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After having tired of ignoring the mass spamming of citizen missions, I decided to change my tone a little bit.

I decided to create a character that was to solely focus on citizen missions and citizen missions alone.

With that in mind, I wanted to create a "hero of the people". My own Punisher or Batman, if you will.

What I came up with was Icon.

With Icon, I wanted to have a hero that was just an everyday man. No superpowers, no frills. Just a man on a mission.

BUILD: He is a Munitions/Martial Arts focused build

Offensive:

Gunslinger Bullet Ballet Thundering Kicks

Defensive:

Defiance Energy Shield (Laser Knight)

Stats: Will give primary when I get home tonight

Super Strength Super Dexterity Physical Conditioning Shooter Martial Training

Swinging is his travel power.

What surprised me about this build was that melee isn't really as bad as people make it out to be. As you can see, I am focusing on pistol abilities and melee only.

Defiance coupled with Energy Shield/Laser Knight is working extremely well at keeping the damage down. Laser Knight activates the energy shield every time I use a melee attack, so other than when I use my energy builder I have a constant defense activated. Two actually, in Defiance and Laser Knight. I have been able to take on mobs of 6-9 and only lose about half my health during the fight. I mitigate this by taking the Science school and getting the free regeneration offered by opening material crates.

Now, this toon is only Lv 13 right now, but so far he has been working extremely well.

I will update this thread at every level and keep everybody abreast of his progress.

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I like the idea. It's hard to create a "street" level hero in any game since you will eventually be fighting cosmic level threats, but those pesky citizens in MC are the perfect way to do it.

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Well here is your fellow vigilantly. I had creators block there for a while and then I thought back to the premises and said the hell with it and I made a fairly decent punisher tribute. I wanted him to have more of a night stick or Baseball bat main weapon but since we don't have those powers I went with righteous fists, and two gun mojo. I wanted to stay away from gun based powers until later lvls but since there are no night sticks, I went to the guns early.

His name is "Pay Back" I tried to go with a name nobody else used and looked at a lot of variants on the whole vengeance theme but looks like everyone owns a thesaurus. I tried going with Latin versions of some of the words but none of them felt right. So I came back to my first name Pay Back and it turns out there is only one other Pay Back in the game and that account is not active so it fits my criteria...mostly.

As far as his outfit goes I wanted to give him weapons and equipment that some ordinary Joe could get a hold of with a few grand in a limited time because A) someone wanted him dead, or People already thought he was dead. Either way he would have limited access to his funds for perhaps 24 hrs. So I figured a canvas trench coat (I know trench coats are overdone), blue jeans, a bullet proof vest, and a shotgun.

I'll work on his Bio this afternoon.

Well for some reason the Bio won't update so here it is. It's the same old story from many an 80's action movie but it's still a good one.

" Joseph Bastion was an ordinary Man, a hard worker, loving husband and Father, One day it all went wrong. His 12 year old daughter witnessed a drug lord executing a councilman. His family was put into protective custody...It didn't matter. One the cops assigned to their protection was dirty and led the drug lord’s men to them. Bastion's family was slaughtered along with the cops, Joe was left for dead. With his family massacred, and not knowing who he can trust, all he has left is PAY BACK."

Now I just need to finish the tutorial and crisis zones and he'll be ready for some "Pay Back" on the scum that took everything from him.