CertifiedSkrunkly

the way i exhaled. you earned a pizza. sad part is that its 100% a thing id see someone type in general lmao

i play exclusively on everlasting. thats where my friends are, no reason to go elsewhere really.

because not everyone cares about playing the most optimal version of an AT. i chose corr because it has certain powers that arent available on other ATs. you suggested previously that a Dom would be a better choice when I already addressed that its not. yes I can grab sleet as a mastery, but fiery assault does not have rain of fire in it. i want both sleet and rain of fire. getting the power combos that I want is not possible on other ATs. if I have to break a few rules to get what I want, I will, I made this thread simply as a courtesy to see what the general response would be. i didn't have to ask. but I still did. and now I know that cold doms without shield picks are generally not popular. with @Projector and @Nemu's help, I now have a build where I have all the powers I want, even if I had to take the ones I don't and everyone's happy. The game gives you the freedom to make any build you want. to question why someone does anything at all like that is, respectfully, a bit asinine. i am willing to bet you've seen things far, far more out there than a cold dom not wanting to throw shields.

taking the suggestions from @Projector and the build from @Nemu, I've ultimately settled for this. Corruptor (Fire Blast - Cold Domination).mbd

on the point about player attitude, I very much relate to. my main in game is Incubussy, a nature/sonic Def on the everlasting server. i used to run a lot of PI for people looking to level up. i have caught crap for missions not being blazing fast, not throwing a rez immediately after someone runs off in an entirely different direction from the team, to exactly that, teams being full before they get a message in. what made me take a step back was when on one of these runs a player who said they were returning to the game joined my team. after which they began to cause all sorts of trouble for the rest of the team and started complaining about how the game isn't how they remembered it was and blaming me for taking them to a level 50 zone that even though i said any level is welcome to join it was still a 54x8. that completely soured my taste for hosting teams. and while i probably will go back to doing it, it just sucks. especially when I'm trying to keep the morale high for teams late at night and someone wants to be a spoil sport. ...i don't remember my point, apologies.

its neither. without any kind of defense to speak of, the floor will be my friend. the shield buffs don't even affect me and the only powers I have to rely on for defence is arctic fog and run of protection from sorcery.

i took sorcery for the aesthetics. i dont cast enflame on people, i cast it on mobs. all it does is create a fire AoE. so casting it on the tankiest mob in a pull is how I usually use it, since it has a pretty quick recharge anyways. i took flares because it looks cooler, I know that fire blast has higher damage. i also skipped everything else because I only wanted the distanced AoE's from fire. though I skipped inferno because I'm playing a ranged toon, I don't want to be anywhere near a pull with how squishy I am. that said, ill give most of your suggestions a try. to answer @biostem, I've tried looking at sentinel, blaster, controller, and dominator. def/corr, has what I'm looking for aesthetically. i already have a defender, so I went with corruptor for this toon. what i wanted was the dual elements of fire and ice, but in order to get exactly what i want, I'm stuck using the 2 support AT's. if blaster used fire blast, and ice manipulation had the same AoEs, id be using that.

ive looked at blaster and its ice set is not what I'm looking for aesthetically and I lose the location AoE in sleet that I like to stack with rains. all I want cold dom for is the ice pew-pews even if they don't do damage on their own, I'm fine with that. its the act of shooting ice that I'm interested in. I'm really not interested in the armor giving aspect of the set though, and I'm already strapped for power picks as I'm taking most if not all of sorcery, elec fences and charged armor, aswell as the usual suspects in leadership and fighting. I'm already fighting to fit in firebreath, but those shields are in the way. I've attached my current build below for anyone who wants further context to what I was going for before making the thread. Corruptor (Fire Blast - Cold Domination).mbd

Hello, I have a quick question before I go ahead with a concept I wanna work on. I've been messing around with a fire blast/cold dom corruptor, and frankly, I hate the support aspects of cold dom. i already have my nature defender if I wanna play the support, so i simply wanna know if not taking ice shield, glacial shield and frostwork will get me any lip from people. the concept is a mage with fire, ice, sorcery, and elec mastery ranged attacks, and corruptor feels like the best fit for that. i tried sentinel but I cant execute the same concept there as an entire secondary power set is only armors.

hate to necro this, but that data chunk doesnt work. is it possible to just get the build file? screenshots arent super useful to someone like me that doesnt have enhancies memorized by their icons- understandable if you cant share it but thought id ask anyways

hopefully the build wasnt corrupted, unless you mean in general cant access it xD but with what i did was take mercurial bow, guarded spin, eye of the storm, SM, confront, and serpents reach. i took every power in bio except genetic contamina and parasitic aura. i wanted conserve power, focused acc, and physical perf from energy mastery. from leaping i took super jump and combat jump, haste from speed, tough weave and maneuvers and tactics

This is my first scrapper, and while i have the abilities that i want sorted out in mids, i cant for the life of me even get started on where to slot and what to put in them. its far from my expertise and frankly im just to stupid for that stuff. i would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me with this! my goal for this was mainly aesthetic/themed. i tend to make the outfit then slap powers that make the most sense with the look. so with having looked at staff fighting, i kinda just wanted all the aoe/cone abilities. i have no idea what im doing with bio arnor whatsoever. all i know is that i need both adaptation and staff mastery though 😛 Scrapper (Staff Fighting - Bio Armor).mbd

this doesnt surprise me one bit, one time i was running some DFBs to level a psionic, and the DFB leader was being extremely toxic to EVERYONE. like, i mean over the smallest things. if you werent standing there infront of the guy in atlas, you had 30 seconds to get there or be booted, as well as gloating about booting people for not switching alliances fast enough. anyone who would accidentally kill a cadaver was immediately yelled at, and once the DFB was done he would "shame" anyone who killed cadavers on broadcast. all i remember about the guys global was that it was super insensitive. something about su*c*de.

funny thing is that was another thing he was arguing about, that the UI wasnt at all the same as he knew it. yet he claimed to have been a player since beta. as time goes on i think i was just being trolled now.

as i mentioned previously, i let the person in question knew what we were going to do. i made sure and they had agreed to come along. i always run PIs at such a late hour and thought bringing them along to play would be a fun. but such a visceral reaction was not something i would expect. i had several other people in my team who were new to the game who came along that had no issues whatsoever with learning the game. ontop of that, the guy was taking absolutely none of our help to get him -out- of there. i dont think the issue is so much the fact he was new but it was just like a flip had switched from nice guy to "i hate you get me out of here but also you are wrong and everything you are saying is wrong because this is how i remember it being, not that.". we told him where the team quit button was, where the client quit button was, one person even went and gave him chat command for that and more. and after having been booted, he was still in PI for another 15 minutes even though an hour before i had given him an ouro portal and taught him how to travel with it. but his attitude was like a brick wall. ive never had this problem before helping anyone.