BrokenFace

hmm. would tough/weave provide enough defense to noticably matter?
I'm not rocking a /kin secondary, so I don't need tactics, I'm rocking fire, so I'm...burny, and my shield looks cool?
Or would I end up having massive end problems without the end alpha?(the plan, btw, is to be plant/thermal/fire just because this is like the first toon I've ever had where I can justify that specific APP for thematic reasons, in addition to general 'badassery')

Ok, so..let's start with the basics: I'm returning to the game. I am able to fund the building of the perfect troller...eventually.
I was wondering if someone would be able to toss together a "do this, not that" guide for a plant/thermal/fire troller. I simply don't know all the small details that have apeared since I left-and-returned to the City.
Right now, when I try to make a build, I end up with something like
http://www.cohplanner.com/mids/downl...08FC032F1CE72B


and I KNOW that there are a trillion things I'm missing. I know the utter awesomeness of a plant-thermal troller means this is the toon I want to drag through incarnate trials with(I have piles of aoe. shields. a heal that works on me without me being in melee. debuffs for the AV's, a rez, and just..gallons of awesome), but I'd just really like it if someone was to hold my hand through this first build. I know there's both a lot that I don't know, AND a lot that I've forgotten in my years /afk, and I don't want to utterly waste my i21 freespec.
if someone would take pity on a poor, returning fool, I will <3 you forevers.

Plainguy, I sorta <3 you right now. I've wanted a general "I'm cool, and can aoe like iron man+Doc Oc COMBINED" mercenary for ages, but...I fail at builds.

...Then you made a build for "AOEs like iron man".

...ergo?
<3
...now I'm gonna go get rocket boots for my hovering crab-pack'd mace-wielding mercenary :P

EDIT: My new problem is finding a sufficiently awesome name that'll work for BOTH the starting redside dude, then the inevitable blueshide shift :P

I have read up on fortunas. I now have a lvl 15 widow named Mr. Indigo. I now just need nine more levels till I can play my actual class ><

...well...since I level faster blueside, odds of me goin yellow, then red-at-35-then-blue? 100%

...this makes me happy. I have "Mr. Ochre" reserved out of love for the Reservoir Dogs, and plans to play this dude as like...some sort of sketchy black ops agent(once I get blueside).

New question. I obviously will want one of those "patron pool" powers(or maybe one of Epic Power Pool sets...I'll decide later. Resets exist for a reason :P)

can I get a patron while I'm a rogue? or do I have ta be full on "kill the puppy level of evil" red?

Lets start with the simple bits of information:
1. I love ranged toons

2. This is my second week of returning-to-the-game-in-anticipation-of-freedom

3. I have a crab spider, that I sorta like(I take hits, AND do explodey range. I like that. I like having free(like..as in endurance) leadership toggles, and cool armor. I want stealth though, or controls. Just..standing there, and nuking bores me.)

4.I have a warshade that I sorta like(I have stealth, AND holds, but if I don't look for void's carefully enough, I WILL die. I don't like a guaranteed death/inability to solo properly)

5. I have controller's(multiple), that I sorta like. They don't do enough damage for me, and there's a shortage of cool invisibility powers outside of illusion, but I like looking at enemies unable to do anything. It makes me happy.

6. If I want stealth, holds, and ranged damage, will Fortuna's work? At higher levels, will I have both sustainable damage/holds enough to lock big bad's down(like...I'm not expecting controller level holds, but like...warshade level holds), or if I start a fortuna with the EXPLICIT plan to do big-kid ranged damage/cc, will I be cursing my future Fortuna at like..40/lamenting not rolling a 'troller/dominator/warshade?
Or will I be building strange psychic houses inside the brains of my enemies, soley so I can take them apart with a giant sledgehammer while they're locked up and twitching?

New set of questions
1. If I have stamina slotted with just..vanilla end/mod enhancements, does it do ANYTHING to nova and dwarf forms?
2. If I six slot a nova form, or dwarf(...and obviously, I'll be doing so..cuz..I LOVE shapeshifting), are there any invention sets floating around that are both flat-out MADE for khelds, AND affordable?
3. Are kheldian macros serverside, or clientside? Like..I set up all those complex "switch to tray, drop form, goto form" macros for nova and dwarf. will I have to set them up again for each computer I have CoX on? Or will they be there inherently?

Eh. I read the thread at the top of the forum. Last updated WS guide was I9.
It's I20 at the moment

that's an 11 issue difference.

To start out, I'm coming back to the game, and now that EATs are unlocked at 20 instead of 50, I'd be a fool not to play them. That said? I have many, many questions, and with all the guides being "old" or "assuming I have basic knowledge that quite frankly, I lack", I'm goin straight to the forums

1. in general forum consensus, what'd be simpler to play for a returning player/lover of controllers/sorta-understand-er-of-VEATS-and-not-much-else, a tri-form peacebringer, or triform warshade? Triform WILL happen. I'm starting this toon out, I want to be awesome

2. Is there a time limit to how long you can be a dwarf/squid? I'm just wondering, cuz..they both seem awesome, and logically, there's a reason people aren't squids 24/7

3. when you first unlock dwarf/squid, you automatically get xyz powers, ya?

4. I understand that kheldians get boosts while in groups. do kheldians also GIVE boosts? VEATS have really cheap leadership pools with good numbers on them. How does that balance with Khelds?

5. I keep reading that i21 will do...something with khelds. I've googled "issue 21 COH Kheldian"(and it's various permutations), and I can't pull up any patch notes. What is happening in 21?

6. Why do people say Warshades are better than Peacebringers? Just...a general question. Is there some hidden power gem that massively unbalances one over the other? is it a "flight is worse than teleport" thing?

Thanks in advance for takin time with my silly questions.

1.I'm just against the "no inviting to team" stuff because like..it actively punishes the new players that I want to show up. Cuz fresh blood rocks. Like....if I could have a sugestion, just steal the HECK out of how LOTRO deals with spammers(you can't talk in f2p till a moderately high level(it'd be the analogue of like..15-20-ish). That just makes it so you can't effectively gold-spam, but after like..10 hours, you can ask for help.

2. Ugh. I want a tesla coil backpack SO badly.(...I've been overdosing on champion's online's character builder. They have backpacks, hence my silly backpack obsession)
WTB Tesla Coil Backpack. 100$ PST :P

3. I feel like an addict for rendered toys. I just bought the magic, mutant, ninja, AND cyborg sets in a 1 day period ><

4. I'm now running around on my spare grav/kin troller. He is a 4 foot tall brute, and that backflip animation makes me feel like a flippin cybrog ninja :P


5, and THE MOST IMPORTANT QUESTION EEEEEEEVER: I understand why you can't keep the ninja run animation on, and use the zero-g backpack, and expect to do 300 yard backflips with a rocket pack. That would be silly.
But...I'm searchin for loopholes for 300 foot loop-d-loops.
Can I use a power from the leaping pool, or inertial reduction from the kinetic's power set(troller /kin, I mean), along with the ninja run to get a giant super-backflip-ninja-jump?

6. As an aside. I don't plan on not subscribing. if I'm playin a game, I want the devs to like...have money to eat, so they can keep making beautifuly rendered toys for me, and eventually make some cool cyborg backpacks. There are many cool non-back pieces, very few well rendered(like..as well done as the new set pieces) backs that don't actually show me a spine, and there's no way I can play a game like CoX, and not save money in the long run by staying subscribed(...and maintaining 12 character slots).
If I don't stay subscribed, it'll end up like every other f2p game I've ever loved, and I'll end up paying what'll amount to 40$ a month in 2$ transactions.
15$ is just better for me in the long run

Alright, I'm returning to CoX in anticipation of f2p after just under 2 years afk(938 days since I last logged onto some of my toons), and I have some questions

1. I love, love, LOVE controllers. I've always wanted a redside troller. if I roll up a new controller(either fire/rad, or plant/thermal, or elec/rad (...I like how there's new combinations. Been afk for 3 years, and I'm PLEASANTLY suprised :P)), and don't log onto it on either blueside OR praetorian-side till i21 shows up, will I start out auto-logging onto blueside, or will I get to start out in the new, cool leveling zone? I want to obsessively design the toon now, and name it, and log on on the first day of Freedom, and just...rock out as an evil mo-fo.

2. Elec controllers: I hear bad things about their pets. Are the gremlins as weak as people say, or are they like..an under-played gem? I only ask because I'm HOOOORRRIIIBLY obsessed with with the 32 point "badass" controller pets(my favorite toon is ill/kin just cuz I have cooler pets than a mastermind)

3. what, exactly will the limits on f2p accounts be on like..inviting people to groups, or replying to tells? will they still have trial account limitations, or will those go away in Freedom, due to them being all...silly? I'm sure I wanna stay vip, but at the same time, I want to know how much trouble I'd have convincing like..a younger sibling to take up the game

4. Are there any awesome, unlockable backpacks in the game? I have the steampunk pack(...what? I adore well rendered toys). I've seen the awesomeness of the crab backpack, but I have 'trollers planned that would look SOOOO much better with backpacks than with wings, and none of the planned controllers will work with the steampunk backpack, and I wanna know if I should be trying to think up good elec/? names, or good plant/thermal names.
(I'm dreaming of a cyborg elec/kin troller, with like..a permanent version of the zero-g backpack(like..I don't need jumping. I just need a cool looking backpack), or..some sort of giant tesla coil)

5. Oh! is there a good guide for keybinds anywhere? I was a major WoW junkie, and...was obsessed with setting up perfect macros, and...I'm still pro-macro? I want to be able to send tells to people when I give them the magic cards, or save specific bits of speech for RP.

6. Is it possible to play CoX in a window? I really like streaming video as I play games.