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Well I've ended up with a FM/DA Scrapper who seems to be fun so far. A little squishy, but that should change once I get and slot dark regen.

However, I have a friend who recently joined the game, and her main is a blaster. She plays very kamikaze style. I like to duo with her, but all of my heroes aren't very good at supporting her. What do you think would be better, an Emp/ or FF/ defender to buff her out the wazoo, or some kind of tank to absorb alphas and keep aggro while she goes all crazytrain with the AoE?

I've stayed away from DB because I don't like 3s+ animations that root me (and personally I think one thousand cuts looks silly, but the rest of the set is gorgeous). I've been dabbling with a Spines/ Scrapper and I'm not too enamored. The long animation times and lack of a solid single target attack chain is painful.

I think I'm going to try Claws/ next, and then maybe move on to some of the Controller suggestions.


As for the Fire/Dark, I have one of those, and he's pretty ******* delicious. I just wish I could bring myself to enjoy the hero ATs the same way I can enjoy the villain ones

Well, one of my goals for this character is to get a little inf Hero side, because I'm relatively poor there. I don't enjoy any of popular farming builds, and I don't mind earning inf a little slower if it means liking the character more. I'm not concerned with top kill speed as much as I am survivability, ease of use and of course, fun factor.

After a few years of the game, My only 50 is a pretty heavy single target character (Ice/Kin Corr) and I want to try something different. However, I also don't want to be as fragile as my /kin was while leveling.

I have a Shield/SS Tanker that I've leveled up, but I really don't like Shields that much even though I know it's the flavor of the month. I find it very tedious to level with. I also have a DP/Fire Blaster who just shreds spawns, but the rest of the time he's faceplanted on the ground. I'd like a happy medium.

What would the community recommend (That isn't the generic Elec/SD Scrapper) for a smooth leveling, survivable AoE specialist?

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P.S. Does anyone else think that Fire isn't really a SMASH set? I mean come on it's lethal/fire damage heh. Every other brute set has some SMASH ing in it.

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Most of the powers don't seem like it at first... But Cremate, hoo man with the sfx/gfx for the attack that one seems very smashy, and once you get a nice fury chain going one shotting minions with explosive power you start to feel it.

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I am still not convinced as to why someone would choose SM over EM other then aesthetic reasons.

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Pssst... SM is stone melee, what you're thinking of is dark melee or DM