Aeroprism

While that is absolutely true, what I meant first and foremost was: you get PA at 32. You'll arguably need a few slots in it to make it perma and worth using. I don't want to trudge trough the game with a character that will only become fun so late. The subtile difference between "Ill/Storm is godly once you have Perma-PA but such a drag to get there" and "Ill/Storm is fun all along but when you get Perma PA, it becomes a riot" The first 10 levels go by super fast but for everything that comes after... I don't farm and I dont PL. Nothing against people who do so but to me, this is a journey game, not an endgame game. I just don't want to wait forever to start enjoying my character. Sorry for being so picky 🙂

Plant/Storm and Fire/Storm both look very sexy. I have a Grav/Kin actually. Maybe I should give him a chance. As for getting to Perma-PA, this is precisely what I'n trying to avoid. I want the game to be fun before it's over 🙂

Hello again beautiful people! This game keeps treating me so well, I don't think I'm ever gonna leave. SO thanks to your recent advice, I have brought a Elec/Time controller to her mid 20s, I play her exclusively with my friends and while she is almost unsoloable, she is absolutely insane when its time to make criminals into kittens. Now that I have had a taste of control, I want to experiment the other end of the spectrum. What's a few suggestions for the ultimate solo controller? I was thinking Dark/Storm but I am quite opened to suggestions. Edit: Oh and, so we're clear, I don't expect a controller to be soloable at level 6, but I don't want something that becomes viable at 50 with a build that will cost me my firstborn. Maybe something that I will be able to actually use while there is still game content for me to play 😉 Thanks in advance!!

Well, I wanted to ask a question for my first sentinel. Then I read this beautiful, beautiful topic. I no longer have a question. Seriously, this should be done for all ATs. What an absolutely awesome source of data. You guys are seriously awesome. Gonna go roll my Beam/Electric Sentilel RIGHT NOW!

Excellent stuff! Thank you so much!! Travel powers can wait rather late, Sprint + Ninja Run is surprisingly effective as a ghetto-travel power.

Thank you @Sovera. I'm still rusty so I'm going to have a few quick questions about the build. I noticed you picked Flight over Leaping, even though leaping has some nice KB management in. I assume it's because you can put sets in Flight and not in Leaping? I also noticed you deliberately skipped the last fire power. Why? isn't it good? Thanks for pointing your guide out but by the time you did so, I had already read it voraciously, such good info! Thanks!

That would be extremely awesome!!

Good, good. I think I stopped my choice on fire/staff. Do we have the option of completely hiding single power effects now? The Blazing aura pulse effect really irritates me even with dark flames at the darkest of colors.

Oh my God Staff Fighting looks SO MUCH FUN!

Hello beautiful people! I used to have a tanker on live but I don't think the character reached above level 25 so I can't even remember the powersets. So here I am, looking to try a few combinations but asking for your expert opinion beforehand. I want a tank that's fun to play, involving. I don't intend to solo it so solo-capable is not an issue. So, let's check primaries: Unless convinced otherwise, I'm interested in Dark, Electric, Fire and Ice. I don't care for the look of Bio and Stone. I have played Shield, Rad and Invul on scrappers so I'd like to try something else and, SF and Will just don't look very reliable. For secondaries, I'm a lot more flexible. I would just avoid Rad and possible Elec because I already love them to death on my current scrappers. So, tell me about those delicious combos!

Self reliance is sexy!

What's Ouro. I swear I've played this game before, 😕

Find contact + teleport to contact. This game is just gold. Thank you so much.

My character is 16 and she was directed to a generic contact. Well, I`ll follow the generics a while.

Hello again beautiful people! Been enjoying this fabulous homecoming quite a lot in the last 10 days since I joined. Quick question: Though most of my playtime was in group, I do have a solo scrapper I play to slowly enjoy the new story arcs but after I was done with Eagle Eye and the Back Alley Brawler mission (after the Veles arc), I could no longer find any new story arc contact, only old-school regular ones. Please tell me that the new awesome story arks don't just end there and then.

Thank you for your suggestion, and I see your point. Perhaps another primary would suit best for a first corruptor. I've never played a fire/ anything. Might be time to see what the legend is all about. So besides Fire/kin, what works?

Hello beautiful people. I want to try my hand at red side with a corruptor. It will have to have some solo capability because my friends are not at all interested by red side. So what goes well with the psychic damage blast set? It doesn't seem popular at all, is it even reliable? Talk to me, tell me all the beautiful corruptor facts!

Not really from an NPC, but at this point, it's almost the same: On live, so long ago, we (a group of 6-7 friends) were just running through Perez Park on our way to a mission. One of my friend was playing a Fire/Fire blaster with an Efreet concept (So a muscular, tall and red-skinned genie-dude). Another player , much higher level than us just super-sped by us, slowing down just a tiny second to look at us and said this gem... "You rock my world red man! Don't do drugs!" ...and then sped away in the distance. We still remember and laugh about it today. I wonder if this player knows how deeply he inflluenced out lives 🤣

And that's exactly what I did 🙂 How is hover these days? Can it be used in tandem with swift (enhanced with flight speed) to move around in instances or is it still a ridiculous crawl?

Electric it is. Just for the sleep patch. This is pure awesome. Also, our current group has a robot/electric Mastermind and an storm/electric Defender, so power drainage is definitely doable! Looks like Vicky is gonna get some love!

Thank you for the replies. To answer properly: @Rathulfr Simple answer really: time constraint. While I predict I will still be around when my playing friends are done (they change games rather often), I'd like to find something I can stick with rather soon-ish. But your suggestion is perfectly sensible though. @oedipus_tex I'm not worried about not doing damage with this character. I want pure control so I can allow the others to do damage as much as they like without having to worry about aggro and overpulls.

Back when I used to play on live, I always wanted to try my hand at a controller. So now that this place has given me a second CoH life, I jumped on the occasion. I've spend two days looking at powers and I must confess, the decision was hard, especially from the perspective of a person used to blast and scrap. I rolled two and played them both to level 10. Vic Vector, (Gravity/Kinetics). I'm not even sure I like this one. What should I expect in later levels? I know that kinetics is a big deal but grav looks very lackluster for now. Vicky Volts (Electric/Time). This was arguably a lot more fun but I seem to draw a lot more aggro than I like, even with a Tanker on board. The powers are fun to look at and the hold potential of this combo is nothing to sneeze at (One AOE, two Single Targets and one other potential proccing AOE). At any rate, how are my choices? Anything else worth recommending? I don't want to do damage, I want to control and support. I do not intend to solo them, they are made to play with as many players as possible, always. Can't wait to read your thoughts!

See? My topic helped 🙂 So I've been here three or four days now. My overwehelming enthusiasm managed to convince 4 of my ex-CoH Veteran friends to jump back in with me and it's been three full evenings of mayhem in a row. Wow. This place is seriously amazing. And yesterday we discovered the cell shader; it makes the game into so much more! So although this topic was originally about servers, is it against forum etiquette if I use it to ask a thousand more unspecific questions or is there a place for that? No sense starting a thread every time I have a simple question.

Sooo awesome! Thank you so much!

So far she's been... ... ... a blast. 🤪