So when (not if, when darnit) the game comes back, how many of your previous characters
do you plan to remake? And will you be updating them at all?
For me it's:
My super-speed Martial Arts / Super Reflexes Scrapper "main" [my 1st character]
will be the 1st character again. However, he'll be shifting to Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes
as it fits his concept so much better than M.A.
My Fire / Kinetic Controller will be rebuilt with no changes.
My Mind Control / Radiation Controller will be rebuilt with no changes.
My Dark / Dark Defender will be rebuilt with only some minor costume changes.
My Gravity / Kinetic Controller will be shifting to a Gravity / Time Controller.
And I'm torn on my Bots Mastermind. He used to be a Bots / Traps and it was great fun,
but I'm kind of thinking to turn him into a Bots / Storm instead. Can't make up my mind on him.
Quote from: KennonGL on November 12, 2014, 06:27:41 PM
So when (not if, when darnit) the game comes back, how many of your previous characters
do you plan to remake? And will you be updating them at all?
For me it's:
My super-speed Martial Arts / Super Reflexes Scrapper "main" [my 1st character]
will be the 1st character again. However, he'll be shifting to Kinetic Melee/Super Reflexes
as it fits his concept so much better than M.A.
My Fire / Kinetic Controller will be rebuilt with no changes.
My Mind Control / Radiation Controller will be rebuilt with no changes.
My Dark / Dark Defender will be rebuilt with only some minor costume changes.
My Gravity / Kinetic Controller will be shifting to a Gravity / Time Controller.
And I'm torn on my Bots Mastermind. He used to be a Bots / Traps and it was great fun,
but I'm kind of thinking to turn him into a Bots / Storm instead. Can't make up my mind on him.
I plan on remaking my main a fire/fire/fire blaster (even though I do not like blasters)
my 3rd scrapper a kat/wp remaking from kat/regen
my grav/rad troller, grav/storm, and hopefully making a new dark/dark troller
my energy/wp brute
my ninja/dark mm (taking out ta in lue of ta not what I thought it was going to perform as)
and a few others unfortunately there will be many that wont comeback.
I am gonna attempt to rebuild all my faves. Primarily, my claw/sr scrapper, warshade, and either a ss/inv or fire/ice tank. I will be hard pressed to not have alt fever on relaunch.
I have my list ready to go!
I have most of the names and costumes ready. Some names will be borrowed from other chars I had from before (assuming no character info is retained).
I'm sure I've mentioned most of these before, but I will have to make or re-make (none were actually finished)
a Time/Ice/Soul Defender (level 50 at close)
a DP/Naff/Elec Defender (level 30ish at close)
a TA/Sonic/Mace Defender (was built for I24 changes so might have to change it to TA/H2O/Mace)
an Elec/Stone/Ice Dominator (this is a load of fun if you haven't tried it before).
a Dark/Cold/Lev Controller (never tried)
something with Beam Rifle (there must be some combo I will like with it).
... and a Kinetic/Bio/something brute when I24 hits... man it's been a long time since it was announced. I know... "Soontm" but this ones been too much of a wait. I'm gonna have to complain.
When I made my first and main character, Steelhelm, I made him a Electric Armor/ War Mace Tanker (basically copying Thor XD). I always wanted to delete him and start a brand new version of Steelhelm that wasn't a copy of a Marvel hero, but never could since I had him for so long and had many good memories with that character. With the possibility of having to start anew, I would probably keep Electric Armor and change War Mace to either Super Strength, Electric Melee, Kinetic Melee, Street Justice, or Martial Arts.
My energy/energy/electrical blaster
my fire/fire/fire tank
my robotics/thermal radiation/field mastermind
and my titan weapon/super reflex/energy brute
None.
If I'm starting over from square one, I'll be starting from scratch with an all new set of characters.
I'm changing my main from Claws/Regen scrapper to
Necro/thermal MM.
QuoteAnd I'm torn on my Bots Mastermind. He used to be a Bots / Traps and it was great fun,
but I'm kind of thinking to turn him into a Bots / Storm instead. Can't make up my mind on him.
I had both and I liked my bots/storm better only because my play style is active. I didn't want to take the time to lay down traps.
2 characters - ice/ice tank and Arachnos widow.
My main was a MA / Regen scrapper, but I'll be switching him over to Street Justice. I loved the look and feel of that package. Jury's out on the secondary. I like Regen's various buffs, but Willpower is a good all-around choice for scrappers.
Quote from: Brightfires on November 13, 2014, 08:15:53 AM
None.
If I'm starting over from square one, I'll be starting from scratch with an all new set of characters.
This.
I have been working on my builds for my main toons when I come back... they are posted here: http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,10362.0.html (http://www.cohtitan.com/forum/index.php/topic,10362.0.html)
So far:
Fire/Time/Power Corruptor
Earth/Psi/Psi Dominator
Earth/Kin/Stone Controller
Trick Arrow/Archery/Power Defender
Martial Arts/Energy/Body Scrapper (I am considering making this a MA/Regen/Weapon Scrapper because it fits my idea of the toon better).
Electric/Fire/Pyre Brute
Still working on finalizing a few builds:
Assault Rifle/Traps/Power Corruptor
Empathy/Fire/Psi Defender
That's it for now :)
It would be easier to ask me what I WONT remake.. LOL.. and that wont be very many.. I plan to remake darn near everything..
What I wont make is my Elec/Elec Dominator, DB/Regen Scrapper, Cold/Ice Controller, Shield/Ice Tank, AR/NRG Blaster. Merc/TA Mastermind.. everything else is getting remade...
Inv/SS Tanker ( might remake as a Brute, though )
Plant/Storm Troller
Fire/Rad Troller
MA/Shield Scrapper
SS/Fire Brute
and ... my AR/Fire Blaster
Quote from: Drauger9 on November 13, 2014, 09:07:34 AM
I'm changing my main from Claws/Regen scrapper to
Necro/thermal MM.
FLAMING ZOMBIES FTW!!!!!!!!
MA/Regen/Body Scrapper
Street Justice/Willpower/Body Scrapper
Dark/Dark/Body Scrapper
Dual Blades/Willpower/Body Scrapper
MA/Willpower/Body Scrapper
Fire/Fire/Fire Blaster
Dual Pistols/Energy/?? Blaster
Ice/Ice/Ice Blaster
Archery/Traps/?? Blaster
Energy/Invul/?? Tank
And a widow.
The ?? denotes I might change that selection from what I had on the old toon. Those are all the combinations I had gotten to 50 by shutdown. I may just make those toons, then park them while I play something new. At shutdown I was playing a Water/energy blaster. I might just start with him again in the new world.
I've been advised that I should remake my Fire/Kin first and use that to level up the others. I was one of the weird ones who played Fire/Kin because I loved it....fell in love with the cute imps the first time I saw them. I had no clue how to pwerlvl.
Then it would be:
Ice/Storm Controller
Ill/Rad Controller
Mind/Storm Controller
Earth/Kin Controller
Fire/Rad Controller
Plant/TA Controller
Dark/Dark Defender
Fire/Fire Blaster
AR/Dev Blaster
Spines/Dark Scrapper
BS/SR Scrapper
Those are my "must haves"...may or may not get my Inv/SS Tanker back. Not sure I'm that great at playing a Tanker.
Damn....I realized I forgot about my 2 MM's.
Bots/Traps
Necro/Dark
Loved both of them. But was always afraid to team with them. Also suspected other players hated teaming with MM's. Just paranoid probably. Luckily they were awesome solo.
QuoteFLAMING ZOMBIES FTW!!!!!!!!
LOL that was one of the reasons I'm changing. I thought it'd be cool to see zombies running around on fire. :)
Quote from: Brightfires on November 13, 2014, 08:15:53 AM
None.
If I'm starting over from square one, I'll be starting from scratch with an all new set of characters.
Same. Will be reusing names but probably not powersets.
I will be remaking safehouse, my energy/energy blaster, and Del Mansfield, my elec/regen scrapper. Otherwise everything else is going from scratch.
I have an idea for an invuln/super strength tank who has a history of ineptitude due to being unable to control his strength. And for a fire/time corruptor named Tempoflare. Or ice/time called Tempofrost. Or both, Lol.
Definite "rebirths" of 50s:
Peacebringer
Widow
Remakes of 50s with revisions:
Invul/Kinetic/Energy Tank as Invul/Electric/(Energy|Electric)
Rad/Dark/Dark Defender as Rad/Psychic/Electric
Remakes for characters that didn't get to 50:
Fire/Fire Dominator (got to about 25)
I have to rebuild them all because I no longer have the old builds :(
Ones that definitely will be recreated:
DB/Elec scrap
WS
Staff/Ice stalk
SS/Fire brute
PB
Water/Storm corr
Everything else will probably be new.
I've thought about that for a while now. I probably won't bring back any of my mains. Most of their bios written so that they went on to bigger and better things like medical teaching for my healer, training up and coming bounty hunters for many others. Most are now considered retired at this point.
I may do an mm and just tell anyone I team up with to suck it up if they don't like mms or I may build a variation on one of my defenders.
If I build the mm, likely a zombie/ff, a ninja/ff, or a demon/ff. If the defender, an ff/archer. I've always liked the bows as well as ff. it's come in too handy too many times for me. lil Hell Mouse, my demon/dark mm was a lot of fun but the debuffs of dark never seem to match the defense I could get from ff.
I more want to remake and replay certain power sets than replicate exact characters. I'd have a bots/traps MM and an Ice/Ice blaster again for sure that will be similar to my old characters, but not exact remakes.
Quote from: Drauger9 on December 13, 2014, 12:15:27 AM
LOL that was one of the reasons I'm changing. I thought it'd be cool to see zombies running around on fire. :)
I can't imagine its a pleasant smell though
Who knows? Maybe the smell of burning corpses would get rid of the smell of the zombie's vomit. So it could turn out sorta' ok....I guess.
I have a list of remakes and do-overs planned in my head but I'm waiting for an official announcement before I start investing time into anything concrete.
Yes, I am going to remake my main characters with a few changes. I've been looking at my Mid's and looking at Paragon Wiki to see what powersets and IO enhancements I need to change. Including Incarnate slots too. I've been thinking about this since August.
QuoteI can't imagine its a pleasant smell though
I plan to feed them potpourri everyday. :P
QuoteI may do an mm and just tell anyone I team up with to suck it up if they don't like mms or I may build a variation on one of my defenders.
In my experience the only time people complain about an MM being on the team. Is if the MM couldn't keep their pets under control and even then most people ( in my experience) would tolerate them. It took me a good year maybe two to get my pets under complete control.
Macro's are a God send for MMs. If your interested, I'll dig out my old macros and post them for you. I started with basic ones and as I got more experienced I made more detailed macros.
It really depends on how they open the game back up. Clean slate vs vet powers, empty market vs stocked market, etc. Money can make all the difference in the world to how some toons level - permadom in the 20's, for example.
Scratch toons (all variations of the originals):
SD tanker
Fire/Rad corruptor
DM/Fire brute
If we can somehow access IO's, all bets are off. ;)
Quote from: Drauger9 on December 20, 2014, 10:48:12 AM
I plan to feed them potpourri everyday. :P
In my experience the only time people complain about an MM being on the team. Is if the MM couldn't keep their pets under control and even then most people ( in my experience) would tolerate them. It took me a good year maybe two to get my pets under complete control.
Macro's are a God send for MMs. If your interested, I'll dig out my old macros and post them for you. I started with basic ones and as I got more experienced I made more detailed macros.
My favorite was to send my bots to a specific spot and have them attack from there. Of course they routinely had to be "reminded" to
stay there! ;D
Quote from: Drauger9 on December 20, 2014, 10:48:12 AM
In my experience the only time people complain about an MM being on the team. Is if the MM couldn't keep their pets under control and even then most people ( in my experience) would tolerate them. It took me a good year maybe two to get my pets under complete control.
Macro's are a God send for MMs. If your interested, I'll dig out my old macros and post them for you. I started with basic ones and as I got more experienced I made more detailed macros.
Same here when I ran MMs. I was a bit of a macro queen having written a number of them. I had control of my pets down to a macro per pet. Don't have of them now of course but I could use the numerics pad on my keyboard to direct each individual pet. I just wish they'd made a few more mm powersets. I'd love to have seen a construction manager mm with journeymen, welders, and iron workers. Could use nail guns, hammers, and arch welders. The big guy could throw dynamite. Or, perhaps the wrestler manager with both male and female wrestlers for pets. They could use wrestling moves. Finisher might be a folding chair to the head.
Skinnable pets would have been really nice too.
I know that I'm going to make the following changes:
Dark/Elec Defender -> Dark/Ice
Illusion/Rad Controller -> Ill/Time and Ill/Dark until I decide which one I like more
Rad/Sonic Defender -> Sonic/Rad Corruptor
Then I want to roll the following again:
Ill/Storm Controller
Fire/Ice Tank
Broadsword/Ninjitsu Stalker
Titan/Regen Brute
Elec/SS Tank
Spines/Elec Scrapper
TA/AR/Mace Defender
I also had a Plant/Emp controller that I maxed out recharge, regen and heal on. I'll make a Plant/NA as well to determine which I like best.