If you need costume advice, by the way, we've got some pretty good designers on the forums here. A Valkyrie look sounds quite doable.
My half-assed take on the concept, based on your forum avatar colours:
![[Image: valkconcept.jpg]](http://i54.photobucket.com/albums/g100/acyl84/CoH/valkconcept.jpg)
(Note - this uses a lot of unlockable stuff, but you get the idea.)
Anyway, buildwise:
Energy/EM Blaster's a pretty good build, but bear in mind that 'knockback' is a very tricky mechanic to master. The key thing is to, well, make sure you aren't knocking stuff away from your melee-centric teammates. A skilled knockback user is a GREAT asset to a team, a poor one can get a lot of ire.
My own first character was Energy/EM, so I learnt that the, er, hard way.
There's lots of possibilities for you, though. If you're willing to wait for ranged attacks, you could build your character as a tank or scrapper and pick up ranged blasts later down the line. Tanks and Scrappers have stuff like Energy Melee, Electric Melee, and so on. I'm personally a huge fan of those two melee sets.
If you're willing to mostly forgo melee attacks, you can also do quite a bit with a Defender build. Plenty of choices. For Defenders and Blasters, Radiation Blast and Fire Blast could be good alternatives. Maybe even Electrical Blast.
I'm biased against Energy Blast though (despite having a 50 Dark/Energy Blast defender), so take my advice with a grain of salt. =D
Lots of choices, anyway.
I'll keep an eye out for ya in-game.
-- Acyl
My half-assed take on the concept, based on your forum avatar colours:
(Note - this uses a lot of unlockable stuff, but you get the idea.)
Anyway, buildwise:
Energy/EM Blaster's a pretty good build, but bear in mind that 'knockback' is a very tricky mechanic to master. The key thing is to, well, make sure you aren't knocking stuff away from your melee-centric teammates. A skilled knockback user is a GREAT asset to a team, a poor one can get a lot of ire.
My own first character was Energy/EM, so I learnt that the, er, hard way.
There's lots of possibilities for you, though. If you're willing to wait for ranged attacks, you could build your character as a tank or scrapper and pick up ranged blasts later down the line. Tanks and Scrappers have stuff like Energy Melee, Electric Melee, and so on. I'm personally a huge fan of those two melee sets.
If you're willing to mostly forgo melee attacks, you can also do quite a bit with a Defender build. Plenty of choices. For Defenders and Blasters, Radiation Blast and Fire Blast could be good alternatives. Maybe even Electrical Blast.
I'm biased against Energy Blast though (despite having a 50 Dark/Energy Blast defender), so take my advice with a grain of salt. =D
Lots of choices, anyway.
I'll keep an eye out for ya in-game.
-- Acyl