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I've started a Kinetics/Archery. Not the best damage but it's quite decent!
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Ditto, that's my lvl 50! 
I like my storm/elec, although not having a self heal can be worrying at times. Freezing Rain slotted for def debuff is pretty devastating, and tornado and storm do a good job of keeping mobs off you. Elec is just for thematics, but I do like the end drains 
Just wanted to throw in my oar as no one shows much respect for storm
Storm is the hidden jewel of the Defender sets... 
I found Storm/Psi a surprizingly good soloer. But that was Issue 3, dunno what tis like now.
The Smoking Demon
Ash/Tar Corruptor
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Rad/Rad is not so good on soloing imho, you don't do much damage, your debuffs on cost you way too much endurance to let you use many attacks and plus you have only one self heal, which is not that efficient.
With my Kin/Sonic, I can solo a lot better... It's not perfect, but it can be done. My build is not exactly done for soloing, but I feel that changin some slots it could work better.
emp/psy/psy, pwnz all solo
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Would agree with that, although mine is a rad/sonic. I think one of the problems is that I don't feel I have enough slots to put onto my attacks [at lvl 30] so I really struggle to do much damage. Soloing is slow and pretty boring... I'm hoping things will take a turn for the better once I have some slots on my attacks between now and 35 and then I can solo again.
My favourite defender for soloing is my Storm/Electric. Particularly fun herding rooms up in order to pull them around corners slap bang into my cloud. Teams don't like me doing that for some reason
The hardest defender for soling was my kinetic/nrg... worked well in teams but only having two tiny attacks and a knockback attack didn't really lend itself to being an uber solo defender.
My Empath/Dark is/was surprisingly easy to solo, if not a little slow...
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Rad/Rad is not so good on soloing imho, you don't do much damage, your debuffs on cost you way too much endurance to let you use many attacks and plus you have only one self heal, which is not that efficient.
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RI & EF are very much worth the endurance they cost to keep up and you only really need Neutrino Bolt as an attack until level 28 (Cosmic Burst). 1 Acc/3 Dam in NB and you're good to go, X-Ray Beam is not worth the power pick+slots compared to other options.
And no Buff/DeBuff set has more than one self heal anyway, so that can't be a negative side. Besides, with RI+EF+LR active at the same time you won't need as much healing as a Kin would.
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My favourite defender for soloing is my Storm/Electric. Particularly fun herding rooms up in order to pull them around corners slap bang into my cloud. Teams don't like me doing that for some reason
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Storm is definately the most fun. You can get away with such ridiculous stuff later on. I'm not sure about elec though, I'm enjoying my 21 storm/dark a lot more than my 40 storm/elec.
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I've found Storm is effective solo and I've not yet hit Tornado/Lightning Storm
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Your primaries contribute to a lot of your total damage. Once you get stuff in a corner and tightly bunched a tornado and a lightning storm make short work of them. (I have 3 damage SO's in both) Half the fun is seeing how much stuff you can herd into a corner at the same time without dying. 
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My favourite defender for soloing is my Storm/Electric. Particularly fun herding rooms up in order to pull them around corners slap bang into my cloud. Teams don't like me doing that for some reason
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Yeah, teams don't appreciate tornado and storm for some reason 
You'd think they didn't like watching mobs fly around like ragdolls! Maybe they should get more ranged attacks like proper heroes Then they wouldn't have to worry about chasing after them...
Also electric has tesla cage, which is a great piece of extra control to have available, and soon I'll have a voltaic sentinel - sometimes I feel like a weather mastermind
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Rad/Rad is not so good on soloing imho, you don't do much damage, your debuffs on cost you way too much endurance to let you use many attacks and plus you have only one self heal, which is not that efficient.
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Would agree with that, although mine is a rad/sonic. I think one of the problems is that I don't feel I have enough slots to put onto my attacks [at lvl 30] so I really struggle to do much damage. Soloing is slow and pretty boring... I'm hoping things will take a turn for the better once I have some slots on my attacks between now and 35 and then I can solo again.
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I found mine a joy to solo by lvl 22 I could solo invincible missions without insps. Despite slotted debuffs I found I had the slots to go 1 acc 3 dam on my 3 single target attacks and with aim I was flying through missions
thePhilosopher Martial Arts/Regen/Fire Scrapper
theRegulator Empathy/Energy/Soul Defender
Total Inertia Ice Blast/Kinetics/Psy Corruptor
Total Inferno Ice Blast/Thermal/Leviathan Corruptor
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Storm is definately the most fun. You can get away with such ridiculous stuff later on. I'm not sure about elec though, I'm enjoying my 21 storm/dark a lot more than my 40 storm/elec.
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Storm/Dark would have been my first choice but my empath was empath/dark and I didnt really want to do dark again (not when I had my TA/Dark waiting in the wings as well). TBH I just wanted to be a Croatoa Witch...
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Rad/Rad is not so good on soloing imho, you don't do much damage, your debuffs on cost you way too much endurance to let you use many attacks and plus you have only one self heal, which is not that efficient.
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Would agree with that, although mine is a rad/sonic. I think one of the problems is that I don't feel I have enough slots to put onto my attacks [at lvl 30] so I really struggle to do much damage. Soloing is slow and pretty boring... I'm hoping things will take a turn for the better once I have some slots on my attacks between now and 35 and then I can solo again.
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I found mine a joy to solo by lvl 22 I could solo invincible missions without insps. Despite slotted debuffs I found I had the slots to go 1 acc 3 dam on my 3 single target attacks and with aim I was flying through missions
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Maybe I have slotted badly then. 
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I found mine a joy to solo by lvl 22 I could solo invincible missions without insps. Despite slotted debuffs I found I had the slots to go 1 acc 3 dam on my 3 single target attacks and with aim I was flying through missions
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Not all that unlikely.
Something like the following should have an easy time soloing at level 22 (including solo up until that point too) and still be good for teaming:
01 : Neutrino Bolt acc(01) dam(5) dam(5) dam(7)
01 : Radiation Infection endred(01) thtdbf(3) thtdbf(3) thtdbf(15)
02 : Radiant Aura recred(02) hel(15) hel(19)
04 : Accelerate Metabolism recred(04) recred(9) recred(11)
06 : Enervating Field endred(06) endred(7)
08 : Hasten recred(08) recred(9) recred(11)
10 : Hurdle jmp(10)
12 : Lingering Radiation acc(12) recred(13) recred(13) recred(19)
14 : Super Speed runspd(14)
16 : Irradiate acc(16) dam(17) dam(17)
18 : Health hel(18)
20 : Stamina endrec(20) endrec(21) endrec(21)
22 : Aim recred(22)
One thing that throws many off balance with Radiation Emission is that Radiant Aura is not all that important. Especially for an Offender build (which is what you need for solo). Heck, it might even be overslotted in the above build.
I respecced my rad at lvl 17ish specifically for a TF (back when AV regen was ridiculous) so I think that's probably what's thrown it off kilter a little. Normally I wouldn't slot the primary so heavily before the secondary and I'm planning to respec to some normality soonish.
Problems in the current build are, radiant aura with 6 slots, AM with 6 slots, choking cloud with 3 (oh why did I do that... I don't even like the power!)
Once I shuffle some slots off them I should be back to being soloable I think...
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Rad/Rad is not so good on soloing imho, you don't do much damage, your debuffs on cost you way too much endurance to let you use many attacks and plus you have only one self heal, which is not that efficient.
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Would agree with that, although mine is a rad/sonic. I think one of the problems is that I don't feel I have enough slots to put onto my attacks [at lvl 30] so I really struggle to do much damage. Soloing is slow and pretty boring... I'm hoping things will take a turn for the better once I have some slots on my attacks between now and 35 and then I can solo again.
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My build was this to 22 next levels i got assault, tactics, LR, cj
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Name:
Level: 50
Archetype: Defender
Primary: Radiation Emission
Secondary: Sonic Blast
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01) --> Radiation Infection==> TH_DeBuf(1) TH_DeBuf(13) TH_DeBuf(15) EndRdx(15)
01) --> Shriek==> Acc(1) Dmg(11) Dmg(11) Dmg(13)
02) --> Scream==> Acc(2) Dmg(3) Dmg(3) Dmg(5)
04) --> Radiant Aura==> Heal(4) Heal(5) Heal(21)
06) --> Enervating Field==> EndRdx(6) EndRdx(7) EndRdx(7)
08) --> Accelerate Metabolism==> Rechg(8) Rechg(9) Rechg(9)
10) --> Hurdle==> Jump(10)
12) --> Hasten==> Rechg(12)
14) --> Super Speed==> EndRdx(14)
16) --> Shout==> Acc(16) Dmg(17) Dmg(17) Dmg(19) EndRdx(19)
18) --> Health==> Heal(18)
20) --> Stamina==> EndMod(20) EndMod(21)
22) --> Amplify==> Rechg(22)
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01) --> Sprint==> Empty(1)
01) --> Brawl==> Empty(1)
02) --> Rest==> Empty(2)
01) --> Vigilance==> Empty(1)
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thePhilosopher Martial Arts/Regen/Fire Scrapper
theRegulator Empathy/Energy/Soul Defender
Total Inertia Ice Blast/Kinetics/Psy Corruptor
Total Inferno Ice Blast/Thermal/Leviathan Corruptor
I've started a Kinetics/Archery. Not the best damage but it's quite decent!