What AT for a Hero N00B


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Ok i really dont have any experiance with heroes so i need some help. I have played all AT's in Villains to quite high levels.

I just a decent heroe AT that is fun to lvl and powerfull, itd be nice to have one that at a high lvl can be recognised as powerfull. Id like to do Hami raids and tthe Statesman SF in I9.

I was thinking of a Troller Ill / Storm but i really dont no, can anyone help me out?


 

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What sort of ATs did you play on CoV? and are you looking to play something similar or entirely different? It sounds like you may want a team style char so possibly an ill/rad? (rads always popular for Faultine as there's AVs all over the place )


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Well i have a lvl 50 MM and a few high level Brutes. I want to play somthing which is rare and powerfull. Somthing hard to lvl but which brings alot in teams and solo!


 

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Oooh a hard one. Contoller maybe? or Blaster? Both can be hard to lvl (almost no defences, actualy no defences at all) but can be played very well solo and in teams. For a Troller I'd say a Grav/something Blasters urr, hard to choose but if you want to solo effectively I'd say a secondary power sets with some good punches.


 

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I always find hard to play a kineticst but you can play an Ill/kin controller. IMO they are both good in teams and solo, as most controllers (except mind, some find it really annoying while others break their sleeping effects in teams). Powerfull? If you mean damage output Blasters for enduring damage Tanker. But tankers don't like brutes nor blaster to brutes.


 

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Something that are rare and powerful?
Make a rad/sonic defender, noticed they are rare but very powerful with the stacked -res blasts and envrating fields -res. Sonic/rad corruptors is good so why wouldnt a rad/sonic defender beat that?


 

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Nothing powerful is rare, everybody wants to shine . Want to go rare? Go claws dark scrapper, or fire mace tank. Want to be powerful? go fire/em blaster, ice/fire tank, fire/kin troller or ill/rad


 

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Well i have a lvl 50 MM and a few high level Brutes. I want to play somthing which is rare and powerfull. Somthing hard to lvl but which brings alot in teams and solo!

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Im afraid you cant have your cake and eat it!

Powerful? Pretty much everything is powerful as long as you build it correctly (There may be a few particular exceptions)

Rare? Dont play a scrapper (particularly a regen scrapper), dont play a Stone Tank, Dont play an empath. Trick Archery, Force Feild, Sonic defender sets al rare, Fire blasters pretty rare (especially fire secondary).

Good in solo and teams? Cant really be "good" at both... you can be ok at both, or you can be better at one than another. Thats pretty much the choice you have to make, and pretty much how the game was designed.

In addition, you may wish to consider "complexity". Scrappers tend to be the least complex to play (Dark powers and spines slightly more complex) as it often boils down to armours on and mash attack buttons. Controllers are probably most complex to play as so much to do (Storm is a particularly complex defender set for Controllers and Defenders IMO).

At the end of the day, I would make my decision on how "complex" you want a toon to be, and what concept feels fun. Then I would (within that parameter), build my toon according to how team / solo orientated I want him/her to be.

Most important thing is to enjoy!


 

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One thing to remember is that contollers don't hae any control over there pets like thw MM's do.

For good soloing at all levels go with a scrapper (they are probably the cloest hero AT to a brute) or a Scrank (a tank built for damage and not agro control)
Yes there are other AT builds that can solo well however most of them have "sticking pionts" (often around lv15-25) where solo can be very hard compaired to a scrapper or Scrank.

I found controller is closer to a dominator in play than a MM. There is no real equivelent to the MM in heroes (although for shear numbers of pets an ill/storm controller is probably cloest)


 

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I would go with a troller, real good in solo and teams.
ill/kin, ill/rad,fire/kin, fire/rad is very powerfull combos.
Both good firepower and buffs 4 solo and teaming.


 

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I would go with a troller, real good in solo and teams.
ill/kin, ill/rad,fire/kin, fire/rad is very powerfull combos.
Both good firepower and buffs 4 solo and teaming.

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Controllers Suck solo no real damage at all. But there good in teams. If you want an easy toon to play go blaster or scrapper simple really. If you want to Pwn at higher lvs Fire/Kin controllers would be good but your going to suck solo untill you hit lv 32.


 

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Rare and/or powerful... let's think...

Ice/Fire Blaster
Elec/Eec Blaster
Sonic/Sonic Defender
Force Field/Dark Defender
Gravity/Kinetic Controller
Earth/Storm Controller
Fire/Mace Tanker
Ice/Fire Tanker

One of those should do it


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Ill/rad is a very powerful combination, you'll also be loved on teams.


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