Amy_Amp

+1. Again, not bad sets, but if I'm listing sets I want to do end game stuff with those two lose out. Now, before everybody gets their panties in a bunch, you might list other sets lower and that's fine. You would just happen to be wrong.

P.S. It's a game. Have fun. If a set is fun for you, screw the nay sayers.

Just pointing out my Rad/sonic soloed speed wise as fast as any other builds outside of my Claws/regen up to 20, and as mentioned before this was before the inherit got changed. People seem to forget there is damage scaling 1-20 as well and this helps defenders.

I have one of all three.

Kat/sr. By far the smoothest ride to 50 of the three. If you just want something to get to 50 and aren't really going to invest in the build a bunch, I would go with this. DA alone will save your butt a number of times as /sr develops.

Claws/sr. It's a nice mix of everything really. You get a nice ST chain. You get AoE. You have two powers that offer mitigation and both of them can be used at range. It's like Kat for me in that it's tough to say anything bad about the set. It won't be as smooth in terms of durability, but it blooms early in terms of offense thanks in vast part to Focus. I can also make a case that it could be more durable than Kat, but you'll be waiting until level 32 to get that type of mitigation as where Kat gets it's big mitigation tool at 8.

EDIT: I forgot to add Claws will be the most end friendly of the three.

DB/sr. DB is similar to Claws, but has more offensive potential versus lesser mitigation. The good news is you can soft cap with /sr so you may not really "need" much more mitigation than that. I vastly skip the combos outside of the AV one. Sweeping Strike is seriously one of my favorite melee attacks in the game and that's without it finishing off the AV combo, or getting a crit. Granted, my other favorite melee attacks are basically in Claws and Kat.

In short, I really do like them all so if you have a concept for one that sticks out more than another, go with that one.

I was playing my DB/elec today and thought about how good a Kat/elec would be and then I tried to remember if I had made one already, or not. I haven't, but I still like my DB/elec. I know it won't be as sturdy, but it's going to put out more AoE. My DB/elec is only 28 so I'm still waiting to form an official opinion on /elec. Right now the best I can say is that it seems decent. Once I get into my 30s and 40s then I'll feel better about it one way, or another.

If you want to be an agro magnet then WP is the last place to look. For me, I like Ice and Dark on a tank. Ice is the best at holding agro and Dark has a nice set of tools with the best single heal in the game. Dark will be much heavier on end, thanks to the heal, but I find it still manageable. /stone is my default melee pick for tanks as well. My Dark/stone tank will be one of few builds I actually invest the better IOs in just because I love the build so much.

Now, on a brute I care very little about argo since I play them more like a scrapper and my MMs more like tanks, but WP on a brute is really good. Shield for either works, but takes more investment for the payoff to happen. A SS/shield brute is a monster, but it also requires a lot of investment for it to really shine.

It looks spray can painted on.

OK seriously. You are going to spend a billion as in it starts with a b to be nothing more than a gloried leech* on a team and vastly bored most of the time as you site there and likely heal people that don't really need to be healed. (bangs head on desk) Either, go roll a controller since controllers are the team support AT in this game, or stick with games where heals matter. Hell, even in (another game) where I play a (the definitive healer class) you'll see my guy in melee bashing on things and only using heals as needed. Pure healers in this game can't be nuked fast enough and aren't even worthy of being scrapped from the bottom of my Ill/emp's shoe.

* Glorified because of the still rampant healer mentality people have in this game and their ability to say "nice heals" and to not do missions until they have a "healer" and various other things tied to the healer mentality. Leech is because when you get added to a team the spawn size goes up, and if you aren't killing your share, then that means the rest of the team is making up for it while you are still getting the exp. I've been on teams where the support was hell bent on just doing support and the rest of the team couldn't keep their blue bars from being flatlined.

Wait for the fury nerf to hit and then scrappers will be the more offensive AT.

I solo fine on mine. It's easily one of my favorite builds, period. I've been on teams and literally played the role of a controller.

Even as somebody who buys two gallons of milk myself when I get groceries, that's....a lot of milk to be drinking in a short period of time. I'm getting better at only using milk for food, but I still go through it fast enough.

But I'll just add to the growing chorus that the one meal a day deal is horrible for your health. Your body simply isn't built to handle that much food in one take. For me breakfast is a bowl of cereal(no cooking), lunch can be stir fry(store brand marinade, chicken breast, cup of instant rice, nuked fresh veggies so it's not that difficult to cook) and then something like spaghetti for dinner. About the only thing I even have left over is pizza since I eat half of it per meal. For working out, I have two 25lb. hand weights and that's it.

BA will do more damage compared to BS, but BS gets Parry so it's a more defensive set. Parry will likely be a godsend on a /dark scrapper because it will limit the amount of times you need to use Dark Regen, which is your biggest area for end drain since it has a base cost of 33. Your base end is 100. You do the math.

They should be limited to the possible drops from the origin of what you defeated.

Dark/dark blaster, please. I would be subbed just to play one. The secondary would give the blast set just enough ST damage to smooth out Dark Blasts lack of a 3rd ST attack. Add in utility in spades and I think it would do rather well. Ice/dark would be another that I would really want to do as well.

One problem of a Dark/dark controller is that they have to make it unique enough to differentiate it from a defender considering the defender's version has a lot of control already. I don't see how it isn't one of the instant best control sets for control. With all of that -tohit and controls, incoming damage should really be cut down with a Dark/dark controller.

You aren't slotting the LotG for def.

1-20 on a brute is one of the most frustrating things in the game to do leveling wise. Sure, a brute after they get Stamina is fun, but before....