Elemental / Thematic pairings

[ninja surprise]

The altitis is strong and I've been itching to make one each of thematic elementally matched toons. So I went and made a spreadsheet of all the ATs and their matching elemental/thematic powersets. Left Masterminds off. 
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1YoLSPDoXpbKztk81LRyAofq2ElwPUpi18OOwMCuNNMo/edit?usp=sharing

 

Most are easy: fire/fire, ice/ice or ice/cold, etc.

 

Melee ATs have a ton of leftover primaries and secondaries that don't directly correlate, but can match up thematically, like Street Fighting / Super Reflexes, or Claws / Regen.

 

Dominators and Controllers have the fewest leftover sets, but have some flexibility in interpretation. For instance would Gravity go in the Energy category? or Illusion? And Dominators would pair it with Energy Assault, but would Controllers go with Kinetics or Force Field? Would Mind Control go with Empathy or Force Field or Temporal Manipulation?

For a Controller would you pair Nature Affinity with Earth Control or Plant Control? Maybe Plant/Nature and Earth/Storm?

 

A bunch of ATs get a secondary of Ninjitsu, Ninja Training, or Martial Assault set and could grab whatever primary matches the theme. Only Stalkers get a Ninja Blade, and only Sentinels get a Ninja Tool Mastery epic.

 

There's a few notable holes:

• Need a mental/psi buff set. (Or be forced to improvise with Empathy, Pain, Time, Kinetics, etc)
• Need a Ninja Blast set for Blasters, Defenders, and Corrupters. Martial Assault, proliferate please!
• Need a Radioactive Control/Domination set. 
• Blasters don't get a Psi Mastery :(

 

Anyway, this is about as much fun as actually making toons. Now I need to cruise through the servers to see what I've already made and forgotten about.

What AT/elemental pairings are your favorites, or which AT does a paring shine on? (Fire/Fire/Fire Blasters forever!)

 

Edited Thursday at 03:39 AM by ninja surprise

[TygerDarkstorm]

I started an elemental beasts theme of characters on Everlasting, though I'm less strict about their primary/secondary/epic all matching as I'm not overly fond of matchy matchy toons. My rule for myself is that their primary has to match their theme; the secondaries can align, but it's not a strict requirement just due to personal preference. I also went for skittles AT's and tried not to duplicate any powersets.

 

We'll see if I tweak them again, but as of right now, my lineup is:

Beast of Darkness - Dark/Dark/Soul Defender

Beast of Metal - Crabbermind

Beast of Air - Sonic/TA Corruptor

Beast of Flora - Plant/Savage Dominator

Beast of Earth - Earth/Thermal Controller

Beast of Mind - Psi/STJ Tanker

Beast of Fauna - Beasts/Marine MM

Beast of Fire - Fire/Shield Scrapper

Beast of Water - Water/Elec Blaster

Beast of Light - Energy/Fire Brute

 

Good luck with your project! I hope you update us with your progress. 🙂

 

[JasperStone]

10 hours ago, ninja surprise said:

Melee ATs have a ton of leftover primaries and secondaries that don't directly correlate, but can match up thematically, like Street Fighting / Super Reflexes, or Claws / Regen.

Just finished a Regen/Claews tank that was solid

AND

started a Street Justice/ Super Reflexes brute that is really fun to play