You're gonna wear it out!

[Eoraptor]

Everyone has their own playstyle. Some people are bold tanks who liked to lead from the front. Others are brazen scrappers, hanging out in the thick of the mob. Still others love their pets, or are the pious monks of Atlas, the support players.

So, who were you? which archetype did you bang on most frequently?

In the early days, I was a tank... Fugh Li my giant green ice/axe tank. I lived for wading into the mobs and letting the team follow on behind me as I slowed and disoriented. Even later I loved tanks and brutes with thier defensive-oriented fighting abilities.

But when I rejoined the game in the freedom era and when all archetypes were availabe to both sides, I quickly found a new love, the claw-stalker. the stealth strikes and the combo attacks became my weapon of choice (I also loved dual blade scrappers, but the claw stalkers were my faves)

[Lucretia MacEvil]

I dabbled in various archtypes for a while, mostly corruptors, controllers, dominators, and masterminds. 

Then I tried an elec/WP brute.  I was hooked, and brutes were my favorite ever since.  For me, they're a nice mix of toughness and damage output that lets me feel really, well, super.

   I miss our game...

[MWRuger]

I loved blasters. I loved melee. Mix and it is heaven! 

I/o sets that grant defense, Steadfast protection, glad armor, tough and weave, slotted with LotG and Reactive armor. And some mid size purples. Let's dance baby!

[Super Firebug]

While I did occasionally enjoy playing melee, a lot of the time it got too chaotic and confused - all those bad guys, and all that action, right at the camera. My preference was dealing death from a distance. I started out loving blasters - especially my Rifle/Devices - and then they made dominators available blueside. That was a great fit for me. The controller-type holds allowed me to make sure my opponents kept a respectful distance (most of the time, anyway), and the blaster-type attacks gave me the DPS that controllers lacked (in my experience). Some like the toe-to-toe brawling; my style is to stand off and smite with a wave of my hand. It just seems more ... civilized.

[Kaiser Tarantula]

I was an Arachnos Soldier.  Sure, I moonlighted as a Brute (often) and as a Controller or Mastermind (occasionally), but most of the time, either I was viciously beating fools over the head with a club that doubled as an energy cannon, or I was unleashing four-legged hell upon heroes with my Crab Spider pack.  That, plus being able to call down a gaggle of arachnobots whenever the situation called for it, made for lots of fun times on the Rogue Isles.

I honestly had a lot more fun on the Epic Archetypes than on standard ones.  Sure, they're generalists with kooky mechanics and are a bit harder to build because of it, but they're so satisfying once you've got a good set of enhancements on them.  Especially Arachnos Soldier - an average, ordinary, everyday Arachnos grunt who's just so well-armed and gotten so damn good at his job that even superheroes are terrified of him.  It just really felt great to beat the tar out of the likes of Positron or Miss Liberty, Back Alley Brawler or Synapse with an ordinary Arachnos chump with some distinctly extra-ordinary ambitions.

Also, running Army of Me with x8 the clones was great, and the badge was worth it.  "You're not sure how, but you're equal to or greater than eight of yourself."

[Rust]

I had various archtypes, but I felt most "at home" with Controllers and Dominators.

[General Idiot]

I was always mostly a fan of melee (Usually brutes) here, but I played everything. Except kheldians, could never really get into them though I had a couple at fairly high level anyway.

[Dollhouse]

I played at least one of pretty much anything, and I enjoyed the vast majority.  My two particular favorites, though (and the ones I thought I came to be fairly effective with) were D3s (Dark/Dark Defenders) and a few permutations of Stalkers.

The former would take a dedicated thread for me to elaborate on the reasons I loved 'em. Stalkers, though, became my overwhelming favorite Redside AT from pretty much the launch of CoV. I tended to build them to "stick around and scrap" rather than in-and-out one trick pony Assassin Strike users. The /Ninjitsu secondary was a godsend for that approach: very good self-heal and lots of aggro management tools...  In at least one case (an Electric Melee/Ninjitsu build that ended up more-or-less fully Incarnated), Assassin Strike was relegated to a backup "Placate-and-AS" way to finish off a Boss. Why lead with AS when you have a Superior damage AoE with knockdown that auto-crits out of Hide?   



Damn, I miss those characters...

[Brightfires]

FCM used to joke that I "always played the Tank... even when I wasn't". I thought he was overstating things a little there, but I will cop to picking fights and almost always jumping right into the middle of things no matter what AT I was on. (I had at least one of everything-) Anyone who ever ran with my Nemissary (Mister "crazy death mage" Dark Defender), or Hanano (my Ninja/FF Mastermind, who was a big believer in "leading from the front"-) can attest to that much.  It was really just my scraps and stalkers who all thought they were tanks, though.

Stalkers were my most numerous AT... followed closely by the Tanks, the Scraps and the Defenders.


Fearless... or just plain nuts.
(Nemissary the Dark Defender, in his native habitat. That is to say, standing right in the middle of a fight in the Underground trial, between Paul and Paragon, the league's two tanks.  )

[saipaman]

The character I was on when the game died was a claws/energy aura stalker.

Except for very rare occasions, I had to play her as a claws scrapper whenever I teamed.  She was tons of fun.

[Lucretia MacEvil]

...

This thread is really hard for me to read.  So much love lost....

I feel like crying right now.

[KABCOMson]

back in the day, i would play on three accounts. my favorite was no doubt the robotics mastermind, with either dark, ff, or sonic( i played with all three at the same time). with just those three, i have taken down GMs, finished off recluse from half health and no pylons, and i even took down kronos with them. but the one thing i was known for when playing was killing noobies who wanted to join me at like lvl 10 or below, even when they played a tank, and they would go through an endless cycle of dye and lvl rez, over and over again. my favorite thing to do with those was to go into recluses victory and dominate any tanks who thought they could take my solo with 3 of the paragon big bots+21 henchmen+ultimate defence and resistance from the buffs on the masterminds and pets. it was a lot of fun

[Woodsfire]

I tried every archetype at least thrice, many never made it past level 10. (For the record, I was an abysmal Controller. Needed much more practice there.)
My first fave and first 50 was a Dark/Regen Scrapper. Then there was the newly unlocked Khelidans, my highest, a peacebringer at 14. Then along came Dual Wield. Ding ding ding, three 50s and what a blast! And speaking of Blast(ers) I squeezed in an En/En and an Archery Blaster in between, though I wasn't all blue side. I took a Mastermind and her zombies up to 50 also although only got one of my Fire/Fire Brutes up to 34 before lights-out.
Yes, it took me all 8 years to do only that, but I loved every second of it.

Fond memories, great fun and looking forward to doing it again--not necessarily in Paragon City, but in one of the shiny new cities we have coming our way.

[Triplash]

I counted mine once. Out of about 40 characters, a third were scrappers, a third were blasters, and the other third were one or two of each other AT. Except M&Ms. Er, I mean MMs. My style is more "jump in and punch stuff"; the whole "stand back and assign duties" thing was just lost on me. That and I suck at multi tasking. (For a scrapper, multi tasking amounts to taking turns punching a bunch of faces, as opposed to just punching one face over and over till it goes away.) So I figured, instead of trying to keep track of every single mob in the room, I'll just build up enough armor to ignore everybody else while I take out the biggest threats one at a time. That makes sense, right? Hoo-ah!

And I pretty much played my blasters like they were scrappers with punches I could shoot at people, so yeah. Actually with a little focused building, my controller and one of my defenders played just like they were blasters. And my tankers were slow scrappers... and my brutes were.....  Man, I really didn't switch things up much, did I? Huh.

Loved it though!


You have defeated Ancestor Spirit.
*smack*
[Local] Crash Test: And stay down!
Crash Test gives Ancestor Spirit a vicious wedgie


*sighs* Good times!

[silvers1]

Scrappers all the way ... I had by far more scrappers to 50 than any other archtype.

Loved just wading into the enemy and thinking BRING IT ON!!!!

[houtex]

I can't say I had a favorite archetype or power.  They were all quite good if handled properly, contextually understood their roles.  Heck, even a worthless as a solo character could be leveled up to 50 and still be worth having around for heals/buffs (Rad/Ice 'Fender of mine was that, called "Total Dependent".  Mostly Ice buffs and leadership.).  Although I am a fan of Brutes and /WP ones especially, I would play anything because I was making the character too (in a semi-role-playing way), not just playing the powersets themselves.

But yeah, if I have to be something, Brutes... or 'Trollers.  Both were equally awesome for me to play wif.

[AlphaFerret]

Scrappers ruled!!  To me they were the most exciting toons to run.  I did all the ats, but I always had the most fun with the melee characters.

[JKPhage]

I honestly played a pretty strong balance of styles myself. Oh sure, I went through phases of being fond of one over the others but I like to think I had a pretty earnest appreciation for the game in all its possible playstyles. I never did get a mastermind or stalker to 50, nor any of the EATS, but I had at least one 50 of all the others. I could melee pretty darn well (Once tanked 3 spawns of 50+ Knives for 10 minutes straight, completely on my own while the rest of my team had been wiped and gave them enough time to all revive, return and mop up the stragglers on a Staff/Inv scrapper), and I was a MASTER of ranged combat (cut my teeth on an energy/energy blaster and thus I became a master of using knockback advantageously from the very start), but I honestly think I had the strongest preference for controllers. Dominators never quite worked for me, always tried to play them too much like combo trollers/blasters and ending up bottoming out on end before I could wipe out two minions. Controllers, though, that was where I could shine. I could deal some amazing damage given the proper power combo, and still support my team.

So tl;dr, I guess I used trollers the most.

[TerminalVelocity]

Blapper, all the way. Definitely not 'optimal', but damned if I didn't enjoy myself. I made sure I didn't hold back the team, of course.

[ukaserex]

My gut would tell me that I love blasters and brutes -- but when I tallied up all my 50's, I actually had as many controllers as I had blasters, edging out brutes by one.

My favorite was the ill/rad, the only character who wasn't built for any defense, just recharge for perma PA. His name was Imperious Rex, and I confess it irked me some that another aggro magnet in Cimerora was named Imperious as well - but without the Rex. My Imperious Rex was created in issue 4, well before the arrival of Cimerora. But, them's the breaks. Not a big deal at all, really.

[Ashen Fury]

My 3 main loves were tankers, scrappers and defenders, but scrapper definitely takes the win overall. Something about wading into the next room while the rest of the team is back there and soloing everything so that they walk into a room of corpses and me in the middle /e drink ing just always felt so...cool.

[MindBlender]

1st 3 level 50s were my emp defenders (though I made 6). 

I followed up with 5 tanks to 50 (2 wp/whatever a fire/fire-The money maker  a ice/electric finally my stone/stone). 

I then worked on several (4 or so) trollers and settled on rad/ill for the next 50.

[Eoraptor]

It's funny to see how many people played tanks like me, as a literal main battle tank; big, slow, heavily armed and heavily armored. It's even more funny to see people going into the other threads on the site and kvetching how other games treat tankers as trotted up scrappers rather than as actual tanks.

Keep up the good discussions!

[DBadger]

Scrappers were by far my most numerous AT. My Katana/Willpower scrapper was insanely kitted out in comparison to my other alts, loved to dive into crazy situations with him. My least favourite AT was most villain side stuff.

[SARobb]

My main was a Fire/kin/Fire Troller.  I mained her for the better part of 4 years.  I only had two other toons I played on seriously, a Psy/Psy/Mind Dom and a Kin/Fire/Fire Scrapper.  The momentum the Kinetics brought to the fight, I even managed to turn the Controller's Heal into a damage dealing ability (when it proc'd (tm))...

gosh i friggin miss those toons... *sniffle*

[Thunder Glove]

Brutes and Masterminds, but I think I played more Brutes.  I definitely had more high-level Brutes, an Electric/Invuln and Energy/Energy at 50, a Staff/Dark and SS/WP in the high 30s, and a 20-something Elec/Elec that I was working on.  In contrast, I only had one L50 Bots/Storm Mastermind, one Thugs/Traps in the high 30s, and the rest - Mercs/Dark, Ninja/TA, and Necro/Pain - were languishing at low levels.  The Necro/Pain didn't get out of the single digits, and I don't think the Ninja/TA did, either.

Dominators were catching up, though, with two - Grav/Elec and Earth/Ice - at 50 (I got the Earth/Ice from 1 to 50 after the announcement was made), a Mind/Psi in the teens or possibly low 20s, and an Elec/Elec in the low teens.

[Kyriani]

For me I think it was a toss up between controllers and defenders... Both AT's really just made me feel like I had a grab bag of tools for a variety of situations in most cases. I never managed to level a Blaster very high on live precisely because I felt like my secondary just didn't do much to help me in most cases. Though I was eager to do a fire/martial combat blaster. Playing THAT on test made me feel like my secondary was worth a damn on a blaster!

[JanessaVR]

My playstyle was an evolution over time.  I've always said "If I'm close enough to touch the enemy, then they're close enough to touch me - and that's too close!"  So I started out playing Blasters, only occasionally playing a Scrapper or Stalker.

I moved onto Dominators, Defenders and Corruptors as I increasingly recognized enemy control/debuffing as a worthwhile and necessary strategy in addition to ranged attack.

But by the end I had transitioned almost exclusively to Controllers.  I left most damage dealing to other classes, and concentrated on near pure control, preferring holds and slows - things that would lock down the enemy outright or at least severely curtail any actions on their part.  By the end I was playing an Illusion/Time Controller, and to this day I swear that was pretty near to if not outright the best combination for such a play style/goal.

[Eoraptor]

"If I'm close enough to touch the enemy, then they're close enough to touch me - and that's too close!"

Amusing considering that as both a tank and as a stalker, I took the exact opposite approach. "If I'm close enough to touch them, they're close enough to touch me, so I'll touch them first, REALLY REALLY HARD" whether it was tanking in and pounding them into the ground with a hammer or an axe, or stealth stalking up and using dual wield claws to string together a combo on their asses and freezing their friends in place in fear.

Oh don't get me wrong, I dearly enjoyed my flying AR blaster's ability to reach out and touch someone from across the room, but my bread and butter was up close and personal

[JanessaVR]

Well, it just goes to show the variance of playstyles.   

When I was playing a Blaster, I made range a serious priority - adding ranges to my attack powers to try to hit minimum 108' Range, if not higher with Cardiac Core Paragon, and 50+5 Range Enhancements.

My motto:  "Hit them from the next ZIP Code over."

I had actually cranked range up so high on a few characters that I could snipe some enemies down to over half their hit points at ultra-long range, which would naturally start them running towards me.  But less than halfway there, they'd get bored chasing me, and start wandering back!  Which is when I'd hit them again and finish them off.  Always hilarious.

[Brightfires]

It's funny to see how many people played tanks like me, as a literal main battle tank; big, slow, heavily armed and heavily armored. It's even more funny to see people going into the other threads on the site and kvetching how other games treat tankers as trotted up scrappers rather than as actual tanks.

Keep up the good discussions!

It's true, alas... I have a Templar in Aion and a Sword/Chaos tank in Secret World and neither of them are half the tank my favorite WP/DB was in City. It's just... sad.

[General Idiot]

Well, it just goes to show the variance of playstyles.   

When I was playing a Blaster, I made range a serious priority - adding ranges to my attack powers to try to hit minimum 108' Range, if not higher with Cardiac Core Paragon, and 50+5 Range Enhancements.

My motto:  "Hit them from the next ZIP Code over."

I had actually cranked range up so high on a few characters that I could snipe some enemies down to over half their hit points at ultra-long range, which would naturally start them running towards me.  But less than halfway there, they'd get bored chasing me, and start wandering back!  Which is when I'd hit them again and finish them off.  Always hilarious.

Wasn't my character, but I remember seeing a fire/energy blaster once who with a combination of range enhancements and Boost Range actually needed a spotter. Because she could hit things from further away than the game would draw.

[r00tb0ySlim]

Spines/regen stalker and spines/energy stalker.....pvp peeps hated spirit shark (needed more cowbell, uh I mean range), but hey I built what the devs gave me  . 

[Ironwolf]

I studied carefully the differing power sets. I then decided to make a truly ranged blaster.

I made Carillion a Sonic/Ice blaster. Sonic has sleep, knockback and cones for damage. Ice had all the tools to slow, knockdown and sleep my foes. With overlapping sleeps I could even sleep bosses. This was my favorite character with a completely thought out build. I could tank most AV's, team easily and solo at +4 x 8.

This was in my eyes the ultimate Blaster build. My first character was a fire/fire blaster and I made every single type of blaster you could. Carillion was the culmination of 8+ years experience and a carefully planned attack sequence. I took her to over 30 before I was defeated and at 50+3 I still didn't have a debt badge. She was my goto character if we needed something to make a team win with certainty.

I once tanked a fully charged Recluse in the Statesman TF for 30 seconds while the tank was rezzing. I pulled him off the team and they were astounded I lasted so long......I was as well - expecting to drop quickly. Once I was dropped and the tank took over again - I stayed with him and we were able to finish him off quickly.

[damerell]

Blapper, all the way. Definitely not 'optimal', but damned if I didn't enjoy myself. I made sure I didn't hold back the team, of course.

En/en blapper, too; single-target (which is a good way to be a useful team member; aggro one thing at once and have it be a thing you're confident you can beat to a pulp... teamed with a K defender, why yes, that includes Freakshow bosses) - and preferably at a level before blaster nukes render beating individuals down largely irrelevant.

I was a bit sorry to see in the upcoming patch notes that Power Burst and the other-set equivalents were having their range increased.

[crayehal]

back in the day, i would play on three accounts. my favorite was no doubt the robotics mastermind

MMs are handy for multiboxing.  With 4 accounts, I did redside SFs by myself just for fun.  I used 2 MMs:  bots/traps and demon/therm.  The other 2 were a elec/shield brute and a fire/kin corr. 
I tried almost all the ATs, but the one I created on every server is my elec/shield brute.  A kin corr was not far behind. 

[mrultimate]

I had 3 level 50 fire/fire/fire brutes. Along with a fire/fire/fire scrapper and tank at 50. But I loved every AT and powerset. CoH was so much fun and I miss it so much.

[Minotaur]

I was a tank at heart, around 15 50 tanks with scrappers just behind and quite a few brutes.

[Megajoule]

Defenders.  Three out of eighteen, including my first main.  I got to buff people and shoot bad guys.
also, Brutes.  I had two tanks, two scrappers, and four brutes.  Better damage than pure tanks, and scrapperlock coded right in.

[General Idiot]

En/en blapper, too; single-target (which is a good way to be a useful team member; aggro one thing at once and have it be a thing you're confident you can beat to a pulp... teamed with a K defender, why yes, that includes Freakshow bosses) - and preferably at a level before blaster nukes render beating individuals down largely irrelevant.

I was a bit sorry to see in the upcoming patch notes that Power Burst and the other-set equivalents were having their range increased.

I still think the best blapper build I ever managed to make was actually my spines/regen scrapper, who at one point had more ranged attacks than melee. But while still a technically accurate use of mashing the two AT names together, I don't think that's the kind of blapper you're talking about. :p

[Stone Daemon]

I had many tanks, scrappers, V/HEATs, blasters, and controllers. Everything else, I tried to various degrees, and made sure to get at least one 50 in each. Except corrupters. I could never really get into corrupters.

[CC SK TT]

It's funny to see how many people played tanks like me, as a literal main battle tank; big, slow, heavily armed and heavily armored. It's even more funny to see people going into the other threads on the site and kvetching how other games treat tankers as trotted up scrappers rather than as actual tanks.

Keep up the good discussions!

I always hated how they agro capped tanks - nothing worse than being the tank on a team and having a very agro oriented build (ice/ice with 6 slotted purpled taunt) and then seeing......people running away from me for the softies.

As great as that tank was, I think my best team character was probably a arrow/arrow defender.  Enemies just seemed to melt away and be scenic detours on a map with the mass of debuffing going on.

[damerell]

I still think the best blapper build I ever managed to make was actually my spines/regen scrapper, who at one point had more ranged attacks than melee. But while still a technically accurate use of mashing the two AT names together, I don't think that's the kind of blapper you're talking about. :p

Indeed not. Defences? I don't hold with such decadent practices.

[Ellscry]

[Kyuuen]

Early on in the game, I noticed a strong aversion towards Defenders - especially among the powerlevelers and number crunchers. During the first two issues, watching from Gemini Park, I hardly noticed any high-level Defenders.

I saw one, I barely remember that it was a strong male character model, wearing mostly blue. I don't remember his name but I felt inspired when I saw him there. A level 50 defender. Someone who had stuck it out despite everyone saying that this was the worst AT in the game. Between that guy and Doctor Forkenshpoon, a high level Rad/Rad Defender and talented roleplayer - I was eventually inspired to reroll my AR/Dev Blaster main (Belle Bonne), into a TA / Sonic Defender (Belle Barium).

Trick Arrow Belle was very, very weak at first - barely able to take down LTs, and getting her head handed to her during the first Fight Night At the Golden Giza PVP event by some villain named 'King Chicken'. Flash Arrow wasn't cutting it.

Then invention sets came out and things got better.

Then I got Oil Slick Arrow, and things got MUCH better.

I started pouring influence into my first batch of high-cost invention sets, and the recharge and accuracy bonuses started becoming a boon to my little Defender's performance.

It got to the point where I was starting off every group with a mass hold, then creating a chain that had Oil Slick Arrow, Disruptor Arrow, and Acid Arrow, followed by either a lowly [Taser Dart] 'temp power' to ignite the slick, or a Teleport-then-Dreadful Wail* for a nice little double-nuke to thin the group out.

Once the herd was thinned down, a quick recharging combination of Glue / Ice / Oil Slick arrows could keep one or two bosses busy while I chipped away at them with low level sonic blast powers.

I spent most of the life of the game trying to 'max out' Belle.

I wanted to become an insanely useful debuff-heavy TA/Sonic Defender, and one of the strongest out there.

*http://kyuuen.deviantart.com/art/Defender-s-Nuke-Art-by-DrunkFu-386373562

[damerell]

Early on in the game, I noticed a strong aversion towards Defenders - especially among the powerlevelers and number crunchers. During the first two issues, watching from Gemini Park, I hardly noticed any high-level Defenders.

In the EU, we came in at issue 3, largely missing the "City of Blasters" street sweeping in Perez. I would say by then we had the opposite problem; no team would budge an inch without a "healer".

[Super Firebug]

Early on in the game, I noticed a strong aversion towards Defenders - especially among the powerlevelers and number crunchers. During the first two issues, watching from Gemini Park, I hardly noticed any high-level Defenders.

I saw one, I barely remember that it was a strong male character model, wearing mostly blue. I don't remember his name but I felt inspired when I saw him there. A level 50 defender. Someone who had stuck it out despite everyone saying that this was the worst AT in the game.

It wasn't nearly that early, but I had a level-50 defender on Protector: a Storm/Electrical named Super Weathergirl. I mostly soloed her to 50, but I especially enjoyed teaming her for Trick or Treating. Freezing Rain was very handy to put outside a door before clicking it, and it was always highly entertaining.

[Nealix]

I loved blasters and scrappers the most.  Or the equivalent villain types.  After that I also liked controllers/dominators and masterminds.  Tanks were sometimes fun and defenders had their place as well.  The only ones I didn't really like were the VEATS and HEATS.

[æhæd]

I was always a fan of ranged combat. My internet connection and hardware were severe limitations for a long time, such that getting into melee range was a serious chore without taunt. Controlling was fun on my main, anything at all was possible - holds, confuses, sleeps, tanking, herding, stalking to the end of the mission - those last few thanks to personal force field, dicey but ultra cool if it worked ("aggro-stalk").

My favorite play style at the end was a ranged Widow. With just two attacks firing darts from one or both hands, I got every IO I could to reduce recharge to the point they would chain, then rained prickly heck on everything. Even more fun than my Huntsman.

[MaHaBone]

Controllers, by a long mile.  I played a lot of PuGs, and when I played a blaster or scrapper, I had good PuGs and I had bad PuGs.  But when I played a Controller, I ALWAYS had a good team.  Good support can turn a pack of n00bs and knuckleheads into GODS.

[Shinobu]

Brutes and scrappers mostly.  Liked my widow a lot too... which I played like a scrapper.  ^_^

All my favorites were heavily IO'd for some sort of softcapped defense and maximum damage, so I could wade in against overwhelming odds and go to town.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GYjb2fuE3Lk

[Clave Dark 5]

[corvus1970]

I had a tendency to create lost of Blasters, Tanks, and Scrappers.

My first 50 was a Fire-dedicated Blaster.
My next was a Broadsword/Regen Scrapper.
After that, a Willpower/EM Tank.
Then an Electricity/Regen Scrapper.
And last, a Street-Justice/Invl Brute.

I had another blaster at about level 47 that was an energy-blaster, another tank at about level 45 who was Invul/SS, and a level 40 Ill/Rad controller.

So yeah, I generally enjoyed playing archetypes that could solo reliably moreso than "support" types that were more team-oriented.

[MaidMercury]

mmm......I tried a few types, never got the hang of being a controller.
I enjoyed being an empath Healer and played that the majority of my tenure.

It was being the designated driver, watching everyone battle from the sidelines.
Funny at times.

[Floride]

I didn't favor an AT. Knockdown (NOT knockback) was my thing. Ice Patch, Air Superiority, Stomp - I just loved to watch em bounce while I smacked em around! And boy could those Rikti Monkeys Bounce! My fave was my tank though, Headbanger's Brawl (Superstrength/Invuln).