There's been talk of what we'd do first in CoT and what we hope for CoT and so on. Obviously having a great city to wander around in, being solo friendly, and basically everything I talk about here are important to me, but mechanics and environment aside, there was a dream I had for CoH that I never got to live and my greatest hope for CoT is to be able to live that dream.
I loved my Dark/dark/dark Defender more than any other character. I loved her design, I loved her story, I loved her powers. The only thing I didn't love was that she was too weak to solo effectively. Of course I could do it if I was careful, but it took a long time and didn't work on really tough bosses. No matter how carefully I crafted her build or the number of IOs with special properties she had (PLEASE let there be a market and IOs like CoH in CoT! That was the best!), she was capped out and it was her only real disappointment.
When it was too late, I realized that if I rerolled her as a corruptor, I could take advantage of Scourge to fix the problem. Using her Dark Maisma powerset, she could disable the enemy then using Fire for raw damange (plus the Scourge ability once she brought them down), she could destroy them. It could have been epic. I've noticed they don't have a similar character type in CoT yet and maybe they never will, but I hope there's some combination of mechanics that allows me to play both offense and defense in one character like I was almost able to do in CoH. That's my dream (that and I hope the character creator lets me make someone that looks like her or else this won't matter at all :P)
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This summarizes my hopes and dreams for CoT. Check it out if you'd like.
I only played one corruptor, and it was a Dark Blast/Time Manipulation and I had named her 'Dark Ages'. So Dark Blast was definitely available to Corrs.
https://cit.cohtitan.com/character/141908
Whoops... it's been too long. Basically, I wanted to herd a room with Darkest Night, put down tar patch to bunch the enemies up then destroy them. I must have chose fire on purpose for it's raw damage ability. I'd take dark if it can dish it, but in CoH it couldn't compared to fire so that's the combo I wanted to try.
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This summarizes my hopes and dreams for CoT. Check it out if you'd like.
I remember people coloring their Fire Blast black so it would look as close as possible, and it was fairly similar if memory serves. Fire/Dark was a pretty popular combo.
OMG! That's brilliant!!!!
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This summarizes my hopes and dreams for CoT. Check it out if you'd like.
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One of my main's was a Dark/Defender named Ebon Darke. Sure if was tough to solo until I realized that Howling Twilight was the BEST mez in the game as it was an auto hit and had a really nice and long aoe stun duration. I had it slotted for recharge and mez duration and no boss could resist it. The power was meant for rezzing allies but I used it as a part of my rotation. With Haste and recharge reduction I was able to get the cd to like every 20 secs or so. The combo worked so well that I brought it over to my Ninja/Dark Mastermind Lord Shadow.
These are my bases:
CoH Base
https://imgur.com/a/HbskR
Citadel Forged With Fire
https://imgur.com/a/9okUuf1
I also had a D3 'fender, although technically it wasn't my first debuffer but it was the first one that I pushed all the way to 50. He was named Cobat Abyssean.
Black Valkyrie was my D3 and she soloed fine, however it took a while to take the opposition down, due to the low DPS of Defenders. It also took a while for her to lay down all of the debuffs and mitigation she had, but once that was rolling properly, she and her team were perfectly safe against almost anything.
I would have dearly loved a damage boost, such as switching to Corruptor would make, but I'm not sure I'd enjoy the Corruptor's weakened [url=https://paragonwiki.com/wiki/Dark_Miasma]Dark Miasma[/url] (which was available to Corruptors from Issue 6).
Be Well!
Fireheart
Considering how popular Fire/Dark was, it'd be hard to believe that it's effectiveness was reduced that drastically. I didn't play one, so I can't say one hundred percent, of course.
Not sure what you mean here - one of the starting archetypes for CoT is Ranged Damage/Support. They will have a "Corruptor" right from the start.
My main toon on CoX, Radiac, who was a defender, was not as good at soloing as my Mastermind. That didn't bother me. Different toons can and should be better at different parts of the game, in my opinion, to keep them different enough that you can feel the difference when you play them. We all want our toon to be more combat effective than it currrently is, no amount of damage or defense is ever really "enough" for us. That's why we always want better gear, I think. But I think there needs to be a clear difference between one toon and another, even if that means some have to be bad at some or even all parts of the game and others better.
I liked my Defender because he was good at teaming up and a popular team-up choice among teams looking for people. There were tons of blasters in early CoT, so I made the thing that a team of blasters might want to team up with so as to be able to get on teams. Radiac was NOT a good solo toon, but I din't care, because I didn't build him primarily for soloing. I couldn't really stand playing tankers or scrappers. Having to take down all those mobs one at a time really seemed boring to me. I was much happier in a team where everyone else took the aggro and I just made the bosses softer and weaker. Then with my mastermind I would do tip missions solo and I was the aircraft carrier with the demon pets being the fighter and bomber planes doing the work. It was a whole different vide, batch-processing a map with the pets. but still fun and very similar to being a defender, only solo and having more control over (and needing to pay more attention to) the rest of the team.
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