Viessa vs Ajax for Starting Character?

[Xalderin]

So, I'm looking at both of these and liking both play styles. Ajax reminds me of a Frost/Rhino hybrid and Viessa reminds me of Mag/Nova (from warframe).
Any thoughts on the two? Like, both Pros and Cons of both that maybe I'm missing, potentially?

Also, I know people are going crazy over the p2w and market place stuff... Regardless, with it being f2p, I at least want to try before saying Yeh or Nah. For those that want to throw all that out there instead of my questiong. *sigh*

[Dusklite]

I went for Viessa, a friend of mine went for Ajax.

He still gets pretty banged up in fights with around the same level (both about lvl. 15 when I noticed it in a fight) and the abilities seemed to help only so much.
So I think unless you completely mod for survivability, the difference might not be that great.

As for skill damage and shield regen: here Viessa does some good work. Also slowing enemies down makes for decent CC.

Comparing them to Frames doesn't really work all that well in my opinion since they mixed it up. Viessa would be like Ember without the damage reduction and ice-based or something and Ajax would actually be a Frost/Rhino hybrid as you said, just without the utility of either - doing something that's more his own thing, since you can't just Snow Globe and camp or Iron Skin and Roar and wreak havoc. Ajax here is much more tactical and skills have cooldown and a cost so usage is a bit more limited.

Hope that helped somewhat. And yeah, check the monetization out for yourself. Maybe you can stomach it, maybe you can't. It's been done better in other games and I'll leave it at that.

[Xalderin]

Origineel geplaatst door Dusklite:

I went for Viessa, a friend of mine went for Ajax.

He still gets pretty banged up in fights with around the same level (both about lvl. 15 when I noticed it in a fight) and the abilities seemed to help only so much.
So I think unless you completely mod for survivability, the difference might not be that great.

As for skill damage and shield regen: here Viessa does some good work. Also slowing enemies down makes for decent CC.

Comparing them to Frames doesn't really work all that well in my opinion since they mixed it up. Viessa would be like Ember without the damage reduction and ice-based or something and Ajax would actually be a Frost/Rhino hybrid as you said, just without the utility of either - doing something that's more his own thing, since you can't just Snow Globe and camp or Iron Skin and Roar and wreak havoc. Ajax here is much more tactical and skills have cooldown and a cost so usage is a bit more limited.

Hope that helped somewhat. And yeah, check the monetization out for yourself. Maybe you can stomach it, maybe you can't. It's been done better in other games and I'll leave it at that.

Thinking about it more, Viessa really is Ember, but with Frost's Abilities pretty much. So that makes quite a bit of sense. And both Ember and Frost were really fun to play with with. Frost was one of my Favorites, which is also why I thought about Ajax, due to the Tank aspect of it all.
So thanks! Guess I'll go Viessa and then attempt and farm out Ajax later to try him out if I like the game enough. XD

[Dusklite]

Plus side of Viessa: if you put in a good reactor and mod skill power in if you can, her 4th ability can melt elites, small clusters of enemies and/or one boss phase pretty much by itself at lvl 20 or lower. Don't yet know how well it scales after that.

Good luck, have fun!

[D. Flame]

Which do you prefer?

Defense: Ajax

Glass cannon: Viessa.

[Xalderin]

Origineel geplaatst door D. Flame:

Which do you prefer?

Defense: Ajax

Glass cannon: Viessa.

I prefer defense, but Ice skills similar to Frost from Warframe are also pretty great. XD Which is why it's a rough choice for me.

[TyresTyco]

I went for Ajax and while he has tankier stats. His 3 is kinda useless. His 2 only for stuns, his 1 is okay.. but in collossus fights incredibly useless since these bosses are large af shooting over it. His 4 is okay.

I keep thinking about if Viessa wouldnt be better for general purpose.

GIving ALL skills cd and mp cost sucks.

[And my axe!]

get Viessa, she can do the frost void things. you will want a roster of different elemental characters before anything else

[AgX_28]

I like to be the tank so I choose Ajax!

[Nemeis]

I am normally the last one alive in a lot of missions as Ajax. It's all in how you mod your guys in reality. The only skill that isn't to great is the jump slam because you normally don't land where you actually wanted to and miss some guys. His shield if powered up will kill lesser mobs by itself when they shoot it as it has reflect ability. Then you have the foot stomp which is good for guys with shield, stuns them so you can go behind them and kill them. 3rd skill is the jump slam. The last one creates a dome around the team that will absorb a good bit of stuff. It's great for reviving downed players. All in all if you want to be able to stand toe to toe then go Ajax. If you want to be glass cannon just about any of the others.

[D. Flame]

Viessa plays nothing like Frost.

Play Viessa in you want to play at medium to close range, be aggressive, but also have to be good at staying mobile, or you die quick. Like you better get good at using the grappling hook to zip around if you want to play Viessa.

[WeaverDuck]

Origineel geplaatst door TyresTyco:

I went for Ajax and while he has tankier stats. His 3 is kinda useless. His 2 only for stuns, his 1 is okay.. but in collossus fights incredibly useless since these bosses are large af shooting over it. His 4 is okay.

I keep thinking about if Viessa wouldnt be better for general purpose.

GIving ALL skills cd and mp cost sucks.

Once you slap some range mods on Ajax his skills are nice during colossi fights.
Still, ajax should receive some buffs as he is not that tanky while loosing a lot of damage potential.

On hard difficulty bunny does most work anyway...