Scarlet Shocker

I have a Defender, Voice of Scythia - TA/Sonic that I just rolled. Got on a high level team at level 8 and felt like I was still pulling my weight when exemped down and only a couple of powers. Was a lot of fun and quite survivable if I don't aggro mobs

WTF is he doing to that poor duck?!?!?!

hair and hat options. All hats have shite hair. I wish we could change that

just don't be original instead

This game is fundamentally 16+ (I got that from War Witch verbatim in 2008) I appreciate there is a lot in this that appeals to younger people but there is some young adult stuff present in the game. The community reflect that, as you might expect. Personally I would be very unhappy to see this game moderated to accommodate younger participants. I know it has always happened but I think it's down to individual parents to be in charge of safeguarding for their own offspring until they are of age.

I knew you'd be the one to follow through

Then my work here is done /em twirl cape, leap into the air, shoots off into the sunset, forgets about closed patio doors, faceplants on crazy paving in a pile of shattered glass

I don't often do this but I think this adds nothing to gameplay, fails to achieve the OP's goals and takes up unwarranted and precious development time /jranger

I also want a head that looks like a lettuce that I can put a blonde wig and googly eyes on. Brits will understand. The rest of you possibly not so much

Interesting. That should be easy to test to confirm or deny shouldn't it?

Is there not a better way to do this, or at least partially? I seem to recall that if you open a 2nd build you start at level one and have to effectively respec that build to whatever your max build is (I'm presuming 50 in this case) Would it not be better to just level to one or two levels above the content you're running and slot appropriately, rather than building the entire build then exemping down? I don't know if it's actually possible but I wonder if it would be more fun to restart and visit level 1 Goldside contacts and run the content as if you were actually gold. I do appreciate that there's more gold content that a single pass can achieve but that might give you some partial mitigation.

That should be an option - a costume option with the eyes as a stand alone and then the nose and the moustache combined

This is probably a wish too far but I'd love to be able to have furnishings and tech stuff that resembles 50s style and TV series, the funky shapes, the stick drawings, the line patterns, legs splayed wide apart with cute brass feet (and that's just the coffee table, not an arch villain) I do love the new Praetorian designs but I'd love something a bit more unique for base styles

Sometimes it can take a team almost 30 seconds to take him down. That's far too long. Surely it would be better to be able to destroy him in under 7. Clearly something needs to be done. He's making incarnates look incompetent.

The title says it pretty well. I just want googly eyes as an eyeware option.

you mispelled "basting"

I had some fun with Mercs back on live - they weren't amazingly good nor bad but I wouldn't say they were terrible

What I'm really taking from this thread is there are no seriously bad combos and power sets it's purely down to preference and play style. If you want to play something truly awful go play World of Warcraft 🤣

I used to Duo quite a bit on Live. I'm kinda getting the vibe again. Anyone else feeling it?

I tried a Psi/FF controller on live. That was... tedious and hard work. Quite survivable, but slow slow slow

A Demon/Cold MM and a Plant/TA controller. Own the game!

I have two dark melee tanks already which is how I know I dislike that particular set. I do have an outstanding tank that I rolled on my recent return here, an Elec/Kin who is pretty damned tough in most situations (but does occasionally experience a sudden crash of stats that I'm still working on.) She caps in a similar way to the Dark Armour you mention here. So far Bio is working well for me and I'm enjoying how this guy plays - but I do find the taunt from Presence quite lacklustre, and it's hard to justify taking two taunts. It's worth thinking about. Logically you're making a good case but as you say at the end of your post, it's the enjoyment that is what really matters and this guy seems to be fun for me. I might roll a DA/Something at a later stage to compare and contrast but I've got a lot of irons in the CoH fire right now so I'm trying to focus on just a few of those projects currently.

Every time I summon my lore pets, they are defaulted to Defensive and Follow me. I appreciate for some of my pets that's not a bad option but the attacking pets are emasculated by it. I change it every summons, but it still defaults to Defensive Follow on next summon. This seems like a dumb bug - but if it is default behaviour how can we change it?

I use Mids, I was confusing Hecatomb with Soulbound Allegiance