[C2]

I did a test run with this character, and it seems solid, but as I mentioned in another thread (which I would sincerely appreciate responses to), I am still a bit of a newbie to the whole game. I figured I'd run some of my core info by The Collective here and see what you all think.
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NAME: Al Mollstam
STUFF: ELF TECHNOMANCER (Technoshamans Stream)

B3  A3  R3  S3  C3  I5  L5  W4  E2

Active Skills
Cracking Group 4
Tasking Group 3
Electronics Group 2
Pistols 3
Blades 3
Dodge 2

[Insert fine assortment of knowledge skills]

Qualities:
+ Speed Reading
+ Codeslinger
- Computer Illiterate (All negatives are for role-playing reasons. I mean, all qualities are, but I really had to pick and choose the negative ones)
- Data Shadow 3
- Prejudiced (Common Outspoken) Trolls

Technomancer Business:

Living Persona:
Firewall 4
Response(VR) 5(6)
Signal 3
System 5
BFF 3
Resonance 5
Init 11
Passes 3

CF's:
Analyze 4
Edit 4
Scan 4
Exploit 4
Spoof 4
Stealth 4

And my commlink is a Hermes Ikon with Iris Orb, all default stats. I use it to house the datachip I bought for it, mostly.
I'd post way too much about my gear and stuff but this is what I really wanted to find out about. I figured I'd focus on a few GOOD CF's and just thread others as needed since my fading resist dicepool is like 10 to start.

What say you, Internet?

[All4BigGuns]

I'd say drop Willpower and Logic by 1 each and drop Speed Reading to go ahead and put Resonance up to 6. (Resonance is pretty much the only attribute I would ever put at the absolute maximum)

[C2]

Hm. Sounds like a good idea. Would that keep me at 400 BP? Because he's right on the money atm.

[JustADude]

Second what A4BG says.

Also, as a Technoshaman you really, REALLY want high Charisma to better resist Fading. Might want to consider shaving points off your Strength and Agility and putting them into that.

Also, I don't know what you have for gear, but by my calculations you should have several BP left over, at least enough for a point in Perception, which is never bad to have.

[All4BigGuns]

Going 2 Str, 3 Log and 3 Will will save you 40 BP. I'm not sure how much Speed Reading costs, but dropping that too should give you enough to get that last Resonance point and have a 5 Cha (since Cha is your Fade stat instead of whichever stat it was for the base stream). That would give you 11 dice to resist Fade instead of the 8 you have now. (Resonance + Cha from being Technoshaman).

[UmaroVI]

First, you should look at my sig and the Technoshaman and Info Savant characters for examples of technomancers.

Specific problems you have:

You are an Elf technoshaman with Charisma 3. You want Charisma 7. You also want Resonance 6. Cut whatever you need to in order to get those. You need Logic 3, and less than 3 Body is in "omgwtfswisscheese" territory. Anything else can go if you don't have the points.

You don't need Cybercombat (and thus don't want the Cracking group), for several reasons. First, if you are in cybercombat, things have already gone very wrong and you probably got them there by not being better at other things. Second, you don't want to cybercombat - you want to hide behind Paladin sprites and their castling. You do, on the other hand, want some skill at 6, probably Hacking. You do definitely want hacking at least 4, and you want at least 1 in Electronic Warfare, up to 3 is useful, past that is diminishing returns.

You don't want Tasking because Decompiling is crap. If you need to kill a sprite - which is very rare - dump a bunch of registered sprites on it and hide behind Castling. You probably want Compiling 4 and you most definitely want Registering 4.

You want Software 4. Electronics 4 is not a dumb purchase, but you can get away with Software 4, Computer 1 if you so desire (you can get sprites to Data Search and they are better at it than you).

You are not actually any good at fighting fyi, and if you actually care you should be using drones. You can do this fine by simply putting machine sprites into drones, though. You cannot be good at fighting as a non-Logic technomancer without sucking at something, though, so this is not so much a problem as that you can cut down on the combat skills if you want.

You need to specify an action for Codeslinger. Probably Hacking on the Fly.

You don't have a Paragon. Get a Paragon. 01 and Flow are both perfectly good "default" options if you aren't sure.

Get your CFs at 6. Edit and Scan are not worth knowing (you can get away with just threading, or with sprites doing these for you). Shield, Disarm, and Command are the ones you don't have listed that might be worth knowing; Disarm is for Disarming analyze after you sneak into a node and as a way to contribute to cybercombat if you really must, Command is for rigging, Shield is very point-efficient protection in cybercombat.

[All4BigGuns]

Let's see if this build helps you out any.


== Info ==
Street Name: 1337@
Name: Lita Deris
Movement: 10/25, Swim: 5
Karma: 0
Street Cred: 0
Notoriety: 0
Public Awareness: 0
Human Female Age 19
Height 5'4" Weight 105 lbs
Composure: 9
Judge Intentions: 8
Lift/Carry: 4 (15 kg/10 kg)
Memory: 9
Nuyen: 1050

== Attributes ==
BOD: 3
AGI: 3
REA: 3
STR: 1
CHA: 4
INT: 4
LOG: 4
WIL: 5
EDG: 2
RES: 6

== Derived Attributes ==
Essence:                   6
Initiative:                7
IP:                        1
Matrix Initiative:         9
Matrix IP:                 3
Physical Damage Track:     10
Stun Damage Track:         11

== Active Skills ==
Animal Handling            : 0                      Pool: 3
Animal Training            : 0                      Pool: 3
Archery                    : 0                      Pool: 2
Armorer                    : 0                      Pool: 3
Artisan                    : 0                      Pool: 3
Automatics                 : 0                      Pool: 4
Blades                     : 0                      Pool: 2
Clubs                      : 0                      Pool: 2
Compiling                  : 4                      Pool: 10
Computer                   : 4                      Pool: 8
Con                        : 0                      Pool: 3
Cybercombat                : 0                      Pool: 3
Data Search                : 4                      Pool: 8
Demolitions                : 0                      Pool: 3
Disguise                   : 0                      Pool: 3
Diving                     : 0                      Pool: 2
Dodge                      : 0                      Pool: 2
Electronic Warfare         : 1                      Pool: 5
Escape Artist              : 0                      Pool: 2
Etiquette                  : 0                      Pool: 3
First Aid                  : 0                      Pool: 3
Forgery                    : 0                      Pool: 2
Gunnery                    : 1                      Pool: 4
Gymnastics                 : 0                      Pool: 2
Hacking                    : 5 [Exploit]            Pool: 9 (11)
Hardware                   : 4                      Pool: 8
Heavy Weapons              : 0                      Pool: 4
Infiltration               : 1                      Pool: 4
Instruction                : 0                      Pool: 3
Intimidation               : 0                      Pool: 3
Leadership                 : 0                      Pool: 3
Locksmith                  : 0                      Pool: 2
Longarms                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Navigation                 : 0                      Pool: 3
Negotiation                : 0                      Pool: 3
Palming                    : 0                      Pool: 2
Parachuting                : 0                      Pool: 2
Perception                 : 1                      Pool: 5
Pilot Aircraft             : 1                      Pool: 4
Pilot Ground Craft         : 1                      Pool: 4
Pilot Watercraft           : 0                      Pool: 2
Pistols                    : 0                      Pool: 4
Registering                : 4                      Pool: 10
Riding                     : 0                      Pool: 2
Shadowing                  : 0                      Pool: 3
Software                   : 4                      Pool: 8
Survival                   : 0                      Pool: 4
Throwing Weapons           : 0                      Pool: 2
Tracking                   : 0                      Pool: 3
Unarmed Combat             : 0                      Pool: 2

== Knowledge Skills ==

== Contacts ==
Fence (3, 3)
Fixer (3, 2)

== Qualities ==
Mania/Phobia (Common, Moderate) (Acrophobia)
Reality Impaired
Sensitive System
Technomancer

== Complex Forms ==
(Tradition: Default, Resist Fading with WIL + RES (11))
Analyze Rating: 6
Command Rating: 6
Disarm Rating: 6
Exploit Rating: 6 (Mute)
Spoof Rating: 6
Stealth Rating: 6

== Lifestyles ==
Low  2 months

== Armor ==
Form-Fitting Full-Body Suit6/2
Leather Jacket            2/2
SecureTech Forearm Guards 0/1
SecureTech Shin Guards    0/1
SecureTech Vitals Protector1/1

== Weapons ==
Unarmed Attack
   DV: 1S   AP: -   RC: 0

== Commlink ==
Living Persona (4 (5), 4, 5, 3)
   +Living Persona
   +Biofeedback Filter Rating 4
Meta Link (1, 1, 1, 2)
   +Vector Xim

== Gear ==
Contact Lenses Rating 2
   +Vision Enhancement Rating 3
   +Image Link
   +Skinlink
Cram
Earbuds Rating 3
   +Audio Enhancement Rating 3
   +Skinlink
eX x4
Fake SIN (Briana Del) Rating 3
Medkit Rating 6
Optical Tap
Satellite Link
Tag Eraser

== Vehicles ==
Flying Eye (Microdrone)
   +Chameleon Coating
   +Improved Sensor Array
   +Improved Takeoff and Landing Level 2
   +Minidrone Sensor
      +Camera Rating 6 [Vision Enhancement 3, Vision Magnification]
   +Tool Kit (Hardware)
GM-Nissan Doberman (Medium)
   +Walker Mode
   +Weapon Mount (Normal, External, Turret, Remote)
   +KE IV x10
      +DMSO
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Camera Rating 2 [Low Light, Vision Enhancement 3]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Camera Rating 2 [Thermographic, Vision Magnification]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Microphone Rating 2 [Audio Enhancement 3, Spatial Recognizer]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Motion Sensor
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Laser Range Finder
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Thermometric
   +Pepper Punch x17
   +Targeting (Self)
      +Copy Protection Rating 1
      +Registration
Lone Star Strato-9 (Medium)
   +Armor, Concealed Rating 9
   +Chameleon Coating
   +ECM Rating 2
   +Improved Takeoff and Landing Level 2
   +Obsolescent
   +Weapon Mount (Normal, External, Flexible, Remote)
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Camera Rating 6 [Low Light, Smartlink, Vision Enhancement 3]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Camera Rating 6 [Thermographic, Vision Magnification]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Microphone Rating 6 [Audio Enhancement 3, Spatial Recognizer]
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Laser Range Finder
   +Medium Drone Sensor
      +Motion Sensor
   +Spare Clip (Ingram White Knight) x10
      +Ammo: Explosive Rounds (Light Machine Guns)

[C2]

As far as paragons go, I like the look of Black Hat (Unwired. p150). He goes with my stream and is pro-hacking.
And as for codeslinger, I was thinking threading but Hacking on the fly is probably a better idea. That's Hacking+Exploit, right? Yeah.

[UmaroVI]

As written, you actually cannot take Codeslinger: Threading because Threading is not on the big list of matrix actions. If your GM decides to let it fly, then that is a perfectly reasonable choice.

Black Hat is fine as a paragon choice.

[C2]

Thank you all for your input!