Coyotedancer

I have a Dark/Bio (Tavaris, on Everlasting) and a Dark/WP (Shonokin, on Torch). I'm a little biased against Dark Armor, honestly. My own Dark/Dark was the only Sentinel build so far that I just completely gave up on... But some people do really love it. Hopefully you'll have better luck with it than I did. XD The great thing about having a thousand character slots? No reason not to try anything that seems interesting!

You're welcome. XD I love Sents, too. Some of the damage sets really need a balance pass (They gave up a little TOO much damage in some cases. o_0), but the AT as a whole is fun. Fire and Dual Pistols are probably the best damage-wise, but my favorites so far are my Darks.

The only one of those specific AT/set combinations I've played myself is the DB/WP Scrap, and that can definitely be some good fun. Back in the Live days on Liberty, I had one named Ashirion. 'Not *quite* as the scary a character as my DB/WP Stalker main... But almost. If I'd thrown the same INF into Ash's build that I had put into Kestrel's, he probably would have been every bit as fierce as she was. Bio is a solid set with an END-friendly mode, so you shouldn't run into any trouble with that Titan Tank. It'll likely spoil you on that Dark Armor fellow, though. DA is a total endurance hog if you try to run all of the toggles. Defenders... I love Defenders. Some are easier to learn than others, but it's hard to really go too far wrong with any of them. Although the people who are more invested in the "meta" of City may try to tell you that Force Field is useless, typically because of the defensive capability a lot of IO set builds can achieve on everyone else's end-game characters, that's not necessarily a universal thing. Lower- and mid-level teams usually won't be as tough as those end-game juggernauts, and so THEY will still absolutely love having you and your bubbles around. Your large area bubble will also be welcomed and valuable on Mothership raids in the War Zone. Not every league has a ton of Incarnates who picked a Clarion Destiny, so *you'll* be the one protecting everyone from the Rikti Magi's stun effects. (Yeah, I have a lot of Defenders in my crew. XD Even though they're all "finished" 50s themselves, with their IO builds and their Incarnate toys and all that, I almost exclusively play them exemplared with mid-level teams. It's just more fun, because your presence as a support type character can make a lot of difference in how that team runs. You CAN still be helpful with end-game teams, mind... No smart group is going to say "Nah. We don't want'ya." to a Kinetic/ or a Time/ or a Dark/.... But most of those groups won't really *need* you the same way the lower level teams might.) I'd also suggest at least trying out a Stalker (think: "sneaky Scrap") and a Sentinel (something like a blaster who trades some damage for a fair bit of toughness).

You would if you were on a team with one of my magi. XD But.. yeah. RP mission teams aren't all that different from not-RPed ones. There are just more puns and cheeky comments.

Don't forget the occasional, seemingly random barfing. I have no clue which buff causes that, but every once in awhile it's "Zone in. Lose your lunch." Which is just terrible, XD

Your luck looks just like mine. XD (Seriously. I have that happen an absolutely statistically unlikely number of times, and that's why I no longer bother buying and opening packs. I not only DON'T "break even" with them, I usually lose my proverbial shirt. It's especially galling when it happens with 25m-a-pop Winters. Which is has. <_<)

What Patti said. Welcome back to the City. XD And yeah... Street is just a fun set.

I think so... There's a post somewhere in that thread that pulled out and listed all of the "None Of" combinations (There weren't many-) for each archetype, if you're curious. At this point, if the devs were to re-run the queries I suspect there would be several Claws/Fire Stalkers at 50. Like I said upthread, some of us took the absence or rarity as a challenge. XD

Gallius the Death Mage: "*sighs* For the record, I did *NOT* kidnap Abigail Uberman. I asked her to tea. Very politely. And we had an excellent time of it... It isn't MY fault that her son Jimmy simply isn't ready for the idea that his mother might have a social life."

Could well be. I was on a blue side character myself both times, but I have no idea what the others might have been.

Yeah... It's not a consistent bug, but it's definitely there. I've seen it flake out a time or two on Khan as well.

Big Bird counters with Abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.

Shenanigans Malarkey

'Don't *think* I've posted this one yet... This is Ironhorse, my DB/Rad Brute. He's a sentient magic item.... A Living Armor. I'm not entirely sold on that set of swords. With all the glowing Rad effects and the eyes, I think the "hard-light" style straight swords might suit him better. They're more tech than magic, granted, but he's a modern creation, not an ancient one... So it might work. You never know. The artificer who made him might have been a Star Wars fan. XD

*nods* I miss Todo. 😞

His older brother, the dreaded Triple Dog Dare, is a Beasts Mastermind, of course.

The inspies are pretty nice. In a serious pinch, those Ultimates can save your proverbial butt.

Seam line along the back of the shell.

My dad's answer to the 'How do you want that steak cooked?' question was always "Show the cow a match". 🤣

All of This. The flea is wise....

My magi say that they can neither confirm nor deny that theory. They look awfully shifty when asked about it, though, so make of that what you will.

It being Shark Week and all... I'm a little surprised Carcharias was available on Everlasting. (I took the Greek spelling, with a K. It seemed more appropriate for an aquamancer. So... somebody else. Go build a shark! 😁) ETA: How can we not have a shark-fin emoji?!? Mako would be most displeased.

City chock full of sewers and dusty, abandoned mines... That we all spend an absolutely ludicrous amount of time in... EXPLODING zombies... Zombies that barf all over us... Rikti monkeys that do unspeakable things... ... And not one single dry-cleaner or laundromat in the whole darned place. 😝

That's pretty much what I do, too... Vendor the common IO recipes. Horde the PvPs and purples for my own crew. Toss all the salvage bits, uncommon and rare recipes on the AH. (I honestly do consider "keeping the AH recipe/salvage supply healthy" to be a big part of a farmer's role in the CoH Ecosystem. It's one of the more important, and probably most beneficial, side-effects of what we do.) I don't do the build-and-convert marketeering thing at all with my farming drops, even though there's more profit to be had in it. I got into farming in the first place so that I wouldn't HAVE to do any of that. I'll just keep tossing the stacks of spare recipes out there for you guys to buy and convert. Call it "sharing the harvest" or something. XD Anyway, yeah. It's interesting to see other people's numbers as a comparison to my own observations... even though my own returns don't include any potential crafting or conversion-based profits.

*imagine a thousand-word demand for Mime Control here*