City of Heroes and other stuff

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My current roster (Pinnacle, of course) is as follows:

Kung Ru - Level 22 Natural Martial Arts/Regeneration Scrapper (2 bubbles from 23)
Jared Infinity - Level 11 Technology Energy Blast/Electricity Manipulation Blaster

Flame Stryke - Level 7 Science Fire Blast/Fire Manipulation Blaster
Atom Stryke - Level 8 Mutation Radiation Emission/Radiation Blast Defender
Ebony Stryke - Level 5 Natural Dark Miasma/Dark Blast Defender
Super Diva - Level 8 Mutation Invulnerability/Super Strength Tanker
Pretty Ginsu - Level 4 Magic Katana/Invulnerability Scrapper
Dr. Horizon - Level 3 Technology Gravity Control/Empathy Controller


Notice the last 6 seperated by the first two? They are all likely to be deleted. Mind you, I like Atom Stryke. I just can't solo him, and my only real regular partner likes to switch between characters a lot. :-p Oddly enough, I like to focus on characters apparently. :-p

I like Pretty Ginsu. May keep her, may redesign her though. She was made to partner with a character, but, again, lack of playing. And I don't want to play her without her partner.

At least I got rid of most of the Stryke characters. :-p I liked them, for the most part, but, eh, not enough. And I haven't actually played Flame or Ebony in weeks. And I like Super Diva, but I don't like her costume or some of my early power choices for her. I might even give her Energy Melee instead of Super Strength because I like the look of Energy better. I suppose I could be SuperGenericTanker and take Ice Melee instead. x_x BORING!

I like Controllers, I just need to come up with one that I want to play. The primaries are great, but I hate the secondaries. Controllers don't have a single unique secondary. Everything they can take as a secondary can be taken as a primary by a Defender. I hate that. Every other Archetype has at least one purely unique Secondary, if not secondaries that are greatly revamped versions of other AT power sets. Tanker secondaries and blaster secondaries are similar to eachother, and Blaster secondaries have some common threads with Controller primaries. Scrappers powers are completely unique lines with the exception of their Invulnerability secondary which is a duplicate of the Tanker primary. Defenders secondaries match Blaster primaries, but they also get Psychic Blast, Dark Blast and Radiation Blast which only exist in their lists. Controllers? Force Field, Empathy, Storm Summoning, Radiation Emission, Kinetics. All. Defender. Primaries. In fact, the only Primary that Defenders have that Controllers don't have as a Secondary is Dark Miasma. So, yeah. It's really hard to decide how to build a Controller because, well, there's so much crap they can do and skimping on a secondary is almost shooting yourself in the foot with them.

I have considered doing a slew of Scrappers, but I think I'd get bored after a while. I don't want to do Broadsword. So, Dark Melee, Claws, Katana, and Martial Arts. And there are only four secondaries to choose from. And Scrappers have even less wiggle room in power and slot selection than Controllers do.

In non City of Heroes news, I want to play Shadowrun. Now. :-p Okay not "now" now, but soon!!!!

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Working on that I promise. We should have a game in July, but probalby not August.