Sivitry

Okay thanks guys! Looks like I'm gonna make a go of Fire/Mental. I rolled an Elec/Elec a little bit ago and so far it's meh, I don't love it I don't hate it. I actually am liking the primary Elec powers, but for now I'm going with Fire/Mental it looks great thanks for help! I'm excited to be an AoE monster

Hi there Blaster community!
Well I'm not only new to blasters but also kinda new to this game but so far it's awesome! Today I was clumsily alt-ing around and happened to roll a fire/fire blaster. By the end of the tutorial I was in *LOVE*!! I was looking for things to kill that weren't even on my missions because I was enjoying it so much.

I got to reading around on the forum and noticed that the consensus seems to be that Fire/Fire is lacking some survivability which I have certainly noticed. So I was wondering if any of you wonderfully helpful people would have any recommendations for a set up that is similar to fire/fire with more defensive protection and survivability, but still with the fun lunatic dmg? This character will be a mostly solo, PVE-only character
I'm lookin at these so far any help, or suggestions would be great.

Fire/Energy Manipulation
Fire/Elec
Fire/MM
Elec/Elec
Radiation/(not really sure about secondary here but radiation looks super fun)
*If anyone has any ideas about staying with fire/fire I'd love to hear it, it's just that this char will be solo-ing and I'm probably just playing badly, but it seems lower on the staying alive end of the stick
Thank you all very much in advance . Sorry this is a lot of text I'm nervous about posting

Wow thank you all so much for the information! I'm so glad I came back to this game! I decided to go with Plant/Fire for now but I'm definitely gonna do a Mind/Elec at some point I always thought elec was super cool but wasn't sure it could really hold up as a good secondary... I'm glad to hear it can! So far I'm head over heels for plant, and fire is real fun. To Tokyo, yes I'd love your perma-dom recommendation you can send me a msg or post it here or contact me in game @Frozen Silk on Virtue
Thanks again everyone!

Hi all came back to this great game after being gone for a long long time, I can't shake the appeal of doms so I'm gonna make a go for it. Right now I think Mind looks awesomely fun and (from what I've read) is a great set. I also think that Plant looks equally entertaining, and again looks like a really solid set from what I've seen. I enjoy the control aspect of a dom a lot however I want my secondary to be synergistic and do a lot of damage. As of now this character is mostly going to be a solo toon, for PVE. So the question is secondaries. I am open to any suggestions for secondaries that would meld with Plant or Mind as a primary and do a lot of damage right now the builds I'm thinking about are: Plant/Thorn, Plant/Fiery, Plant/Psi OR Mind/Fire, Mind/Psi, Mind/Thorn.

Thanks in advance

First let me note I'm new to this game so I'm just sorta guessing on this stuff.

I would like to roll a brute, I'm looking for a primary/secondary that would give me solo-ability. I'm pretty set on SS as my primary as I've heard it's great dmg and can go well with other secondaries. When it comes to my secondary power I get waffley, first I thought WP then I thought Elec, then Inv but Shield Def looks great too...I would love a build that can handle multiple baddies and deal loads of dmg and just keep on trucking through however something tells me I'm not going to find that soo... if anyone knows any builds like that please let me know lol, but until then I'm looking for something that will give me lots of dmg, and keep me alive for the most part. I want to kill lots of bad guys without alot of down time basically like an energizer bunny steamroller lol is this possible? I know I'm kind of asking for the best of everything but I don't really know this game in terms of what is and isn't possible of course any build will have weaknesses, I realize that but any advice on this idea would a big big help!

It's all opinions I know that but does anyone have an experience with a powerful, fun, action packed build for a newbie?

I just started playing this game a few days ago so far it's fun, but I'm wondering if I could get some help with choosing my build.
I don't know anyone in this game really, so while I want to be useful to a group I'm looking for something that I can solo successfully with. I don't really want to melee. I want to be ranged dps. I know ranged dps is mostly squishy and there for harder to solo with, but I'm good with squishy ranged characters I've played them in all the MMOs that I've played.
That said keeping in mind that I'm looking for the best solo-ability

I was thinking Fire/Rad(or Dark) Sonic/Dark(or Rad) or Dark/Rad or Assault Rifle/Rad. Radiation as a secondary (or primary...but I hear it's not great dmg) goes well with my character's theme so I'd like to either have Radiation or Thermal Radiation or Dark (seems cool too) as a secondary. If anyone could give me some feed back on these build ideas or other good solo builds it'd be much appreciated! Thank you!