High_Beam

This right here. She still does cape and aura and I can think of nobody better. She's seen them all come in and out.

Job Site Supervisor - Mistress Josephene.

Synapse still demands their use! Obey Synapse! The fastest man in Paragon City wants you to run around and check call boxes! Obey!

Thank you Simone.

Clearly there is a Greek Mythology thing going there as it is all over with the Warriors. Golden Fleece, Plato's Books, Kraken. SO factoring out a Pandora's Box which is in Talos already and a City of Gyros, there could be some fun Greek themed silliness. Maybe a restaurant called Oedipus Tex-Mex, Spartan Furniture (word play is fun!), Olympic Tan. Man I could do this all day.

Respect!

OMG the DP and any arrow combination! The constant weapon swapping would make me pull my hair out, and hurt myself . . . with matches.

Back in the day when I was a Sophomore in High School I had a History teacher named Mister Mentzer (RIP) who also taught the fledgling computer science class (this was 1985) and he had a thing called the Swingline Disk Lock which he never explained until he caught a student bringing in a 5 /14 floppy with a C64 program called Artillery on it. He confiscated it and then proceeded to slam 25 staples into the disk, rendering it useless (though the first staple would have been enough). It was a Swingline stapler and suddenly I understood.

Once you learn how to play it, it is actually quite fun and not underpowered.

I have a lot of characters and try to cycle through them regularly and they all deliver unto me a degree of fun (otherwise I would just delete them) but there are a few that I always go back to even though they are level 50 and the amount of content they haven't done is dwindling. Runeslinger is a DP/Atomic Blaster who my badger so there is always an interesting dynami going on. She isnt as srong as my other two DP Blacsters but becuase of that there is more action. Di Di Guns is my DP/MC Blaster and is super crazy fun to play and I tend to RP a little with her as well adding to the fast and frantic fun. Probably my favorite still as she was my first 50 on HC. As a bonus (for ego sake) I get a lot of positive feedback on how she fights. But recently the one that has become a blast to play because of the absolute frantic battle style is Boom Boom Britta, my DP/Kin Corruptor. OMG the sheer volume of SCOURGE alerts alone in a fight makes me tingly. Its like a superball with guns. Very fun.

That's how Clamor keeps those fishnets held up.

Someone needs to check the Web Devs for signs of a stroke.

Until HC I almost exclusively ran ranged types; (original) hero flavor, Blasters and Controllers. Conversely that is where I am both most comfortable and experienced. I had a single tank and Scrapper but didn't like melee so never ran up a Brute and hated the concept of a Stalker. I had a few Defenders as well as a Corruptor and an Mastermind but never a Dom (I hated obsessing over perma-dom . . . I got beter). It just wasn't me at the time. I also had an Arachnos Soldier, boring. Anyway when I found out about HC and made my promise to do different and new stuff, I made a few Brutes and a Widow and I was like wow, these are cool. Tried Dominator and Stalker . . . yeah I will play them but meh; still no like. But I still rolled more Blasters and Controllers. So my toolbox toons, are the ones I play the most and find have the most to offer a team, regardless of composition. Most of the time a tool box toon is one that isn't stuck doing things from just one power set. But they have to be fun. I have plenty of very utilitarian characters parked in semi-perma retirement because of the absence of that. - Di Di Guns/Runeslinger/Two Gun Trixie - All Dual Pistols Blasters with MC, Atomic and Ninjas respectively. All Blappery with strong strong survivability and loads of fun. TGT lays the best damage while Runeslinger has a lot of support in the mix and Di Di, well come one, she is freaking awesome. They can fit into any team and are rarely on the concrete/carpet. - Betty Beatdown - Awesome tank (Inv/EM), built specifically to be a full function, full armor tank even while doing low level flashback/TF. She is a machine and it makes me tingly. I can insert her anywhere in anything and she is gold. Of course Damage lacking at low levels but that was the point. I hold aggro, the rest of you shoot. I have a Brute Highland Hammer who is also pretty damn good (Mace/Elec) - Boom Boom Britta - Corruptor DP and Kin so everyone loves them some Boom. Such a toolbox toon with all the Kin stuff yet also a blast to play and can dish it out. FS and Hail then cleanup makes for secksi time. I mean solo or team she can handle it. Set IOs make her even better. - Tempus Fabulous - Controllers are by default toolboxes to me but Tempus is my fav with her Gravity and Time. So much variety in action and so team helpful. Yeah. Most of my other controllers dont feel as helpful and fun - My Widow, Operative Violet - Hard to hit, hard to hurt, lays out damage, lockdown and team buffs - The very definition of a tollbox toon. Forgot how fun she was to play until I ran her on some TF/SFs.

Use your outdoor voice 🙂 Nobody can understand faint hissed curses and that horrid eastern European accent, you damn near need subtitles to read English.

Back on live when CoV was released I created Low Beam, explained as High Beam (my bestest main) from another dimension (before going Rogue, got idea from Maria Jenkins Arc). It was . . . meh. In my private fiction writing, several of my characters have Nexus Counterparts from other dimensions. I have a propensity for doing the long lost twin/sibling/offspring/relative thing with my HC characters, kind of like remaking the ones from live but acting as if live was an alternate dimension and some escaped before the dimension blipped out.

I cannot speak for others but I have played since live and I have never, ever bought an inspiration. Also there are some I simply burn if I cannot sell, orange, small rez, small acc, even at lowbie levels. Defense, Mez, larger rez, rarely damage or acc (situational) but they do get used. The P2W decline small is awesome.

What ees happening?

I run a SB/Rad Blaster and have great fun with her and find no real problems with being able to deal with trouble. As has been said several times, the key is knowing how its uniqueness works and how to use it properly. Sure there are areas for improvement but again, as several have said here, there are other sets that are way more long in the tooth that could use some attention. Its new, it's gimmicky at times and I love it because it isn't just a copy-->paste-->reskin and rename power.

SLEEEEEP!!!!

That's cool, if they do something to it, that's cool too. All I am saying is that many of the powers are useful and players do take them and the set is not totally broken. I am not trying to convert anyone in either direction.

Oh man, I hate when I paint myself in a corner like that.

Or if you want to play solo, get back on the tram and choose Steel Canyon South. From there you can street hunt your way north gradually seeing foes level up until you reach your toons ability limit. Plus unlike Skyway City it is relatively flat.

No I mean Dark/Dark. I totally use everything there except Smite, Shadow Maul and Midnight Grasp (as I said no melee). Soul Drain goes off just before I Blackstar their asses. Touch of Beyond is fundamentally spammed. In team furballs I am wading in and firing Dark Consumption. But from Range in addition to all of the Dark Blast goodness there is Penumbral Grasp with its -Tohit and Dark Pit for disorient. So many wonderful tools to work with. Now I don't fire off the Shroud that often due to it being an aggro magnet, but when the team has the enemy busy, sure its on doing a little (though I am tempted to dump it for something, I just havent looked hard at it)

I have a Dark/Dark Blaster on Excelsior called Auntie Umbra and I have great fun playing her. I like others did not take the melee powers and built her to be more of a ranger and her set allows that. Oh sure I will in close for some Dark Consumption and Blackstar action but mostly, at range doing my darkity dark dark thing. I am not super detail numbers guy, I generaly comment based on how my character feels when I play and I have very little to complain about as it stands with the powers available as they are now. I find her more robust than other Blasters.