Champions Online

[Frag]

Yeah, those are our public/account/display/handle names. @PsychoKnitter, @ModusTollens. The character I've played the most is Victoria (12), who started out with Gadgeteering. I've now picked up Empathic Healing from telepathy. No passives yet since I use my support build more and there isn't any support passive that I've been able to pick up yet. Not sure how much I like Gadgeteer... picked it because of character concept.

One question: How important are the starting innate characteristics. Take the recommended Fire starting build. It picks Incandescent as an innate characteristic, which is +12 Presence and +12 Recovery. Is there a reason those two stats were picked as fitting with Fire? Is it better to just decide I want some fire powers but my character is going to be more like a tank, so I should get the one with more con?

Oh, and what is your advice for making characters that work well together?

The starting stats were picked by a dart-monkey, mostly. (Str/Dex for melee dps will leave you with no survivability AND lower damage because your crits will do crap for bonus damage w/o Ego) I really like Gadgeteer personally, though I haven't used it much since release and them kinda borking the pathing of pets. Anyway, 'mis-picking' your innate statting means a loss of 7 out of whatever you swap it to. It's not going to make/break a character unless you're really a min/max artist. As to the specific question, those two were picked for fire due to the -threat% from Presence and the +Energy Builder / +Equilibrium (those arrows on your energy bar). As Presence doesn't really work, or how it does we don't understand, I'd suggest SuperStatting (Those two "Characteristic Focii" you pick at.. 5 & 13) Intelligence and one of the energy stats Endurance or Recovery, with Endurance being more universally useful for pure-dps, or Constitution for a lot less squishiness. As for 'tanking' at the moment, for whatever reason healing is like auto-locking the mobs to you, you will never ever lose aggro if you're healing, so most tanks build themselves to heal and block alot. Wonky, hrm? B)

Cheers,
~Frag