honoroit Posted October 13, 2023 Posted October 13, 2023 (edited) BIG WINNERS - your BEST AT 2023 awards The polls: Blaster Brute Controller Corruptor Defender Dominator Mastermind Scrapper Sentinel Stalker Tanker HEAT - Kheldians VEAT - Arachnos Welcome everyone! It's me, Figs. You may know me from my costume designs, my amazing secret base, or as the hero/villain who carried your team, or solved your balance theorycrafting arguments in one post! As the days get colder, and scarfs are worn, it's time to warm our hands by the fire and consider the greatest of AT in 2023. Everyone has their thing, but you spoke in the above polls, and here we'll briefly review the winners. Check out the polls themselves for more discussion, or to add your thoughts and opinions. Do you super disagree? surprised? confused at what people chose? make it known! Blaster - damage, dots and damage. no fluff, no nonsense, inferno, blaze and bonfires reign. best primary: FIRE best secondary: FIRE best epic power pool: FLAME Brute - we see rage scaling dots in savage, super strength raw smash in primary, and a similar thought in secondary with bio and rad. rad has seen a bump recently, where its pbaoe abilities and high procc'ability therein supplement a well rounded set. bio brings stance-like flexibility which extends across several abilities of the set, from defensive shell-like, to offensive buff which supplements a brute's fury / (rage) well. best primary: TIE for SAVAGE and SUPER STRENGTH best secondary: TIE for BIO and RADIATION best epic power pool: SOUL Controller - illusion, it's PA, its fear pet that cant be hurt... it's spectral wounds decent damage, and it's blind as a hold with built-in sleep aoe around it... even the 32 pet that copies itself. illu wins out controller primary - where the set outshines the dominator more recent twin sibling addition. Darkness Affinity is a set unique to controllers, and brings so much -tohit, def and res, healing, aoe rez+autohit stun, and another pet. it is hardly a surprise that an illu/dark controller is considered one of the 'few' among this AT that isn't thought 'a burden in harder CoH content'. best primary: ILLUSION best secondary: DARK AFFINITY best epic power pool: PSIONIC Corruptor - fire. fire with scourge. it's an execute for corruptors, and the dots work with it. paired with our winning secondary cold dom, we have a corruptor who's like frostfire, and whom brings damage and strong debuff, and rains of dots a plenty. best primary: FIRE best secondary: COLD DOMINATION best epic power pool: DARK Defender - tied for cold dom (one of our strongest debuff sets), and time manipulation (like kin, but arguably less hassle and with some unique stuff), defender was less split in secondary - where ice blast just beat out sonic, a traditional pick. maybe for thematics, maybe for ice's holds and st damage potential, maybe for the rains. best primary: TIE for COLD DOMINATION and TIME MANIPULATION best secondary: ICE best epic power pool: TIE for PSI and SOUL Dominator - plant, probably the one most of us that rolled new in CoV did first time through. seeds at mag 6 (with or without contagious confusion) remains quick cast, low cooldown, and decent spread. creepers is extremely unique, and apart from the spirit tree, the set is extremely strong, or equals other picks. psionic won out secondary, with a good vatiety of powers, decent aoe, and a damage type that supplements lethal/toxic well. best primary: PLANT best secondary: PSI best epic power pool: PSI Mastermind - pet keepers everywhere agree, in 2023, the buffed necromancy set, with its minion summoning on your blasts, and soul extraction literal doubling of pet numbers (and them all being buffable / healable) has pushed this set to the top. The skeleton knights hit hard, the lich is useful, and the zombies can run at 60mph speed boosted. perfect for your post-apocalypse. Time wins out secondary, ahead of dark - a decent heal that needs no target and puts a hot, an aura, buffs to your recharge (for more soul extractions) and to that of your team... and defense, makes for a strong combination. best primary: NECROMANCY best secondary: TIME best epic power pool: TIE for HEAT and MACE Scrapper - battle axe. oh yes. they changed it, you see. cones aren't cones, they're little spheres on BA. the difference, practically, can be felt from your first trip to the sewers where 'oh, wow' is the reaction you'll have... and this continues through the set. you get a sucks-them-in-mini-teleport-aoe, strong hits on single target, with the kind of base damage scrappers like to crit with. Bio was the big winner for secondary, not even close. its offensive supplement, mixture of healing res and def, and overall utility as a high skill ceiling set leave no surprise for scrappy heroes. best primary: BATTLE AXE best secondary: BIO ARMOR best epic power pool: SOUL Sentinel - electric won out on sentinel, which surprised me a bit, but it makes sense. the hold power thats terrible on blaster (tesla cage), is amazingly good on sentinel, there's quick aoe, and enough end drain to make you feel somewhat sappy. Bio armor wins comfortably for armor set. I don't know from play, but am told its extremely good on sentinel, and is extremely good period. best primary: ELECTRIC best secondary: BIO ARMOR best epic power pool: PSI Stalker - sneaky stalkers pick energy, which has ludicrously good single target damages. pairing in choice with energy aura, which of the ATs who get EA, is said to be 'best on stalker'. this combo won't be end starved, will resist being end drawn a bit, and should have increased recharge and other nice things. best primary: ENERGY best secondary: ENERGY best epic power pool: SOUL Tanker - tankers rejoice! it's been a good year. with bonus range on aoe and cones, high target caps... there's chatter you'll hear about using a tank as a farmer, if they only had fury. brutes felt left out a bit, and even took to complain about their ATO qualities by comparison to tanker - which is in a good spot. Radiation armor wins this year, though there was much variance in chosen votes. super strength wins out for the melee set choice, despite NOT benefiting from range improvements other sets enjoy. best primary: RADIATION best secondary: SUPER STRENGTH best epic power pool: ENERGY KHELDIANS - you either love them or you think they're cheating, or you think theyre underpowered. you either are amazed by the PB light show, or think it hurts your eyes. most of you don't like knockback on some of the things, but others want the whole package. we're tied here, and the voting was special by category. best kheldian: TIE for tri-form peacebringer, and human only warshade (two very different playstyles) ARACHNOS EMPLOYEES - fortunata won hands down. the spider soldier doesn't add up anymore, particularly with mm buffs to half of their sets, though the grenades remain decent. widow is alright, but stalker is better. fortunata, however, gets a mix of what feels like strong blaster-leaning-dominator damage in psi skills, a stealth, link minds, extremely strong (and stackable) leadership buffs, many cones (with toxic dmg if not psi). fortunata remains good. best arachnos employee: fortunata Thank you all for voting in the polls, and for commenting too! who knows what'll be next! (wind control????????!!!?!?!?!!!) I know there's a place that looks like blighttown coming. Edited October 13, 2023 by honoroit 4 1
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