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And that, indeed, is the question.  I'm planning to, eventually, make a redside character themed after (and meant to be a member of) the Carnival of Shadows, specifically a Ring Mistress.  But I'm not sure which archetype she would be.  Dominator, Corruptor, Controller?

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Ring Mistresses often fight with psychic blasts and Dark Ring Mistresses also throw in Dark debuffs as well.  I would certainly say a Psi/Dark Corrupter would fit the bill, but you can also do Dark/Psi Defender for stronger debuffs.

 

I'm also totally not just advocating for Psi/Dark Corrupter because I have one at 50 and love the combo.

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42 minutes ago, Arcalian said:

And that, indeed, is the question.  I'm planning to, eventually, make a redside character themed after (and meant to be a member of) the Carnival of Shadows, specifically a Ring Mistress.  But I'm not sure which archetype she would be.  Dominator, Corruptor, Controller?

So a Ring Mistress basically uses psychic blast attacks, and a Dark Ring Mistress essentially uses psychic blasts and dark miasma, so a defender or corruptor would be your most likely fit...

 

For reference:  https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Carnival_of_Shadows#Ring_Mistress

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The hidden forum: select archtypes and scroll down past all the subforums.  I was suprised the first time i found that archtypes had a 'general' forum in the basement.  

 

For that combo i would go corruptor.  Debuffs tend to be so good that you dont need a boost as a defender or so bad that the boost is hardly anything.

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23 hours ago, TheZag said:

The hidden forum: select archtypes and scroll down past all the subforums.  I was suprised the first time i found that archtypes had a 'general' forum in the basement. 

Even after all this time here I didn't know this existed.  I'm going to go lie down for awhile....

 

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Resurrecting this old thread of mine.  It's almost time to make this Ring Mistress character.  How close can I get in the character creator?  By which I mean, exactly which costume pieces am I looking for.  I know I can't do the mask.  But what about the rest of it?

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A lot of the Carnival's unique pieces aren't available to players, mainly their gloves, shoes, collars, and whatever they have on their backs.  But I took a stab and came up with something pretty good when compared to a Carnival Ring Mistress.  It's not a perfect 1 to 1, but could pass as a discount Carnie in a heartbeat.  Using the image from the CoS wiki page for the Ring MIstress as a template, I came up with this in about 5 minutes.

 

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Ring Mistress.costume

 

Pieces of note:

Head: Carnival of Light mask with matching colors.  The eyes underneath are from Supernatural Face 11 colored red.

Body: Barbarian top was the closest I could find.  Magic robe shoulders, Santa Gloves give the best "frilled" gloves from what I could tell.  Carnival of Light sash.

Legs: Carnival of Light leggings, and Victorian Steampunk boots.

Back: Celestial Armor 1 was the best look I could find for the back detail, though Hooded Lamps was a nice alternative if you don't want perfect.  Warp gives the crossed sticks look in a sense, but doesn't mesh with the rest of the outfit.

 

Also keep in mind, there are a lot of pieces ripped from the Carnival of Light/War/Vengance in Praetoria.  You can mix and match those in as you see fit but they do have much different designs from the Carnival of Shadows on Primal Earth.

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