Thunderwoman

[hoopahnan]

My altaholism continues and I made a Sentinel named "Thunderwoman" to pair with my stone/fire Tanker "Hellflyer." I want to go full elec/elec/elec but also take hover and fly. All the builds I see take super speed and combat jumping. Can I replace those two powers with Hover and Fly? What would be the benefits/drawbacks? Are there better powers I can replace?

[TygerDarkstorm]

Well, your grounded power is probably one of the biggest reasons why you're not seeing folks with electric armor taking fly powers:

If you don't care about losing your immob and KB protection, then go ahead and swap for fly. If you don't like super speed, you can always do super jump for a travel power.

[FupDup]

The Immob and KB protection can be gotten from other sources like CJ and some IOs, but it's certainly less efficient that way. 

Swapping the armor to Energy Aura would keep a very similar theme while not needing to expend extra build space to making up for not being grounded. 

[hoopahnan]

Dang, I like fly/hover. Can I ask what powersets go good with that travel mode? I know that fire aura also has a ground effect

[hoopahnan]

51 minutes ago, hoopahnan said:

Dang, I like fly/hover. Can I ask what powersets go good with that travel mode? I know that fire aura also has a ground effect

I'm not going to make a new post but I'd like "thematic but powerful" sentinel builds that can fly and hover.

[TygerDarkstorm]

5 hours ago, hoopahnan said:

I'm not going to make a new post but I'd like "thematic but powerful" sentinel builds that can fly and hover.

As @FupDup mentioned, you can swap Electric Armor for Energy Aura and have a very, very similar character theme while having the freedom to choose hover/fly.

 

Fire/Rad is also a classic sent combo that can hover blast. Pick whatever sounds fun to you--you have 1000 character slots to play with after all--and just make sure you avoid armor/blast sets that have a grounded component so you can hover blast to your heart's content.

 

Imo, Storm Blast sometimes feels best on a sent because Storm really wants you to focus on it and using its powers, which a sent allows you to do with their armor secondary. Mine's paired with Elec Armor for thematic reasons, but I'm sure you can make any of the other armors work with it as well.

 

Dual Pistols also seems like something folks like on sents--I haven't made one yet, so I can't comment to it, personally.

 

My Psy/Fire/Psy sent is my personal favorite sent atm; Burn is the only power that requires being on the ground, and it's kind of a pain to use with a super low target count that you could skip it to fly instead.

[Frozen Burn]

7 hours ago, hoopahnan said:

Dang, I like fly/hover. Can I ask what powersets go good with that travel mode? I know that fire aura also has a ground effect

 

You can take whatever travel power you want.  You don't need the effects of Grounded when you're traveling from mish to mish.  And if you want to hover blast, you have to be hovering at the lowest point above the ground to maintain the benefits of Grounded.  But then when combat is over, who cares if you get to the next mish or area by running, flying, jumping or teleporting?  🙂  

[hoopahnan]

How's Ice armor? I'm now thinking about making a Storm from X-Men character that can use Storm Blast (duh) and Ice Armor