Your Favorite Builds

[TheMultiVitamin]

So I love going through the Base and Costume threads here in the forums cause I love seeing all the stuff people make, so I figure why not make one for builds too! I always find it so interesting the different kinds of builds people make, how they play them, their thoughts behind it, that kind of stuff.

So what are some of your favorite builds? It could be because of thematic, narrative or roleplay reasons, technical or mechanical reasons or even just aesthetic reasons! You can be as in depth as you want so feel free to just give a simple description or share it all in depth with slotting, powers and the like if you want!

To start off, one of my favorite builds is my character Orbeus who is a Time/Dual Pistols Defender, I made him after hitting random on the costume creator funnily enough and just adored the overall look, he looked like a time traveler of a grey alignment persuasion and I thought someone who cleanses timelines of abnormalities. So far I haven't built him up that much yet but I've been having a lot of fun slowing and freezing people in time and then unloading on them with bullets!

[Octogoat]

Octogoat my crabbermind she's an escaped arachnos experiment with a crab pack full of stunblasters and a bunch of riot control spiderbots

[TheMultiVitamin]

3 hours ago, Octogoat said:

Octogoat my crabbermind she's an escaped arachnos experiment with a crab pack full of stunblasters and a bunch of riot control spiderbots

I like it! It's always neat to hear of alternate takes on the VEATs imo.

[kelika2]

Stacking DoTs

or stacking snare pits and rains

 

going into detail would be too much since there are so many combinations of fire tanks and corruptors even sentinels or pistol/fire blasters

[Ringo]

Plant/Storm Controller - Sow fields of chaos, reap the whirlwind

Illusion/Traps Controller - All of our strengths, none of our weaknesses

Assault Rifle/Pain Corruptor - Outgun, Outlive, Outlast

Super Strength/Fire Armor Brute - Farmer's Choice

 

[Octogoat]

Triform peacebringer

Warmace/willpower shovel master 

 

Concept makes the combo fun more than the other way around

[TheMultiVitamin]

21 hours ago, Octogoat said:

Triform peacebringer

Warmace/willpower shovel master 

 

Concept makes the combo fun more than the other way around

I really should make a PB/WS at some point, they always seem to have really interesting build potential.

[Octogoat]

1 hour ago, TheMultiVitamin said:

I really should make a PB/WS at some point, they always seem to have really interesting build potential.

 

Everyone should have one pb or one ws

[TygerDarkstorm]

Demons/Storm Mastermind - saw the idea mentioned on these forums when I first started playing HC and how it's like bringing about the apocalypse, and that's exactly what it feels like and inspired the character's name.

 

Illusion/Traps Controller - such a totally different playstyle then many other combos. I love the idea of monitoring the battlefield and deploying a tool where it's needed.

 

Aresenal/Marine Controller - not a very high damaging controller, at least while leveling up, I haven't gotten him to 50 yet, but the sheer level of control he has keeps him safe while he whittles down enemies if solo. On a team, he's a great area denier and force multiplier.

 

I have a Plant/Rad Controller whose fun mostly comes from the fact that her concept inspired me to create an entire VG based around science domination, as well as directly creating some of my alts.

 

Bots/Cold MM - This one is still young (level 26), but I noticed once I hit 22 and could start putting in some common IOs that this pairing has become *very* sturdy, even though I don't have IOs in every slot yet. The bots staying sturdy from the cold buffs and the protector bot shields, and staying healed from the maint bot, allows them and I to focus on blasting

 

Human WS - I know Triform is considered the better version, but I'm not a fan of trying to manage all the shapeshifting and frankly, my human WS feels pretty destructive. Plus, I like using all the toggles lol.

 

Fortunatas are a lot of fun as well

 

Energy/Martial Blaster sounds counter intuitive, but it's a surprising amount of fun if you don't mind a jousting playstyle.

[Octogoat]

Currently loving bots/time mm mostly for the concept but mechanically it's pretty interesting 

[TheMultiVitamin]

Been doing the StJ/SR Brute build suggested for a speedster, I've been liking it honestly as I've been going through Solo content with it, currently at level 23 and the combo system plus buffs from SR makes it just a fun thing to play. Nothing like zooming up an enemy or group, hitting 'em with a 3 combo, smacking with a finisher and then zooming away! I'm using it to experiment and learn a bit more about Enhancements and how they work too which has been awesome.

[Braddack]

i realy love my Fire / Earth / Fire Dominator, its an AOE Killing maschine ❤️

[Without_Pause]

From ATs I have at 50.

 

Defender: I somehow don't have one at 50 on HC, but I had numerous ones on Live. I'm likely most excited about getting my Cold/water to 50. On Live, I might say Rad/sonic.

Controller: Ill/dark. Nuff said. There are others, and more so if you include ones from Live, but this is my 'holy grail' type of any map soloing on whatever diff setting I feel like. Live? Earth/storm or Ill/rad.

Blaster: Water/temp. Only one I have at 50. I recently rolled a DP/ma and that's been fun.

Scrapper: Dark and Claws paired with /sr and /shield.

Tanker: Shield/fire. I wanted to min/max the defensive and offensive sides of things. It's funny it took me to so long to get a Tanker finally to 50, and yet I feel zero need to get another one to 50.

 

Corruptor: Fire/dark. I need a build for it, but this is currently my only Level 50 Corr. I got a Fire/kin waiting in the wings.

Dom: I never got one to 50. The most fun was a Plant/fire who died in a hardcore SG.

Brute: Ice/stone, but my BA/stone is right there. I just need to T4 them, and see. I also have a Savage/sr I'm working on.

Stalker: StJ/ea for nostalgia. Ice/stone for just how good it is. 

MM: Bots/traps. I have a love/hate relationship with the AT, but I have a soft spot for this combo.

 

EATs: Fort. The versatility and getting a Top 3/Top 5 at worst name likely sealed the deal. 

[StriderIV]

3 hours ago, Without_Pause said:

From ATs I have at 50.

 

Defender: I somehow don't have one at 50 on HC, but I had numerous ones on Live. I'm likely most excited about getting my Cold/water to 50. On Live, I might say Rad/sonic.

Controller: Ill/dark. Nuff said. There are others, and more so if you include ones from Live, but this is my 'holy grail' type of any map soloing on whatever diff setting I feel like. Live? Earth/storm or Ill/rad.

Blaster: Water/temp. Only one I have at 50. I recently rolled a DP/ma and that's been fun.

Scrapper: Dark and Claws paired with /sr and /shield.

Tanker: Shield/fire. I wanted to min/max the defensive and offensive sides of things. It's funny it took me to so long to get a Tanker finally to 50, and yet I feel zero need to get another one to 50.

 

Corruptor: Fire/dark. I need a build for it, but this is currently my only Level 50 Corr. I got a Fire/kin waiting in the wings.

Dom: I never got one to 50. The most fun was a Plant/fire who died in a hardcore SG.

Brute: Ice/stone, but my BA/stone is right there. I just need to T4 them, and see. I also have a Savage/sr I'm working on.

Stalker: StJ/ea for nostalgia. Ice/stone for just how good it is. 

MM: Bots/traps. I have a love/hate relationship with the AT, but I have a soft spot for this combo.

 

EATs: Fort. The versatility and getting a Top 3/Top 5 at worst name likely sealed the deal. 

Shield/Firey Tanker seems like it’d be a force of nature.

 

Love my Dark Melee/Shield Scrapper as well. So much synergy.

[Without_Pause]

2 hours ago, StriderIV said:

Shield/Firey Tanker seems like it’d be a force of nature.

 

Love my Dark Melee/Shield Scrapper as well. So much synergy.

Shield is a 'S' tier armor set for a Tanker. Fire has the fastest clear times. And yes, I went Musculature. I honestly couldn't think of any other Alpha which did enough for me to pick it. The build is currently at T3. Enhancement side I will go back and tweak it some more before I call it good. I have a Shield/wm, and it just feels slow compared to the /fire, but that needs to be tweaked as well. My Dark/shield is one of my next two to get to T4.

[Octogoat]

Currently using without's shield/fire tanker build on my new demon Helletrix