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Originally Posted by PunkRolex

Personally, I went with ranged (TK, Dominate, Subdue, Gloom) and ranged AoE (Scream and Tornado) rather than melee because I found it easier to build for high levels of defense and recharge that way. My own Fort sits at 55 - 61% defense to all positions with Hasten and Mind Link permanent and no external buffs.

I can't solo an AV with my build, but EBs don't represent much of a threat and my Fort can and has defeated multiple huge spawns of 54s in a Lambda trial by herself (barring an unlucky run from the random number generator, at least).

I will say that I get more use out of having Coercive Confusion six slotted in the single-target version of Confuse since the proc is a lot more noticeable and useful there than in the AoE. I have a set of Malaise's Illusions in Aura of Confusion.

I went with the purple hold set for Total Domination. Purple sets for attack powers are difficult for me to justify on a Fort because of their tremendous cost and the dubious benefit of getting even more recharge than I have anyway; most of my slotting is in full sets that grant some kind of defense bonus.

I use Phantoms for a Lore pet and I normally have Ageless slotted for Destiny. Both of those are very useful for keeping my blue bar full.

It's a pretty sweet setup.