Kelenar

Never thought I'd say it, but I've missed your particular weird brand of posting. Somebody start asking questions about Forcefields to lure him back in.

I think for overall diversity of powers, Controllers in general win by default... simply because they're the only AT that doesn't have one of their two main pools dominated by 'hit stuff for damage.'

Liora Kate: Volcanoes! Like Battle Maiden's blue patches, except with a bigger area, a longer warning period before the damage hits, and an Earthquake in the area just before and during the eruption.

Silverbuilt: Her entire thing is adaptation and assimilation, so every 30 seconds or so, she'd gain temporary high-mag resistance to the debuff type that was applied to her most during the last 30 seconds, plus the damage type that was applied to her most during the last 30 seconds. Every time an enemy died close to her, she'd get a short-term damage buff and self-heal as she assimilated their matter into herself. Bring a varied team and she falls pretty painlessly. Also flagged as a robot for things like EM Pulse.

Sorrow-Weave: Feeds on the pain and suffering of others. Every attack she landed would grant her a temporary +damage/+recharge buff and a very small heal. Basically, keep her at range or just don't let her land many hits, or she turns into a frenzied force of nature.

Jessica Reid: Has a legion of gang members dosed with her mind-controlling drug... and, well, a mind-controlling drug. She'd summon waves of enemies that would make the end of Barracuda look smalltime, except they'd be Underling-level and only have Hellion/Skulls minion attacks. Plus, high-mag ST confuses in the form of her mind-control drug.

You're the Carrion Creepers guy!

If you folks haven't seen, some fans also took that quote of Fillion's about how he'd buy the franchise if he won the lottery... and decided to see if they could raise enough money to buy it for him.

Kinda happened with me. Once I got her to permadom levels, my Earth/Fire Dominator took the position of Just Plain Best in my roster of characters. Yeah, my Fire/Shield Scrapper has better AoE damage, and my Katana/Invuln Scrapper has better survivability, but she's close enough to them to make her an awesome jack-of-all-trades. Plus, I enjoy control and debuffs a lot more than passive defenses... I'm currently happy just focusing on buffing her up more, which is the first time I've played a character for more than a few hours past level 50.

I'd love some more options for them. Like others have said, there is the Blast pattern, but since it doesn't seem to extend to gloves or boots, it always looks kind of weird. The torn capes are nice, torn robes usually just look bad.

Count me in the 'I set mine and prioritize people who set theirs for invites' camp. And judging by the sheer amount of churn I see on the LFT list, either other people are inviting people set to LFT or those people are just really good at getting teams fast. I haven't really set mine much lately, since I usually just end up leading my own team, so I can't speak much from experience on the invitee end.

Segments on the science of Firefly? That feels kind of forced to me... I mean, part of the idea of the show is that a lot of episodes don't really have much tech except for the spaceships themselves. I guess we'll get a nice explanation of how floating chandeliers work in Shindig or something.

As I remember, it will take a Chance for Hold proc. That combined with the one Poison Gas Trap can take can actually be kind of impressive. I believe mine has that and the -res proc.

Depends on the situation. For general content, probably Forcefield. For harder stuff, Cold. After those two, Empathy (an empath who uses Fortitude on more than one person and is on the ball with Clear Mind) and Traps are roughly tied, then everything else in a big heap.