still hope. Because of their actions, and likely yours as well, it may be sometime before I can truly extend my hand to you in kinship. There is other work in other places for us to do. As much as I enjoy these letters, I'm sure you will understand that we have more pressing matters to attend. So, for now, I bid you farewell. As always, look for me in the crystal."

The occult cape, from the "high collar" back option is one of my favorite pieces to use, particularly for the quilting it has on the inside. Not only would I love to have the as-is version ported over to females, but I'd also love a version without the skull & cross on the outside made available to the regular cape categories as well! Thanks for reading! Heck, a double-sided quilted version would also be cool.

Yawn..... Insert "anyone who doesn't think like me is a bigot" nonsense. Are you gonna call anyone that disagrees with you a "Yahtzee", next? 🙄

Dominators are probably the AT I have the least amount of experience with. I was looking to get into them a bit more, but at the same time I don't want to revisit any sets I've already played. To that end, I rolled a dark/energy dominator. I'm not looking to worry about perma-domination just yet, as I'm not even sure I'm going to stick with them. Is there any general advice you kind and experienced folks can provide for a combination such as this. Thanks!

That one's really great! Especially love how you combined the chest armor and witch tights!

Regen simply cannot "no-sell" incoming attacks from groups of enemies like someone with layered defenses can. Maybe regen for melee ATs could use some absorb, like how sentinels get. That, and hefty helping of resistance to slows, end drain, and the like...

No matter how many options they give you, it'll be restrictive to *someone*. There's also no reason they couldn't have masculine women or feminine men, without them necessarily using the other body type or different pronouns. No need to go to the extreme of Jessica Rabbit or Johnny Bravo...

Imagine that the options were instead to choose Catholic or Baptist, and that decision factored into the gameplay to some degree, (for instance assuming your character was a devout follower). Would you be happy with that, or would you prefer such assumptions about your character be left out?

Then I don't think you understand what "escapism" means. The pronoun part is a red herring, and only a tiny part of his rant.

IMO, it's more about the "you put your RL in my escapism" part.

East-coast night-owl here, but best of luck with your search!

OP, have you considered Earth Manipulation? It has some very handy tool to keep enemies at range, or make them at least regret getting close.

Generally speaking, if you go from a weapon attack to a non-weapon one, you put your weapons away, (the only exceptions I can think of are brawl or the origin attacks). At the same time, and from my understanding, the redraw time is included in the attack animation, so whether you have the weapon drawn already or not, the actual attack will still take the same amount of time to animate.

Here's a slight recolor, with more of a dull white coloration on the bone parts and weapons: barbarian concept4.costume

I kind of went with more of a barbarian/low fantasy vibe, but I think it can be easily argued that he updated or adapted his look a little bit as time went on: barbarian concept2.costume

No, but they do get willpower, which beyond boosting resists and providing some defense, also boosts regeneration.

AFAIK, there is a human-form equivalent of all Nova/Dwarf attacks/abilities, so a toggle that replaces your costume with either a different one or one of some pre-selected ones, (assuming those use a humanoid form), shouldn't be too difficult...

I look at it like this: Since you are playing a duo, you want a more generalized pool of abilities to draw from. To that end, you want damage, buffs/debuffs, and a way to keep the enemies' attention. Defenders have the greatest buff/debuff values, but lose some damage as a result. A corruptor is in a sweet spot, having a bit more damage while still retaining good buff/debuff values. A brute can certainly fill the role of keeping the enemies' attention while dealing good damage, but their inherent, (fury), also means that you want to keep moving and fighting, which may make you reckless and less strategic/more likely to get in over your head. A tanker has better defensive values and aggro-management abilities, so they're the safer option. I tend to prefer controllers over dominators, since they have controls and buffs/debuffs, rather than more attacks, but that's just me. A controller/brute could fair quite nicely so long as the controller knows who to lock down, where best to apply their buffs/debuffs, and the brute goes after the "problem" enemies first.

Cut the required mats for sub-25 generic IOs to only 1-2 pieces, slash their crafting cost in inf, and that should help a bit. The issue, beyond that, is people looking at 50+, or even purple IO sets and using those as the baseline. Another part of the issue, IMO, is getting hung up on the per cent increase vs the absolute increase. For instance, going from 1% to 2% is a "huge" 100% increase, but in an absolute sense it doesn't really mean much. There's also a bit of an "illusory" notion of lower level IOs being less useful because a level 20 SK'd up to 49 still can't hit reliably against those +5 enemies they're up against. Really, it's a matter of someone's subjective experience, and rather than understand the reasons why they are missing so much or getting hit all the time, they'd rather be PL'd to 50, farm for cash to fully kit themselves out, then complain that there's nothing to do...

Well, do you 2 want to be somewhat dependent on each other, or independent and simply working side-by-side? If you want the former, maybe something like a fire/thermal corruptor and an ice/ice tanker. If the latter, maybe an ice/ice and fire/fire sentinel.

I assume it means slotting as many of these enhancements with special effects in order to maximize both your survivability and damage-dealing capability. For instance, slotting taunt with the perfect zinger and triumphant insult special IOs can make it into an AoE damage/disorient ability.

I gotta be honest - I have very little interest in the clean sci-fi aesthetic, (outside of the more farcical/satirical take found in Portal 1&2), not to mention the world doesn't seem to have very much character to it. Fallout 76 has let me down as of these last few months, but CoH is more than enough for me for the time being...

Kinda seems more like he'd be a necro/pain/soul mastermind... On a somewhat related note, I tend to weigh concept over actual effectiveness, so if you want to stick to blasters, maybe dark blast? Also, I rather like the earth manipulation or devices secondaries, so give them a look...