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While no one can predict what someone else would do, it sounds like you have a firm concept that you're building for, so go for it!. I will say though, the shields on Cold accept both Resistance and Defense IOs, and therefore are great places to slot the unique IOs including the Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge one.

A possible runner up: Grav/ Dark for Dimension Shift and Black Hole? And don't forget Leviathan Mastery for Waterspout and Hibernate to give you time to type in chat 🙂

Radiation Armor/ Battle Axe would be my suggestion. Excellent Armor and the Shovel weapon customization you desire.

Martial Combat - Ki Push often has some up angle to the target's flight path. As an added bonus the target does the hilarious windmilling animation. As a side bonus, Martial is also awesome for other reasons.

Superspeed (colored blue/ white) with Super Jump (minimal FX). Super Jump comes with Double Jump. With Double Jump on, you can get a lot of fly/ glide motion. However, it will time out, and you'll and up landing, but you'll still be Super Speeding, and still zipping along.

If only he was actually Squirrel based, maybe people would like him more 🙂

Epic 🙂

I have an AR/TA/Mace Blaster (sheathed weapons ahoy!!) that I recently leveled from 1-50 villain side with my super group. I used Electrified Net Arrow into the 30's and respecced into Glue Arrow with Proc slotting similar to Tidge's above. Especially when fighting Longbow, the area -fly of Glue arrow was more useful than a single target immobilize. The proc damage worked well for me on cast, just as described above. I slotted Oil Slick Arrow with a 5-pack of Bombardment, mostly to get the range bonuses (I also have Bombardment in Flamethrower and Ignite). In addition to the soft control and the big fire, Oil Slick Arrow is a favorite of mine because of the idiosyncrasies of Location AoE powers, allowing me to shoot up through balconies, or onto stairwells, etc. After leveling this character, I think Tactical Arrow is my current favorite Blaster Secondary.

I like them a lot! Make sure you have the "Pets" window open. One you have it open, summon a pet. Then set the controls to "Advanced Mode" When you have your Lore Pets out, make sure you set them to "Aggressive". That will minimize them standing around. keep an eye on their health bars. As a Tanker, you can click on them and Taunt through them to take aggro off them.

Knives of Vengeance Core are my go-to for DPS Lore Pets that aren't huge. You get two Winged (sadly non-flying) ladies, one with Swords and one with Pistols.

Yes. Check it out here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/forum/30-base-construction/

It just says "Call", not that you have to talk to anyone. Call the number, then immediately hang up. Civic duty fulfilled at maximum efficiency!

I made a Fire/Marine/Fire Controller over the weekend, and that combo works really well for me: lots of explosions, knocking things down, fish and tentacles flying everywhere, and buffed-up fire imps that survive fights. Also, since fire control has that bit of blue in the power button icons, the UI is very pleasing from a color scheme perspective.

Take a breath. There is more than one way to play. No one person is the sole source of truth. That said, what AT and powersets have you played Marine Affinity on? I made a Fire/Marine/Fire controller over the weekend, and have spent some time summoning Tide Pools, stunning groups with Flashfire, and then Whitecapping into them with my Hot Feet (a PBAoE) running, and buffing everyone in melee (including my Imps) with Toroidal Bubble (a PBAoE) and Power of the Deep (a PBAoE), and applying holds with my Cinders (a PBAoE). Enemies get mezzed and defeated in a fiery, splashy cataclysm. Works great.

Aha. Gotcha. One of the things that excites me about Brine is as a good place to slot the Theft of Essence Proc and however much more of the set the build allows for.

Just curious, how do you have Brine slotted?

Are the crystals floating with the fish in the top part new? I remember crystals around the base from before. Either way they are also in the "Water Only" option, which I'm not a fan of: (Yes they can be made more innocuous if they weren't orange 🙂)

https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Enhancement_Set_Bonuses#The_Law_of_Fives You can only benefit from 5 copies of the same bonus. The fun part is that the Luck of the Gambler +7.5% recharge bonus is its own bonus separate from other +7.5% recharge bonuses. Thankfully no: https://homecoming.wiki/wiki/Limits#Recharge_Rate

Two appearance/ non-number-crunchy pieces of feed back: Barrier Reef appearance: After looking at the power customization options, I do like the "no crystals" option better. Maybe if there are more "coral" art assets that can be harvested from the Coralax golems or elsewhere in the future, I'd turn them on, but as it is, the simple splashy orb of water suit me fine. In-universe, I think of it as a mobile portal or dimensional gateway to a vast reservoir of "barrier reef" energy. Without having seen the Alpha conversations, I wonder if the crystal art assets are why the power had been renamed "Wellspring"? Either way, I wouldn't let this slow down the update. *edit* Oh yeah, legs. If it exists/ could exist in game the perfect leg-based art for Barrier Reef (for me) would be a hermit crab with a coral outcrop on/ as its shell that scuttles along behind me. Whitecap Button appearance: I like the button as is. I feel like the power is unique enough to warrant art that diverges from the power iconography language like Savage Melee's Rending Flurry or Hemorrhage. I do think that making sure the border art is accurate or removed is important. The "surf's up!" art should be enough for folks to recognize the power, and if not, they can right click it for info. Generally, I like what I've seen of Marine Affinity on Controllers, and have already secured names for 3 Marine Affinity characters 🙂

Or knockout blow, with the wind up sound left in: vvvvvvVVVVVVVRRRRRRR *Squeak*

You could just 6-slot Superior Brute's fury in one power, and then 6-slot Superior Unrelenting Fury in a different power. Or am I misunderstanding what you want to do?

Knives of Vengeance Core are my favorites. They don't clutter up the screen, and seem effective in combat, especially when you are controlling aggro and they are not getting attacked directly.

Of course.

My gang has standardized "the line" at 700 yards.

Indom leading the way on post title excellence and correctitude!