Doc Spectre

You can have multiple builds on the same Alt so try it out and see if you enjoy it. I find Nova decent at low levels but a bit limited at high levels.

Ice Armour has a no-FX option now days so you don’t have to worry about your costume being covered.

Can’t go wrong with a Corrupter imo. I found Dual pistols/Trick arrows to be a lot of fun. Pretty much any combo is an asset to a team though. Just bear in mind controlling your AoE knock back if your set has it. Most players like mobs in tight clumps for nukage.

I ran a one-shot years ago using Mutants & Masterminds. I made a selection of Player Characters that fit in the the CoH themes. Players had a blast.

I feel like having to get another character to level 50 first in order to unlock Khelds and SoA was a wise choice. At least that way new players have a chance of having some context before making one.

I use the Black Shroud Dimension mission through Ouro crystal. I find that I have to kill Nightstar in the mission to get the badge. She usually spawns on top of one of the buildings.

I initially found having a shard system and a thread system for making the same stuff extra complicated. If it was up to me I would covert the shard rewards to threads and dump shards entirely.

You can fire off a lot of you arrows from out of sight around an obstacle. I tend to fire a flash arrow (slotted with hit debuff), duck round a corner and drop glue arrow, oil slick arrow, rain of arrows and then acid arrow (with fire and energy chance damage Proc IOs to ignite the oil slick) Below level cap I would probably start a +1 difficulty with team size at 3 and then increase the team size to what I can safely handle. I like combat jumping on squishy characters so I don’t get immobilised. A force feedback chance for +recharge IO in Explosive Arrow is great for getting powers back up quicker (ghetto hasten)

Then I guess I favour the ally toggle option then. Frees up more time for blasting and other things.

Some sets give the option to choose between two variations of a power. For example Sentinel Super Reflexes (Master Brawler or Practice Brawler). How about being able to choose between current Fortitude or slightly weaker Mindlink style aoe click. You could then have 2 builds depending on what style of content you were doing.

I probably wouldn’t bother cleaning up leftover bosses. Let the tank figure it out on his own and go back to deal with them.

You can unlock the Staff of Stheno (golden staff with cobra head). I think it was by doing Mongoose arc in Mercy Island. That’s what I’m using for my Black Scopion patron powers weapon. I opted for a sentinel with Storm Blast / Dark Armor / Scorpion. Plays totally like a Scorcerer imo.

For my take i decided to go for a Sentinel. Electric blast primary with different coloured zaps and dark armor for mezing enemies and (all is dust) visual effects. For the staff I will take Black Scorpion as patron and pick up Pulverise so I can wack foes with my Snake Staff.

If you really want to be loved by teams try a Cold Domination defender or corrupter.

AoEs have target caps so I don’t really see point of wasting time herding the whole map. Just steam roll one or two groups at a time. Also tanks do decent damage if you build them well. They are not just a punching bag anymore.

Psi melee or Kinetic melee stalker with energy aura, invulnerability or super reflexes secondary could be good. Would solo really well and scout stuff for teams if they want it (don’t forget to get Assemble the Team from the START vendor). You could pick up Psi Mastery epic to add to the theme. Hover in the flight pool is reasonably speedy in missions and has good close manoeuvre control.

Sell your big inspirations on the auction house. Some of them go for upwards of 50 thousand. You can get them from the P2W Inner Inspiration free power.

if you like to play lots of Alternate characters I found a great way to save Inf is to make a personal Supergroup and invite all your Alts with /altinvite characters name then make a base with storage racks for IOs and invention salvage plus a crafting station. you can now put your lower level IOs in storage for new Alt characters when you do a respec.

I would be interested in a new Archetype that uses dominator assault sets as their primary and support sets as their secondary. Probably with a break free clicky as their inherent ability and defender ancillary power sets. A Vanguard EAT might be fun too.

How about giving Heal Other the ability to affect an enemy with a -regen and/or -resist debuff? That way if the team is not being injured the Empath can make a contribution vs a tough opponent. I kind of think Empathy and probably Force Field could be given a slight boost in the debuff department to make them a bit less situational.

I had some issues too, in the end I picked up tough and weave and hasten, dropped the siphon attack. I use the first two attacks from Rad with the quick animations and the last AoE. The other attacks I found took to long animating for my taste on a brute. I also picked up Darkest Night from Ghost Widow pool and it has made a huge improvement, gloom is also pretty sweet.