Hero A Day - Star Crusader

On one of our accounts I decided to add a new theme team - Invulnerability Tankers, Brutes, and Scrappers. I wanted them to also share a similar look, sort of a tech-knight, and a similar color scheme which would mostly be red, white, and silver. Now Star Paladin was the first of these but he's a scrapper and I've been focusing on tanks so we will start with...

STAR CRUSADER

My second Star-character was a tanker and I knew I wanted a particular look for him, one I had seen on a few characters in my travels. It mainly involved the Valkyrie shoulder plates, Cyborg limbs, and one of the Martial Arts helmets. So I started with a pretty good idea of the look I wanted and I already knew that his primary would be Invulnerability - all that was left was determining the secondary power set.

I admit I went ahead and designed the costume first. Then I went back and both considered tanker secondaries that I had not tried and played around with how they would look with my costume. I tried various combinations and ended up with Battle Axe because 1) I haven't played an Axe tank and 2) the Fantasy Axe looked really good with the costume. Oddly enough the Tech Axe looks too small next to that torso and shoulder pad set so I skipped it and used the big double-bladed axe because it looked like it was this guy's "size". So after some final tweaks to the costume he was good to go.

All of the Star characters will likely take Flight for movement and will probably add rocket boots at a later time. Crusader will also have Fighting and after that we will see.

Now in the late teens SC is ready to roll and leveling up when I can find the time. He's on Infinity server.

Hero A Day - Oakenshield

I decided to delete one (low-level) character from an account and move him to a different account where he fit the theme better. This left me with a tanker hole on Triumph server where I play with the family a lot. I had heard good things about Invulnerability/Dark Melee as a combo set and wanted to try it out. I was also out of ideas for the time being on stone looks or dragon looks so I decided to go in a different direction and thus was born...

Oakenshield

Invulnerability is one of my favorite defense sets, especially on a tank. It's pretty straightforward, there really aren't any tricks to it.  The offensive aspect of it comes late but it's a strong set and looks good. There's a good guide to starting it out here if you are interested in it and need some guidance.

Dark Melee is a set that I have more experience with on the scrapper side than the tank side but I am liking it so far. For Oakenshield. Combining Invuln's Dull Pain heal with Dark's Siphon Life heal. this should be a pretty durable character.

For Travel Power I'm trying out Super Speed and we'll see how that goes. Aong the pools this one may take Medicine for the thematic impact. Beyond that it's probably Leadership or Fighting.

For the look I wanted a nature spirit/walking tree theme as when creating Charcoal Man I had thought that the Omega set might work for a wood/tree look with the right coloring. I tried it out and thought it worked, so then it was just a matter of the face. Bio-organic face, organic armor on the head, green leaves for hair, big green full beard, and a glowing green alpha combat aura on the eyes completed the look. The Invulnerability powers are colored a bright green and I've given Dark Melee a bright green color to represent life energy.

I'm very happy with the look hough I admit I'm not sure what else I will do with him as far as other costumes and alternate looks. There's really no doubt about what he is and I think he fits the powers quite well.

Oakenshield runs on Triumph server, mostly solo right now but is always happy to join a team.