Burnt Umber
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Nox - Fortunata I think I'll end up looking a bit boring by comparison but so it goes.
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Ah, sorry! Yes, I did mean Symphony Control/Thermal Controller. I wasn't sure if Symphony was "Sonic" even though it's "musical." Thanks for accommodating me (again)! Also, to cut-off my confusion ahead of time, how should this look? I'm decidedly ignorant of fashion shows (or, perhaps even, being fashionable : P) so I could use some guidance.
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Does Sym. Control count? If so, I'll bring Nuntius - Sym./Thermal. If not, I'll have to work something out.
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I'm glad my suggestion is getting seconded! I think that the common wisdom/meta of Musculature/Cardiac Alpha-Ageless/Barrier Destiny-Assault Radial Hybrid would be a bit limiting, if not outright hampering, for my builds. I've found that there is a lot of interesting options and interactions to be found in the Incarnate System once you start tinkering. And, although I do have it slotted on a few characters, I'm a bit wary of Support Hybrid because I think I read somewhere that the "pets" for which it doubles its bonuses is actually only MM henchmen rather than all "pets." That said it does give some nice bonuses all the same so it works well (I think?) in settings where you're on a team and the extra team/league oomph is better than just individual effort.
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The "Intuition Radial" Alpha is great on my Controller with /Rad, and I really like the "Control Core" or the "Melee Core" Hybrids. Not sure if that helps?
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Sorry I had to leave a touch early today. I hope the rest of the TF played out okay. I plan on bringing Alichino - Demons/Pain MM. (Thanks again Trixie for adjusting the theme to accommodate.)
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I'd guess something like 80 - 90%? I have about two Redsiders for every Bluesider, and almost all of the Redsiders are 50 and along a bit (or completely) "Incarnated." I play them on Indomitable and Everlasting. I sort of wish there was a more robust population for Redsiders on Indom. so teaming was less a Herculean task. But, I have found that thoose I do end up teaming with seem like nicer folks, oddly enough. (Maybe, we're too busy being evil to NPCs to be so to each other?) In a word, "complicated." For the most part, I like the mission content for specifically Redside: it feels dirty and dark as I do petty villainy like robbing Banks and beating up thugs as well as the super villainy like taking down a well-known Hero or ambushing a major establishment in Paragon. I find there's a great catharis in sometimes just being able to hop on and have my character puch some holier-than-thou in the face. The only real issue I take with Redside content comes with the frequent "need" to have parity between Redside and Blueside, which in turn, ultimately, translates into make co-op content written for Blueside and my Redsiders are stuck doing some act of heroism with only a nominal hand-wave toward my alignment. (I'm looking at you RWZ and Dark Astoria.) Mostly, though, it's nice for Redsiders to get a loose "win" without having to do heroics to get there- something done well in the SSAs and, more recently, in the Dr. Aeon SF. Besides radical flights of fancy where I'd completely re-do St. Martial to be a tropical, lavish casino-resort with a dark underbelly, most of my wish-list for Redside is sort of mundane. I'd really love for the enemy groups I face to be redone and re-balanced. Longbow - a public hero group - shouldn't be doing the secret agent/espionage stuff that Wyvern was explicitly supposed to be doing. Similarly, it'd be nice if Legacy Chain and Midnight Club were re-balanced so it felt more natural when I interacted with a "magic" hero group. And, I wish I faced Skulls, Lost, Outcasts, Trolls, and Warriors in a more engaging and different way than just though paper missions (if at all). For example, why does Zephyr - a magic/elemental villain - have Goldbrickers - a tech-focused gang - helping him? (Surely, Outcasts would have been a better fit there.) Or, why do I never really have to deal with Lost before suddenly having it shoved into my lap that they're being converted into Rikti? I think my hope for the HC Devs with respect to Redside, is that they don't perpetuate the problem of the old Live Devs. Making things for Redside shouldn't be thought of as wasted development time because the majority is Blueside, and Redside would feel less empty as long as Devs keep the on-going plots/stories from rotting into nothing.
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Oh, sorry for the misunderstanding. No, I'm not; I was never much of a vocal/visible player back on Live.
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Hmm, most of my characters got remade on HC and might be familiar faces to Theme Team. "Animus Raptus" "Umbrifer" "Ussiomnia" "Legatus Lanius" and "Atrae Noctrae" (or maybe "Noctrae Atrae"?) were all likely suspects for characters on those servers. I had several other alts. but they never got leveled very far so I'm not sure how much I played them.
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That's a neat one. But, I'd really love to be able to bring either my newly minted incarnate (Demon/Pain MM) or my DB/Nin. Stalker who needs the badge. Not sure either would fit though.
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I hope to bring Atomi - Grav./Rad. Controller. But, could I please get some guidance on this one? Is it an evening dress/black-tie thing? Or is it something else? As others said before, I really appreciate that you're organizing these. To me, what matters is that we're having fun - not that we're "experts." And, it's fun to be able to do it casually without any of the baggage of having to be bleeding-edge or speedy. That said, feel free to post builds you're working on; I like tinkering with builds, and although I am by no means the best builder or min-max'er, I can always lend some help with yours. Sorry for the belated reply! Yup, I deleted mine a while back. Like you, I found it to have an annoying end. cost problem. And I wasn't exactly a fan of the needing to get into melee to make use of my armor set nor the sort of watered-down Dark Regen. But I was also on SOs only, so I can see how set bonuses would buoy the set. Also: That's funny: I ran mostly Redside with alts. on Triumph and Victory too. Maybe we teamed a few times on Live back then?
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I'll try bringing Amentia - War Mace/Shield Brute. Hmm, "Buttress" -> "Bat-tress" works I think? I'm a bit poor on puns/word play though. I wish you luck on the dark/dark sentinel: I bounced off the one I made for a theme team a while back so I'd be interested on your thoughts on how it works.
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It was really rough - very reminiscent of back on Live when this TF was first being run. Our team might have been a bit low on damage, and I didn't realize that Blue Patches spawned for pets an players alike. But, really, I think we ran into two major mistakes that made it very hard if not impossible to complete: 1. we didn't stop to re-gather and tackle the AV anew instead of trickling in one at a time to get melted; and 2. We spread out too much, rather than stick together as a team, so patches were everywhere and there was no place for us all to go.
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I'll try to bring C. Abyssus - Water/Sonic [Corr.].
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Not sure he's my best, but long ago, he was my first. I'll be bringing Animus - Necro/Traps MM.
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I'm a little over level 20 on him now, and I agree - the combo is really fun . I think it's the group-think that KB is bad that makes the combo seem like it might not work. But I find that the in-set tp let's you jump to about where any knocked mobs land. (Though that might be harder if I had/used nova?) At the same time, I'm not sure whether I'll stick with him past this weekend since it's more of an experimental build than anything else.
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I hope to be there this weekend with a (mostly) new blaster too - Brambleberry - Energy/Martial
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Haha, that's great Ban! I'm actually also going with a Lego-inspired character this week, but as that blue wizard fig in the old Knights set. (Alichino - Demon/Pain MM)
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I plan on bringing my demonic jester Alichino - Demons/Pain MM.
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Thanks! I was just temporarily renaming my character "Blarney Stone" but with the name taken I went for the more Celtic version. I'll revert it to the normal name afterward, so that name will be free for use.
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I hope to be there this week with Cloch na Blarnan - Stone/Fire Tank
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I hope to bring Veneficio - Crab Spider.
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I plan on bringing Eury (Peacebringer)
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Thanks for the fun photos Midnyte. I'll bring Kataigis (Elec./Storm Controller) Thanks! The name and costume were a creation just for this theme. I've reverted her back to her usual costume and name, so it's all up for grabs for whoever may want it.
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I'm not totally sure I'll be around tomorrow, but if I can, I'll bring Leaf Lizard (Plant/Psi Dominator)
