First Post, Need Recommendations for Controller Builds. Thanks!

[Cheers]

Hello Everyone,

 

I am looking for Recommendations on Controller Builds.  City of Heroes is my favorite MMORPG of all time and I just found out about the Private Servers! I played an Illusion Controller on live and really enjoyed the gameplay.  I mainly play solo due to time restrictions but enjoy grouping when I have time.  I would like to find a build that can solo almost any content and that really shines at endgame.  I would also like to PVP eventually but that won't be my focus right away.

 

If anyone has an amazing Controller build they want to share that's great at soloing and reasonably efficient I would appreciate it.  I have read through a bunch of posts in the Controller section and it looks like Illusion/Dark could be fun and powerful but I'm not set on that.  I really don't have the experience to know what is going to be a very strong build and I am looking for help from experienced controllers. Thanks in advance!

 

Cheers!

[Riverdusk]

32 minutes ago, Cheers said:

Hello Everyone,

 

I am looking for Recommendations on Controller Builds.  City of Heroes is my favorite MMORPG of all time and I just found out about the Private Servers! I played an Illusion Controller on live and really enjoyed the gameplay.  I mainly play solo due to time restrictions but enjoy grouping when I have time.  I would like to find a build that can solo almost any content and that really shines at endgame.  I would also like to PVP eventually but that won't be my focus right away.

 

If anyone has an amazing Controller build they want to share that's great at soloing and reasonably efficient I would appreciate it.  I have read through a bunch of posts in the Controller section and it looks like Illusion/Dark could be fun and powerful but I'm not set on that.  I really don't have the experience to know what is going to be a very strong build and I am looking for help from experienced controllers. Thanks in advance!

 

Cheers!

 

I don't have a specific build loadout, but illusion/dark sounds like it'd definitely meet your needs.  That was actually the last character I did back before the game shut down.  I had no problem soloing,  including a couple of giant monsters I tried (kraken and the real version of Jurassik).  Also adds a tremendous amount of safety to a team as well as some very good endurance recovery (soul absorption) and some decent amount of extra damage (tar patch and of course your own attacks).  Dark servant also will occasionally set containment up for you with its tentacles. 

 

You could check out this thread: 

 

Edited May 6, 2021 by Riverdusk

[Cheers]

Thanks for the advice! 

 

Reading your posts I have found out how little I actually know.  I haven't played the game in a long time (close to 10 years) and I think I will just roll an illusion/dark build as my first character for practice.  I'm going to use Carnifax's character template that was in the post Riverdusk referred to and I will refer back to 5099y_74c05's post when I learn the game more. 

 

I will also make sure that I buy Attuned equipment.

 

Cheers!

[Fatalplus]

If you like illusions, might I recommend Rad as a secondary? It's a really, really good combo.

[Cheers]

Thanks for the suggestion.  My original controller was Illusion/Rad and I wanted to try something different.  Last night I leveled my Illusion/Dark controller to Level 8 and I can see why everyone was recommending other secondaries besides dark for solo play (not much offense so far).  I'm hoping it will get much better when I get PA.

 

Thanks for the advice everyone.

 

Cheers!

[AugustDrake]

If you try an Illusion troller (mained one on live and have a 50 on Torchbearer!) I would absolutely recommend pairing it with Arcane Bolt. Sorcery Tree feels very good with it.

Edited May 8, 2021 by AugustDrake

[Riverdusk]

Also for more AoE damage one of my new favorites is plasmatic taser.  It is a temp attack power from the P2W vendor that is basically a clone of energy torrent.  It is amazingly cheap for that kind of aoe power (50,000 inf to max out its charges (240) each time).  I get and renew it throughout at least the early levels of all my new characters now.  Wouldn't spam it too much in a team unless you can control its knockback, but solo it is quite good and fun, both in damage and in adding safety.

[Cheers]

Thanks for the replies.  I just picked up Arcane Bolt to help speed up my offensive ability (thanks August Drake).  I had thought that you couldn't spec out of any trees that you went into but I just read that you can spec out of anything but Main/Secondary powers.  Right now my only offense is PA, Spectral Wounds & (as of today) Arcane Bolt.  I was also using Black Wand, Nemesis Staff & Sands of Mu.  I'm going to pick up some Plasmatic Tasers and give it a shot (thanks Riverdusk).

 

Cheers!