New here - Greetings

[Sigot]

Hello everyone, I was playing some AC and watching AC YouTube videos when I accidentally stumbled across something about Homecoming, needless to say I instantly installed this game and I am very excited to get back into CoH. 

 

I'm a dad with very little time to play and I am currently suffering from analysis paralysis. I just want to make one of every kind of character and experiment with all the old builds I used to love back on live when I was a teenager. But I can't do that anymore, IRL and all that jazz.

 

Build Suggestions

Id be interested in hearing some suggested builds for someone who will be mostly solo but will group up for an hour two once a week. 

 

I love CC and feeling like I fit a niche in the world. So obviously controller or dominator peaks my interest. But tanks are just as fun for me to. 

 

Thoughts my friends?

 

---Edit---

I have decided to try out Tanker (Ice/Titan) 

 

Edited Friday at 09:45 PM by Sigot

[Go0gleplex]

As a solo guy myself I'd say a Tanker will be your best bet within your ATs of interest giving you a good mix of solo survival and team utility.  I've several tankers that, while currently in the teen levels, are proving to be fairly good at surviving and crunching mobs. Ice/Spine, Rad/Martial, Dark Spine, and Elec/Dark. Though I'm a casual player as well so some of the folks that are more build obsessive than I am may have better ideas. :)

 

 

[Doc_Scorpion]

10 minutes ago, Go0gleplex said:

As a solo guy myself I'd say a Tanker will be your best bet within your ATs of interest giving you a good mix of solo survival and team utility. 

Back on Live I built a lot of scrappers and tanks...  But nowadays, unless there's a thematic/headcanon reason for them not to be - my melee types are brutes.

[Sigot]

3 minutes ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

Back on Live I built a lot of scrappers and tanks...  But nowadays, unless there's a thematic/headcanon reason for them not to be - my melee types are brutes.

Headcannon is important! 

 

But on a real note, why brutes?

Edited Friday at 06:54 PM by Sigot

[Doc_Scorpion]

Just now, Sigot said:

But on a real note, why brutes?

Honestly, I don't know that I can articulate beyond "that extra damage meter can be addicting/exhilarating".  It gamifies the game if that makes the slightest amount of sense.

[Sigot]

1 minute ago, Doc_Scorpion said:

Honestly, I don't know that I can articulate beyond "that extra damage meter can be addicting/exhilarating".  It gamifies the game if that makes the slightest amount of sense.

Makes all the sense in the world to me. 

 

I might try a melee toon, probably tanker, damage is not the main fun for me. 

 

But I am still interested in controller/dom at some point. 

[Techwright]

3 hours ago, Sigot said:

Hello everyone, I was playing some AC and watching AC YouTube videos when I accidentally stumbled across something about Homecoming, needless to say I instantly installed this game and I am very excited to get back into CoH. 

 

I'm a dad with very little time to play and I am currently suffering from analysis paralysis. I just want to make one of every kind of character and experiment with all the old builds I used to love back on live when I was a teenager. But I can't do that anymore, IRL and all that jazz.

 

Build Suggestions

Id be interested in hearing some suggested builds for someone who will be mostly solo but will group up for an hour two once a week. 

 

I love CC and feeling like I fit a niche in the world. So obviously controller or dominator peaks my interest. But tanks are just as fun for me to. 

 

Thoughts my friends?

 

 

Welcome Home!

 

I understand the demands on time.  I've had new ones added to me these last 8 months.

 

I too love controllers and dominators.  The challenge is that they're more team-oriented the first 20 or so levels until the pets start showing up in the options list.  There's plenty of ways to compensate for that these days, however: running multiple team Death From Below (DFB) trials and later Drowing In Blood (DIB) trials to get you to the right levels quickly.  Both can be completed in 20 minutes or so depending on the team skill level.  I'd mention Positron 1 and 2 task forces, which, with a good team can be done nearly as fast, but it depends on the team skill and goals.  These could drag out to the end of your available play time.  The Synapse Task Force definitely could.

 

For solo work when coming back into the game after a long time, I'd recommend checking out ice powers regardless of the archetype.  These slow or even freeze your opponents buying you time.  Some of these show up in sets that are not primarily ice, such as the storm set.  Personally, I've often said that I love the Illusion/Storm controller, as the character develops into a Swiss Army Knife able to react to most any need.  It does have AoE abilities with ice elements and can generate multiple pets to help make quick work of those crowds you've slowed.  Fire/ice is a great solo combo as well: ice for control, fire for lots of damage over time.

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 09:56 PM by Techwright
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[ZemX]

35 minutes ago, Sigot said:

But I am still interested in controller/dom at some point. 

 

Then definitely play a tanker first and you will have the benefit of knowing how to play a controller/dom without pissing off the tanker. 🤪

 

Also... welcome!

[Sigot]

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and guidance. I'm definitely looking forward to building out my Ice/??? Tanker tomorrow morning. I agree with ZemX, learn the game before playing a more challenging roll.

 

I'll be there crafting my controller in the background as I go. 😁

[Techwright]

3 hours ago, Sigot said:

Thanks everyone for the warm welcome and guidance. I'm definitely looking forward to building out my Ice/??? Tanker tomorrow morning. I agree with ZemX, learn the game before playing a more challenging roll.

 

I'll be there crafting my controller in the background as I go. 😁

EDIT:  It was pointed out to me privately that some of my original text below was confusing.  I've rewritten it to try to improve my comment.  Apologies for any confusion caused.

 

Are you taking Ice for the defensive or offensive ability?  I assume defensive due to the primary powers position in your comment.  If otherwise, let me just point out that the fire defense, Fire Aura, for the "???" in your comment, it is a bit different.  While it adds damage along with the defense, it also requires player intervention to boost the knockback protection.  Otherwise, the tank/brute/scrapper may be tough enough to survive the harder hits, but they stand a good chance of being tossed around.  For some guidance on what might work for knockback mitigation please see the contributions in this thread:

 

 

 

Edited Friday at 10:52 PM by Techwright
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[Scarlet Shocker]

Play all the things.

 

Move fast, get debt, badge.

 

Then you will discover the love of controllers that are the best and most unique AT in any game ever!

 

Be welcome

[biostem]

6 hours ago, Sigot said:

Id be interested in hearing some suggested builds for someone who will be mostly solo but will group up for an hour two once a week

Welcome to HC!  As for solo builds, I tend to lean toward sentinels or scrappers;  If you want something with, IMHO, a lot of utility, I'd start with a dual-pistols/ninjitsu sentinel or a katana/ninjitsu scrapper.  Both are solid, very solo-friendly builds that can also do well on a team.  If you're leaning toward something a bit more on the control side, may I suggest a gravity/forcefield controller - it may seem like force field focuses mainly on ally-only buffs, (and it has a few), but it will also benefit you via dispersion bubble and personal force field.  The former is important because it grants you some status protection, which is harder to come by for a controller.  Alternatively, the sonic secondary set also provides some self-status protection AND some enemy debuffs, but the defense from force field is, IMO, better than the damage resistance from sonic, for a controller.  The gravity primary is also a bit heavier on the direct damage and easy to utilize the "containment" mechanic, along with its own "impact" mechanic, for even more damage...

[Belazarius]

Asheron's Call ? o_O

[Sigot]

4 minutes ago, Belazarius said:

Asheron's Call ? o_O

Yes sir!

[Without_Pause]

Solo controller = Ill/dark.

[Octogoat]

The combo I keep coming back to is bots/time mm it has control, damage, and support when built right.

[Skyhawke]

Welcome! Remember, you really only need to know 3 things: Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.

[Octogoat]

19 minutes ago, Skyhawke said:

Welcome! Remember, you really only need to know 3 things: Go. Hunt. Kill Skuls.

Stomp Veles

[High_Beam]

46 minutes ago, Octogoat said:

Stomp Veles

That guys a jerk, his brother too, and his sister.  The whole family are kind of jerks. 

[Techwright]

22 minutes ago, High_Beam said:

That guys a jerk, his brother too, and his sister.  The whole family are kind of jerks. 

I'd say rounding up and ceremonially executing a group of people just to set an example makes them a lot more than "kind of jerks".   There are a few leaders in villain groups for which I can have a moment of sympathy: "so much squandered potential".  Not the Petrovic family.  It's monsters like that which tempt me to turn vigilante.

[Octogoat]

32 minutes ago, Techwright said:

I'd say rounding up and ceremonially executing a group of people just to set an example makes them a lot more than "kind of jerks".   There are a few leaders in villain groups for which I can have a moment of sympathy: "so much squandered potential".  Not the Petrovic family.  It's monsters like that which tempt me to turn vigilante.

Then there's that asshat icedrone

[Clave Dark 5]

Do some teaming with strangers, mention that you're hard up for IOs, you will be given in-game cash.  Get one toon to 50 and keep playing them, the in-game cash will roll in.  Many folks here'll tell ya ya need to do some boring farms, play the market or whatever... that's BS don't listen, you don't need to bore yourself to be able to PLAY. 

 

See my sig. 

 

And feel free to use the block feature on anyone.