Creative is probably the wrong term.
Avoiding making a direct Superman copy doesn't require much brainpower.
If you can figure out how to play COX you already are past that level.
Yeah. Tanker might be a tad slow though. Its level 15 iirc so you wouldn't have a lot of primary attacks. (And no rage for SS). Might be 20.
Blaster might be good too, but might be short on survivability at that level solo.
I'm sure Sent/SOA probably would be fine as well.
Tbh if we were redesigning COH
Brutes/scrappers/stalkers would not all exist.
All three are Melee/Defense
There only needs to be one of those.
Too late for that though.
Why is it Brutes supposedly do more AOE? Most of the powersets are shared with scrappers and the AOE attacks are roughly the same.
For most teams you won't need it.
But its a valuable power.
But everyone needs multiple skippable powers so they can get vengeance I guess ... or something.
It is tacky though. Just sayin.
Batman doesn't belong in the Watchmen universe.
Spider Man doesn't belong in TMNT New York.
Superman doesn't belong on Georgorwell.
None of them belong in Paragon City.
No no no.
You warn them way in advamce, so they can exploit moar for a while.
AND lobby to keep the exploit going.
That way you make the problem worse AND increase the drama.
The way they did it, you only get a few diehards complaining, and everyone else just shrugs.
Huge difference between dressing up as a character from a comic book world in the real world.
And making a copy of a comic book character and playing a comic book game with it.
This is just what happens in MMOs.
Not every change will be what you personally want.
They can't realistically support both changes and not making changes in some kind of progression matrix.
So I'm gonna have to vote for my friend jranger on this one.