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I think he already does - he just has undead simulacrums he sends out on his behalf! 😉

I'd like to create a solo-only, ranged sniping monster, so Energy naturally pops up. Blasters have EA for the secondary to help with this of course, but what would be a good/comparable Corruptor secondary...Kinetics?

@UltraAlt - confusion is one of the main weapons in the Dom's arsenal! 😉 (yes, I was just (mis)quoting Groucho Marx for shits n giggles 😉

Cheers, what does Psi bring to the table that Stone can't - Psi resists...? I'd also like to know if the Stealth pool power is worth taking on top of Hide. I'd like to make a theme stalker that only takes out the bosses to complete all levelling missions as quickly as possible. I plan to pair it with Mystic Flight, as I don't love SS or SJ or pure Fly-ing for indoor missions. The translocate from MF is such a great addition to the basic flight, I take it on almost all my toons now, I just add 1 flight SO/IO and 1 end red. I can backstab a boss/lieutenant and just TP back up out of range into a hover, with just one keybind, if I want to. 🙂

I might have to give an EM stalker a go now I think! 🙂 What would be the best secondary for solo levelling and survivability...?

As a dominator, I could never team with anyone that would want to team up with me! 😉

My best and most survivable solo blaster on HC has been a dark/ninja, so I def agree about Shinobi! Add perma Kuji-In Toh and that's most of what you need from Ninja! (I built a mostly ranged hover blaster, so yes, I'm one of those... 😉 ---- I'm also going to give my ice/dark corr a fair shake, as Snarky says they are scourge-tastic! 😈 I'd really love to build a Godly solo stealthy ranged sniper type hero, but I don't think CoH has anything like that... sigh

This is generally true, however, you're going to have a bad time with certain builds, such as Dominators and other AT/builds that rely heavily on global recharge to reach perma-uptime on certain powers. So you at least need the set IOs and LoTG recharge enhancements that are almost mandatory to achieve that.

I would think that any SOs/IOs will take you up to level cap easily, so long as you slot to improve the powers strengths that you're after. And don't use more than 3 of the same enhancement within each power's 6 slots. That's it. Now, if you want to do super-hard endgame content (solo or in groups), you'll probably want to start slotting ATOs/uniques/sets/special origin enhancements, and of course, procs...it's all about the proc, bout the procs, bout the procs! 😉

Thanks for your detailed and thorough analysis MonteCarla! 🤪🤣

How did you go with your build mate? I'm having an absolute blast with my demons/thermal - so much dps out of the little devils and so much survivability out of the thermal toggles I find! 😄

Yeah Beasts/Nature was similar.

Maybe I'll just killify everything and unsummon if and when I really need to skip to the end he he!

Wow, you managed to pick up pretty much all the powers, especially thermal! I assume all of the healing/rez team powers work on your pets then, or did you take some of them more for team play? I mostly solo, so would be good to know which ones I can skip. Playing a demons/thermal MM right now, more for thematic reasons, eh.

I love stealth in-game for any toon (along with sorcery flight/teleport!). BUT, I just started a MM demons/thermal, so no native stealth :(. Are there any pool powers or IOs, etc that give team stealth...? Otherwise I guess my only option is to unsummons all of the pets if I want to stealth past mobs to the mission objective say, yeah...? Cheers!

Necro/dark for face-rolling all the way! 😉

Howdy from down under! (not Hell where demons come from, the Hell where the Labor party gets another 3 years lol! ;). Just rolled a demons/thermal theme toon yesterday, oddly enough. So would be good to get someone's take on this combo, not sure how popular or effective it is for solo play mostly. Prob not the most powerful, given I don't think I've ever seen one online, eh.

I'd also throw some Corruptors into the mix, if you really want to pew pew and solo through content quickly. I have a Selene from Underworld dual-pistols/dark, which is just a theme build, but was fun. You can pair a number of 'techy' secondaries with DPs with a corruptor which will add a lot more versatility to your build than just an armour or melee blapper powers, imo. Plus, SCOURGE!!! 🙂 FWIW, the most survivable blaster I ever built was a dark/ninjitsu, but that's not the theme you're looking for, eh.

Hah, that was my first hero and blaster on live - Kelvin Ator, an Ice/Fire blaster! I think I had just read the first book in GoT when CoH started, so the combo just popped, eh. Below is the final look - the original looked like an escapee from a clown asylum lol!

Just remember, no matter what goes wrong in a party, it's ALWAYS the dps' fault! 🤣

I was just thinking along similar line - Peacebringer + Warshade! They could mooch team buffs a little bit off each other, but would also be a formidable dps/dps combo. If they need a tank, either can drop into dwarf form and jump forward, taunt, etc - when they get low, switch around, so you have a kiting/rotating dps/tank combo!

Me as necro/dark MM and the other one is my army of minions! 🤣

He will be able to jog (and fly) twice as fast, once he grows his moustache! 🤣

Happy NY Vigilantes and Creature Commandos!

Happy NY from down under! And remember, you either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the president! 🤣