TygerDarkstorm

That's a really cool effect you did!

We're in the blaster forums, mate, pretty sure they're looking for a primary to go with the plant blaster secondary. 😜

It's been a while, but I think someone pointed out that it pairs well with beam rifle to make an effective single target AV killer.

I went to bed and an absolutely fabulous discussion happened, lol. 🤣 But seriously, this sort of discussion is what I was looking for. This community is great and super helpful and you all have given me lots of great advice and things to think about.

@TrixieKixx I'll be bringing Environmentabot, Bots/Nature MM

Thanks you guys! This community is so great, and I love seeing what everyone has to offer. 😄

Thank you. I will tag along for some redside fun tomorrow morning 😄

I forget, you run these at the same time we do Theme Team Saturdays, right?

You guys are great; you both gave some really wonderful advice, thank you. 🙂

I suck at making builds, but I've had good luck following this guide from @Camel:

Yeah... I think he would have a hard time with a kheld, lol. And I barely understand the ATs well enough to try and explain them. I have a human form WS, but I still think I'm pretty much a noob when I play her lol, even if she is a lot of fun. xD

I'm not a pro, but from my understanding, Mind/Savage is both fun and effective on a dom. 🙂

I think that is what threw me off, lol. I even kind of wondered if you were saving the space. Doesn't help I've been gone for so long. 😅

Thanks y'all! @Luminara, that's great advice, thank you. I appreciate everyone's opinions on this; this community is great!

Oh whoops! Sorry! 😅

Am I missing something? There's no pics here 😅

Yeah, I was thinking brute or tank, but wanted to see what y'all here would say as well. 🙂

I hope this is the right area for this, but my boyfriend is normally a console, CoD player who has decided that when he returns home from deployment he wants to learn how to play CoH with me. So I'm wondering what would be an ideal archetype for someone who basically has to learn how to game on a computer from the ground up, with me to be on a second character to help him out. Going to level the "long" way with no double xp boosters and such and no sitting in fire farms so he gets a chance to actually experience what the game is like. Thanks in advance for any help/advice.

Agreed! I love seeing what you can get randomly from this; sometimes it's awful, and other times it's so good you're surprised. 🤣

All right then early birds, come join us for Posi!

Where are we meeting at?

My entire numpad is mapped out for MM pet controls, lol. Edit: Also, I try to play my MM's as actively as possible. I do sometimes take the personal attacks, and secondaries like /ElecAff are very busy with quite a few buttons to mash nearly as soon as they're off CD.

If I can get my ass up that early (I'm west coast), I will join as well.

This was a beautifully written and thought-provoking post. I definitely fall somewhere in the middle of the two types of "camps" you discuss in the first half. Not every character I create is intended to be roleplayed; some are just fun fantasies, but this post gives me lots of juicy things to think about. Some characters have sort of a general concept/idea and get created because I got inspired by one thing or another, but they may not really end up with any sort of story. Other characters get a proper bio, and are a bit more thought out in who they are and what their purpose in the world of CoH/V is. Though I have not participated in much roleplay yet in game or on the forums here since I have gotten really nervous/shy about my ability to RP, lol. Your second half of the post really got me. I used to want to make almost every character a magic origin character when I played this game as a teen. As you point out, it's a very easy way to write off a lot of little details about the character and what they can do. And as I have gotten older, I have definitely come to find that a quite boring strategy and not interesting to play or read about. I've actually found tech/science origins to be quite fun for concepts lately; why does my character have the ability to manipulate gravitational forces? Well, this nifty suit/gadget/etc. was carefully developed to allow them to do this (thus giving them a weakness as well that if the suit, gadget, etc. gets damaged, they are then powerless). Thank you for such a beautifully written post and for all of the points to think about. Idk about others, but for me who has been sort of on the fringe of the RP community here (by choice because of my own fear/nerves), this will help guide how I think about the characters I have who I would want to RP with. I love my dragons, creatures, aliens, vampires, etc., but even before this, I have never wanted to portray them in a way that is "god-mode," but again, that comes from growing. I had a borderline Mary Sue character in my beginning RP days and yeah, it's not fun. And as much as I have learned since then, I know there is always still more I can learn. 🙂

I forgot to get a shot of her with the level showing, but I got Teyana to 30 tonight; I will try to edit in a shot of her with the level tomorrow. Staff/Nin is a really fun combo and /Ninjitsu has such a neat toolkit to it that I'd be curious to try other primaries with it.