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As someone who has had a nrg/nrg blaster main for most of my time playing CoH, I can tell you that generally folks are much less hostile to you if you have KB these days than they used to be. You'll still get some people complaining about it, but it has become fairly rare. Just stick a KB->KD in your aoe powers and you'll be fine. The other side is to pick your ST power targets carefully. Pick someone nobody else is fighting and if you knock them out of the mosh pit, they are now your responsibility to take out. That said, if you invest in a 2nd build, make one for soloing that doesn't worry about the KB. It's really fun to go ham with it sometimes.

Wow, thank you so much for your detailed reply! I appreciate you going the extra mile and posting your best pairings as well.

Just curious what primary/secondary pairings with the same theme are considered complimentary to each other. I've seen Fire/Fire mentioned, but are there other matching primary/secondary powersets that work especially well together?

Rise! Rise from oblivion! Seriously, though, Yomo is a real gem of a player. I've learned so much from reading his threads. I'm not sure if this is still a thing, but it seemed the best place to thank Yomo for everything. Thank you! May your impact on this community never be underestimated.

I remember only ever going Galaxy-King's Row-Skyway City during beta. It wasn't until Live that I saw Steel Canyon. I absolutely loved the grandeur of it, especially since I was such a huge fan of flying in CoH. Something about flying to the top of a skyscraper and just hanging out up there always grabbed me. Plus it is the first zone that felt open in a way that the zones leading up to it didn't. Flying down that huge steel canyon at the center of it just felt so good. As with others, the return to atlas park when homecoming opened up was emotional for me. Hearing that music, seeing Ms. Liberty. Tilting the camera back to take in Atlas. It felt like coming home again.

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Awesome, thank you for the info. Guess I know what my next alt will be!

Hi Redlynne, Long time reader, first time replier. Do you think the Storm secondary could provide an interesting interaction with DS? Specifically, after slotting KB>KD IOs in some of the key damage powers, would it be possible to DS ghetto-hold some folks in a bubble of tornadoes, freezing rain, and lightning storm craziness? Admittedly, I've never played a /storm, but if this idea would work, I have so many visions of contained storm-chaos... like a snow globe of nature's fury.

I want to thank everyone for this discussion. I made my first Dom after reading it and was able to grok the playstyle fairly quickly with all of this in mind. I have to say that it is quite fun.

That's perfect, thank you! I usually try to find a build with decent defenses/resists, slap it in Mids/Pines, and then modify it rather than building from the ground up. It helps my process to see what someone else has done and work from there. Thank you again, this will do nicely!

Hey all, I like to have a build on hand to tweak when I start something, but can't seem to find any Dark/Sonic builds anywhere. I've seen a couple of mentions in various threads but didn't want to necro them to build request. Anyone have a build they are using or have used and enjoyed? Thank you in advance!

I like this idea. I think it and ideas like it (maybe with zones that are a little less popular/used) could be a first step to further integration of the sides. I have no idea about the amount of work that goes into a zone switch like this, but it would be a great start for implementing some of the most commonly mentioned ideas. I really think integration is the key to helping villain population without doing the drastic step of revamping the Rogue Isles themselves (which seems to be a very hard sell for those who love RI as it currently exists). I know that I would be one of the first to make more villains if I could more freely move about while still maintaining my being a villain. It also seems like this was the direction Live was headed before Sunset.

I actually found it somewhat less immersive that this zone was considered so dangerous, but the contacts were just hanging out right there in it like they had plot armor so thick nothing could get through it. An airdrop into the hostile territory situation (by changing the entry to helicopters or boats) would make far more sense to me.

I did not know these existed until MetaVileTerror mentioned them in another thread. I will take a look over the weekend and post my thoughts after. Thank you for doing this!

I need to follow the **!!!** link and read what has been done/discussed, but I would greatly enjoy assisting in something like this on a writing level. I may not have any coding background (though I understand conditionals/variables fairly well), but I can edit sentence structure. If you have a list of forum names somewhere for people to recruit for your undertaking, by all means include me.