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-res proc > damage proc. Purple damage proc is better in a damage aura versus in an attack chain due to the more chances to go off.

/ice because the blaster level AoEs and Sleet is a good thing. /dark for added -tohit mitigation to your shields and T.T. keeps things in Sleet. /sonic because it's just unfair what it does against hard targets.

It would likely be difficult to justify any other set to go with it outside of Traps and Dev, so I say Traps/dp defender since I like Traps more.

If not Invul, WP has to be right there as well.

EDIT: Bah. Dark's tier 9 is a rez, so I'll add that in their as well.

I have a Plant/storm/ice controller, but I would go Plant/fire/ice for a dom. Ice offers more for a Plant/storm than Fire does. Yes, Fire brings the damage, but a def based armor, Hibernate, and two AoEs if you want them win out. A Plant/fire already has the damage so /ice fills in nicely. Plus, FE + Sleet is just asking to be done.

Claws has two ranged attacks that offer mitigation for an alpha strike. Claws feels to me like it is a more versatile set that will be easier in a way for a new player since they aren't dealing with combos. DB flows so well. It's the first of the flashy sets that have been added and part of it's fun is because of that. If Claws is my favorite set, DB and Kat are next.

Bah. I see your edit and completely forgot about MMs. Bots/storm. Thugs/storm would likely be good as well.

Since you have done Fire for controllers, Plant/storm would work. I haven't tested recently in terms of mobs size I can solo on, but I just have common IOs in the build as well. Fire/storm corr, or a using Dark blast as a corr, or def might work as well. Dark gets two solid AoEs and it has a blast/heal which can help cover Storm's lack of a self heal. Dark won't be as fast as Fire due to the heavy amount of DoT Dark has, but Dark will be safer.

Kat/wp scrapper. Kat is ok enough early on due to DA, It's big hitters come late. /wp is solid and you have all of one click outside of the toggles. It's really Scrappers for Dummies.

Claws/sr. Claws gets Spin at 6, FU at 8, and Focus at 18. Claws also has faster recharge for it's attacks so it's rather easy to get an attack chain going compared to other sets. /sr develops late, but once it does it's rather rock solid. /sr will laugh at the idea of the new mobs that have higher tohit. Why? /sr is the easiest to soft cap, so it can easily reach any new def cap and it still has the highest defense debuff resistance along with /shield. This means even if something were to hit you with a power to debuff your defense, you would shrug it off the most. While the video is old, here's proof of what it can do. Link

Ice/ice blaster. It's a blaster and a controller rolled into one. It works on teams and solo. It's one of the best solo blasters you can find depending on how you define solo. Normal basic soloing that most new players would do it rocks on. Note, you can slot sets for slows into your attacks so when you would normally slot acc and end, you could look at getting one acc/end from two different slow sets and getting better acc and end numbers for it. It's a cheap way to do slotting until you go all out.

Ice tank. Solid def based set. It's been a smooth ride on mine. If nothing else it's the best tank for aggro control. If you solo a lot, you might want to pick a set that is either high single target damage for soloing, or AoE based and just try to solo big mobs even if they are lower level. /fire will be good for AoE and keeping aggro all the more so. /stone and /ice offer solid damage with control. /dark will help against troublesome mobs.

Inv/dark tank. Inv is what you think of when you think of a tank. /dark aids in covering what issues Inv might have. It's really hard to say something bad about the build. For a new player, you will get a ton of performance just out of SO type slotting and it gets stronger as you invest in it.

Dark/stone tank. Because it's fun to run into a mob and be able to stun the whole mob bosses included all by yourself. Huge potential for end issues, but for me it hasn't been that bad yet and once you can get a +end proc into Dark Regen things become vastly easier.

I was going to suggest a Dark defender, but you said no pets. Dark/ice would be pretty sweet though.

Considering I can solo on my level 35 D3 and he's far from properly slotted to where he could be, there has to be build issues.

If you don't have Mid's planner, go here. If you don't want to type in your build, get Titian Sentinel and use the utility feature that let's you copy the build of the character you are currently playing.

Cold is Storm for Dummies due to not getting access to Hurricane. It's also more team based versus Storm as well due to the shields. Both bloom late, but at least Storm gets FR early compared to Cold getting Sleet late. Cold will also be more end friendly than Storm as well. Cold is easier to play, but Storm has the "Watch this...." factor.

A level 24 dual IO gives you numbers a shade above +3 SO. For attacks, this means you can grab 3 from one set and three from another and get +3 SO level perfomance in acc, end, recharge, and 3 slotted damage if a power is 6 slotted all the while at least some decent bonuses. Not a lot of attacks are 6 slotted at 21 mind you, but the end, or recharge aspect can come later. For more basic slotting like in a defense set, you'll need to up grade the def IOs to smooth out the numbers, but likely not that much. Likely a level 35 IO would be enough.

Point is, yes, it's beneficial to slot IOs even early. Even if it's not the most uber way of slotting, it cuts down on having to reslot versus what you need to do with SOs and once it's done, you'll likely be saving up for when you do switch over to a more pimped out build. I'm actually working on slotting out three level 12 builds via frankenslotting. Even if it's only for 9, or so levels, I'll likely solo my way there so those last longer in terms of game time, and I don't think I have spent more than 2 mill if that doing so.

Actually, here's my level 12 KM/sd.

EDIT: The other slot for the def toggles would be a GotA: Def for both since you get +2% recovery from two slotting the set.

Hero Plan by Mids' Hero Designer 1.92
http://www.cohplanner.com/

Click this DataLink to open the build!

Overtake: Level 13 Mutation Scrapper
Primary Power Set: Kinetic Melee
Secondary Power Set: Shield Defense

Hero Profile:
Level 1: Body Blow -- B'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(A), B'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(3), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(3)
Level 1: Deflection -- GftotA-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(5), S'dpty-Def(5)
Level 2: Quick Strike -- B'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(A), B'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(7), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(7)
Level 4: Smashing Blow -- B'ngBlow-Acc/Dmg(A), B'ngBlow-Dmg/EndRdx(9), P'ngS'Fest-Acc/Dmg(9)
Level 6: Battle Agility -- GftotA-Def/EndRdx(A), S'dpty-Def/EndRdx(11), S'dpty-Def(11)
Level 8: Power Siphon -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 10: Active Defense -- RechRdx-I(A)
Level 12: True Grit -- Heal-I(A)
Level 14: [Empty]
Level 16: [Empty]
Level 18: [Empty]
Level 20: [Empty]
Level 22: [Empty]
Level 24: [Empty]
Level 26: [Empty]
Level 28: [Empty]
Level 30: [Empty]
Level 32: [Empty]
Level 35: [Empty]
Level 38: [Empty]
Level 41: [Empty]
Level 44: [Empty]
Level 47: [Empty]
Level 49: [Empty]
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Level 1: Brawl -- Empty(A)
Level 1: Sprint -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Rest -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Swift -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Hurdle -- Empty(A)
Level 2: Health -- Heal-I(A)
Level 2: Stamina -- EndMod-I(A)
Level 1: Critical Hit
Level 4: Ninja Run

If the point is killing AVs on a team, Sonic/mm. Even if Sonic itself might have lower DPS, the stacked -res makes up for it.

1. Bases. There could be one whole issue of nothing, but base additions. If I start a character on a server without a base, I'm ok with it. Give us a reason to go into one and go from there. For the love of all that's good, offline SG invites.

2. PvP. Even if I don't do it, it's still in desperate need of being looked at.

3. The older TFs. Posi isn't the only one that needed to reworked. They need something that sets them apart from normal teams outside of an AV. Trials to me seem like the best idea since there seems to be a level of tactics used in them compared to simply bashing things. A TF should feel epic on some level. They simply don't.

4. Make all zones worth checking out to where people are actively going in them. Striga and Croatoa are great zones that hardly get used.

5. Let me play for free.

See, you have to make one request that seems crazy so they give you all of them except for the crazy one. Fix PvP. Ha!