Meet Sixty, Kinetics/Psy Defender

Funny, Sixty was one of my favorite alts but I never really posted much about her here. I got her to 50 pretty quickly after I rolled her which was before I started this blog. Once IOs hit the market, I slotted her up very nicely as well and kind of shelved her until needed. She's on of those alts that didn't stay shelved long, so don't feel too bad for her. I played her quite a bit and even considered converting her to a low-hanging-fruit badge hunter when I wanted to kill time. I think she was also my first level 50 non-Tanker.

I really enjoyed playing Kinetics. As you know, I typically play as a Tanker in teams, because I like being able to set the pace of the game. I've had random pick-up folks join my team for a mission and promptly leave right after because they could not or did not like the very fast pace that I tanked at. Oh well, different strokes for different folks.

So speaking of which, it's frustrating for me to be on a slow team (or some may call it, playing at a "leisurely" pace) and not being able to do anything about it as a support character or even as a DPS (other than to complain). Not so when I have Kinetics in my pocket. It's just one of those sets that kind of forces the team to move quickly. The Speed Boosts and the Fulcrum Shifts just light fires in people. I loved it! (though I do recall that one time a teammate requested that I do not SB him because it was too much for him to handle. I left that team shortly thereafter.)

And as mentioned, Sixty did not tend to stay shelved long. She was basically my go-to when a support character was needed for whatever TF was going on and that the Tanker role had already been claimed. I actually spent some moola on the girl. Here's her build as of 3/23/10.

Not a bank buster.

And the bits on her survival. Not bad when all the toggles are up. 

She was a huge boon to her teams.

I think this is her first solid build (as of 3/23/10), but I had tweaked her a bit since to include some more purples and PVP IOs. Even so, you know this posted build actually served her pretty darn well and was not terribly expensive either. I think the Kinetics set is just generally cheaper to slot for relative to the others out there.

The poser art that I did for Sixty. I really enjoyed making her textures. 

Her background (taken from what I posted on her in DeviantArt): Her real name is Chloe, she is the daughter of the celebrity super duo, Wonder Lad and Wonder Lass, both of whom are mutant super heroes. When Chloe was born, she didn't have any abilities or physical deformities. After tests were concluded, the doctors told her parents that she was normal. Throughout her childhood, even though her parents showed every bit of love and encouragement, Chloe still felt like she didn't live up to her parents' expectations, that she was a disappointment. (It didn't help that the tabloids often demeaned her due to her lack of powers and being the child of super celebrities after all) So life went on. She was a normal kid with totally abnormal parents. She never really accepted her circumstances. It was after college that she decided to become a reporter so she could be as close to the action as possible.

During her first investigation into the Family and their black market arms dealings, she was set up by them and taken hostage. The mob boss who had set her up was a telepathic that delighted in torturing her mind. In this torture, while she was fighting for her sanity was when her telepathic abilities manifest. After being bottled up for all her life, the trigger that the boss pulled in her mind erupted a psionic blast sending him into a stupor as well as those in close proximity. Because of such, she was able to walk away from the ordeal a bit shaken, but without a scratch and a whole lot happier after discovering that she was a super after all. It turns out that she is rather weak in psionic attacks or mind controlling, but what she lacks from that, she is able to compensate for her advanced telekinetic abilities.

All in all, she kind of has a typical story. I just super enjoyed playing her. Man, I miss this game.

Oh yeah, here's the data chunk for Mid's if you want to check it out, or click here for the data link.
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