White Peregrine, of course. powersets will depend on what is actually available at launch and which fits his concept the best. after I get my initial wanderlust done I will make the rest of my primary's (Citenik, Lionseye, St. Aegis and Ms. Majestic). :)

Alot will depend on what version of ATs we have and what power sets we'll have.

I plan to make a Sparkle Armor/Glow-fist Tanker and a Dark Blast/Dark Support/Heal Defender. To start with, anyway.

Be Well!
Fireheart

I'm with the others who are going to wait for the game to launch. I can't really mentally commit myself to a toon that might not be a good fit for City of Titans, and I really don't know what will be a good fit until I get a chance to start playing around with the costume maker and look at the power set options. I know some of those options have probably been discussed elsewhere, but I don't usually pop into those sections of these forums. I'm fine to wait and check out what we have when we have it.

That said, I know that I will probably make up a character idea based on what options we do have, probably based more on the costume maker than the power sets. If I see a weird face, hat, weapon, or icon to where on my chest that I haven't seen in other games, I might try to imagine what kind of hero would wear those. That will likely be my first toon in City of Titans.

That is how I ended up making Little Lady Sad-Face in Champions Online, who was supposed to just be a goof-around toon for a day or two and then deleted. Making a character based on the sad face available for a chest symbol seemed like a fun challenge. Once completed and played a bit, though, I didn't stop being amused with myself over the idea of a superhero with gloom powers who fights crime not because of an inherent desire for justice, but because it is better than sitting at home crying on the couch. She's one of my favorites. I hope to make up weird toons like that, but I'd rather not rush the inspiration.

TheMightyPaladin wrote:

Not saying I won't play, just I might not.
Definately won't play as often if there aren't nunchaku.
A lot depends on my mood
And at some point I'll be certainly in the mood to play.
But if I don't find myself in the mood often enough, why keep paying?

Obviously if you're not in the "mood" to play a game there's no reason to bother with it.

All I'll say is that when I started playing CoH I had several characters with character concepts which exceeded the game's capabilities. For example I had one who I envisioned would have flapping wings and a moving tail. Neither of those things existed when CoH first launched and there was never any guarantee those things would ever exist in the game. Still I played on as best I could and had plenty of fun regardless.

Now I was lucky in that over the years the game finally gave us actual flapping wings and moving tails to play with. I'm simply glad I didn't let the initial lack of those things stop me from playing those characters from the very beginning.

Sure you might be waiting for nunchaku and maybe you've even been waiting decades for that. But that's not a real reason to avoid what might otherwise be a pretty good game regardless.

Lothic wrote:

Sure you might be waiting for nunchaku and maybe you've even been waiting decades for that. But that's not a real reason to avoid what might otherwise be a pretty good game regardless.

Actually for me it could be. Unless I get some assurance that the wait might finally be over one day.
In short without some confirmation from the devs that there eventually will be nunchaku (even if not at launch) I am currently teetering on the bring of just giving up. And if they tell me that its too much trouble and they have no plans to do it ever then I'm definitely gone.
I need a yes or no.

If they say no I wouldn't be beating drum I'd be beating a dead horse.
And as was pointed out above, I've played different interpretations of the character before
for decades.
I'm tired
If it's never going to be what I really want,
I can just stick to Pen and Paper games
where everything can be what I want
Except that it wont come to life on the screen.

First character will be a Bulwark, no question. Super Strength, Flight, Invulnerability, and a fiery projectile to boot should tertiary sets allow. Bruiser, Ruggedness and maybe Battle Leader. This is pretty much what it will be, lest something changes that. I still play around with Mids to make a kind of build like this when I can.

After that, well... one of them will be a Gladiator probably. I want to give the Gunner a try, and maybe a pet class when it is released.

If there is any combination of Gravity Control and Time Manipulation in City of Titans, [b]Topheavy Gs[/b] will be making a comeback. Recalling her Bio from memory ...

Quote:

SAVE IT.

I've heard all the jokes already and that odds that yours will be original are approaching nil, okay? I mean, how many girls do you know who had to develop gravity control technology as a defense against the onset of puberty?

Right. Didn't think so.

Was always fun to be standing around in Wentworths, minding my own business, on Topheavy Gs and just suddenly getting a random tell from someone who had read her bio and just couldn't stop laughing at the way I'd subverted [url=http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/MostCommonSuperPower]The Most Common Superpower[/url] with Topheavy Gs and letting it (tastefully) "all hang out" and practically DARING people to disapprove. Never got a single complaint about her costuming. ^_^

My first main will probably be a melee/defense with rage and a ranged tertiary... of what variety I can not say but I've always been a fan of melee DPS, when manipulation comes out for the melee guys I'll switch to that, but right off the bat I'm going to make me a melee/defense

When CoH started, my first character was a blaster, who only got to level 7 before I got tired of her, so created a tanker. She got to her early 20s before I realized she wasn't really melee but controller, deliberately limited in DPS and even moreso in endurance. I could do little other than have all defensive toggles on and do an AOE womp once in awhile. Soloing took forever and was intensely boring, so I grouped, and that was more fun but taunting instead of doing real work wasn't my cup of tea.

Then I tried a scrapper and never looked back. No stupid backstabbing rogue or monk type this. No, this was some serious DPS, where you stayed alive by rapidly slaying things rather than toughing it out.

And the scrapperlock with combat-allowed /follow, combat jumping, tab, and queued attacks, wow.

So, whatever is closest to that. To be quite honest, I'm looking also a little down the road at the theoretical and post-release damage/damage builds, or whatever it's called, as opposed to damage/mitigation. Even higher DPS would be awesome, even at the cost of more squishiness. (This assumes the DPS stacks up somehow, and aren't just alternate one-at-a-time powers for minimal net DPS gain over dam/mitigation.)

My original CoH main was a Fire/Rad Controller. I had great fun with her and continued to play her fairly regularly for the entire run of CoH. Despite all that the powerset combination was never quite 100% exactly what I had in mind for the overall character concept.

I wanted the Fire Control part, but to be honest I never quite liked being locked into having to select a Support secondary. What I really wanted was something closer to being a "Controller/Ranged" instead of a "Controller/Debuffer". When Dominators came along in CoV I was able to roll a Fire/Fiery Dominator, but it still wasn't quite what I wanted because the Assault secondary was still too melee and/or PBAoE oriented. Also the Dominator was never going to replace my original main for all sorts of reasons (including it being a villain and lacking the early badges).

So when I saw that CoT was going to offer a [url=http://cityoftitans.com/forum/updated-classification-and-specification-chart]Control/Ranged[/url] combination (in the Commander:Executor) I was thrilled. Basically I'm hoping this will provide for the Mezzes and Ranged Attacks I always really wanted in my original CoH main. I'll probably roll a test Commander:Executor during the beta to compare it to the Commander:Director (a.k.a. CoH Controller) just to make sure I really like it before the game launches for real.

Gorgon wrote:

Not according to that chart. There are DAM/DAM for melee and ranged separately.

Perhaps the chart makes things a bit confusing. The game play function on the left side, Offense, and the top row of gameplay functions of Offense are not intended to indicate there is indeed a Specification for that type. Which is why the combination of say, Melee Offense, Melee Offense is crossed through (with a dotted line).

There is no 'damage / damage' combination at this state, nor even in the 'put it on the white board' planning stages.

Tannim222 wrote:

Gorgon wrote:
Not according to that chart. There are DAM/DAM for melee and ranged separately.

Perhaps the chart makes things a bit confusing. The game play function on the left side, Offense, and the top row of gameplay functions of Offense are not intended to indicate there is indeed a Specification for that type. Which is why the combination of say, Melee Offense, Melee Offense is crossed through (with a dotted line).
There is no 'damage / damage' combination at this state, nor even in the 'put it on the white board' planning stages.

Ok, thanks. I thought it was reserved for future use kind of thing. So what is Striker then? What is OFF/MIT as a secondary? Ranged analog is blaster, but that doesn't say much. A build up power and a blowback?

I wanna play :(

:)