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That's it, thank you! The glow of the face was part of the problem throwing me off, must be the lighting where he took the shot.

Can anyone tell me how to get this head? It's from the share your costume thread and it's close to what I want but I can't for the life of me figure out how they did it.

I thought about that, but I really want a proper AOE by 20 at the latest, and Savage only has a cone till 28. I realized that Cold Dom on the MM gives positional defense and cold resist, the two things Rad Armor lacks, but Bots/Cold is all wrong thematically so now the MM is going to be a spooky Necro/Cold ghost. Savage Melee would work great on a zombie Tanker, but Necro pets have poor AOE so that pushed me back to Electric. So now my character is going to be a scientist who set out to create a perfect synthetic body for himself. He succeeded, but was forced to resort to magic to transfer his consciousness into it. Naturally things went horribly wrong, and now he's stuck as a disembodied spirit which can control the dead and is followed around by a semi-sapient, badly damaged robot. Now I have to design costumes. And names, god I hate coming up with names.

I was actually thinking about doing that. It's the first robot she built and the power core's a little wonky, hence the totally-not-deadly radiation emissions. That would definitely make Electric the most thematic choice.

I want to make a pair of characters to dualbox TFs and the like because reasons. The secondary character will be some flavor of MM with a defense secondary (leaning towards Bots/Time but haven't decided yet). For the primary character that I will focus most of my attention on I'm thinking Radiation Armor Tanker because maxing (nearly) all the resists sounds fun and the MM will handle the lack of def, but I don't know what to pair it with. Something with strong, early AoE seems like the way to go to keep aggro off the MM and pets, but I'm not familiar enough with Tanker secondaries to know which to pick. Rad Melee is an obvious choice, but I just finished with a Rad/Stone Brute and I don't want to repeat myself. What else is there? What would make a good pairing functionally and/or thematically?

I'm currently working my way through all the game's story content and I think VEATs are next, but looking through the HC wiki I have a few questions. It looks like there's just a short story arc, or often a single mission, every 5 levels, and most of them come from Alan Desslock with a brief detour to Brick Johnson and then Fortunata Hamilton? And Spiders and Widows have the same story arcs, unlike Warshades and Peacebringers that get their own? And it looks like you can't outlevel any of them, so I could go straight to 50 then do them all back to back if I wanted? Is there anything else I should know going in to this?

Yeah I saw that one too when I was looking for something to use but I liked the idea of having the big Nature buffs be permanent which is why I used the other build.

I really liked the Beast/Nature build by @SmalltalkJava but I wanted Demons so I tried to convert it. Mostly straightforward except losing the Achilles procs, but I have no idea what to do with Hell on Earth. Seems like most people load it with procs or auras? Would appreciate some input on any or all parts, please and thank you. This Villain build was built using Mids Reborn 3.2.17 https://github.com/LoadedCamel/MidsReborn Click this DataLink to open the build! Level 50 Magic Mastermind Primary Power Set: Demon Summoning Secondary Power Set: Nature Affinity Power Pool: Leaping Power Pool: Leadership Power Pool: Flight Power Pool: Speed Ancillary Pool: Mace Mastery Villain Profile: Level 1: Summon Demonlings -- SprMarofS-Acc/Dmg(A), SprMarofS-EndRdx/+Resist/+Regen(3), SlbAll-Dmg(3), SlbAll-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(5), SlbAll-Build%(5), ExpRnf-+Res(Pets)(7) Level 1: Corrosive Enzymes -- Acc-I(A) Level 2: Regrowth -- Pnc-Heal/EndRedux(A), Pnc-EndRdx/Rchg(9), Pnc-Heal/Rchg(11), Pnc-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg(11), Pnc-Heal(13) Level 4: Wild Growth -- StdPrt-ResDam/EndRdx(A), StdPrt-ResDam/Def+(13), StdPrt-ResKB(15), UnbGrd-Max HP%(15), GldArm-3defTpProc(17) Level 6: Enchant Demon -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 8: Crack Whip -- Rgn-Dmg/Rchg(A), Rgn-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(17), Rgn-Acc/Rchg(19), Rgn-Dmg/EndRdx(19), Rgn-Knock%(21), FrcFdb-Rechg%(21) Level 10: Combat Jumping -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A) Level 12: Summon Demons -- SprMarofS-Dmg(A), SprMarofS-Acc/Dmg/EndRdx(23), CaltoArm-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(23), CaltoArm-Dmg/EndRdx(25), CaltoArm-Acc/Dmg(25), CaltoArm-+Def(Pets)(27) Level 14: Maneuvers -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), RedFrt-Def/EndRdx(27), RedFrt-Def/Rchg(29), RedFrt-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(29), RedFrt-Def(31), RedFrt-EndRdx(31) Level 16: Lifegiving Spores -- Pnc-Heal/EndRedux(A), Pnc-EndRdx/Rchg(31), Pnc-Heal/Rchg(33), Pnc-Heal/EndRedux/Rchg(33), Pnc-Heal(33), Pnc-Heal/+End(34) Level 18: Hell on Earth -- RechRdx-I(A), ExpRnf-Acc/Rchg(34), ExpRnf-Acc/Dmg(34), ExpRnf-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(36), ExpRnf-EndRdx/Dmg/Rchg(36), ExpRnf-Dmg/EndRdx(36) Level 20: Wild Bastion -- Prv-Heal(A), Prv-Heal/EndRdx(37), Prv-EndRdx/Rchg(37), Prv-Heal/Rchg(37), Prv-Heal/Rchg/EndRdx(39), Prv-Absorb%(39) Level 22: Spore Cloud -- DarWtcDsp-ToHitDeb(A), DarWtcDsp-ToHitDeb/EndRdx(39) Level 24: Hover -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A) Level 26: Summon Demon Prince -- SprMarofS-Acc/EndRdx(A), SprMarofS-Dmg/EndRdx(40), SprCmmoft-Acc/Dmg(40), SprCmmoft-Dmg/EndRdx(40), SprCmmoft-Acc/Dmg/Rchg(42), SprCmmoft-Rchg/PetAoEDef(42) Level 28: Tactics -- GssSynFr--ToHit(A), GssSynFr--ToHit/Rchg(42), GssSynFr--ToHit/Rchg/EndRdx(43), GssSynFr--Rchg/EndRdx(43), GssSynFr--ToHit/EndRdx(43), GssSynFr--Build%(45) Level 30: Vengeance -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A) Level 32: Abyssal Empowerment -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 35: Entangling Aura -- GldNet-Acc/Rchg(A), GldNet-Rchg/Hold(45), GldNet-EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(45), GldNet-Acc/Hold(46), GldNet-Acc/EndRdx/Rchg/Hold(46) Level 38: Overgrowth -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50) Level 41: Scorpion Shield -- LucoftheG-Def/Rchg+(A), RedFrt-Def/EndRdx(46), RedFrt-Def/Rchg(48), RedFrt-Def/EndRdx/Rchg(48), RedFrt-Def(48), RedFrt-EndRdx(50) Level 44: Assault -- EndRdx-I(A) Level 47: Power Boost -- RechRdx-I(A) Level 49: Hasten -- RechRdx-I(A), RechRdx-I(50) Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A) Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A) Level 1: Supremacy Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A) Level 1: Swift -- Empty(A) Level 1: Health -- Mrc-Rcvry+(A), NmnCnv-Regen/Rcvry+(7) Level 1: Hurdle -- Empty(A) Level 1: Stamina -- PrfShf-EndMod(A), PrfShf-End%(9) Level 1: Cold Demonling Level 1: Fiery Demonling Level 1: Hellfire Demonling Level 12: Ember Demon Level 12: Hellfire Gargoyle Level 26: Demon Prince ------------ | Copy & Paste this data into Mids Reborn : Hero Designer to view the build | |-------------------------------------------------------------------| |MxDz;1471;680;1360;HEX;| |78DA6594476F135110C7DFBAE0B8C5768C6BDCD621761227760C2970414E6C72403| |18A140870B22C7BEDACE42617897C000E1481C40521EA81FA0510E20C487C852001| |E2444BA15C3899D1CE3C65214F5EFF76E6BD99F9EFBCB79BBF90B3542A4B1926D8B| |3B562A753C8173B5DA95D971B657DBE58954B5A06C30097B8375358EDD5EBCD4632| |27C13F1972A31A56AD58EC552AC953C56EAF2D15162A15B92177379865A5D9AC259| |7A5620B56DBB85196DA9D75B96556ECA59A5C5DEF9A94FBD596249503275A7229A9| |CA9C2F962452B9E1055D31B86ED9191F7D3D5BD33196D631CD79E2718D425D86984| |51EF88DDC1C8130018319F333C5F90E9C0239754240AB38078248538818465A22C8| |4B10A4E5415A37DC0561D2831CF412FFE062FB61E46DD0AEE7E5F52296BF034E03D| |6EFEB0D4750A87D0639344B9C431E9C275E44BA61BB8C3CA3D12528CEBB90D14C4E| |BDF934B6C67D8EF851A368F37E20BE47FA3F211D90D1CA83AD94D16F4206CC442B3| |23448B421AF40576C3CD846AD0C512B23D4CA08B53242AD1445E43D90EDE0C18E04| |7647DCC107157791233F89BF883F9057A1B293073B3F63C6435F885F89DF90B1EFC| |42DE465087651B0E07A8E19632F9146688887B7D8430DB90F5A7DBC9CEF2CB6367E| |86F80AD3C65F23C7DF10DF229D907198070F3FC432E38F90138F894F884F9193CF6| |8E7213848E79F0549CE039013E61AC374B0AEC15345F9118D2E60EDC94562163995| |21E690D7216894B7629436214D7C016BC6B8F031AA3D45672345672345672345672| |34D6763088427B8C60469DCB63096E44F93A432515839CD354CFFA721A0DB7BFFE1| |07832DEF77E555AEFE8A8EBFF4302F28F35B26F5874071EDA85C023B097771F870A| |CA1F8EDFDEB77FF597F037767E026726642557F566DCCA98D7930CCDC38AA368E81| |E1E38632FE022A72DF5C| |-------------------------------------------------------------------|

The Stalker issue is fascinating. This little thread is split pretty 50/50 on whether they're awesome or awful for Prae. I may have to make one someday to see for myself, but for now I've gone with a Demons/Nature MM. It's going very well so far but then I'm only 11 so how badly could it go by that level?

These are all great, thanks everyone! Troo's is a little more mouse than kitty, but it's got rainbow in spades! 😄

Oh that's great! Thanks!

Huge could be extra silly now that you mention it, but I already made her a minimum height female.

Definitely more the first one. I'm open to the second, but I'm gonna have to look at it more than anyone else so I wouldn't want the joke to wear itself out.

I want to make a Dark/Dark Defender but instead of being dark and gloomy I want to swing to the other extreme and be over-the-top bright and cheerful. So I've made RainbowKittySparkles, but I have no idea what to do for the costume. I futzed around on test but couldn't really get anywhere I was happy with. Please help? I'm open to anything so long as it fits the silly happy name.

Interesting. I was planning on following one of the guides here on the forums. That guide seems to just have a different order for things, but it also recommends holding at levels 7, 14, 18, 28 while the forum guides say 9, 14, 19, 29. Do you know why? Is it just an abundance of caution?

Thanks for all the responses so far, ya'll have given me a lot to think about already. A Claws Brute does seem like an easy choice, but there's just something about Claws I've never liked. Maybe it's just not my thing, maybe I just saw too many Wolverines when the game launched. No idea. A Controller or Dominator is a thought. Never played one of either. I feel like they wouldn't have very much damage at such low levels though, especially the Controller. I know slow and steady wins the race, but I'm already running an ultra-marathon. Mastermind sounds appealing. I think I played with a Bots/FF briefly on live but don't remember much about it. Seen a few people running around with Demons though and they looked pretty cool. I'll keep mulling it over. If anyone else has more thoughts, please feel free!

I want to catch up on the story stuff I've missed, so I'm going to create a character to play through allllll of the Praetorian missions. I want to take the "disable XP gain and do it all from contacts" approach, no flashbacks, which means I'll be spending many hours at 9, 14 and 19. What are some options for doing that in the smoothest, least tedious way possible so I don't lose my mind from the slog? Only thing I've done on Homecoming so far is level a Water/Bio Sentinel so I don't want to do any of those three things again just for the sake of variety, otherwise I'm open to any combo and I have plenty of inf for early IOs.