Thank you all for your suggestions. I'm starting a new character, so I went ahead and visited the Mysticism trainer. I'll fiddle around with that, and just keep other things in the bank for now. It's a relief to hear that dealing with item-related complications is essentially optional, rather than required to be able to…
Here's the build I'll run with and I'll and see how it goes. The summons isn't necessary, but another heal over time and a recharge refresh looks tasty. This character should have plenty of energy and will mostly solo, as well, and so a rank 3 shield seems more attractive than force sheath and challenging strikes. I'm…
Thank you for the feedback. I'd like to build a ranged damage dealer who is quite hard to kill and who can offer modest support capabilities. She's an "ice mage" who uses ice as her shield (hence invulnerability), as well as her sword. Int, Pre, and Dex make good sense for her theme, as superstats. PowerHouse (Link to this…
I was saddened by the news that COH will close. There were a lot of creative people on the dev team over that way, and hopefully everybody over there comes out of that experience at least doing OK. COH had a lot of players, and I'd be surprised if CO didn't see at least a mild bump from those at COH deciding to see how CO…