Dispari

*cracks knuckles*

Assault Rifle - No Aim, far too many AoEs, long activation times, redraw, no matching secondary that doesn't cause redraw. Just don't like AR. I like having more than 2 single-target attacks. And it always felt slow.

Elec Blast - No high damage attack, crappy pet, weak secondary effect. Just an overall unimpressive set. Never been happy with what it could do. I've considered the idea of an Elec Defender a few times which emphasizes end drain over damage, but it's never taken off.

Psychic Blast - Too weak on Defenders, and also on an AT I've never really liked. Tried it on Blaster, but the changes made to the set made it really lame. It didn't specialize in ST, AoE, or mez. So it didn't really do anything.

Sonic Blast - Just plain hate the sounds. And I don't like playing with sound off. Even if I did, I feel like I would annoy other players.

Dark Blast - No Aim, poor ST. Basically the same issues I have with Elec Blast.

Ice Blast - I actually just haven't found the right character. I've tried lots of times, but part of the issue is that the ENTIRE set is good, meaning I can't skip anything. It ends up killing a lot of my power picks.

Devices - No attacks, everything good is interruptable. Everything is designed to be used outside of combat, which means it'll never get used on a team. It also causes redraw with the two most logical sets you could pair it with (it'd be like if Fire Manip somehow caused redraw with Fire Blast). No damage boost either.

Gravity Control - Just a sub-par set, which a late-blooming AoE mez. Really the whole set blooms late. Hold at 2, immobilize at 8? Meh.

Empathy - Just never found a good character for it. I don't like Defenders, and I rarely enjoy playing Controllers. Maybe if Corrs or MMs had it.

Forcefield - Two words: bor-ing.

Radiation Emission - Just never got around to playing it. And can't think of a character concept for it.

Sonic Resonance - Noisy.

Trick Arrow - Sub-par set that just doesn't perform on the level that I'd expect from a support set.

Storm Summoning - Just a mix-matched set that I always felt was lacking. I always considered Cold Domination to be Storm, but good, since it has all the best powers but also fills in the long recharge or situational powers with more usable ones. Even though...

Cold Domination - I don't like being a buffbot.

Thermal Radiation - Buffbot.

Pain Domination - I just haven't found the right character yet. My plan is to make a Demon/Pain MM when GR comes out though.

Poison - Only available to MMs, and never found a toon that it would work with. Maybe if Corrs had it, but even then it's a very single-target set.

Spines - Tried lots of times, just couldn't get off the ground with it. Not enough ST, the tier 1 is stupidly long, and never enjoyed the look of the set.

Ice Melee - Might be a good set, I just don't play Tankers.

Energy Melee - Slow, lack of AoE, weak secondary effects. I used to want to play this on a Scrapper, but after playing it on a Brute, it would have to be buffed before I'd consider playing it on any AT.

War Mace - I always thought Mace was like Axe but not as good. Mag 2 stuns are far less useful than knockdowns, which work on lieutenants and bosses (and EBs). Besides the stun vs KD, the difference in the two sets is fairly subtle.

Martial Arts - MA is like SS lite. It has basically all the same powers, but everything is weaker and toned down. Nothing packs the same punch in damage or secondary effect. If Scrappers ever got SS, MA's shortcomings would be even more obvious.

Dark Armor - End hog, don't like lack of knockback protect.

Elec Armor - Just not durable enough, even after Energize.

Fire Armor - Not durable enough, no knockback protect.

Super Reflexes - Takes waaaaaaay too long to be good, no variety in set bonuses.

Ice Armor - Don't play Tankers.

Stone Armor - No matter how much I try, I can't get past the ludicrously slow movement speed that would require me to cheese it and take teleport.

Energy Aura - Not durable enough.

Electricity Assault - Same issues I have with Elec Blast.

Energy Assault - Same issues I have with Energy Melee.

Thorny Assault - Same issues I have with Spines.

Mercenaries - They just don't excel at anything. Their damage, mez, and survival is only low to average. Just comparing them to thugs is a vast contrast.

Ninjas - Far too annoying to deal with speedy melee characters who refuse to enter melee. They're also much too easy to kill.

Robotics - The bots are just too slow and noisy. I know it gets better after 26 and 32, but I could never tough it out that long. Lower level bots are just plain boring.

Now for some sets I love so much that I've played them multiple times:

Energy Manipulation - It's all ST, but as long as you have an AoE primary it's good. It offers great self buffs and powerful ST attacks. It's a great secondary for a hoverblast character.

Plant Control - The best control set I think ever made. It has a fast recharge AoE mez with no accuracy penalty, quick regular mezzes, and carrion creepers. I think the only thing I dislike is that I can't hit flying enemies with some powers, and the final pet seems more like decoration than anything (but creepers makes up for it).

Traps - Not only have I played this over 40 twice, but I plan to make another Traps when GR comes out. It just does a lot of stuff, and quickly. I only need two powers every spawn, with a whole arsenal full of other things I can do if the situation calls for it.

Dark Miasma - No matter how many times I do this set, I keep wanting to do it again. I have it at 50 with an MM, and keep making more characters with it. Still not tired of it. It has great ST and AoE management abilities, as well as personal defense and survival for all your friends. You can even keep them going with +RES, heal, and an AoE rez for when things go horribly wrong. Plus, a pet!

Shield Defense - Durability, mez protect to everything, and of course Shield Charge. In beta people kept quoting numbers to show that SD would be too weak, but after factoring in never having to fight minions because of SC, it's pretty darn tough! Taken to 50 twice.

Willpower - Has everything! Protect to all damage and all mez. End management. It's even all passive so I don't have to watch for clicks like I would with most other sets. I feel bad for Invuln (I have both sets at 50) because WP is more durable, protects against more status effects, has psi protection, has lasting power thanks to regen, and still fits in end management. I feel like WP excels over Invuln in every possible way, except for the very rare instance where I tank tons of crazy things with Unstoppable. Taken to 50 once, and 40 a further 3 times. And most of my new melee toons end up being WP.

There's my list(s)!

If I was in charge, I'd probably devote a team to removing over half of the hunt missions and patrols, reducing defeat-alls by 90%, removing all simultaneous glowy missions, reducing all pointless zone-changes by 90%, and giving out phone numbers after 1-3 missions in all instances. Always found it insane that they're wiling to entrust me with the most dangerous and risky missions of all time, but not give me their phone number (and are they all unlisted too?).

But there are also a lot of really goofy things I'd do if I was in charge, so maybe it's good I'm not.

Silly people! It's obvious it's not i17, GR, or a booster pack.

It's really i20. The amazingness of i20 allows it to skip right over the three previous issues.

Specifically, the official names are:

Schedule A: Paul
Schedule B: Thomas
Schedule C: Jeffery
Schedule D: Rupert

I've been looking through these threads for ideas on things to add to my base. But also I've made some things of my own. For our production studio, I created a large camera rig for shooting movies.