Kelenar

Definitely FF/ Defender. Bubbling every four minutes and using Dispersion Bubble is about the easiest thing you can do in the game as far as how much RL movement it requires. As an added bonus, the set plays pretty well out of the box, and has most of its key powers fairly low.

For all the people complaining villains basically have to be mercs:
More Villainous Options

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A decent amount. There are no explicit 'kill civilians' missions, but there are missions to give Shift to people, deliver people to Vahzilok members, sacrifice strikers to the CoT, deliver heroes to people who intend to dissect them, trap souls for the Mu...

On the other hand, as people above me have hinted, with some careful planning you can basically avoid anything worse than being a mercenary who's willing to rob banks and beat up Longbow from time to time, especially if you're willing to ignore some details.

Isn't it more of a 0/1 knapsack problem with a lot of different definitions of 'value'?

I was actually considering this very question yesterday morning, and this:

Some of them, like the Traps Acid Mortar, used to actually be summonable. They later made that particular pet immune to TPs, so I suspect that they lean toward the stationary nature of these pets as a balancing point.

You could also maybe take katana/broadsword and get a Talsorian weapon and color it psi pink.

I did have several different versions of my main on Virtue, all of which were wildly different powersets representing different uses of the same powers (you can explain a lot of powersets as some combination of air/water control, just being a good fighter, and manipulation of raw chaos.) This was largely because I was tied up enough in RP at that time that I just didn't want to abandon the character for a new one. After about a year, I got over it, and I haven't done any repeats since.

I think Kel has been...
Storm/Elec Defender
Claws/SR Scrapper
Katana/Dark Scrapper
Ice/Rad Controller
Mind/Storm Controller

I'm generally running missions about 95% of the time that I'm in game, and I don't have much use for walking then. When I do decide to RP... well, I have no problem with running around inside the D, either. I suppose if I ever play out something with enough gravity that running around would look silly, it'll come in handy. Though 'situations with gravity' and my characters tend to be mutually exclusive for the most part.

Most of my characters belong where they are, and most of the ones who switch will be doing so for RP reasons. I may switch some 30-ish villains just to avoid the wall of Arachnos/CoT/Longbow missions villains have stretching out to infinity... but for every villain I take hero, I'll probably be taking three heroes villain. Seriously, if my character can solo, I'm not touching heroside with a 10-foot pole again.

In chronological order. For every level 50 on here, I've gotten about three characters to the mid 30s/low 40s and then abandoned/deleted them. Note the ratio of Defenders to everything else:

Kelenar, Storm/Elec/Energy Defender: My first 50, back in the days when men were real men, women were real women, teams would kick Storm characters the moment they saw our powersets, and 'r u healer?' was a way of life. Got up to the kazillions of hours played, since I spent about 3 hours RP'ing him for every 1 of fighting. I eventually deleted him, losing about 35 HOs in the process. I don't have much use for level 50 characters now, and in the olden days of i2, there were even fewer things to do.

Kaelinia, Katana/Dark/Dark Scrapper: Duoed with an Illusion/Kin Controller. Whereas it took me the better part of a year to hit 50 on Kel, Kae hit it on about 3 months. Her build needs to be massively overhauled if I play her again, since she's still slotted for having SB up 24/7. It takes about 20 seconds to bottom out on endurance in combat if I don't have it.

Kai-Lian, Dark/Elec/Elec Defender: There was a big time gap between Kae and Kai, since that's when my altitis hit. She remains one of my more powerful characters. Dark Miasma is that good. If I had it to do again, I'd take... just about any other Defender secondary.

Aisha A., Stone/Energy/Widow Brute: The original incarnation of Aisha was an Ice/Ice Dominator. She was duoing with a Bots/Dark MM, and I got frustrated by the high 30s because the MM's Fearsome Stare was almost as useful at control as my entire primary... and with those bot burn patches around, there wasn't much use for soft control or old dom-level damage. So, I upgraded her to a brute. First character I ever solo'ed extensively. It's a fun, if not hugely powerful, combo. The controls in Stone/ make up for a lot of the secondary's weaknesses.

Jessica Reid, Thugs/Poison/Mako MM: Possibly my most powerful character. Toward the end of her career, I couldn't get enough challenge from solo missions, so I started just soloing huge spawns of Bane Spiders with a few bosses in them on the Grandville beach. The XP for doing so was pretty ridiculously good.

Hail Striker, Storm/Archery/Dark Defender: ... at some point, we started getting things to do at 50 again. And I missed Storm Summoning ever since I deleted Kel. So I decided to give it another go. Having Freezing Rain + Rain of Arrows is a beautiful thing. So is having Defender secondaries that aren't /elec. Have I mentioned that I dislike /elec on Defenders?

Shatterware, Rad/Rad/Energy Defender: One of my four 50s I still break out from time to time--she's well-rounded enough that I don't feel like I'm losing huge areas of competence if I exemp too low, like a lot of characters. Rad blast is also just downright cool.

Qiao Huang, Cold/Ice/Energy Defender: Level 50 I still play #3, and my favored high-level TF character. Cold/ is vastly underrated.

Liora Kate, Earth/Fire/Scorpion Dominator: One of the four 50s I still play from time to time. With the cash she made levelling up, I got her to 40% or so global recharge... so when she hit 50, I decided to just keep on going and see what I could get. She sits well above the minimum recharge for permadom these days, and I tend to take the alphas on her.

Sorrow-Weave, Dark/Elec/Mu Brute: Level 50 I still play #4. My only 50 who's soloed an AV without Shivans/nukes, though I suspect Jessica could do it fairly easily with a little build tweaking. Similar to Aisha, there's a lot of soft control going on on her. Between draining entire mobs of their endurance, -ToHit, and fear, there's a pretty significant survival difference on her between just jumping in and playing intelligently. I actually had very little trouble with rogue Vanguard--end-drain them fast enough and they're just sacks of HP. I still pull her out from time to time to take on x8 missions in RWZ.

Most of my characters have actual bios. I'll occasionally put it off until the 20s or so, so that I can get a feel for the character first, but they almost all get one eventually. I find it fairly hard to stick with a character if they don't have any concept beyond 'this is some guy and he fights crime, so yeah.'

The characters who are at level 50 with 500 badges and bios that say 'Bio coming soon!' make me laugh.

I'd love the ability to really mod the UI. About every time I log in, I end up glaring at a piece of the interface and going, 'THIS SHOULD WORK DIFFERENTLY.'

More villain-only content that has no heroside counterparts!

I'd also like a flying pig.