Combustidoll Reaches Level 50!

Combustidoll finally dings level 50.. wooohooooo!

Combustidoll, my flaming ball of terror.

Right at level 47, I had all of the IOs for her ready to slot and WOW, what a difference it made to her gameplay. She was fun before slotting her IOs, but after slotting, she was simply incredible. She was a monster and tore through mobs with ease. Feel free to check out Combustidoll's build. I will shelf her until she is needed... she is especially efficient in LGTFs during the mini Hammi raid, so I'll definitely pull her out of retirement then, or if there is a TF that needs massive amounts of damage.

You know, after slotting her IOs it became stupid easy to level her up, so I didn't get to savor her gameplay as much as I would have liked. Yes, I know nothing is forcing me not to play her, but I really want to get started on the next Tanker Project (level one of each tanker primary to 50), which will likely be my Fire/Fire Tanker, Tropica, who is currently at level 27 right now.

I am probably going to level up a Mastermind of some sort when I am in need of taking a break from tanking.

Anyways, as a final note, I leave you with another picture:

Combustidoll is definitely cooler than Sister Psyche.

All About Combustidoll, Fire & Energy Blaster

In my return to City of Heroes, I took a break from leveling up Tankers and played my Fire/Energy Blaster instead. Her name is Combustidoll and as her name states, she is a little exploding robotic doll, on the smallest side of the height slider.

Her profile reads:

Forget Barbie! Combustidoll can fly, beat stuff up, and shoot scorching hot flames from her hands! Get your very own super heroine doll for $19.99! Makes a great gift for that special child in your life! 

Warning: May unexpectedly explode from touching. Please keep away from children.

I am having a blast (pun intended!) playing her. Yes, playing as a blaster gives you paper thin defenses and you die a whole heck of a lot, but playing as a Fire/Energy Blaster allows me to keep up the frantic pace that I am so used to when I play as a tanker. Getting Inferno and one shot killing a whole bunch of baddies is also a plus.

99% of the time, I am on teams, otherwise, I do not play Combustidoll.

She's currently level 48 right now and fully (non-purpled) IO'ed. I tend to build the toon via Mid's Hero Builder and buy the appropriate IOs and recipes while the character is being leveled. Once they hit level 47, I slot up the toon with my ready to go IOs and the game play is like night and day.

I have yet to decide whether or not to fully IO her with purples, though I highly doubt that would happen since I don't think I will play her all that much once she hits level 50.

Here is her build:

I didn't focus on any one particular enhancement bonus, I just wanted to slot Combustidoll up given my budget of 100 million influence (not including all of the IOs and salvage I've been saving up from normal play). You'll see below that I ended up getting a 46.3% recharge and 80% accuracy bonus from the enhancements which is nice.

I am actually a few hundred merits away from fully having all the IOs.

Here's the active sets at level 50:

+10% DamageBuff(All)
+5.94% Defense(Fire)
+5.94% Defense(Cold)
+9.38% Defense(Energy)
+9.38% Defense(Negative)
+11.3% Defense(Ranged)
+7.19% Defense(AoE)
+6% Enhancement(Heal)
+2.5% Enhancement(Held)
+46.3% Enhancement(RechargeTime)
+80% Enhancement(Accuracy)
+13% FlySpeed
+85.8 HP (7.12%) HitPoints
+13% JumpHeight
+13% JumpSpeed
+Knockback (Mag -4)
+Knockup (Mag -4)
+MezResist(Held) 2.2%
+MezResist(Immobilize) 6.6%
+MezResist(Stun) 2.2%
+14% (0.23 End/sec) Recovery
+32% (1.61 HP/sec) Regeneration
+4.73% Resistance(Fire)
+4.73% Resistance(Cold)
+2.52% Resistance(Energy)
+5.65% Resistance(Negative)
+9.38% Resistance(Toxic)
+3% Resistance(Psionic)
+18% RunSpeed
+2.5% XPDebtProtection

Here's the data chunk if you want to check it out in Mids yourself:

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My City of Hero & Etc Updates

I figured I ought to post in this blog after a year. =)

I've been busy working mostly and haven't had much time to play any sort of game. With that, at best, I would just reactivate CoH once a year when work is slow to check things out.

The reactivation weekend recently passed and I was able to get in 2 days of playing time. I managed to level my Gravity/Kinetics Controller, Theophelia and my Ice/Ice Tanker, Iceminx to 50. They were both hovering in the high 40s so it was not a hard thing to do given the double XP going on. I did also get my Fire/Fire blaster to level 22. Not much really, but it was nice to be able to catch up with some friends there.

I actually spent most of the playing time buying IOs for Theophelia and ended up spending about 50 million in influence. I think I have more fun doing that than actually playing. hehe.

Well, I guess that's it for the updates. I hope everyone is well.

Until the next reactivation weekend, I bid you adieu!