whats beast to play for groups and soloing?

i dont know if a crab is the best choice to solo or if its best for teams can u help me with whats best for both?

I'd say bane. They solo well thanks to their good ST damage and their aoe damage isn't that far behind from crabs if you keep the Wolfspider aoes.

Hm, I'd say a widow is the best if you want to solo and team.

Night Widows are excellent in both categories. They get great single-target and decent AoE damage, excellent defenses, and can boost the power of their own team significantly.

For me, it's Fortunata in first.

Next, on the Soldier side, it depends on who you're teaming with, imho. Shooters/stand back types will benefit from the Crab. Brutes and melee types will do well with Banes.

Not enough experience with Night Widows to comment, but I prefer being WITH Fortunatas more than Widows.

I've played all types and I felt the most effective in a team with my Huntsman build. Being able to debuff large groups and unleash a plethora of AoE's with short recharge and animation times is a lot of fun and quite helpful to a large team. With the team buffs and other ancillary powers, your team will benefit from your presence as well...I was also able to keep and slot Crowd Control in the build (so it's a small part Bane) to add to the fun.

There really should be a FAQ for this pinned to the top of the forum.

Best soloers: Night Widow, Bane Spider
Best Teamers: Crab, Fortunata

WARNING: I bold names.

Huntsman - btw take pummel and put it on auto

My crab solod BaBs....

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler you *******!!!!

Meh, Babs was pretty easy for my huntsman

Really, any VEAT is good for soloing and any VEAT is good for Teaming. To be honest they're all good at both. BEST is a word left for the min/maxers and nonbelievers.

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Originally Posted by BackAlleyBrawler you *******!!!!

I don’t understand the Huntsman is better bandwagon, its good , its just different . I have played all 3 to 50 ( bane, huntsman and crab ) and feel the crab performs slightly better than huntsman in AoE type groups. Their attacks are virtually identical but with 3 major difference, half the crabs attacks are energy damage which is a lot less resisted that lethal. Suppression has more damage with double the arc and you also get Aim for 50% more damage in your AoE chain. With 3 recharge in Aim its up every group. Add to this Omega Maneuvers every 2 minutes and your patron AoE and most groups just melt in seconds.

I have taken all 3 on ITF’s, Barracuda, LG’s and for me the Crab performs the best in all situations ( jack of all trades ). IMHO

I Started building Huntsman and veered off using mace weapons and it works well. Hit em with the gun single shot, burst, single shot and minions are dead. The stronger minions same thing but while recharge is going on swithc to mace and waste them. So have both long range single picking and close up shotgun and knocking all enemies out with crowd controll. Just got cloak so cloak up to the bosses and hope for stealth bonus attack with crowd controll. The mace is slower but powerful. For me I wanted some variety in weapons so sacrificed very little effeciency. Used guns in other builds so just something different. Second build on same char is going to be pure guns/huntsman to check it out, I believe it will be the most effective. I have some respecs so will experiment. I would go with crab but Those big claws hanging all over do not work for me. Had wings on one char and they got in visual way when in small tight areas with camera zoomed close.