The 100 Club

[MonteCarla]

I've just got my 100th level 50 character on Homecoming!
I've been keeping a spreadsheet, and saw this milestone approaching. I achieved this in style, with a Faathim the Kind Task Force pushing my 100th character to the level cap today.

 

Here's a breakdown by Archetype:

Defender 22
Blaster 16
Controller 12
Corruptor 9
Tanker 9
Dominator 8
Brute 7
Stalker 4
MM 4
Scrapper 3
Sentinel 2
Arachnos 2
Kheldian 1

I like support (49% of my 50s, counting Arachnos) and I like blasting and nuking (50% of my 50s!). 
When I do melee, I like to go heavy and set the pace.

 

My top powersets:

Energy Blast 9
Empathy 7
Rad Blast 7
Force Fields 6
Fire Blast 6
Sonic Resonance 5
Electric Blast 5
Martial Arts 4
Rad Melee 4
Rad Emission 4
Kinetics 4
Electrical Manipulation 4

I lean towards bright flashy powers. The Legion of Superheroes is my jam.

 

Origins:
Magic 31
Science 24
Mutant 20
Tech 16
Natural 9

I have a parallel-Earth faerie supergroup, easily my biggest one. The Science characters are scattered. I've had a couple of small mutant groups. There's a small supergroup of robots, along with a Flash Gordon-y set of characters making up the tech count. The natural ones are all one-offs: aliens, amazons and baseline humans. 

 

Alignment:
Heroes 97
Rogues 3

I made one Rogue from the get-go.
Twice I went Rogue for patron powers and didn't come back.

 

Incarnate Powers

Full T3 Incarnated: 12
Partially Incarnated: 11
Retired immediately at 50: 77 

I'll start incarnating if I really like the character. The others get to retire peacefully.
I play the game like an X-Men/Legion comic rather than Superman/Batman. I do have once character with a number of T4s, but have never got a full set.

 

Powersets I have yet to complete:

Dark Miasma (did it twice on Live, though, but not yet on HC)
Marine Affinity (parked at 36 currently)

 

Arsenal Control (parked at 38 currently)

 

Seismic Blast (in progress with my latest robot. I've yet to drop my first Meteor)

 

Bio Armor (will be #101, she's at 47 right now)
Ice Armor

 

Spines (will be #101)
Broadsword/Katana
Psionic Melee (started twice)
Savage Melee (parked at 35)

 

Thugs
Demons
Zombies (eww! 🙂 probably never)

 

Mental Manipulation/Psionic Assault/anything with Drain Psyche

Fiery Assault (doms) and a whole lot of other assault sets.

 

Warshade (parked in the 20s currently)

 

[MoonSheep]

damn, that’s good going. i’m still on 4 alts, made the most recent one in 2023 haha

 

you’ll like fiery assault on dominators, very powerful set. makes it hard to play anything else

[mistagoat]

Awesome! Congrats! I love to see stats like this, it's so interesting!

100 50s is a huge milestone and represents a ton of playtime and dedication!

I think we have similar sensibilities in that I'd rather level a new toon than grind out t4 incarnates. Of course there are exception but usually by level 40 I'm trying to figure out what to play next and get a build worked out. I get more pleasure from the journey than the destination.

 

When I made my spreadsheet it really exposed my bias toward Trollers and Tanks. Then I made more of an effort play those lesser used ATs (though still sprinkling in a Troller or Tank here and there). That led to run of Sents and Stalkers that I really had a blast with! It's about time I did the same with Fenders and Brutes as I have very few of those.

 

Now that you've got totals do you think you'll make more Sents and Scraps in the future to beef up those numbers on the lesser used ATs?

Whats you're next toon going to be? Looks like spines/something?

 

Edit: Oh I see you have spines/bio lined up as 101, what comes after that?

Edited Thursday at 06:25 PM by mistagoat

[MonteCarla]

Thanks, Mista! 🙂
I found having the spreadsheet really pushed me to try new powersets. Without that I wouldn't have given Stone Armor much of a look, for example, but it turned out to be a really fun character. I'd recommend this practice for any altoholic.

 

I made Gwydiana (a Welsh tree faerie) purely to tick off Bio Armor and Spines, both sets I'd been put off by the default graphics. I decided to make them work. She'll be #101 after a Faathim TF this weekend, no doubt. She would have been #100 but I dug out an old Corruptor parked at 40 (half of an Empath duo with a friend who left) to run with my all-Corruptor group friends on a triple XP ITF that got me very close to 50...

 

After that - I think I'm cooking up a Fire/Fire/Fire dom. It's been a while since I did a Dominator, and Fiery Assault is calling to me! 

I made a Demons/Dark MM as another way to explore two new sets. She's at a quick Halloween 20 or so, and will continue.

My Warshade- I just need the character to click and I'll be off.

 

I doubt I'll worry much about AT balance.

Scrappers don't do it for me - I have a number stalled in the 30s and 40s. If they have a resistance armor, then being a Brute would be better for the 90% cap. If I'm going for single target damage, Stalkers are better. I always feel like a move to either side on the spectrum of melee ATs gives more to my team, either aggro-control or stealth-and-port in TF's. Maybe that's how I'll finally tick off Psionic Melee?
Sentinels - I feel like I made the best one ever with Tiger Wasp: Elec Blast/Energy Aura/Elec Mastery. I'm not sure how to improve on that experience!

[mistagoat]

4 hours ago, MonteCarla said:

Maybe that's how I'll finally tick off Psionic Melee?

If Psi Assault is close enough, a Dark/Psi Dom is pretty nasty!

[MonteCarla]

That would cover one of my other goals - to do a character with Drain Psyche.

It's an odd odd power - a big buff for 30 seconds that can almost be made perma with some kind of extreme recharge slotting. (+130% in bonuses, +70% from Hasten and +100% in the power itself). But then every 30 seconds you're trying to maximise your drain, compared to say maxing Eclipse targets on a Warshade every 90 seconds.

 

I'm sure I'll end up doing both at some point. 🙂