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I would like to suggest anything with the Radiation Emission or Nature Affinity PBAoE hold toggles, especially if they have an additional hold power to stack on bosses and/or a secondary control mechanic. I've been playing a rad/elec defender and loving it! The end drain is a nice secondary control for when she gets mezzed and the hold toggle drops, (although it's mostly all-or-nothing, end drain also increases /elec's damage thanks to the new Shocked mechanic), and Accelerate Metabolism helps keep the mezzes from lasting too long. She still dies occasionally, but it's been a fun ride so far! Hmm... now I might have to try a nature/elec...

Wasn't there a period of time when everyone and their cousin was making an elec/bio sentinel? With controllers, on Live it was always fire/kin, fire/rad, or ill/rad as far as I know. I'm also fairly confident in the fire/psi dominator being the main dom build from Live, as well as inv/SS tank. MMs were mostly bots/FF, bots/traps, or thugs/traps IIRC. I see a lot of rad/fire brutes nowadays for farming. Not to sure about other ATs.

I reeeeeeally wish they'd add a way to color the inside separately. Same for the Tech Knight belt cloth.

Oh, ok. It's usually "Gunslinger 3" under belt options. You can't use it with backpacks or with jackets (like on the character you have pictured), but you CAN use it with Shirts.

Can you show us what you end up with? I'm curious now... 😛

There is a "Bridal" hairstyle that has a veil, but it doesn't work with the backpack. There's also an option for a belt with a cloth ("Tech Knight -> Tech Knight Belt Cloth"), but it doesn't work with jackets. One of the "Gunslinger" belt options has a hanging cloth, too, but it doesn't work with the backpack OR with jackets. ... that's pretty much it, as far as I know.

I couldn't leave this one alone 😄. Ask and ye shall receive! rainbotkittysparklez.costume

Does anyone else have other suggestions? I'm currently thinking of going with Ice/ but I'd like to get more opinions if I can.

I don't have a theme in mind yet. I'm still looking at options. Elec/ sounds pretty good, now that the "shock" mechanic is there (I'd heard it was pretty lackluster on Blasters before). Ice could be interesting, too, with all the -Rech stacking up. I'm gonna wait for a few more responses, but thanks for getting the ball rolling!

Hi. I was looking through the HC wiki (as one does), and decided that making a /mental melee-range blaster could be fun. However, I'm not sure what to pair it with, since I don't play blasters much. Oh please, masters of the blasters, I beseech thee: What should I pair with /mental? What would YOU pick? What are the benefits & downsides of various pairings?

I really wish they'd just go ahead (heh) and make the "head" auras selectable for the headless costumes. Most of us know the workaround anyway, and it's annoying to have to use it again whenever you want to edit your costume.

Interesting, because I was going to say I prefer the "with" option because it looks leafier... although maybe use a shade lighter green to get closer to the skin tone?

I refer to this move as "super-yeet", and will never ever stop doing so 😛.

I agree with Xandyr. It's surprisingly tough, too (or at least it can be). I usually play brutes, but I really wanted to get one of all 10 basic ATs to 50. I could not for the life of me find a blaster that was anywhere near tolerable; they just die too easily. DP/Martial fixed that. I was inspired by a friend who has one that he TANKS with, if you can believe it. It's a surprisingly durable combo, and definitely a good time all around. I highly recommend it.

This works with flying enemies, too. Paragon Protectors are ANNOYING! And the new Rad and Emp Elites can go away now plz, ty devs.

/Dark on Corruptors is a bit different than /Dark on Controllers. Personally, I'd go with /Time. Farsight gives you some excellent defense, you have a heal with a heal-over-time component, Chrono Shift will help you get your rain powers up again faster, and you have a placeable hold-&-slow field to lay down to keep them in the rain along with a ST hold to get the boss in the mob or to stack with one of the holds from Ice. I have an Ice/Time Corruptor who's my main hami raider since she can do ranged damage AND crowd control with all the hold powers she has (yes, I took the 2nd one in Ice, yes the animation is long, and yes it helps with mitos quite a bit).

I'd just like to get music-themed animations for Sonic, like the ToV Sirens have.

I'm pretty sure I'm going to do this on purpose at some point on a very large team, but while soloing at lower levels, it's generally not conducive to continued survival.

Sadly I need to necro this thread due to recent shenanigans with Radiation Emission... If you put a toggle debuff (Darkest Night, Enervating Field, Radiation Infection, etc.) on a teleporting enemy (Tsoo Sorcerers, Sky Raider Porters, etc.) and they teleport without being far enough to detoggle the debuff, it will aggro everyone around them and they will immediately come attack you. It is possible to aggro an entire room this way. Also, from a previous encounter, if you hit a teleporting enemy with a targeted AoE right as they teleport, it is possible for your attack to damage (and thus aggro) any mob that they teleported into. RIP my Zombie/Rad MM and Dark/Dark Defender and teammates. 😞

I wasn't sure how human you wanted this character to be, so just for fun I tried something that felt a little more monstrous. I like the Bio-Organic eyes peeking through the eyeholes of the mask. It really just feels... off. Anyway, I hope you like it. blightlingmonster.costume

First of all, welcome back! It's always great to see more people in the City! For #4 in a nutshell: Attuning IOs means that they change level with you as you level up and they also change level when you exemp down if you're on a lower-level player's team, which means you get to keep your IO set bonuses when you exemp down (which is very very helpful and wouldn't happen otherwise). Note: Very rare (purple) IOs and PvP IOs keep their set bonuses when you exemp down without needing to be attuned, so don't waste enhancement catalysts on them. However, you can use enhancement boosters to effectively increase their enhancement level beyond 50 (I generally don't use them before that). Enhancement catalysts will drop after you hit lvl 50. Enhancement boosters come in Super Packs or can be purchased with merits. ATOs are new attuned sets that can only be used by their specified AT. They are not regular drops, so you have to get them from the Heroes and Villains or Rogues and Vigilantes Super Packs, or buy them with reward merits. Some of them are ok, some are great, and some can be real game-changers depending on your AT and powersets. When you get to level 50, you can use enhancement catalysts to upgrade your ATOs into their Superior versions. Note: In terms of set bonuses, the Superior ATOs and regular ATOs count as separate sets, so if you have 3 superior and 3 regular, you'll get the (2) and (3) bonuses from each, not all the bonuses up to (6). This can be a useful trick for frankenslotting, but it can also be very frustrating if you don't have enough catalysts to upgrade all of the ATOs you have slotted in a power and you need those higher set bonuses. Again, I'm not an expert here, so I must add my recommendation to those who have suggested that you look into the Guides for more info, but this should get you started.

Okay, I'm going with Ice/Spines for my Aggro Magnet (actual character name 😛). Anyone got a build they like? Or some tips? I usually play brutes, so I have some ideas about how to slot armors. My main goal, as the name suggests, will be to get and keep aggro away from teammates.

Basically what the thread title says: I want to know what (in your opinion) is the best powerset combo for getting and keeping aggro. I suspect that any set with damage aura would be pretty high on the list, but I'd like to get other people's opinions, too.

Please, please tell me that this enemy group will be available for use in AE (without the x10 xp, obviously). I'm already getting a bunch of ideas....

Are Praetorian zones included in this event? Oh wait, the OP said "information" too, which is Praetorian. NVM