What is your favorite X/X matched character?

[Shred Monkey]

I have an energy/energy stalker... but it wasn't my plan.  I was making an energy/ stalker after the changes and after building 4-5 different options in Mid's, settled on /energy aura.  The fact that they match was never my intention.  In fact, I don't think it even occurred to me that it was a matched set until someone asked me my toon was once in game.

 

[Doomguide2005]

6 hours ago, arcane said:

I have a handful of these. Fire/Fire blaster meteor-farm-capable with capped fire res/def, Rad/Rad defender proc god, and good ole triple rain scourge Ice/Cold corruptor strike me as my best.

Oh good lord.  Brain dead moment.  I had a Cold/Ice defender at 50 on Live not yet recreated here but he was one of my go to characters for end game content on Pinnacle.

[Lazarillo]

I very rarely play "matched" characters...I'm not sure if I deliberately avoid them or if it's just coincidence, though I almost lean towards suspecting the former.  It's just more interesting that way, I think, most of the time, to come up with why certain "unmatched" sets end up being matched together?

 

That said, I do have a few.  An Archery/TA Blaster, and, similarly, a TA/Archery Defender, an a Electric/Electric Brute.  Of those, the Brute is definitely my favorite. My first-ever level 50 villain back in the old days made right at the onset of i7, and one of the early re-makes when HC came around as well.

[cranebump]

Used to be Rad/Rad DEF. 

[0th Power]

I want a regen/regen to be able to team up with an empathy/empathy

 

ALL THE HEALS

[ZemX]

On Live my favorite was a Nin/Nin (Ninja Blade / Ninjitsu) Stalker.  I figure that counts.  But my first 50 was a Rad/Rad Corruptor.  Also great.

 

On HC now I've tried reincarnating that Corruptor as a Rad/Rad Stalker and... meh.  Not liking Rad Melee.  At least not yet. Maybe a Rad/Rad Sentinel instead?

 

My fav here is a Ice/Shield Stalker which is KIND of in the spirit of themed x/x because the Shield is made of Ice. 😛

[Heraclea]

I have very few of these: an electric/electric blaster, an ice/ice tanker, a ninja blade/ninjitsu stalker. 

 

Of these, the ninja is probably my favorite, since I do NOT dote on all things Japanese, and the character's concept (La Faiseuse d'Anges) is about as far removed from Japan as it is possible to be. 

 

I used to play the blaster a lot more, basically a blastfender concept,  until changes to the /electric secondary sent her into semi-retirement. 

 

The ice tanker has the tissues that come with Ice armor.  Built as a melee controller, she is certainly playable but is slow DPS even for a tanker, and was made in fulfilment of my vow of having every armor set (except Stone) and every melee attack set (except Super Strength, which I will not play in its current form) at 50.

 

Count me in the faction that would take Invuln/SS as a matched pair.  There are a whole lot of matched sets among the melee sets (Fire/Fire. Dark/Dark, Stone/Stone) that would seem to me to not have all that much synergy, and where the sets would benefit from a mixed up pairing.

Edited June 14, 2021 by Heraclea

[Uun]

Earth/Earth dominator and Archery/Trick Arrow corruptor

[JasperStone]

Ice/Ice/Ice Tanker.

Hear me out.

Created her on Live and remade her here.

Yes, the lowest damage output for a tanker, however ....

 

Mighty taunt aura

Ice Patch ...making everyone floppity

Two Holds

Strong AoE

 

Think of her as an armored controller, mob mitigation.

 

Plus Hibernation : A panic button for those "Hold my beer, I got this" moments that get a bit ....out of hand

Edited June 14, 2021 by JasperStone

[Marshal_General]

Probably my mind/psionic dominator. I put them all to sleep and pick a target.

 

"Wake up, it's time to die!"

 

Then I beat their mind with my mind until they wish they were dead.

[Luminara]

2 hours ago, Marshal_General said:

Probably my mind/psionic dominator. I put them all to sleep and pick a target.

 

"Wake up, it's time to die!"

 

Then I beat their mind with my mind until they wish they were dead.

 

[Onlyasandwich]

On 6/13/2021 at 11:13 AM, Haijinx said:

Is it really that bad now?

It's objectively much more powerful now. Some people don't like the refocus of what powers do what debuffs, but the overall package is much stronger in every way.

 

Ha, whoops! They were talking about Blasters. : )

 

Indeed, Blaster TA received a bit of a nerf, but not terrible.

Edited June 15, 2021 by Onlyasandwich

[Psylenz0511]

I recently rolled an electric / electric affinity controller, which I am enjoying immensely. Jolting chain and static field never cease to amuse me.

[Sir Myshkin]

Storm/Energy Defender, anyone who says this isn't a thematic pair is selling you something. Fight me.

 

TA/A Defender

 

Past that I'm not much of a thematic person either I guess, but really it comes down to just not finding the excitement in thematic pairings. Logistically they make sense. Pyro, Iceman, having that unified nature. It's not often in comics you find someone walking around with obscure things like Gravity Control and Ice Manipulation and be a top selling character, I tried figuring out that out in my own musings, how do you try and make that make sense even in a hypothetically fictional world? But still, those off-the-wall pairings are always the more fun, outlandish ones to play.

 

 

[Doomguide2005]

Hehe, Storm is like cheating ...

 

Wind/Storm

Storm/Electric 

Storm/Water

Storm/Ice

Storm/Fire

Ice/Storm

Fire/Storm

Electric/Storm

 

... okay probably missing a couple yet 

 

Edit:  Like maybe Storm/Energy 😉

 

 

Edited June 15, 2021 by Doomguide2005

[Luminara]

10 minutes ago, Doomguide2005 said:

Wind/Storm

 

?

[Doomguide2005]

Just now, Luminara said:

 

?

No idea, bit out of touch owing to life, dead computer and all ... but it's at the bottom of the Controller primaries on CoD v2.0 so figured I'd just missed something.

[Luminara]

1 minute ago, Doomguide2005 said:

No idea, bit out of touch owing to life, dead computer and all ... but it's at the bottom of the Controller primaries on CoD v2.0 so figured I'd just missed something.

 

There are a few sets which exist in the data files, but not in the game (yet).  Don't know if the HC team is actively working on them, or if they're just legacy code from the old days that just sits there, taunting us, daring us to reserve names like Broken Wind.

 

You can have that.  👍

[Doomguide2005]

1 minute ago, Luminara said:

 

There are a few sets which exist in the data files, but not in the game (yet).  Don't know if the HC team is actively working on them, or if they're just legacy code from the old days that just sits there, taunting us, daring us to reserve names like Broken Wind.

 

You can have that.  👍

Thanks and interesting ... kind of wondered.  I feel like a vaguely saw the set mentioned elsewhere.

 

Can I have a bathtub filled with Bubbles as my 'travel power' for BW?

[Luminara]

23 minutes ago, Doomguide2005 said:

Can I have a bathtub filled with Bubbles as my 'travel power' for BW?

 

Not until @Jimmy and Co. finish my red carpet with cheering crowds travel power for Star of the Show.  😛 

[0th Power]

16 hours ago, Sir Myshkin said:

Storm/Energy Defender, anyone who says this isn't a thematic pair is selling you something

I have one of those too.  Lots of fun.

[DrInfernus]

Love any archer, but my favourite matched build has to be Elec/Elec/Elec Sentinel. 
 

Can hover blast, can take alpha, can sap, can AoE, can survive just avoid anything. It’s a delight. 

[RikOz]

My main, the first character I rolled on both live and HC, is my fire/fire blaster. Love it.

 

Close behind is my energy/energy brute.

 

Alas, my energy/energy brute's younger sister is a dark/dark brute, and she is such and Endurance hog..

 

[Alchemystic]

is elec/elec controller a valid pick or is that too recent to have much merit.

[skoryy]

My elec/elec stalker until I can get my EM/EA scrapper up to speed.