Which powersets, that you tried, did you really hate.

[ukaserex]

Demons - noise boxes that won't get out of the way.

Oh no! You just had to bring these guys up! Those rascals have mooned me so many times, I'm still damaged psychologically - as if I wasn't before.

[DocHornet]

The animations ...well, I'm with Doc Hornet. Point and click. Nothing fancy was required. A little too campy for my tastes.

Especially as you'd think they could have adapted the existing Thugs (MM) pistol animations as off-the-shelf alternate. I suppose the casting times didn't match up.

[Charged Mastermind]

Ice Melee was very dull and very boring for my tastes, and it did not seem to do that much in terms of debuff. I could tell because I got an Ice/Ice Tanker to 50 and then scrapped him because I wasn't having much satisfaction with it

[HEATSTROKE]

 Dark Control for Controllers was extremely underwhelming to me.. and i hated that growling howling dog...

[Waffles]

Ice control was sort of underwhelming, I suppose. Ice melee too.

...Huh. Ice wasn't that great, besides Ice shield and Ice blast.

[DocHornet]

My only problem with Ice Melee and Ice Armor tanker sets is that they wouldn't port those two powersets over to brutes or scrappers.

[Waffles]

My only problem with Ice Melee and Ice Armor tanker sets is that they wouldn't port those two powersets over to brutes or scrappers.

Stalkers made good use of it, from what I hear.

[Canine]

I had a few combinations that made it (painfully, in some cases) to 22 then were scrapped, when Stamina/SO's failed to have enough impact to make them feel playable to me.

They were usually part of my attempts to escape the 'post-50 malaise' as I called it.  I didn't play mutliple alts at a time, I played one toon to 50, or one of my 50's.  I think the most toons I ever had at less than 50 at one time was two or three.  So, after I'd gotten a toon to 50, I found myself sort of stuck and it'd take me a few weeks of random pootling around at 50 to get inspiration for a new character.

I had a Thugs/Poison MM that didn't even make it to 22.  Something about the combination of particularly suicidal and squishy feeling pets (oh, the pyro's dead again, what a surprise...) and an endurance heavy secondary killed any fun in the combination.  Plus, I already had a Bots/Traps MM that was created on the CoV headstart weekend that I enjoyed and made other MM setups sort of... disappointing to me.

I had He-3, An Ice/EM blaster that suffered from chronic endurance starvation, even after SO's and slotted Stamina.

It was a long painful road before my Ice/Ice tanker (my first tanker) became fun, and he nearly got deleted, but eventually I got the hang of things and he became really hard to kill if I was paying attention.  He made it to 50, and got me sort of hooked on tanking.

Springheeled Jack, my original Stalker got deleted for being too damn squishy and ineffective.  He was EM/DA, IIRC.  After stalkers got buffed, he was rerolled as DM/SR and as 'Springheeled Jacques' as someone had taken the original name in the meantime (which was fair enough, he was deleted partly for a character slot and partly so someone else could have the name if they wanted it)

I had Raffles, my SS/Invuln Brute who was originally rolled as EM/EA on the CoV headstart.  He was killed off at about 16 or so, due to EA being tissue paper back then, and EM draining me dry of endurance.  Once rerolled to SS/Inv, it felt better.

I'm sure there were others, but I can't recall right now.

Oh, and someone earlier in the thread complained about Kinetic melee being too slow?  It wasn't really.  It just felt it because of the sound effects.  My KM/SR flying scrapper was all sorts of fun in a mostly single target sort of way.  Especially since the speed buff to Hover came in shortly after I'd chosen flight/hover as his travel pool <grin>

[Charged Mastermind]

I keep coming back with powers that I didn't like :/.

I didn't get a feel for MOST of the Devices secondary. I loved the Targeting Drone (made it feel like I was actually hitting stuff, and I thought it looked nifty), Cloaking Device, and the Gun Drone. Other than that, I didn't really like it. I virtually ignored everything else. Before I respeced I had everything but I realized I just didn't like it. Funny enough, now I realize that Caltrops, paired with the Mine (not Time Bomb), was actually useful. But before that, I only had unlocked 3 of the set (not including Web Grenade).

Dark Melee was one I didn't like because it felt vague and underwhelming until you got Soul Drain, and then I felt like I was doing something. Ultimately scrapped the guy afterwards because I didn't play him much.

My VERY FIRST guy (i'm serious like once I got the game I made this guy) was a Spines Scrapper and I hated it. It felt like it did too little damage. Barely got him to level 5 and then scrapped him.

I loved Claws but it felt very inaccurate while playing it and it felt like it didn't do that much. The Endurance Discount on the powerset was nice though.

[silvers1]

Played a Thugs/FF mastermind to 50, I swore I'd never touch the arch-type again.  I want to play the game, not play
babysitter to some very squishy minions.

Really couldn't get into blasters, since their damage seemed a bit underwhelming to me.  The only exception being my AR/Fire.
My ice/ice was ok, but the dps was lacking.

Never could get into brutes, since I hated building rage.  Give me a scrapper any day - locked and loaded at all times.
The lone exception being my SS/Fire brute which I used for farming tickets.

[Shifter]

Energy blast, or any knock back for that matter. I hate chasing mobs all over the map to kill.

[Charged Mastermind]

I didn't really have the taste for Spines. But whenever I saw anyone else use it they hit their enemies almost everytime and they said they had no accuracy enhancements or anything. What

[DarkCurrent]

Super Reflexes and Kinetic Melee were pretty annoying to me.

[Blackstar5]

EM on brutes was really underwhelming.

[Ankhammon]

So much hate for two of my favorite sets: Trick Arrow and Nature Affinity.

I must confess that TA does take some time to get used to and it is really end heavy considering you are using a bow, but the payoff is pretty high with the -res, OSA, and a non-resistable -tohit that worked wonders on AVs.
I liked the set so much I had two. A TA/Ice fender who took lead on TFs (no tanks needed thanks much) and a TA/Sonic fender who just pumped out damage and was very safe to play.

For NA, I get the graphics looking so strange/bizarre. I found myself being ok with it after I changed the colors to a dark purple and faded blue combo. Gave it an otherworld Night Stalker kind of feel.
The buffs/de-buffs were extremely nice though.

Personally, I could never get into Gravity or FF. But they did change Gravity a bit and it might be worth another look if the game does actually come back.

[Blackstar5]

This x a GooglePlex.. I forgot about that power.. OMG i wanted to like it.. I got a toon to 41.. and deleted it.. just awful...

Although I didn't hate kinetic melee, I did lose interest at about 44 on a Kin/wp brute.

[Kobolt]

That's funny 'cause I had a Kin/WP brute too and I did get him to lvl 50 his name was T'Ankh and I RP'd him like a kick-ass Dr. Fate (even same color scheme) but I honestly did love the animations for a magic based RP'd character like he was.



But honestly I really didn't hate any one power lol.

[DarkCurrent]

That's a great concept and costume for T'Ankh!

[primeknight]

I liked about everything.

I see people stating a few powers I really enjoyed.  That just means the game was very versatile and there was a lot for everyone. 

[energizingion]

Well I think Archery and the whole Peacebringer AT are the two that stick out to me right now.

Archery mainly because when TA and Archery came out, I made a TA/A Defender....bad idea.  At the time, it seemed like no one was teaming (and not farming) and so I was left to solo quite a bit.  Yeah...solo'ing with Archery on a Defender...so...so...painful.  Wooo!  I took down a Yellow or orange conned Lt...and it only took 5 minutes!  Oh wait, there are only 100 more mobs to go!   *cries*


The PB I just hated as well.  I tried to play it like my Warshade (which I loved) and just didn't work.  I got him to 50 (from random teams) and just shelved him....I think I moved him to another server for free to free up a slot on Liberty even lol.